The September 17, 2002 was a Tuesday under the star sign of ♍. It was the 259 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 Wednesday, September 17, 2025, 280 days ago. Your next birthday is on Thursday, September 17, 2026, in 84 days. You have lived for 8,681 days, or about 208,356 hours, or about 12,501,409 minutes, or about 750,084,540 seconds.
Date: 17 September 2002
By Philip Shenon
Philip Shenon
Several news organizations file legal briefs seeking to unseal court motions filed by Zacarias Moussaoui, French national accused of conspiring in September 11 terrorist attacks and who is acting as own lawyer (S)
Date: 18 September 2002
By Merri Rosenberg
Merri Rosenberg
Manhattanville College in Purchase, NY, rises in annual rankings compiled by US News & World Report, reaching first tier among northern universities offering undergraduates and master's programs (S)
Date: 18 September 2002
Judge Nancy G Edmunds rules that Rabih Haddad, Muslim cleric accused of funneling money to terrorists, should be freed in 10 days or have new hearing open to news media and public with different immigration judge; Haddad, Lebanese citizen living in Ann Arbor, Mich, has been in jail since Dec 14 (M)
Date: 17 September 2002
By Richard R. Beeman
Richard Beeman
Op-Ed article by Richard R Beeman, dean responsible for undergraduate education at University of Pennsylvania, says US New & World Report and other college ranking systems are flawed in their conception and pernicious in their effect on prospective students and parents; says intellectually curious and motivated students can achieve excellent educations at many different kinds of colleges, and those students will be much better educated than those who pas through 'top 10' schools passively and without intellectual passion; says rankings both underestimate amount of work it takes to get college education and overestimate importance of university's prestige, and in that way may do considerable harm to the educational enterprise itself (M)
Date: 18 September 2002
By Frank Litsky
Frank Litsky
Former coaches, teammates and members of press praise Patrick Ewing upon announcement of retirement, commending often-berated former New York Knicks forward and discussing his appointment as Washington Wizards assistant coach (M)
Date: 18 September 2002
By Amy Waldman (NYT)
Amy NYT
Sofi Ghulam Mohammad, editor of The Srinagar Times, is wounded by gunmen presumed to be anti-Indian militants; has come under attack before by militants who accused him of being pro-India (S)
Date: 17 September 2002
By Erica Goode
Erica Goode
Study led by Dr Anthony Feinstein of University of Toronto, published in American Journal of Psychiatry, finds that significant number of foreign correspondents who regularly cover wars and other armed conflicts were severely traumatized by what they witnessed and experienced; finds rates of serious depression and post-traumatic stress disorder were substantially higher than reporters who did not cover wars, higher than those of police officers and comparable to those of combat veterans (M)
Date: 17 September 2002
By Bill Pennington
Bill Pennington
Bill Pennington Sports of The Times column contends that New York Giants play best football when discounted by other teams and media; photo (M)
Date: 17 September 2002
By Bloomberg News
Bloomberg News
Forward Air Corp says third-quarter profit will be below analysts' forecasts, sending its sharaes down 15 percent (S)
Date: 17 September 2002
By Bloomberg News
Bloomberg News
Marvel Enterprises Inc says Allen Lipson will become chief executive after Peter Cuneo retires at end of year; Cuneo will continue to serve as board member and adviser (S)