The February 18, 2002 was a Monday under the star sign of ♒. It was the 48 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 Wednesday, February 18, 2026, 118 days ago. Your next birthday is on Thursday, February 18, 2027, in 246 days. You have lived for 8,884 days, or about 213,221 hours, or about 12,793,303 minutes, or about 767,598,180 seconds.
Date: 18 February 2002
By Felicity Barringer
Felicity Barringer
News coverage of disputed Olympic pairs skating event has shown great deal of reliance on unnamed sources, speculation and rumors; rigorous attribution rules observed in other fields appear to become relaxed when journalists turn to sports; photo (M)
Date: 19 February 2002
By Richard Goldstein
Richard Goldstein
Howard K Smith, who was one of radio and television's most outspoken and familiar voices in long and often contentious career as anchorman, news analyst and war correspondent, dies at age 87; photos (M)
Date: 19 February 2002
By James Dao and Eric Schmitt
James Dao
Pentagon's new Office for Strategic Influence is developing plans to provide news items, possibly even false ones, to foreign media organizations as part of new effort to influence public sentiment and policy makers in both friendly and unfriendly countries; seeks to broaden longstanding practice of information warfare against hostile nations in Middle East, Asia and even Western Europe; would assume role traditionally led by civilian agencies, mainly State Dept; office was established after September 11 terrorist attacks in response to concerns that Bush administration and US were losing public support overseas for war on terrorism, especially in Islamic countries; Defense Sec Donald H Rumsfeld, while broadly supportive of new office, has not approved specific proposals and has asked Pentagon's top lawyer William J Haynes to review them; photo (M)
Date: 19 February 2002
By Richard Sandomir
Richard Sandomir
Sports Media column discusses impact NBC had on other media coverage of pairs figure skating imbroglio at 2002 Winter Games (M)
Date: 18 February 2002
By Mike Wise
Mike Wise
Article recaps 1980 Miracle on Ice, United States defeat of Soviet Olympic hockey team, and profiles Seva Kukushkin, reporter who covered Games for Tass news agency; photo (M)
Date: 19 February 2002
By Warren Hoge
Warren Hoge
British Prime Min Tony Blair is defending self-proclaimed reputation for clean government from attacks by opposition Conservatives and in media over July 2001 letter to Romanian government backing sale of steel company there to Lakshmi Mittal, London-based businessman who weeks before donated $180,000 to Blair's Labor Party; denies any wrongdoing; says he was unaware of donation when he signed letter and would have taken same action even if he had known; government is under fire over reports that Mittal's companies gave $600,000 to American group lobbying Bush administration to impose 40% tariff on overseas steel imports, move British steel industry vigorously opposes; central feature of Blair's 1997 campaign that returned him to power was repeated claim that Conservatives were party of 'sleaze' and that his government would be 'whiher than white' if re-elected; photos (M)
Date: 19 February 2002
By Bloomberg News
Bloomberg News
The Dean Foods Company, which was created in December when the Suiza Foods Corporation bought the original Dean Foods, will eliminate 200 jobs in Illinois in the next year to help reduce costs after the acquisition.
Date: 19 February 2002
By Bloomberg News
Bloomberg News
The Analogic Corporation, which makes fetal monitors and electronic parts for magnetic resonance imaging systems, said yesterday that the chief executive, Thomas Miller resigned on Friday after a year in the job.
Date: 19 February 2002
By Bloomberg News
Bloomberg News
Groupe Danone reports second-half loss of $243 million euros ($211.6 million) compared with profit of 369 million euros year earlier; full-year profit fell 82 percent, to 132 milion euros (S)
Date: 18 February 2002
By Bloomberg News
Bloomberg News
Innogy Holdings, Britain's largeB