The November 25, 2001 was a Sunday under the star sign of ♐. It was the 328 day of the year. President of the United States was George W. Bush.
If you were born on this day, you are 24 years old. Your last birthday was on the Tuesday, November 25, 2025, 226 days ago. Your next birthday is on Wednesday, November 25, 2026, in 138 days. You have lived for 8,992 days, or about 215,818 hours, or about 12,949,120 minutes, or about 776,947,200 seconds.
Date: 26 November 2001
By Jim Rutenberg
Jim Rutenberg
Television news organizations covering war in Afghanistan spurn services of Peter Arnett, veteran war correspondent whose career was sullied by involvement in discredited CNN report accusing US of using nerve gas against defectors in Laos during Vietnam War; he will cover Afghan war for BNN, independent video company, which plans to syndicate his reporting; photo (M)
Date: 25 November 2001
By Paul Krugman
Paul Krugman
Paul Krugman Op-Ed column says television news always shows Americans behaving well in wake of terrorist attacks, but some Web sites and business sections of quality newspapers reveal a different picture: Congress voting billions in 'lump-sum transfers' to airlines but not a penny for laid-off airline workers, House 'stimulus' package that contains almost nothing for the unemployed but $25 billion in retroactive corporate tax cuts and Bush administration pressing for opening of public lands to oil companies and logging interests (M)
Date: 25 November 2001
By Barbara Fitzgerald
Barbara Fitzgerald
New Jersey Assemblyman Donald Tucker, appointed by Gov-elect James McGreevey as speaker pro-tem, is criticized in New Jersey Jewish News editorial for being political patron of Leonard Jeffries, who it considers one of America's most notorious anti-Semites (S)
Date: 25 November 2001
By Elizabeth Maker
Elizabeth Maker
Readers react strongly to news that Litchfield County Times, local Connecticut newspaper, has been sold by Arthur L Carter to Journal Register Co of Trenton, NJ; paper is noted for its award-winning celebrity inteviews, local news and editorials under Carter's direction; photos (M)
Date: 26 November 2001
By Bloomberg News
Bloomberg News
Agfa-Gevaert, largest European manufacturer of X-ray products and film, signs definitive agreement to acquire Mitra, Canadian provider of imaging and information-management systems for health care industry (S)
Date: 26 November 2001
By Bloomberg News
Bloomberg News
Public and private lawsuits against Swissair Group, which owns 49.5 percent Belgian carrier Sabena, demand almost $1.75 billion as compensation for Swissair's failure to provide money to help Sabena avoid collapse (M)
Date: 26 November 2001
By Bloomberg News
Bloomberg News
Lang Corp, Australian cargo handling company, agrees to purchase controlling interest in discount airline Virgin Blue and assist it in competing with Qantas Airways (M)
Date: 25 November 2001
INTERNATIONAL A3-31 Globalization Downside: Recession Spreads Widely With American economic malaise spreading, many economists agree that the world is suffering its first recession in two decades and that recovery may come more slowly than once expected, perhaps revealing a dark side to the increasing economic integration of the last decade. A6 Belfast Protests to End Protestant protesters said they would no longer demonstrate along a road used by Catholic schoolchildren, after the direct intervention of top Protestant and Catholic officials. The daily demonstrations focused attention on continuing hatreds in Northern Ireland even as efforts to end violence were under way. A8
Date: 26 November 2001
INTERNATIONAL A3-12 Mideast Killings Continue; U.S. Presses for Cease-Fire Two American envoys are to arrive in Jerusalem today to try to secure a cease-fire and promote a resumption of peace negotiations. The Bush administration is trying to end more than 14 months of Israeli-Palestinian violence, concerned that the spiraling conflict could erode the support of Muslim nations for the American-led war in Afghanistan. A12 Macedonia Seeks Rebel Land President Boris Trajkovski of Macedonia said that the former Yugoslav republic wanted to regain control of territory dominated by former ethnic Albanian rebels by mid-January, but would work with Western peace brokers. A recent deployment by government forces into a rebel area was intended to safeguard evidence at a suspected mass grave, not to forcibly reoccupy terrain in violation of the August peace deal, he said. A11