NEWS SUMMARY
Date: 13 November 2004
El 12 de noviembre de 2004 fue un viernes bajo el signo estelar de ♏. Era el día 316 del año. El presidente de los Estados Unidos fue George W. Bush.
Si naciste en este día, tienes 21 años. Su último cumpleaños fue el miércoles, 12 de noviembre de 2025, hace 211 días. Su próximo cumpleaños es el jueves, 12 de noviembre de 2026, en 153 días. Ha vivido durante 7.881 días, o aproximadamente 189.159 horas, o aproximadamente 11.349.576 minutos, o aproximadamente 680.974.560 segundos
Date: 12 November 2004
By THOMAS J. LUECK and IVER PETERSON
Thomas LUECK
Lance Cpl Jeffrey Lam of Queens, Master Sgt Steven E Auchman of Waterloo, NY, Specialist Brian K Baker of West Seneca are reported killed in Iraq; Specialists Bryan L Freeman Jr of Lumberton, NJ, also dies in fighting there; photos (M)
Date: 12 November 2004
By JOSH BENSON
Josh BENSON
New Jersey Transit schedules hearings on raising fares as much as 15 percent for bus, train and light rail riders in effort to avert potential $65 million budget gap; cites rising cost of fuel, security and health benefits; commuter advocacy groups say agency should lobby state for more money (M)
Date: 13 November 2004
By BILL FINLEY
Bill FINLEY
Jockey Rafael Bejarano leaves Churchill Downs after insurance dispute prompted him and 13 other jockeys to boycott races; comes to New York to ride at Aqueduct; photo (M)
Date: 12 November 2004
By HOLLAND COTTER
Holland COTTER
Holland Cotter Critic's Notebook column on plethora of contemporary art featured in museums in Queens, NYC; reviews current exhibits at Museum for African Art, Socrates Sculpture Park, Jamaica Center for Arts and Learning, PS 1 Contemporary Art Center, Sculpture Center, Dorsky Gallery, Fisher Landau Center for Arts and Queens Museum of Art; photos (L)
Date: 13 November 2004
By JESSE McKINLEY
Jesse McKINLEY
Actor Denzel Washington announces he will portray Brutus in new Broadway adaptation of Shakespeare's Julius Caesar, directed by Daniel Sullivan, due to begin rehearsals in late January; photo (M)
Date: 12 November 2004
By MARC LACEY
Marc LACEY
Campaign to Africanize cyberspace calls for languages spoken throughout African continent to be available on computers; Nigerian Runde Adegbola, African Languages Technology Initiative executive director, stresses importance of establishing technology that will allow minority languages to not just survive, but florish; linguists working in Africa see computer as tool to preserve spoken languages; Unesco estimates that 90 percent of world's 6,000 languages are not on internet and that every two weeks one language ceases to exist; not all languages can be easily adapted to computers; techniques, like voice recogition software and modified keyboards are already being developed; Microsoft's interest and efforts in Africa discussed (M)
Date: 13 November 2004
By KATIE ZEZIMA
Katie ZEZIMA
Katie Zezima Religion Journal discusses new trend in New England Christian Churches like St Mary's Roman Catholic Church in Uxbridge (Mass), where parishioners gather to knit shawls for community members; photo (M)
Date: 12 November 2004
By PHIL SWEETLAND; Compiled by Lawrence Van Gelder
Phil SWEETLAND
Arts, Briefly column; trade paper Radio & Records reports that John Dimick, radio veteran currently working in San Diego, will succeed Tracy Cloherty in December as program director at WQHT-FM, popular New York hip-hop and R&B station that calls itself Hot 97; WQHT tied for second place with two other stations in October Arbitron ratings (S)
Date: 12 November 2004
By THOMAS J. LUECK and IVER PETERSON
Thomas LUECK
Lance Cpl Jeffrey Lam of Queens, Master Sgt Steven E Auchman of Waterloo, NY, Specialist Brian K Baker of West Seneca are reported killed in Iraq; Specialists Bryan L Freeman Jr of Lumberton, NJ, also dies in fighting there; photos (M)
Date: 12 November 2004
By HOLLAND COTTER
Holland COTTER
