The May 2, 2001 was a Wednesday under the star sign of ♉. It was the 121 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 Saturday, May 2, 2026, 45 days ago. Your next birthday is on Sunday, May 2, 2027, in 319 days. You have lived for 9,176 days, or about 220,226 hours, or about 13,213,616 minutes, or about 792,816,960 seconds.
Date: 02 May 2001
By Andrew Ross Sorkin With Geraldine Fabrikant
Andrew Sorkin
General Motors Corp board moves closer to selling its satellite television affiliate, Hughes Electronics, to News Corp; GM acknowledges for first time that it is seriously considering News Corp's offer for its satellite business, which operates DirecTV (M)
Date: 03 May 2001
By Paul Zielbauer (NYT)
Paul NYT
Nicholas Chabraja, head of company that owns Electric Boat in Groton, Conn, takes pains to reassure employees that merger with Newport News Shipbuilding Inc will not result in job losses and could even lead to gains (S)
Date: 03 May 2001
By
CALMING FEARS AFTER MERGER The head of the company that owns Electric Boat in Groton, Conn., took pains yesterday to reassure employees that a merger with Newport News Shipbuilding Inc. would not result in job losses, and could even lead to gains. Electric Boat's parent company, General Dynamics Corporation , announced the acquisition of Newport News last week. Electric Boat engineers are wrapping up design of the Virginia-class submarine, and instead of facing a layoff will probably help Newport News on the next class of aircraft carrier, said Nicholas Chabraja, chairman of General Dynamics. Paul Zielbauer (NYT)
Date: 03 May 2001
By Alessandra Stanley (NYT)
Alessandra NYT
Emma Bonino, leader of Italy's small Radical Party, says he will continue five-day-old hunger strike protesting alleged lack of news coverage of party's platform; photo (S)
Date: 03 May 2001
By Janet Maslin
Janet Maslin
Janet Maslin reviews Don Hewit book, Tell Me a Story: 50 Years and 60 Minutes in Television, and Daniel Schorr book, Staying Tuned: A Life in Journalism; photos (M)
Date: 03 May 2001
By Felicity Barringer
Felicity Barringer
Al Gore teaches his last journalism class at Columbia University and reviews are mixed; some students are thrilled by their proximity to famous politician and say they believe that former vice president opened their horizons; others, saying that they feel cheated, complain that he treated them more like a studio audience than budding journalists as he chatted with celebrity guests; photo (M)
Date: 02 May 2001
By Sara Rimer
Sara Rimer
Excerpts from state of Georgia's official recordings of 23 prisoner electrocutions carried out from 1983 to 1998 will be broadcast on National Public Radio; they were obtained by documentary producer David Isay and Mike Mears; Mears is criminal defense lawyer who subpoenaed them after discovering their existence three years ago in course of lawsuit challenging state's use of electric chair; nation's last public executions, in 1936, recalled; photos (M)
Date: 02 May 2001
By Lawrence Van Gelder
Lawrence Gelder
Formosa Aboriginal Song and Dance Troupe will perform traditional works of Taiwan's aboriginal tribes as part of New Jersey Performing Arts Center's World Festival IV; photo; Elaine Sciolino, New York Times reporter, is recipient of New York Public Library's Helen Bernstein Book Award for Excellence in Journalism for book, Persian Mirrors: The Elusive Face of Iran; Thomas Meehan, theatrical composer, will help Symphony Space inaugurate its newest series, Short Scores: A Celebration of the Musical Theater; photo; Royal Northern College of Music in Manchester, England, will examine ways in which American life and culture influenced 20th-century composers and performers at its seventh Manchester International Cello Festival (M)
Date: 02 May 2001
By Bloomberg News
Bloomberg News
Allegiant Bancorp acquires Southside Bancshares Corp for $116 million in cash and stock to create fifth-largest bank based in Missouri (S)
Date: 03 May 2001
By Bloomberg News
Bloomberg News
Sodexho Alliance of France acquires rest of its US affiliate, Sodexho Marriott Services, after it raises its offer to $1.08 billion (S)