The February 8, 2002 was a Friday under the star sign of ♒. It was the 38 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 Sunday, February 8, 2026, 129 days ago. Your next birthday is on Monday, February 8, 2027, in 235 days. You have lived for 8,895 days, or about 213,501 hours, or about 12,810,114 minutes, or about 768,606,840 seconds.
8th of February 2002 News
News as it appeared on the front page of the New York Times on February 8, 2002
Germans Trying to Fend Off Murdoch for Kirch
Date: 08 February 2002
By Edmund L. Andrews
Edmund Andrews
Much of German business and political establishment appears to be closing ranks to prevent News Corp owner Rupert Murdoch from acquiring Kirch Group, which is near collapse; Kirch Group has been under siege from business partners, creditors and rivals; company has nearly $5 billion in debt, some coming due in next few months, and is losing nearly $1 billion per year on its pay television business; at least two Hollywood studios are suing it over commitments on number of viewers; Kirch may well be forced to pay more than $2 billion to buy back shares held by its business partners; biggest option is controlled by Murdoch, and Kirch executives acknowledge that they do not have money to pay it off unless they find new partner; B Sky B, satellite television broadcaster in which News Corp owns 36 percent stake, owns 22 percent of Kirch's pay TV network Premiere and has option to sell that stake back to Kirch for $1.5 billion; Kirch executives are concerned that Murdoch will use his option to wrest control of entire company; photo of founder Leo Kirch (M)
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Soon, a Chance to See if Enron Is Stranger Than Fiction
Date: 08 February 2002
By Bill Carter
Bill Carter
Enron Corp scandal will become television movie on cable channel F/X; F/X, unit of News Corp, has hired Artisan Pictures to develop movie; Artisan chief executive Bob Cooper comments; PublicAffairs, part of Perseus Books Group, has signed journalist Robert Bryce to write book on issue; John Wiley & Sons has signed journalist Loren Fox to write another Enron book; group of reporters for Fortune magazine, including Joseph Nocera, are expected to announce agreement with publisher to write another account; Doubleday Broadway, part of Random House division of Bertelsmann, will publish book by Mimi Swartz, journalist who may have full cooperation of Sherron S Watkins, Enron executive who wrote memo warning of company's perilous accounting tactics (M)
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Pakistan Turns Up Heat Under a Prime Suspect in a Reporter's Kidnapping
Date: 09 February 2002
By Douglas Jehl
Douglas Jehl
journalists: pakistan turns up heat under a prime suspect in a reporter's kidn
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B Sky B Will Write Off a German Pay Television Investment
Date: 09 February 2002
By Edmund L. Andrews With Alan Cowell
Edmund Andrews
British Sky Broadcasting writes off entire value of its 22 percent stake in Kirch Group's German pay television network, holding Kirch may lack funds to make good on commitment to buy back stake in Premiere for about $1.1 billion; move seems to refute speculation that Rupert Murdoch, whose News Corp is B Sky B's biggest shareholder, will try to take over Kirch's network or Kirch itself; writeoff plunges British company into record loss of some $1.8 billion for quarter ended Dec 31 (M)
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World Briefing | Asia: Sri Lanka: Sentence For Threat To Newsman
Date: 08 February 2002
By Celia W. Dugger (NYT)
Celia Dugger
Two bodyguards of former air force officer are sentenced to nine years in prison in Sri Lanka for threatening Sunday Times reporter Iqbal Athas in nighttime raid that terrorized his wife and child; Athas had been writing exposes about air force corruption (S)
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The State of the Column Is Forlorn
Date: 09 February 2002
By Clyde Haberman
Clyde Haberman
Clyde Haberman NYC column bemoans lack of material for column now that Michael Bloomberg has taken over as mayor of New York City and has made few gaffes worth writing about (M)
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Metro Briefing | New Jersey: Camden: Journalist Is Fined
Date: 08 February 2002
By Hope Reeves (NYT COMPILED BY ANTHONY RAMIREZ)
Hope NYT
Carol Saline, reporter for Philadelphia magazine, is fined $1,000 and given 30-day suspended sentence for speaking to juror during deliberations in Rabbi Fred J Neulander's murder trial in Camden, NJ (S)
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New York State Files Suit Against Maker of Software
Date: 08 February 2002
By Matt Richtel
Matt Richtel
State of New York sues Network Associates, maker of antivirus software, accusing company of restricting free speech by forcing consumers and journalists to get permission before publishing reviews of its products; lawsuit takes issue with admonition that Network Associates printed on its Web site and on software disks; it warned 'the customer will not publish reviews of this product without prior consent from Network Associates Inc'; New York State Attorney Gen Eliot L Spitzer says clause constitutes effort by company to censor consumers and to 'inhibit itself from criticism and commentary that is the essence of the free market'; lawsuit seeks financial penalties; Network Associates general counsel Kent Roberts says he plans to fight lawsuit (M)
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Confession in 1994 Case Evokes Pearl Abduction
Date: 08 February 2002
By Celia W. Dugger With Felicity Barringer
Celia Dugger
Pakistani and American officials say Ahmed Omar Sheikh, Islamic fundamentalist, is chief suspect in abduction of American journalist Daniel Pearl; cite 45-page account of kidnapping plan that Sheikh wrote 7 years ago after being jailed for kidnapping of three Britons and an American; that plan bears striking resemblances to Pearl's kidnapping; Rhys Partridge, one of Britons held captive by Sheikh, says he displayed mixture of intelligence, irrationality and intensity that led him, Partridge, to become convinced that Sheikh was psychopath (M)
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Behind the Kidnapping: Pakistan Feels Pressure
Date: 08 February 2002
By Douglas Jehl
Douglas Jehl
Analysis: mixture of bravado and inscrutability with which Pakistani officials are addressing case of kidnapped American journalist Daniel Pearl is being watched as clue to intense pressures abuduction has placed on government; Pres Pervez Musharraf's upcoming White House visit for meeting with Pres Bush is being clouded by kidnapping and some aspects of Pakistan's response; kidnapping is reminder that Pakistan continues to be riven by rivalries between security agencies unwilling or unable to dissolve old ties with Muslim militants (M)
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