The January 23, 2000 was a Sunday under the star sign of ♒. It was the 22 day of the year. President of the United States was William J. (Bill) Clinton.
If you were born on this day, you are 26 years old. Your last birthday was on the Friday, January 23, 2026, 152 days ago. Your next birthday is on Saturday, January 23, 2027, in 212 days. You have lived for 9,649 days, or about 231,596 hours, or about 13,895,784 minutes, or about 833,747,040 seconds.
Date: 24 January 2000
By Peter Marks
Peter Marks
Presidential primaries and caucuses, normally events of immense interest for media, are being given more scrutiny in 2000 presidential race than ever before, especially in electronic media; coverage of Iowa caucuses discussed; photo (M)
Date: 24 January 2000
By Laurie J. Flynn
Laurie Flynn
News Digital Media, online publishing arm of News Corp's Fox Network, will provide free Internet access through Bart Simpson fan club; www.simpsons.com, new World Wide Web site, makes its debut on 10th anniversary of animated sitcom; photo (M)
Date: 24 January 2000
By Steven Erlanger
Steven Erlanger
Radio Free Europe and Voice of America curtail Serbian-language transmissions, even as Clinton Administration intensifies efforts to oust Pres Slobodan Milosevic of Yugoslavia through increased support for Serbian opposition and independent media (M)
Date: 24 January 2000
By Alex Kuczynski
Alex Kuczynski
Media column describes coverage of America Online-Time Warner merger by newsweekly magazines; notes they mostly hewed to AOL-as-winner line, and emphasized AOL's chairman, Stephen M Case, over Time Warner's chairman, Gerald M Levin; photos (M)
Date: 23 January 2000
By Rick Lyman
Rick Lyman
Profile of Otis Chandler, 72-year-old former publisher of Los Angeles Times, who became hero to many newspaper journalists around country by chastising his successors and charging that its bottom-line, Wall Street-oriented management had compromised reputation and editorial integrity of his family's paper; photos (L)
Date: 24 January 2000
By Alex Kuczynski
Alex Kuczynski
Ms magazine hires Patricia Smith as columnist; she was columnist for Boston Globe until she admitted that she fabricated characters and quotes; photo (M)
Date: 23 January 2000
By Alan Bisbort
Alan Bisbort
Alan Bisbort reviews exhibition of select items from University of Connecticut's Alternative Press Collection from 1960's on view at Thomas J Dodd Research Center; photos (M)
Date: 23 January 2000
By Thomas Mallon
Thomas Mallon
Op-Ed article by Thomas Mallon says candidates and media alike believe that winning title of 'maverick' contributes to success in presidential campaign; says 'maverick' seal has been attached almost automatically to each party's main 'challenger,' even though neither John McCain nor Bill Bradley are unorthodox in any fundamental way; says true mavericks in this race are Gary Bauer, Steve Forbes and Alan Keyes (M)
Date: 24 January 2000
INTERNATIONAL A3-10 Israeli-Palestinian Talks May Miss a Deadline Israel's senior negotiator, Oded Eran, said that while Israel and the Palestinians would intensify their peace negotiations in the next few weeks, it was increasingly unlikely that they would reach a framework agreement by their goal of mid-February. But he said he still believed that a full permanent peace accord could be forged by September. A1
Date: 23 January 2000
INTERNATIONAL 3-13 Prosecutors Pursue Bin Laden Web of Terror Federal prosecutors, in a series of little-noticed court filings, have painted the most detailed picture yet of how Osama bin Laden directed what they depict as a worldwide terrorism conspiracy. The government has charged Mr. bin Laden with conspiring to attack Americans, specifically in the embassy bombings in Tanzania and Kenya. 1