The May 13, 2001 was a Sunday under the star sign of ♉. It was the 132 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, May 13, 2026, 44 days ago. Your next birthday is on Thursday, May 13, 2027, in 320 days. You have lived for 9,175 days, or about 220,200 hours, or about 13,212,007 minutes, or about 792,720,420 seconds.
Date: 14 May 2001
By Alex Kuczynski
Alex Kuczynski
Key changes at newsweeklies, whose news coverage has grown softer over decades, suggest they have finally ended their days as hard news arbiters; financial issues and shifting cultural tastes are carving new landscapes inside Time, Newsweek and US News & World Report; readership graph; photo (M)
Date: 14 May 2001
By Mark Landler
Mark Landler
Walter Isaacson, Time Inc editorial director, lobbies Chinese officials at AOL Time Warner's Fortune Global Forum, Hong Kong, to lift ban on newsstand sales of Time imposed after magazine's Asian edition carried article on outlawed Falun Gong sect; Chinese reportedly signal ban will be lifted this week; News Corp official James Murdoch comments at forum panel discussion on how company deals with Chinese curbs on press freedom; photo (M)
Date: 14 May 2001
By Kenneth N. Gilpin
Kenneth Gilpin
Chris Nolan, former San Jose Mercury News columnist demoted and publicly criticized by her editors for what they called unethical stock trade, settles damage suit against paper; dispute involves her purchase of Autoweb.com shares at favorable initial public offering price, purchase that she vetted in advance with editor and that paper only objected to after it was reported in Wall Street Journal (M)
Date: 13 May 2001
By Winnie Hu
Winnie Hu
Harold Burson, founder and chairman of Burson Marsteller and longtime friend of late Denny Griswold, who started and edited Public Relations News in 1970, will hold memborial service for Griswold, who died on Feb 7 at age 92, at Penn Club; Griswold, who held lavish industry parties, died with little notice and her death was not publicly noted for one month; photo (M)
Date: 13 May 2001
By Bruce J. Schulman
Bruce Schulman
America's traditional separation of its political elite from its economic elite is seen breaking down; recent Washington Post/ABC News poll reveals that overwhelming majority of Americans, almost two-thirds, believe that Pres Bush 'cares more about protecting interests of large business corporations' than 'protecting the interests of ordinary people'; phto (M)
Date: 13 May 2001
By George Vecsey
George Vecsey
George Vecsey Sports of The Times column describes media day at New York Jets training camp; day includes explanation of salary cap, list of offensive plays, game films and drills; Vecsey says he is impressed with new head coach Herman Edwards; photos (M)
Date: 13 May 2001
INTERNATIONAL 3-12 Violence Is the Issue In Regional Vote in Spain During a terror campaign before regional elections today, the Basque separatist group E.T.A. has killed 30 people and set off bombs around the country, including one at midnight on Friday that wounded 14 people in Madrid. The big question is whether the violence will turn frightened voters away from the separatists. 3 Filtering Germany's Borders The opposition Christian Democrats suggested setting annual quotas for the admission of qualified foreigners needed in the job market, but insisted that all foreigners adhere to ''the values of our Christian culture.'' 11
Date: 14 May 2001
INTERNATIONAL A3-8 Basque Nationalists Win Despite a Spanish Warning Basque nationalists won a vitriolic regional election, crushing the hopes of mainstream Spanish parties to seize the initiative in the country's troubled northern region. Voters rejected warnings from the national government that a victory for moderate nationalists would mean support for the armed separatist group E.T.A., which is blamed for almost 800 killings in the past 30 years. A7 Alliance Victory in India Jayalalitha Jayaram, a flamboyant politician convicted six months ago on corruption charges, led an alliance of parties to a landslide victory in Tamil Nadu. A3
Date: 13 May 2001
By Dana Kennedy
Dana Kennedy
BY the standards of movie press junkets, my five-minute interview for MSNBC with the actor Paul Hogan, star of ''Crocodile Dundee in Los Angeles,'' was going splendidly. I was in a room with the amiable Mr. Hogan at an elegant hotel in Midtown Manhattan last month, just before his movie was to open, and I had plenty of company. Besides Mr. Hogan, who sat facing me, there were two television camera operators, a publicist and a woman with a stopwatch just out of camera range who signaled me at one-minute intervals to indicate how much time I had left. Nearby, several tape editors watched on closed-circuit television.
Date: 14 May 2001
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