The April 16, 2002 was a Tuesday under the star sign of ♈. It was the 105 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 Thursday, April 16, 2026, 63 days ago. Your next birthday is on Friday, April 16, 2027, in 301 days. You have lived for 8,829 days, or about 211,917 hours, or about 12,715,054 minutes, or about 762,903,240 seconds.
Date: 16 April 2002
By Tim Golden
Tim Golden
Focus on Arab television coverage of Israel's military offensive in Palestinian territories on West Bank; plight of Palestinians has saturated news on private satellite channels and state-run national networks and Palestinian cause has become staple of religious programming, entertainment shows and even sports talk shows; photo (M)
Date: 17 April 2002
By Carla Baranauckas
Carla Baranauckas
Sig Gissler, an associate professor at the Columbia University Graduate School of Journalism and former editor of The Milwaukee Journal, will be the next administrator of the Pulitzer Prizes.
Date: 17 April 2002
By Max Rodenbeck
Max Rodenbeck
Max Rodenbeck Op-Ed article says never have ordinary Arabs so identified with Palestinian conflict as they do today, largely result of coverage by Arab television; says some may dismiss such passions as product of propaganda, and it is true that region's news media are hardly beyond reproach, but Arab reporting is not really much more one-sided than that of American or Israeli television; says imagery saturating Arab screens, of tanks crushing ambulances and helicopters rocketing refugee camps, is unfortunately all to real (M)
Date: 16 April 2002
By Linda Greenhouse
Linda Greenhouse
Supreme Court roundup: court, in appeal from federal government in Fourth Circuit case involving defendants in Baltimore drug ring, hears arguments about what should happen to defendants whose extra-long sentences were impermissably based on a judge's rather than jury's conclusion about amount of drugs involved in their crime; refuses to review ruling by Fourth Circuit that Charlotte-Mecklenburg School District in North Carolina had effectively dismantled vestiges of segregation; refusal comes in long-running case in which court, in 1971, for first time upheld busing as remedy for school segregation; also turns down appeal by freelance writer Vanessa Leggett of Fifth Circuit ruling that First Amendment protection for newsgathering activities did not give her privilege to refuse to cooperate with grand jury in Houston murder case; agrees to consider whether plaintiff in trademark infringement suit must demonstrate economic injury in review of Sixth Circuit decision in dispute between Victoria's Secret retail and catalog chain and Victor's Little Secret store in Elizabethtown, Kentucky (M)
Date: 16 April 2002
By Bloomberg News
Bloomberg News
Gemstar-TV Guide International Inc names News Corp executive Jeff Shell as co-president and chief operating officer; he succeeds Peter Boylan, who retired on April 1 as operating officer; Elsie Leung is co-president and chief financial officer (S)
Date: 16 April 2002
By Bloomberg News
Bloomberg News
Exide Technologies Inc, world's largest maker of automotive batteries, files for bankruptcy protection amid fears it faces default on more than $2.5 billion in debt (S)
Date: 17 April 2002
By Bloomberg News
Bloomberg News
Discovery Communications, owner of Discovery Channel on cable television, is starting digital cable network with 24-hour high-definition picture quality; network, called Discovery HD Theater, will begin service on June 17 on digital cable and satellite TV systems; will also start video-on-demand service that allows digital cable subscribers to order individual Discovery programs (S)
Date: 17 April 2002
By Bloomberg News
Bloomberg News
Johnson & Johnson says first-quarter profit rose 18 percent; net income was $1.83 billion, up from $1.55 billion year earlier; sales were up 11 percent, to $8.74 billion (S)
Date: 17 April 2002
By Bloomberg News
Bloomberg News
Navistar International Corp promotes Daniel Ustian to president, chief operating officer and member of board; chief financial officer Robert Lannert is named vice chairman; two will share new office of chairman (S)
Date: 16 April 2002
By Bloomberg News
Bloomberg News
GlaxoSmithKline will pay Adolor Corp and Unigene Laboratories Inc for rights to bowel-paralysis and osteoporosis treatments; Glaxo will pay as much as $270 million to Adolor for rights to bowel treatment alvimopan, while Unigene will get as much as $150 million for hormone treatment for osteoporosis; Glaxo will give up rights to Factive, experimental antibiotic, after regulators in US do not approve it (S)