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Newspaper
Cedar Rapids Gazette
Location
Cedar Rapids, Iowa, United States of America
Date
Nov 10, 2000
Page
4
Eric Morley the millionaire entrepreneur who created Miss World died at 82 in London after a heart attack. Channel 5 announced his death hours after contestants opened the 2000 Miss World contest with Morley unable to attend due to back pain.
Ruth Simmons, a sharecropper's daughter who earned a PhD in Romance languages, was named president of Brown University becoming the first Black leader of an Ivy League school. She previously led Smith College and succeeds Gordon Gee who left Brown for Vanderbilt. Simmons rose from poverty in Texas as the youngest of 12, attended Dillard University, and earned her Harvard PhD.
President Vladimir Putin signed a decree to shrink Russia's armed forces to a smaller, more affordable force. The plan reduces about 600,000 positions, including 470,000 military and 130,000 civilian posts, targeting all services and using saved funds to upgrade weaponry.
VeriSign begins accepting Chinese Japanese and Korean domain characters for .com .net and .org in a global Web expansion. Arabic and other languages may follow as two dozen registrars link to the central database.
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