Holland Cotter Critic's Notebook column on plethora of contemporary art featured in museums in Queens, NYC; reviews current exhibits at Museum for African Art, Socrates Sculpture Park, Jamaica Center for Arts and Learning, PS 1 Contemporary Art Center, Sculpture Center, Dorsky Gallery, Fisher Landau Center for Arts and Queens Museum of Art; photos (L)
Date: 13 November 2004
By KATIE ZEZIMA
Katie ZEZIMA
Katie Zezima Religion Journal discusses new trend in New England Christian Churches like St Mary's Roman Catholic Church in Uxbridge (Mass), where parishioners gather to knit shawls for community members; photo (M)
Date: 12 November 2004
By PHIL SWEETLAND; Compiled by Lawrence Van Gelder
Phil SWEETLAND
Arts, Briefly column; trade paper Radio & Records reports that John Dimick, radio veteran currently working in San Diego, will succeed Tracy Cloherty in December as program director at WQHT-FM, popular New York hip-hop and R&B station that calls itself Hot 97; WQHT tied for second place with two other stations in October Arbitron ratings (S)
Date: 12 November 2004
By THOMAS J. LUECK and IVER PETERSON
Thomas LUECK
Lance Cpl Jeffrey Lam of Queens, Master Sgt Steven E Auchman of Waterloo, NY, Specialist Brian K Baker of West Seneca are reported killed in Iraq; Specialists Bryan L Freeman Jr of Lumberton, NJ, also dies in fighting there; photos (M)
Date: 12 November 2004
By JOSH BENSON
Josh BENSON
New Jersey Transit schedules hearings on raising fares as much as 15 percent for bus, train and light rail riders in effort to avert potential $65 million budget gap; cites rising cost of fuel, security and health benefits; commuter advocacy groups say agency should lobby state for more money (M)
Date: 13 November 2004
By BILL FINLEY
Bill FINLEY
Jockey Rafael Bejarano leaves Churchill Downs after insurance dispute prompted him and 13 other jockeys to boycott races; comes to New York to ride at Aqueduct; photo (M)
Date: 12 November 2004
By HOLLAND COTTER
Holland COTTER
Holland Cotter Critic's Notebook column on plethora of contemporary art featured in museums in Queens, NYC; reviews current exhibits at Museum for African Art, Socrates Sculpture Park, Jamaica Center for Arts and Learning, PS 1 Contemporary Art Center, Sculpture Center, Dorsky Gallery, Fisher Landau Center for Arts and Queens Museum of Art; photos (L)
Date: 13 November 2004
By JESSE McKINLEY
Jesse McKINLEY
Actor Denzel Washington announces he will portray Brutus in new Broadway adaptation of Shakespeare's Julius Caesar, directed by Daniel Sullivan, due to begin rehearsals in late January; photo (M)
Date: 12 November 2004
By MARC LACEY
Marc LACEY
Campaign to Africanize cyberspace calls for languages spoken throughout African continent to be available on computers; Nigerian Runde Adegbola, African Languages Technology Initiative executive director, stresses importance of establishing technology that will allow minority languages to not just survive, but florish; linguists working in Africa see computer as tool to preserve spoken languages; Unesco estimates that 90 percent of world's 6,000 languages are not on internet and that every two weeks one language ceases to exist; not all languages can be easily adapted to computers; techniques, like voice recogition software and modified keyboards are already being developed; Microsoft's interest and efforts in Africa discussed (M)
Date: 12 November 2004
By PHIL SWEETLAND; Compiled by Lawrence Van Gelder
Phil SWEETLAND
Arts, Briefly column; trade paper Radio & Records reports that John Dimick, radio veteran currently working in San Diego, will succeed Tracy Cloherty in December as program director at WQHT-FM, popular New York hip-hop and R&B station that calls itself Hot 97; WQHT tied for second place with two other stations in October Arbitron ratings (S)
Date: 12 November 2004
By JOSH BENSON
Josh BENSON
