Journal; Milli Vanilli News
Date: 08 July 1998
By FRANK RICH
Frank RICH
Frank Rich Op-Ed column on retraction by Cable News Network and Time magazine of story claiming that US Army used nerve gas against defectors during Vietnam War (M)
Daria Spiridonova Birthday, Date of Birth
Daria Sergeyevna Nagornaya (née Spiridonova Russian: Дарья Сергеевна Нагорная née Спиридонова; born 8 July 1998) is a Russian former artistic gymnast. Primarily an uneven bars specialist, she is the 2015 World Champion, the 2015 European Champion, the 2014 World bronze medalist, and a four-time Russian national (2014–17) champion on the apparatus. She represented Russia at the 2016 Summer Olympics, winning a silver medal in the team competition. She was also a member of the gold-medal-winning team at the 2016 European Championships, the silver-medal-winning teams at the 2018 and 2019 World Championships, and the bronze-medal-winning teams at the 2014 World and 2014 European championships.
Read more...- Birthday, Date of Birth
- Wednesday, July 8, 1998
- Place of Birth
- Novocheboksarsk
- Age
- 27
- Star Sign
- ♋
The July 8, 1998 was a Wednesday under the star sign of ♋. It was the 188 day of the year. President of the United States was William J. (Bill) Clinton.
If you were born on this day, you are 27 years old. Your last birthday was on the Tuesday, July 8, 2025, 119 days ago. Your next birthday is on Wednesday, July 8, 2026, in 245 days. You have lived for 9,981 days, or about 239,551 hours, or about 14,373,065 minutes, or about 862,383,900 seconds.
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8th of July 1998 News
News as it appeared on the front page of the New York Times on July 8, 1998
TV News Pits Facts Against 'Story'
Date: 08 July 1998
Daniel P Molina letter comments on July 3 editorial on retraction of story by CNN and Time magazine that US used nerve gas against defectors during Vietnam War (S)
Editor of The New Yorker Leaving for New Venture
Date: 09 July 1998
By JANNY SCOTT and GERALDINE FABRIKANT
Janny SCOTT
Tina Brown, who reshaped The New Yorker with photographs and late-century topicality, announces that she will resign as editor to start company affiliated with Miramax Films that would publish new monthly magazine, publish books and produce films and television programming; announcement comes after months of rumors of growing tension between Brown and Conde Nast Publications, which owns The New Yorker, over company's attempts to make magazine less unprofitable; during Brown's six-year tenure, The New Yorker won nearly two dozen major awards and newstand sales rose 145 percent, but it lost $11 million last year; Conde Nast spokeswoman says successor to Brown would be named shortly; Brown will be joined in new Miramax venture by Ronald A Galotti, who is resigning as publisher of Vogue magazine; photos; chart (M)
New Yorker Faces Crucial Decisions
Date: 09 July 1998
By GERALDINE FABRIKANT with STUART ELLIOTT
Geraldine FABRIKANT
S I Newhouse Jr will have to make crucial decisions about editorial and advertising future of loss-plagued New Yorker magazine with departure of his high-profile editor Tina Brown; Brown was credited with making magazine timely, relevant and far flashier than it had been under former editors; also at issue is whether to trim magazine's high editorial budget and rethink its strategy of making expensive efforts to build circulation; photo (M)
New Barter Site on the Internet For Unloading White Elephants
Date: 09 July 1998
By Steven E. Brier
Steven Brier
International Barter is going on line with Ubarter.com, site that will allow consumers to trade unneeded items for something they deem more important (S)
Bank of New York in Deal
Date: 08 July 1998
Bank of New York Co will buy trust businesses from Britain's Coutts & Co (S)
Study Rejects New Limits on Helicopters
Date: 09 July 1998
By AMY WALDMAN
Amy WALDMAN
Draft of New York City's first comprehensive analysis of its heliport infrastructure and helicopter activity concludes that city should continue its year-old ban on sightseeing flights from 34th Street Heliport, but it does not call for new regulations on corporate or commercial traffic; Economic Development Corp pres Charles Millard commissioned study (M)
Annals of The New Yorker
Date: 09 July 1998
Editorial on departure of Tina Brown from the New Yorker after six years as editor; says her replacement will have to do something more creative than choosing between the literary and journalistic traditions she broke and the 'buzz' she introduced
TV News Pits Facts Against 'Story'
Date: 08 July 1998
Daniel P Molina letter comments on July 3 editorial on retraction of story by CNN and Time magazine that US used nerve gas against defectors during Vietnam War (S)
Editor of The New Yorker Leaving for New Venture
Date: 09 July 1998
By JANNY SCOTT and GERALDINE FABRIKANT
Janny SCOTT
Tina Brown, who reshaped The New Yorker with photographs and late-century topicality, announces that she will resign as editor to start company affiliated with Miramax Films that would publish new monthly magazine, publish books and produce films and television programming; announcement comes after months of rumors of growing tension between Brown and Conde Nast Publications, which owns The New Yorker, over company's attempts to make magazine less unprofitable; during Brown's six-year tenure, The New Yorker won nearly two dozen major awards and newstand sales rose 145 percent, but it lost $11 million last year; Conde Nast spokeswoman says successor to Brown would be named shortly; Brown will be joined in new Miramax venture by Ronald A Galotti, who is resigning as publisher of Vogue magazine; photos; chart (M)
