The July 1, 2002 was a Monday under the star sign of ♋. It was the 181 day of the year. President of the United States was George W. Bush.
If you were born on this day, you are 23 years old. Your last birthday was on the Tuesday, July 1, 2025, 357 days ago. Your next birthday is on Wednesday, July 1, 2026, in 7 days. You have lived for 8,758 days, or about 210,194 hours, or about 12,611,659 minutes, or about 756,699,540 seconds.
Date: 01 July 2002
By Bill Carter
Bill Carter
CNN is encouraged by modest ratings gain in time slot for Connie Chung's new program; show seems to be having little impact on Bill O'Reilly's competing Fox News Channel program (M)
Date: 02 July 2002
By Jennifer Steinhauer
Jennifer Steinhauer
Comment on Mayor Bloomberg's testy relations with news media (S)
Date: 01 July 2002
By Jim Rutenberg
Jim Rutenberg
CNN, with its huge global reach, is focal point for both Israelis and Palestinians pressuring Western media to portray conflict from their point of view; Israelis charge CNN is biased against Israel, while Palestinians demand network pay more attention to civilians killed in Israeli military campaigns; their passions are heightened by belief conflict may be decided by world opinion, which can be effectively swayed by television; Israelis, while angrier about BBC coverage, have focused more on CNN; CNN apparently seeks to appease critics in Israel and United States in wake of uproar stirred by founder Ted Turner's remark that both sides are involved in terrorism; efforts upset some inside CNN; CNN executives deny appeasement effort (M)
Date: 01 July 2002
By Elisabeth Bumiller
Elisabeth Bumiller
Elisabeth Bumiller's White House Letter column on White House press secretary Ari Fleischer's daily press briefing, which is watched not only by political junkies, and retirees, but also by Pres Bush over lunch in Oval Office; photo (M)
Date: 01 July 2002
By Selena Roberts
Selena Roberts
Female tennis players have evolved from athletes into sex objects as young women like Anna Kournikova and sisters Venus and Serena Williams increasingly are represented in magazines and media as desirable, leading many in tennis community to fear rise in stalking and obsession cases; photos (M)
Date: 02 July 2002
By Neil A. Lewis
Neil Lewis
Federal prosecutors denounce claims by John Walker Lindh that he was kept in 'torturous conditions' by United States special forces when he made incriminating statements about his activities as Taliban soldier; say he was well treated and 'ultimately returned unharmed, healthy and strong to the country he had forsaken'; jousting over how coherent Lindh was and whether he was given all rights to which he was entitled is part of legal battle over whether his statements to authorities and in interview televised on CNN may be used agaisnt him (M)
Date: 02 July 2002
By Bloomberg News
Bloomberg News
Tyco International Ltd raises $4.6 billion on sale of CIT Group, about half amount conglomerate paid for finance company a year ago; sells 200 million CIT shares at $23 each, below $25 to $29 range Tyco set two weeks ago and below $25 investors expected as recently as July 1 (S)
Date: 02 July 2002
By Bloomberg News
Bloomberg News
Malaysia's exports rose 3.7 percent in May, to 29.1 billion ringgit ($7.7 billion) from year earlier; exports rose revised 5.9 percent in April (S)
Date: 02 July 2002
By Bloomberg News
Bloomberg News
Network Associates, maker of antivirus software that owns about 75 percent of McAfee.com, will buy remaining McAfee Class A common shares (S)
Date: 02 July 2002
By Bloomberg News
Bloomberg News
Sony Corp, in reversal, says it has probably earned profit in business year's first quarter, bolstered by its record-setting Spider-Man movie; graph (S)