The September 3, 2000 was a Sunday under the star sign of ♍. It was the 246 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 Wednesday, September 3, 2025, 289 days ago. Your next birthday is on Thursday, September 3, 2026, in 75 days. You have lived for 9,420 days, or about 226,083 hours, or about 13,564,997 minutes, or about 813,899,820 seconds.
Date: 04 September 2000
By Alex Berenson
Alex Berenson
Bloomberg News service, with 950 reportes and 79 bureaus, competes to break news with Dow Jones, Reuters and Bridge News along with newspaper Web sites, dozens of small Internet sites and gossipy chart rooms; photos (M)
Date: 03 September 2000
By David Firestone
David Firestone
Many Christians from divergent political strata have long said what Sen Joseph Lieberman is saying--that belief in God is basis of true morality--and been vilified for saying it; they chafe at double standard applied by news media; Alan Wolfe, director of Center for Religion and American Public Life, suggests that Lieberman, as a Jew without sectarian mandate to proselytize, bears none of baggage of religious salesman, and is thus more palatable to wider public; photo (M)
Date: 03 September 2000
By Bloomberg News
Bloomberg News
Nasdaq composite index rises and falls by daily average of only 1.03 percent in August, down from 2.51 percent in first seven months of year (S)
Date: 04 September 2000
By Bloomberg News
Bloomberg News
Scour, Web site that allows users to exchange films and music online, lays off 52 employees, about 80 percent of its staff, after company is unable to raise additional financing (S)
Date: 03 September 2000
By Bloomberg News
Bloomberg News
Investment Company Institute reports that combined assets of US mutual funds declined by 0.6 percent, to $7.08 trillion, in July and assets of stock funds dropped 2 percent, to $4.23 trillion while assets of taxable money-market funds rose 2.2 percent, to $1.48 trillion and tose of tax-free money market funds gained 2.9 percent, to $220.9 billion (S)
Date: 03 September 2000
INTERNATIONAL 3-16 Russian Refusal Was Vital To Delay on Missile Shield President Clinton's decision not to authorize even initial construction of a national missile shield had been shaped by events as far back as January, senior administration and Pentagon officials said, when the Russians first made it clear they would not negotiate changes in the Antiballistic Missile Treaty of 1972. 1 U.N. Hosts Millennium Summit The battle over globalization that brought protests to Seattle and Washington moves this week to the United Nations. The three-day Millennium Summit of more than 150 world leaders called to thrash out problems of poverty and peace is turning instead into a debate about the future of the organization, at a time when national boundaries have become nearly as irrelevant to economic and political tides as they are to popular music. 1
Date: 04 September 2000
INTERNATIONAL A3-9 Some Unexplored Options For a Missile Defense The debate about a national missile defense system has obscured the potential candidacy of a lesser-known antimissile weapon known as the theater missile defense system, designed to protect American troops and bases in relatively small regions. Theater missile defense systems potentially could be expanded to protect larger areas and perhaps even the entire United States, analysts inside and outside the military say. A1 Strong Challenger in Yugoslavia In the race for president, polls suggest that the moderate nationalist Vojislav Kostunica, the most serious opposition candidate ever to challenge Slobodan Milosevic, ought to be able to win. The election is being closely watched by the United States and NATO, which bombed Yugoslavia for 78 days last year over Kosovo and have labored since to push Mr. Milosevic out of office. A1
Date: 03 September 2000
By Hubert B. Herring
Hubert
On Aug. 20, 1986, an Oklahoma postal worker shot and killed 14 co-workers, then himself. In the years since, there have been other incidents of violence and murder, sometimes multiple murder, by current or former postal workers. On Apr. 17, 1994, in his ''On Language'' column in The New York Times Magazine, William Safire discussed whether ''going postal'' meant ''losing it'' or ''not being online.'' It was the first time ''going postal'' appeared in The Times.
Date: 03 September 2000
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Date: 04 September 2000
By Jim Rutenberg
Jim Rutenberg
Willow Bay, anchor on CNN's Moneyline News Hour program, will begin doing her job from Los Angeles on Sept 5; her co-anchor, Stuart Varney, will remain in New York; photo (M)