The May 3, 2001 was a Thursday under the star sign of ♉. It was the 122 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 Sunday, May 3, 2026, 49 days ago. Your next birthday is on Monday, May 3, 2027, in 315 days. You have lived for 9,180 days, or about 220,343 hours, or about 13,220,631 minutes, or about 793,237,860 seconds.
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
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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: 04 May 2001
By Alessandra Stanley (NYT)
Alessandra NYT
Emma Bonino, Italian politician who went on five-day hunger strike to protest lack of news coverage of her Radical Party's platform, breaks fast (S)
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: 04 May 2001
By Suzanne Daley
Suzanne Daley
Institut d'Etudes Politiques, long associated with France's ruling elite, announces affirmative action program, first such effort by any French college; decision to create just 20 slots for students from disadvantaged areas, where many residents are immigrants, causes uproar in press; France has long embraced concept that admission strictly based on test results is best way to level playing field between rich and poor; photo (M)
Date: 04 May 2001
By Richard L. Berke
Richard Berke
Former Pres Clinton has told friends and associates that he thinks Pres Bush is formidable politician and far shrewder than many Democrats credit him with being; speaks admiringly of discipline of Bush White House and warns Democrats not to underestimate Bush; on matters of substance, Clinton is convinced that Bush has built much of his agenda on undoing Clinton adminstration actions, and says Bush is getting far easier ride from press than he did; photo (M)
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)
Date: 04 May 2001
By Bloomberg News
Bloomberg News
Macromedia Inc lost $22 million in its fiscal fourth quarter; revenue rose to $89.1 million; shares fall 23 percent (S)