The May 7, 2000 was a Sunday under the star sign of ♉. It was the 127 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 Thursday, May 7, 2026, 43 days ago. Your next birthday is on Friday, May 7, 2027, in 321 days. You have lived for 9,539 days, or about 228,941 hours, or about 13,736,493 minutes, or about 824,189,580 seconds.
Date: 08 May 2000
By Mike Wise
Mike Wise
Tim Hardaway takes shot at national news media after Miami Heat's Game 1 playoff victory, wondering aloud why Miami is always viewed as underdog against New York Knickerbockers, irrespective of records and seedings (S)
Date: 07 May 2000
By David Walton
David Walton
David Walton reviews book A Bohemian Brigade: The Civil War Correspondents-Mostly Rough, Sometimes Ready by James M Perry (M)
Date: 08 May 2000
By Adam Clymer
Adam Clymer
Adam Clymer article on NBC/Wall Street Journal poll and Gallup Poll for CNN and USA Today showing that Gov George W Bush leads Vice Pres Al Gore by 5 percentage points despite robust economy; notes that the last time president's party lost White House in good times was in 1920; says economy has stayed strong for so long that most people are not worrying about it; says public is giving Pres Clinton and Federal Reserve chairman, Alan Greenspan, credit for way things are, instead of Gore, whose weakness as candidate compounds problem (M)
Date: 07 May 2000
By John Files
John Files
Washington Memo on recent White House correspondents' dinner, at which Pres Clinton lampooned himself with home movies, which depicted him as quintessential Lonely Guy in twilight of his presidency; photo (M)
Date: 08 May 2000
By William Safire
William Safire
William Safire Op-Ed column on recent Gridiron dinner and White House Correspondents Association dinner in Washington at which members of political establishment, notably Pres Clinton and Vice Pres Gore, were roasted (M)
Date: 08 May 2000
By Elisabeth Rosenthal
Elisabeth Rosenthal
China's leaders are trying to rein in growing and increasingly assertive liberal intellectual movement, criticizing prominent academics and authors in speeches, forbidding newspapers to run their articles and punishing or shutting down publishers who bring out their work; view liberal intellectuals as threat to their political power; Pres Jiang Zemin, for all his Western-leaning economics, has is constantly reiterating importance of standing fast by Communist ideology, overrun by dot-com startups; academics say that since economic reforms have spawned greater pluralism in ideas and means to express them, it is impossible to mount concerted old-style Communist Party campaign; photo (M)
Date: 07 May 2000
Ronald P Seyb letter on Pres Clinton's comedy video for Washington correspondents' dinner; notes that American culture has always treated even its solemn exercises in civic participation as opportunities for diversion
Date: 07 May 2000
INTERNATIONAL 3-21 I.R.A. Pledges to Open Arsenal to Inspection The Irish Republican Army offered to open its secret arsenal of weapons to international inspection as a way of meeting peace negotiators' demands that it ''completely and verifiably'' put its arms beyond use. 1
Date: 08 May 2000
INTERNATIONAL A3-13 Fighting Erupts Again Near Sierra Leone Capital Government and rebel forces fought each other near Freetown, the capital, and the United Nations force that is supposed to keep peace between them sank deeper into disarray after mistakenly announcing that the rebels were advancing on Freetown. Britain said it was sending warships and troops to help citizens who want to flee. A1 Putin Takes Oath of Office Vladimir V. Putin swore to ''respect and guard the human and civil rights'' of Russia, and officially became its second president. He reappointed as acting prime minister Mikhail Kasyanov, left, known to the West for his dealings on rescheduling Russia's foreign debt. A1
Date: 07 May 2000
Several thousand protesters calling for legalization of marijuana march down Broadway; more than 300 are arrested after lighting up for their cause (S)