New Yorker Faces Crucial Decisions
Date: 09 July 1998
By GERALDINE FABRIKANT with STUART ELLIOTT
Geraldine FABRIKANT
S I Newhouse Jr will have to make crucial decisions about editorial and advertising future of loss-plagued New Yorker magazine with departure of his high-profile editor Tina Brown; Brown was credited with making magazine timely, relevant and far flashier than it had been under former editors; also at issue is whether to trim magazine's high editorial budget and rethink its strategy of making expensive efforts to build circulation; photo (M)
New Barter Site on the Internet For Unloading White Elephants
Date: 09 July 1998
By Steven E. Brier
Steven Brier
International Barter is going on line with Ubarter.com, site that will allow consumers to trade unneeded items for something they deem more important (S)
Bank of New York in Deal
Date: 08 July 1998
Bank of New York Co will buy trust businesses from Britain's Coutts & Co (S)
Editor of The New Yorker Leaving for New Venture
Date: 09 July 1998
By JANNY SCOTT and GERALDINE FABRIKANT
Janny SCOTT
Tina Brown, who reshaped The New Yorker with photographs and late-century topicality, announces that she will resign as editor to start company affiliated with Miramax Films that would publish new monthly magazine, publish books and produce films and television programming; announcement comes after months of rumors of growing tension between Brown and Conde Nast Publications, which owns The New Yorker, over company's attempts to make magazine less unprofitable; during Brown's six-year tenure, The New Yorker won nearly two dozen major awards and newstand sales rose 145 percent, but it lost $11 million last year; Conde Nast spokeswoman says successor to Brown would be named shortly; Brown will be joined in new Miramax venture by Ronald A Galotti, who is resigning as publisher of Vogue magazine; photos; chart (M)
New Yorker Faces Crucial Decisions
Date: 09 July 1998
By GERALDINE FABRIKANT with STUART ELLIOTT
Geraldine FABRIKANT
S I Newhouse Jr will have to make crucial decisions about editorial and advertising future of loss-plagued New Yorker magazine with departure of his high-profile editor Tina Brown; Brown was credited with making magazine timely, relevant and far flashier than it had been under former editors; also at issue is whether to trim magazine's high editorial budget and rethink its strategy of making expensive efforts to build circulation; photo (M)
New Barter Site on the Internet For Unloading White Elephants
Date: 09 July 1998
By Steven E. Brier
Steven Brier
International Barter is going on line with Ubarter.com, site that will allow consumers to trade unneeded items for something they deem more important (S)
TV News Pits Facts Against 'Story'
Date: 08 July 1998
Daniel P Molina letter comments on July 3 editorial on retraction of story by CNN and Time magazine that US used nerve gas against defectors during Vietnam War (S)
Editor of The New Yorker Leaving for New Venture
Date: 09 July 1998
By JANNY SCOTT and GERALDINE FABRIKANT
Janny SCOTT
Tina Brown, who reshaped The New Yorker with photographs and late-century topicality, announces that she will resign as editor to start company affiliated with Miramax Films that would publish new monthly magazine, publish books and produce films and television programming; announcement comes after months of rumors of growing tension between Brown and Conde Nast Publications, which owns The New Yorker, over company's attempts to make magazine less unprofitable; during Brown's six-year tenure, The New Yorker won nearly two dozen major awards and newstand sales rose 145 percent, but it lost $11 million last year; Conde Nast spokeswoman says successor to Brown would be named shortly; Brown will be joined in new Miramax venture by Ronald A Galotti, who is resigning as publisher of Vogue magazine; photos; chart (M)
New Yorker Faces Crucial Decisions
Date: 09 July 1998
By GERALDINE FABRIKANT with STUART ELLIOTT
Geraldine FABRIKANT
S I Newhouse Jr will have to make crucial decisions about editorial and advertising future of loss-plagued New Yorker magazine with departure of his high-profile editor Tina Brown; Brown was credited with making magazine timely, relevant and far flashier than it had been under former editors; also at issue is whether to trim magazine's high editorial budget and rethink its strategy of making expensive efforts to build circulation; photo (M)
New Barter Site on the Internet For Unloading White Elephants
Date: 09 July 1998
By Steven E. Brier
Steven Brier
International Barter is going on line with Ubarter.com, site that will allow consumers to trade unneeded items for something they deem more important (S)
Bank of New York in Deal
Date: 08 July 1998
Bank of New York Co will buy trust businesses from Britain's Coutts & Co (S)
Annals of The New Yorker
Date: 09 July 1998
Editorial on departure of Tina Brown from the New Yorker after six years as editor; says her replacement will have to do something more creative than choosing between the literary and journalistic traditions she broke and the 'buzz' she introduced
New Yorker Faces Crucial Decisions
Date: 09 July 1998
By GERALDINE FABRIKANT with STUART ELLIOTT
Geraldine FABRIKANT
S I Newhouse Jr will have to make crucial decisions about editorial and advertising future of loss-plagued New Yorker magazine with departure of his high-profile editor Tina Brown; Brown was credited with making magazine timely, relevant and far flashier than it had been under former editors; also at issue is whether to trim magazine's high editorial budget and rethink its strategy of making expensive efforts to build circulation; photo (M)