New Jersey Transit schedules hearings on raising fares as much as 15 percent for bus, train and light rail riders in effort to avert potential $65 million budget gap; cites rising cost of fuel, security and health benefits; commuter advocacy groups say agency should lobby state for more money (M)
Date: 13 November 2004
By BILL FINLEY
Bill FINLEY
Jockey Rafael Bejarano leaves Churchill Downs after insurance dispute prompted him and 13 other jockeys to boycott races; comes to New York to ride at Aqueduct; photo (M)
Date: 12 November 2004
By HOLLAND COTTER
Holland COTTER
Holland Cotter Critic's Notebook column on plethora of contemporary art featured in museums in Queens, NYC; reviews current exhibits at Museum for African Art, Socrates Sculpture Park, Jamaica Center for Arts and Learning, PS 1 Contemporary Art Center, Sculpture Center, Dorsky Gallery, Fisher Landau Center for Arts and Queens Museum of Art; photos (L)
Date: 13 November 2004
By JESSE McKINLEY
Jesse McKINLEY
Actor Denzel Washington announces he will portray Brutus in new Broadway adaptation of Shakespeare's Julius Caesar, directed by Daniel Sullivan, due to begin rehearsals in late January; photo (M)
Date: 12 November 2004
By MARC LACEY
Marc LACEY
Campaign to Africanize cyberspace calls for languages spoken throughout African continent to be available on computers; Nigerian Runde Adegbola, African Languages Technology Initiative executive director, stresses importance of establishing technology that will allow minority languages to not just survive, but florish; linguists working in Africa see computer as tool to preserve spoken languages; Unesco estimates that 90 percent of world's 6,000 languages are not on internet and that every two weeks one language ceases to exist; not all languages can be easily adapted to computers; techniques, like voice recogition software and modified keyboards are already being developed; Microsoft's interest and efforts in Africa discussed (M)
Date: 12 November 2004
By PHIL SWEETLAND; Compiled by Lawrence Van Gelder
Phil SWEETLAND
Arts, Briefly column; trade paper Radio & Records reports that John Dimick, radio veteran currently working in San Diego, will succeed Tracy Cloherty in December as program director at WQHT-FM, popular New York hip-hop and R&B station that calls itself Hot 97; WQHT tied for second place with two other stations in October Arbitron ratings (S)
Date: 12 November 2004
By THOMAS J. LUECK and IVER PETERSON
Thomas LUECK
Lance Cpl Jeffrey Lam of Queens, Master Sgt Steven E Auchman of Waterloo, NY, Specialist Brian K Baker of West Seneca are reported killed in Iraq; Specialists Bryan L Freeman Jr of Lumberton, NJ, also dies in fighting there; photos (M)
Date: 12 November 2004
By JOSH BENSON
Josh BENSON
New Jersey Transit schedules hearings on raising fares as much as 15 percent for bus, train and light rail riders in effort to avert potential $65 million budget gap; cites rising cost of fuel, security and health benefits; commuter advocacy groups say agency should lobby state for more money (M)
Date: 13 November 2004
By BILL FINLEY
Bill FINLEY
Jockey Rafael Bejarano leaves Churchill Downs after insurance dispute prompted him and 13 other jockeys to boycott races; comes to New York to ride at Aqueduct; photo (M)
Date: 13 November 2004
By JESSE McKINLEY
Jesse McKINLEY
Actor Denzel Washington announces he will portray Brutus in new Broadway adaptation of Shakespeare's Julius Caesar, directed by Daniel Sullivan, due to begin rehearsals in late January; photo (M)
Date: 12 November 2004
By PHIL SWEETLAND; Compiled by Lawrence Van Gelder
Phil SWEETLAND
Arts, Briefly column; trade paper Radio & Records reports that John Dimick, radio veteran currently working in San Diego, will succeed Tracy Cloherty in December as program director at WQHT-FM, popular New York hip-hop and R&B station that calls itself Hot 97; WQHT tied for second place with two other stations in October Arbitron ratings (S)