Der 24. Dezember 1995 war ein Sonntag unter dem Sternzeichen ♑. Es war der 357. Tag des Jahres. Präsident der Vereinigten Staaten war William J. (Bill) Clinton.
Wenn Sie an diesem Tag geboren wurden, sind Sie 30 Jahre alt. Ihr letzter Geburtstag war am Mittwoch, 24. Dezember 2025, vor 175 Tagen. Ihr nächster Geburtstag ist am Donnerstag, 24. Dezember 2026 in 189 Tagen. Sie haben 11.133 Tage gelebt oder ungefähr 267.215 Stunden oder ungefähr 16.032.913 Minuten oder ungefähr 961.974.780 Sekunden.
Date: 24 December 1995
By Suzy Menkes
Suzy Menkes
WHAT a year it has been for parties on a grand scale! Three royal weddings, scores of fancy balls, swishing gowns, tottering towers of flowers, bacchanalian buffets and cascades of Champagne. You weren't invited? You didn't even know these elegant events took place? Not surprising.
Date: 24 December 1995
To the Editor: Joe Sullivan was my Cub Scout leader in 1947 ("What's Up? Listen . . . A Reporter's Life in Politics," front page, Dec. 10). A giant of a St. Peter's Prep football player at the time, Joe's twinkling eyes, easy laugh and just-plain-folks intellectuality made him a much-beloved figure on Fairmount Avenue in Jersey City.
Date: 24 December 1995
By Barbara Stewart
Barbara Stewart
It is Tuesday, writing night at the Hoboken Clergy Coalition Shelter. In the basement of St. John's Lutheran Church, homeless people taking refuge from the blowing, sifting snow stand in line for boiled hot dogs, baked beans, an orange. Cleanup follows, with shelter residents emptying garbage, mopping floors, carrying tables out and beds and blankets in. But a handful slip upstairs, carrying notebooks and ballpoints and settling into pews. Mandy Gardner, a volunteer who has published poems in small magazines, and Chris Pilcher, a Union City custodian who spent some months living at the shelter, are the leaders. But there's no conventional teaching here -- nobody is right or wrong, smarter or dumber, more or less knowledgeable. There is simply writing, reading aloud, listening and praising.
Date: 24 December 1995
By Barbara Stewart
Barbara Stewart
Having filed for bankruptcy this month, directors of the William Carlos Williams Center in Rutherford are hoping for a fresh, focused start. The arts center is staving off creditors -- mostly the power company -- with its Chapter 11 bankruptcy declaration, which will also allow the directors to regroup, rethink their mission and try to pull in audiences. But Chapter 11 protection will be useful only if the arts center determines and implements a focused program, said Richard Theryoung, president of the board. For more than 10 years, the center's plays, concerts and movies have attracted fewer and fewer people. The final slide into debt began two years ago when the center booked a Hungarian dance troupe. The night of the performance, there was a heavy snowfall. Thirty-six people turned up to watch the troupe's 126 dancers and musicians. "A disaster," Mr. Theryoung said.
Date: 24 December 1995
By D. J. R. Bruckner
THE HOLY BIBLE With illustrations from the Vatican Library. Turner/Oxford University, $395; after Jan. 1, $425. With 1,312 pages, each 10 by 14 inches of heavy archival paper, in its gilt-stamped slipcase, this Bible weighs 15.5 pounds, as heavy as stone tablets from Mount Sinai perhaps. What gives it real distinction, however, is its art: 263 paintings and 407 artistic ornaments from Renaissance masters -- principally the Ghirlandaio-painted pages in the Vatican Library's 15th-century Urbino Bible -- lavishly printed in six colors and outlined with a specially concocted gold ink that does indeed gleam on the page. The text is the New Revised Standard Version, the one that banishes all the male pronouns it can and otherwise tries to take offense out of the archaic book's archaic language. But it is still pungent. If you turn to the Gospel of St. Luke, on page 1,069 you will find Jesus in a synagogue reading from the prophet Isaiah: "The Spirit of the Lord is upon me, because he has anointed me to bring good news to the poor." And although this edition's apparatus lacks the cross-referencing common to most cheap modern versions, if you riffle through Isaiah you will find the original at page 587, referring to the poor as "the oppressed." Of course, this magnificent production does not seem intended to let the poor know about their good news. It comes with a quire of blank genealogical charts for families to immortalize themselves in for generations, and a big presentation medallion at the very front, in case someone wants to make a lavish gift and insure that the giver's name will be the first thing a reader will see. D. J. R. BRUCKNER
Date: 24 December 1995
By David E. Sanger
David Sanger
All year, the markets blithely ignored Washington's budget histrionics. No matter how strident the warnings -- Newt Gingrich's prediction a few weeks ago of a "market crash" if the White House failed to give way to the Republican agenda, and Treasury Secretary Robert E. Rubin's admonition about the danger of playing political games with the debt limit and the prospect of national default -- investors just kept buying. Wall Street was convinced it understood the odd theatrics of Pennsylvania Avenue, and had seen it all before. When the table-pounding ended, investors were certain, a plan would emerge to balance the budget by early in the next millennium.
Date: 24 December 1995
The office Christmas party is bigger than ever this season. Battalia Winston International, an executive recruiting firm in Manhattan, studied holiday revels and found that 89 percent of the 101 companies it surveyed were holding companywide parties this year, up from 16 percent in 1990. The companies see the festivities as a good way for their employees to bond, the firm said. But the parties are getting to be the only thing that companies do for the holidays. Battalia Winston found that corporate gift-giving is going the way of the Christmas goose, with only a third of the companies surveyed offering gifts to employees this year, down from almost half in 1990. And here is more bad news: This year, more companies were asking their employees to pay for the gatherings.
Date: 25 December 1995
AP
Investigators opened a murder investigation today into the deaths of 16 members of a doomsday cult amid suspicions that they were shot, drugged or asphyxiated before their bodies were burned. Three young girls were among those shot to death in the remote Alpine forest, Prosecutor Jean-Francois Lorans said.