BOOKS IN BRIEF: NONFICTION
Date: 02 September 2001
By Douglas A. Sylva
Douglas Sylva
Douglas A Sylva reviews book Bad News: Where the Press Goes Wrong in the Making of the President by Robert Shogan (S)
Replay do domingo, 2 de setembro de 2001
O dia 2 de setembro de 2001 foi um domingo sob o signo de ♍. Foi o dia 244 do ano. O presidente dos Estados Unidos foi George W. Bush.
Se você nasceu neste dia, você tem 24 anos de idade. Seu último aniversário foi no dia terça-feira, 2 de setembro de 2025, 281 dias atrás. Seu próximo aniversário é no dia quarta-feira, 2 de setembro de 2026, em 83 dias. Você viveu 9.047 dias, ou cerca de 217.146 horas, ou cerca de 13.028.813 minutos, ou cerca de 781.728.780 segundos.
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2nd of September 2001 News
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MediaTalk; Tabloids Cry: You Stole My Headline!
Date: 03 September 2001
By Felicity Barringer
Felicity Barringer
Entertaining skirmish breaks out at fringes of New York City's tabloid newspaper war, as New York Daily News accuses New York Post of 'ripping off' a headline; photos (S)
It's About Time to Face the Facts
Date: 02 September 2001
By
This week's letters addressed the Rolando Paulion All-Stars, coverage of the Little League World Series, and the signing of Eric Lindros to the Rangers
Dogfight for Dollars On Capitol Hill
Date: 02 September 2001
By James Dao
James Dao
Major decisions due this fall on defense spending and defense contracts set off multimillion-dollar advertising and lobbying effort by contractors, including Boeing, General Dynamics, Northrup Grumman, Newport News Shipbuilding, Lockheed Martin, Raytheon, TRW and United Defense; among weapon systems at stake are Joint Strike Fighter, DD-21 destroyer, mobile artillery system known as Crusader and V-22 Osprey aircraft; defense industry hoped Pres Bush would return spending to heyday of Reagan administration, but his tax cut and slowing economy have sharply squeezed fedral surplus, leaving little money for significant military spending increases for years to come; photos; graph (M)
Net Currency Seller Files for Bankruptcy
Date: 03 September 2001
By Bloomberg News
Bloomberg News
Flooz.com, seller of online currency used as electronic gift certificates, files for Chapter 7 bankruptcy protection, days after saying $300,000 of credit card fraud over Internet contributed to its shutdown (S)
Radio Stations Purchased
Date: 03 September 2001
By Bloomberg News
Bloomberg News
Media unit of Rogers Communications Inc agrees to buy 13 radio stations from closely held Standard Broadcasting Corp for 100 million Canadian dollars ($64.5 million) to offer more attractive radio-time packages to Toronto advertisers and to expand in northern Ontario (S)
Gauging a 'Morningstar Effect'
Date: 02 September 2001
By Bloomberg News
Bloomberg News
Federal Reserve Bank of Atlanta reports that stock mutual funds attract 53 percent more money from investors in six months after receiving five-star rating from Morningstar Inc (S)
Singapore Airlines Withdraws Bid for a Stake in Air-India
Date: 03 September 2001
By Bloomberg News
Bloomberg News
Singapore Airlines drops its bid for stake in Air India, citing political opposition to sale, slowing global economy and its plans to invest in southwestern Pacific; Singapore Air was seeking 40 percent stake in Air India, government-owned carrier, with Tata Group of India (S)
NEWS SUMMARY
Date: 02 September 2001
INTERNATIONAL 3-10 White House to Let China Build Up Nuclear Fleet The Bush Administration plans to tell Chinese officials that it has no objections to the country's plans to build up its fleet of nuclear missiles capable of striking the United States, senior administration officials said. The Americans are trying to overcome objections to their own missile defense program and to persuade China that such a shield is not intended to neutralize its small arsenal. 1 Trade Reprisal Against China The Bush administration imposed trade sanctions on a Chinese arms manufacturer after failing to persuade the Chinese government to stop exports of missile technology to Pakistan. 9
NEWS SUMMARY
Date: 03 September 2001
INTERNATIONAL A2-8 Macedonians Plead For a Wider NATO Role As NATO soldiers travel through Macedonia, it is becoming clear that there is a gap between their limited mission and the expectations of people on both sides of the ethnic conflict. NATO says that it has come only to collect arms from ethnic Albanian rebels, not to protect civilians. But since the soldiers arrived last week, nervous civilians living among bitter ethnic tensions are asking them to do just that. A1 Tense School Days in Mideast In Jerusalem, the new school year began with the Israeli police on high alert for a Palestinian terrorist attack, perhaps on a school building or a school bus. In the West Bank, Palestinian children passed through multiple Israeli checkpoints. A6