The August 29, 2002 was a Thursday under the star sign of ♍. It was the 240 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 Friday, August 29, 2025, 295 days ago. Your next birthday is on Saturday, August 29, 2026, in 69 days. You have lived for 8,696 days, or about 208,717 hours, or about 12,523,058 minutes, or about 751,383,480 seconds.
Date: 29 August 2002
By William Safire
William Safire
William Safire Op-Ed column scores Bloomberg News Service for apologizing to Singapore 'senior minister' Lee Kuan Yew for article by Patrick Smith implying nepotism in appointment of Ho Ching, Lee's daughter-in-law, as head of Temesek, state-owned investment company; says organization undermines cause of free online press (M)
Date: 29 August 2002
By Marc Weingarten
Marc Weingarten
BaseballLibrary.com is online baseball database that includes blogs, stats and latest baseball news; photo (M)
Date: 30 August 2002
By Seth Schiesel
Seth Schiesel
Major League Baseball teams owned by media corporations are often at financial advantage because they will pay more to acquire high profile players, which translates into more viewers and advertisers; photos (M)
Date: 29 August 2002
By Marlise Simons
Marlise Simons
BBC television reporter Jacky Rowland appears as witness in trial of Slobodan Milosevic, former leader of Yugoslavia, fueling debate over whether journalists should testify to war crimes tribunals and, specifically, before newly created permanent International Criminal Court; some journalists have argued that testifying could hamper their independence and endanger their lives; Rowland says she appeared voluntarily, with approval of her company; says information she was asked to testify about was already in public domain: about what she saw in 1999 at Dubrava prison in Kosovo, where she found scores of dead inmates; Milosevic, acting as his own lawyer, cross-examines Rowland about nature of prisoners' deaths, claiming NATO strikes killed victims; Rowland says bodies she saw were intact and not hit by bombs (M)
Date: 29 August 2002
By Gina Kolata
Gina Kolata
News analysis of federal study finding no links between breast cancer rates on Long Island and pollution or other environmental factors; explains that, contrary to popular perception of 'epidemic,' breast cancer rates on Long Island are not much different from those in rest of country, and that figures commonly bandied about at public meetings and in press, including The New York Times, have no basis in fact; epidemiologists say they do not know where 'myths' came from, but political uproar led Congress in 1993 to authorize $30-million study that, so far, has not shown any pollutant link; graph comparing LI rates with those for rest of New York State and US (M)
Date: 30 August 2002
By RICHARD PÉREZ-PEÑA and RANDAL C. ARCHIBOLD
Richard PÉREZ-PEÑA
Andrew M Cuomo intensifies attacks against H Carl McCall in third debate of campaign for Democratic nominaton for governor of New York; raises familiar complaints about McCall's performance as state comptroller but using stronger language than he has on campaign trail; assault comes amid signs of disarray in his campaign, 11 days before September 10 primary; he criticizes his own tactics, saying television commercials have failed to communicate his message well enough; McCall is endorsed by The Daily News, first major newspaper to weigh in on primary race; photos (M)
Date: 29 August 2002
By Harvey Araton
Harvey Araton
Harvey Araton Sports of The Times column discusses simplicity and joy of covering scandal-less WNBA, often neglected by media in favor of men's basketball and other sports; photo (M)
Date: 30 August 2002
By John Files
John Files
State Dept will hold conference on spread of anti-American attitudes around world; Richard Boucher, spokesman, says nongovernmental specialists will be invited to exchange ideas; says meetings, on Sept 5 and Sept 6, will be closed to press, but that department has brought journalists from other countries to US in effort to educate them on American policies and traditions (S)
Date: 29 August 2002
By Bloomberg News
Bloomberg News
Molson Inc appoints Brian Burden as chief financial officer and executive vice president, replacing Robert Coallier, who is moving to Brazil to run company's Cervejarias Kaiser unit (S)
Date: 29 August 2002
By Bloomberg News
Bloomberg News
Cendant Corp will cut pay of chairman-chief executive Henry Silverman by more than half and begin accounting for stock options as operating expense; Silverman's 2002 pay will be about $15 million, down from $36 million in 2001 (S)