The November 17, 2000 was a Friday under the star sign of ♏. It was the 321 day of the year. President of the United States was William J. (Bill) Clinton.
If you were born on this day, you are 25 years old. Your last birthday was on the Monday, November 17, 2025, 230 days ago. Your next birthday is on Tuesday, November 17, 2026, in 134 days. You have lived for 9,361 days, or about 224,679 hours, or about 13,480,797 minutes, or about 808,847,820 seconds.
Date: 18 November 2000
By Peter Marks
Peter Marks
Network news executives and Web site operators decide for time being to add only the new numbers from tabulation of overseas ballots--and not partial results from the continuing hand recounts--to their onscreen running tallies of the presidential vote in Florida; say this will provide the simplest and most accurate portrait of the vote totals; photo (M)
Date: 17 November 2000
By Bill Kovach and Tom Rosenstiel
Bill Kovach
Op-Ed article by Bill Kovach and Tom Rosenstiel of Committee of Concerned Journalists says election night, when networks made erroneous projections about who had won, was probably worst moment in 50-year history of television coverage of politics; says public should be troubled that press has become a player rather than an observer; says misleading coverage failed to report what actually happened; says networks' embarrassing performance can still produce good outcome if it leads to serious self-examination and appropriate changes; photo (M)
Date: 17 November 2000
By David D. Kirkpatrick
David
TheStreet.com, online financial news service whose once-soaring stock helped to symbolize Internet craze, will lay off 40 of its 219 employees in a broad-ranging effort to conserve remaining cash as it strives to make its first profit; will close majority-owned British unit, with 64 employees; it and New York Times Co will also close a joint newsroom with a total of seven reporters and editors operated with The Times's Web site; photo of James J Cramer, co-founder of TheStreet.com (M)
Date: 18 November 2000
By Frank Rich
Frank Rich
Frank Rich Op-Ed column says Americans are not upset over presidential vote count in Florida because they realize that neither Vice Pres Al Gore nor Gov George W Bush deserves to be president; says both will lose, no matter who is the nominal winner; says the one real civic crisis to emerge from Florida is the erroneous manipulation of the public by false and premature predictions on Election Night; cartoon (M)
Date: 18 November 2000
By John Kifner
John Kifner
Palestinian uprising today and intifada of 1987 have certain similarities and differences; both erupted out of bitter, pent-up frustration, but anger today is directed at Palestinian Authority as well as Israel and Oslo agreement; biggest difference between the two insurrections is that Palestinians now have guns and control chunks of territory; another difference is the emergence of independent Arab satellite television stations that offer dramatic coverage of clashes and discussions from a variety of political viewpoints; photo (M)
Date: 18 November 2000
By Bloomberg News
Bloomberg News
Hexagon AB buys measuring instrument business of Brown & Sharpe Manufacturing Co for at least $160 million as as much as $180 million (S)
Date: 18 November 2000
By Bloomberg News
Bloomberg News
Group of investors led by Barry W Florescue offers to guy Guest Supply Inc for about $139 million (S)
Date: 18 November 2000
By Bloomberg News
Bloomberg News
ZipLink Inc is shutting down its operations, and 80 of its 90 workers are let go (S)
Date: 17 November 2000
By Bloomberg News
Bloomberg News
Phillips Petroleum and Anadarko Petroleum begin production at Alpine oil field in Alaska, described as biggest onshore oil discovery in US in a decade; field is expected to produce 80,000 barrels a day by end of year from 16 production wells (S)
Date: 18 November 2000
By Bloomberg News
Bloomberg News
Xerox Corp says it could be forced to repurchase derivatives contracts worth as much as $240 million in its credit ratings fall below investment grade (S)