The May 2, 2002 was a Thursday under the star sign of ♉. It was the 121 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 Saturday, May 2, 2026, 40 days ago. Your next birthday is on Sunday, May 2, 2027, in 324 days. You have lived for 8,806 days, or about 211,347 hours, or about 12,680,867 minutes, or about 760,852,020 seconds.
2nd of May 2002 News
News as it appeared on the front page of the New York Times on May 2, 2002
World Briefing | Africa: Zimbabwe: Three Journalists Arrested
Date: 02 May 2002
By Rachel L. Swarns (NYT)
Rachel Swarns
Two Zimbabweans and an American are arrested in Zimbabwe and accused of publishing false news; they had reported accusations made by opposition party that supporter was beheaded by government-backed militants; Andrew Meldrum, American who was arrested, writes for British newspaper The Guardian; he has been called 'terrorist' by officials for writing articles critical of government (S)
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World Briefing | Africa: Mozambique: Trial In Journalist's Killing
Date: 03 May 2002
By Rachel L. Swarns (NYT)
Rachel Swarns
Supreme Court of Mozambique decides there is enough evidence to try six men accused of killing Carlos Cardoso. country's best known journalist; he was investigating accusations of corruption in banking sector when he was killed in Nov 2000; six men include former bank manager (S)
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World Briefing | Europe: Russia: Editor Shot To Death
Date: 02 May 2002
By Sabrina Tavernise (NYT)
Sabrina NYT
Valery Ivanov, newspaper editor in Togliatti, Russia, is killed after publishing articles on corruption in local government and on ties between local criminal groups and auto producer Avtovaz, which is based in city; Ivanov was also general director of local television station whose previous two directors were killed (S)
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Catholics Back Strong Steps on Abuse, Poll Finds
Date: 03 May 2002
By Robin Toner and Janet Elder
Robin Toner
New York Times/CBS News Poll finds most American Roman Catholics think priests who sexually abuse children and teenagers should be barred from participating in parish life and that any accusations of abuse should be investigated by local law enforcement rather than church; nearly 80 percent of them say past abuser should be barred from 'parish life' even if church leaders believe he is truly sorry for what happened; 70 percent say Catholic lay people should be involved in decisions about cases of abuse by priests; nearly half of Catholics polled see 'some' progress in meeting of American cardinals at Vatican, but there are signs of continuing, deep discontent; poll indicates striking breach between American Catholics and their leadership on these issues; it also shows 53 percent of them have favorable view of pope, drop of 16 percentage points from poll conducted two weeks earlier, before Vatican meeting was called; poll was conducted in aftermath of two-day emergency meeting at Vatican on question of sexual abuse, at which American cardinals and leaders of bishops conference said they would move toward policy of zero tolerance for future offenders, but appeared to be divided over whether all past offenders should also be automatically removed; on many questions in poll Catholic opinion matches or parallels that of total American public; chart (L)
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World Briefing | Americas: Mexico: Freedom Of Information
Date: 02 May 2002
By Ginger Thompson (NYT)
Ginger NYT
Mexican Senate unanimously approves nation's first freedom of information law, requiring government to open records and files to public; law is seen as important step toward ending seven decades of government corruption and abuses shrouded by secrecy (S)
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What Is Democracy Anyway?
Date: 03 May 2002
By Nicholas D. Kristof
Nicholas
Nicholas D Kristof Op-Ed column says Pres Bush's acceptance of Gen Pervez Musharraf's fraudulent referendum to retain power he gained in coup is hypocritical except that Musharraf has done better in governing Pakistan than his democratic predecessors have; says Pakistan may be better off under Musharraf, if he will use his power to build credible democratic institutions, starting with parliamentary elections in Oct; says if United States is to wink at Musharraf's charade, it must at least press him to promote not just army but also independent judiciary, press, Parliament and other pillars of free society (M)
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MERISTAR HOTELS TO MERGE WITH INTERSTATE
Date: 03 May 2002
By Bloomberg News
Bloomberg News
MeriStar Hotels and Resorts acquires Interstate Hotels Corp for $53 million in stock and assumption of $15 million of Interstate debt; new company will be named Interstate Hotels Corp (S)
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WYETH RECALLS AN INJECTABLE ANTICOAGULANT DRUG
Date: 02 May 2002
By Bloomberg News
Bloomberg News
Wyeth recalls thousands of lots of injectable clot-busting drug, injected version of heparin sodium, after it finds compound from rubber containers tainted some vials; recall will cause temporary shortage of product, which helps blood move smoothly through vessels; Food and Drug Administration says drug is given to people with cancer and diabetes and those who undergo some operations (S)
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QUARTERLY LOSS WIDENS AT PRIMEDIA ON RISING EXPENSES
Date: 02 May 2002
By Bloomberg News
Bloomberg News
Primedia Inc says its loss widened to $139.6 million in first quarter from $85.8 million year earlier; sales slipped to $412.1 million from $414.2 million (S)
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NORTHROP SEEKS TALKS WITH TRW ON HOSTILE BID
Date: 02 May 2002
By Bloomberg News
Bloomberg News
Northrop Grumman says it is willing to halt its $6.7 billion hostile offer for TRW for 75 days to begin talks with TRW; TRW, which has described bid as inadequate, has insisted that Northrop hold off on tender offer for three years through so-called standstill agreement as condition for opening talks (S)
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BLOCK SAYS EARNINGS WILL BE AT HIGH END OF FORECAST
Date: 02 May 2002
By Bloomberg News
Bloomberg News
H & R Block says it prepared record number of tax filings this year and that its income in fiscal year ended April 30 will be at top of range it had forecast earlier; reports $2 billion in fees for tax preparation and related services from Jan 1 to April 15 and says it served 18.1 million clients (S)
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