Sprewell Is Ready to Talk
Date: 20 October 2002
New York Knicks player Latrell Sprewell schedules news conference to discuss his problems with team's management (S)
Replaying Sunday, October 20, 2002
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20th of October 2002 News
News as it appeared on the front page of the New York Times on October 20, 2002
Sprewell Missing, But Not Forgotten
Date: 21 October 2002
By Steve Popper
Steve Popper
New York Knicks hold open practice to spark local interest and incur fan support, but absence of Latrell Sprewell is hot topic among media; Sprewell was barred from attending practices for failing to notify team of wrist injury (M)
Pinault Secures Credit Line
Date: 21 October 2002
By Bloomberg News
Bloomberg News
Pinault-Printemps-Redoute, French retailer that controls Gucci Group, secures $2.4 billion credit line as it seeks to shore up its cash and extend repayment period of its debt (M)
British Bank Sells Stock in Hong Kong
Date: 21 October 2002
By Bloomberg News
Bloomberg News
Standard Chartered started the sale of about $355 million of new shares in Hong Kong today.
NEWS SUMMARY
Date: 21 October 2002
INTERNATIONAL A2-7 Iraqi Prisoners Set Free In Amnesty by Hussein President Saddam Hussein of Iraq freed tens of thousands of prisoners in what was officially described as a gesture of gratitude to the people for re-electing him. Mobs surged through the compounds, and some people were killed. A1
NEWS SUMMARY
Date: 20 October 2002
INTERNATIONAL 3-10 North Korean Violation May Lead to Isolation The Bush administration has decided to stop providing Western energy aid in light of North Korea's violation of a 1994 arms control accord. North Korea has a choice between abandoning all of its nuclear weapons programs or facing near-total economic isolation. 1 Iraq Sees Many Allies As Iraq confronts the possibility of a new war with the United States, its leaders appear to have concluded that, this time, the world is on its side and against the United States. 1
The News Was Bad. I Went To Bendel's.
Date: 20 October 2002
By Ellen Tien
Ellen Tien
Ellen Tien View column on how shopping, for gifts for her son and husband and later for breast surgeons, oncologists and radiation oncologists, helped her through breast cancer surgery and post-surgery treatments (M)
News Analysis; North Korea's Confession: Why?
Date: 21 October 2002
By Howard W. French
Howard French
Analysis of possible reasons why North Korean officials decided to acknowledge existence of secret nuclear weapons program in violation of 1994 accord; experts say decision making in North Korea is driven by impulse for survival amid ever constricting options; country needs aid from Japan and China, which both object to its nuclear weapons (M)
Hunt for a Killer Creates A New Kind of Reality TV
Date: 21 October 2002
By Alessandra Stanley
Alessandra Stanley
Montgomery County, Md, Police Chief Charles A Moose's televised appeal to person who left message at scene of latest sniper killing opens new episode in vertiable 'interactive reality TV show' gripping country; photo (M)
what it MEANS / jargon, acronyms and other cryptic terms in the news : Dot-dot-dot-dash-dash-dash
Date: 21 October 2002
By Victoria Shannon, International Herald Tribune
Victoria Shannon
We all know dot-com. That's the bubble that burst. But what about dot-aero, dot-coop and dot-pro?.These are all shorthand expressions for locations on the World Wide Web, and they are called by Internet know-it-alls TLDs — top-level domains, the m