The March 18, 2001 was a Sunday under the star sign of ♓. It was the 76 day of the year. President of the United States was George W. Bush.
If you were born on this day, you are 25 years old. Your last birthday was on the Wednesday, March 18, 2026, 97 days ago. Your next birthday is on Thursday, March 18, 2027, in 267 days. You have lived for 9,228 days, or about 221,481 hours, or about 13,288,901 minutes, or about 797,334,060 seconds.
Date: 19 March 2001
By Jim Rutenberg
Jim Rutenberg
AOL-Time Warner executives seem to greet insensitive remarks by vice chairman Ted Turner about Ash Wednesday ashes on foreheads of CNN staff members with same sort of fatalism with which Time Warner dealt with his penchant for off-the-cuff remarks about religion and ethnicity; photo (M)
Date: 19 March 2001
By Saul Hansell
Saul Hansell
Pew Research Center for People and the Press reports that only 30 percent of the people it surveyed said they had heard a lot about Internet companies' woes, despite widespread news coverage; finds few had much direct experience with dot-com meltdown; table (M)
Date: 18 March 2001
Recent New York Times/CBS News Poll puts former Pres Bill Clinton's approval rating at just 38 percent, lowest rating he received since he was sworn into office in 1993; this confirms reports from street vendors in Washington, DC, who have recently removed Clinton's life-sized cardboard image from view because tourists no longer want to be photographed with it; vendors say they discern public distaste for Clinton's controversy-plagued administration and subsequent questions over pardons he issued as he left office; photo (M)
Date: 19 March 2001
By James Risen
James Risen
Federal Bureau of Investigation identifies Vladimir Frolov, Russian press attache in Washington who abruptly cut short second tour of duty in US, as spy who may have handled Richard P Hanssen, agency operative who has been charged with spying for Russia; officials say Frolov was not forced to leave by US; speculate departure may have been part of pre-emptive move by Russian government in anticipation of Bush administration demands that some of its intelligence officers leave (M)
Date: 19 March 2001
By Felicity Barringer and Ralph Blumenthal
Felicity Barringer
Supreme Court is set to hear arguments in suit by freelancers against New York Times, Time Inc and Newsday challenging sale of their work without their consent or added payment to database owner Lexis-Nexis and University Microfilms International, which puts electronic archives on CD-ROMs; writers argue they retain ownership of work; publishers hold payment for work also gives them electronic rights; historians and biographers are split on suit; National Writers Union president Jonathan Tasini is lead plaintiff; New York Times chairman Arthur Sulzberger Jr and others comment; photos (M)
Date: 18 March 2001
By Bloomberg News
Bloomberg News
Viacom Inc loses bid to suspend rules limiting broadcaster to 35 percent of United States viewers through its own television stations, restriction company exceeds and must meet by May 4; Federal Communications Commission rejects Viacom's bid for permission to ignore limit until appeals court decides on challenge to rules (S)
Date: 19 March 2001
By Bloomberg News
Bloomberg News
Intel Corp will offer chips for laptops that are almost as fast as desktop-computer processors and consume less power (M)
Date: 19 March 2001
By Bloomberg News
Bloomberg News
Federal Communications Commissions grants AT&T's bid to suspend May 19 deadlines for either selling 25.5 percent stake in Time Warner Entertainment or spinning off its interest in Liberty Media; bid followed Federal appeals court decision throwing out FCC rules barring any cable television company from serving more than 30 percent of cable and satellite market's subscribers; decision boosts AT&T in talks to sell assets (M)
Date: 18 March 2001
Correction of front-page contents listing in Mar 18 Arts & Leisure
Date: 19 March 2001
INTERNATIONAL A3-9 Military Decisions Loom Over Meeting With China As President Bush prepares to meet with a senior Chinese official, his administration faces two major military decisions: whether to design a missile defense capable of countering China's nuclear force and whether to sell destroyers to Taiwan, both of which could put the United States on a collision course with Beijing. A1 West's Message to Macedonia With the conflict intensifying in Macedonia, the Bush administration and European allies are making it clear that they have no interest in using NATO-led peacekeepers to fight Albanian insurgents. A1