The August 12, 2001 was a Sunday under the star sign of ♌. It was the 223 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, August 12, 2025, 323 days ago. Your next birthday is on Wednesday, August 12, 2026, in 41 days. You have lived for 9,089 days, or about 218,159 hours, or about 13,089,564 minutes, or about 785,373,840 seconds.
Date: 13 August 2001
By Jim Rutenberg
Jim Rutenberg
Audience for CNN Headline News does not increase much in its first week with supposedly hipper look and younger editorial emphasis, but ratings do show some modest improvement; critics complain of information-filled screen, moving graphics and pop-infused back ground music; photo (S)
Date: 13 August 2001
By Felicity Barringer
Felicity Barringer
National Association of Black Journalists faces financial shortfall because of declining convention turnouts, management missteps and stock market declines; lost between $200,000 and $500,000 in 2000, during which it spent $2 million; financial reversal comes at time when newspaper and broadcast industries and media foundations are forming their own initiatives to broaden diversity in profession and cutting back on their sponsorships of annual conventions of groups representing minority journalists (M)
Date: 12 August 2001
By William Safire
William Safire
William Safire On Language column reviews several new language books available this summer: How We Talk: American Regional English Today by Alan Metcalf, US News & World Report Stylebook edited by Robert Grover, Watchwords by Mark Davidson, Deciding Usage: Evidence and Interpretation by J Stephen Sherwin, Copy-Editing and Headline Handbook by Barbara G Ellis, Families as We Are: Conversations From Around the World by Perdita Huston and Shakespeare's Noise by Kenneth Gross, as well as free 12-volume Century Dictionary available on Web (M)
Date: 13 August 2001
By Bloomberg News
Bloomberg News
Ericsson wins contract worth at least $800 million to more than double Saudi Arabia's cellular phone system and make it largest in Middle East (S)
Date: 13 August 2001
Matthew Duda letter criticizes champions of diversity on the left who are attacking conservative gay columnist who does not pass their litmus test of political ideology (Aug 6 article)
Date: 13 August 2001
INTERNATIONAL A3-10 Berlin Wall Is a Memory; A Cultural Divide Remains Almost 12 years after Germans celebrated the reopening between east and west and attacked the hated Berlin Wall with sledgehammers, a reunified Berlin today will commemorate the 40th anniversary of the wall's construction. While there are few remnants of the wall, Germans still routinely talk about the ''wall in the mind'' to describe the social and cultural differences that continue to divide easterners and westerners. A1 More Mideast Violence The struggle over shuttered Palestinian offices in Jerusalem intensified after a Palestinian suicide bomber blew himself up in a group of Israelis at a cafe outside the northern Israel city of Haifa, wounding about 15 people, none gravely, and an 8-year-old girl was shot in the head and killed during exchanges of gunfire in the West Bank. A3
Date: 12 August 2001
INTERNATIONAL 3-15 Symbolic Mideast Tactics Underscore Growing Divide The Israelis and the Palestinians have each turned to making targets of some of each other's important symbols, a strategy that was conspicuously evident last week in a series of attacks and reprisals that widened the already considerable divide and all but guaranteed that more violence lay ahead. 8 Dutch Brothels, by the Book The Netherlands is trying to invent a system to regulate its prostitution industry after legalizing brothels nine months ago. But critics say that efforts to protect the rights of sex workers by bureaucrats unfamiliar with the business have only made the workers more vulnerable by pushing them further underground. 1
Date: 12 August 2001
By Daniel J. Wakin
Daniel Wakin
Article discusses how much bad economic news it takes to get average person worried about money; Robert J Frank and Philip J Cook, in their Book The Winner-Take-All Society, opine that it is fundamentally human to be optimistic, but current economic downturn and dour predictions may temper such feelings (M)
Date: 13 August 2001
By Jim Rutenberg
Jim Rutenberg
Kim Cattrall, one of stars of Sex and the City, is criticized for promoting Nikon digital camera during interviews on MSNBC and Fox News Channel, turning interviews into infomercials (S)
Date: 13 August 2001
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BBDO West has ended its eight-year relationship with Northrop Grumman to avoid a potential client conflict