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Date: 14 December 2003
By Mark Hulbert
Mark Hulbert
Mark Hulbert column on study by Profs Br
Replaying Sunday, December 14, 2003
The December 14, 2003 was a Sunday under the star sign of ♐. It was the 347 day of the year. President of the United States was George W. Bush.
If you were born on this day, you are 22 years old. Your last birthday was on the Sunday, December 14, 2025, 204 days ago. Your next birthday is on Monday, December 14, 2026, in 160 days. You have lived for 8,240 days, or about 197,760 hours, or about 11,865,632 minutes, or about 711,937,920 seconds.
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14th of December 2003 News
News as it appeared on the front page of the New York Times on December 14, 2003
2003: THE 3rd ANNUAL YEAR IN IDEAS; News Guarantees
Date: 14 December 2003
By Jonathan Chait
Jonathan Chait
Review of year's notable ideas and developments follows up on pronouncements made by news pundits; cites Bill O'Reilly's certainty of finding weapons of mass destruction in Iraq (M)
NEWS SUMMARY
Date: 15 December 2003
INTERNATIONAL A3-23 Saddam Hussein Captured; Iraqis Rejoice at His Fall Saddam Hussein, once the all-powerful leader of Iraq, was arrested without a fight by American soldiers who found him crouching in an eight-foot hole at an isolated farm near Tikrit, haggard, dirty and disoriented. News of the arrest sent joyous Iraqis into the streets. A1
News Prompts Americans To Wonder What's Next
Date: 15 December 2003
By Monica Davey and Jeffrey Gettleman
Monica Davey
Americans across country react to capture of Saddam Hussein; most express relief, but there is some anxiety about heightened risk to troops; those opposed to war call for end to occupation; photos (M)
NEWS SUMMARY
Date: 14 December 2003
INTERNATIONAL 3-36 European Meeting Fails, Showing National Conflicts Leaders of the European Union failed to approve a draft constitution, stumbling on how to apportion power among large and small states after Spain and Poland refused to give up expanded voting rights won three years ago. 1
A Careful U.S. Plan To Dispel All Doubt On Hussein's Fate
Date: 15 December 2003
By Jim Rutenberg
Jim Rutenberg
Announcement of capture of Saddam Hussein follows carefully devised plan intended to dispel any doubt among Iraqis and skeptical Arab world that he is in American hands; plan stipulates that Iraqis are to have role in announcing news and that images of quarry are to be broadcast worldwide as quickly as possible, to leave little time for conspiracy theories to spread through Iraqi towns and villages, as they did when Hussein's sons Uday and Qusay were killed by American soldiers in July; Hussein is shown submitting to examination for head lice and with tongue-depresser in his mouth precisely to undercut his standing as martyr or hero; photos (M)
Spanish Judge Harbors Bias, Says Reporter In Terror Case
Date: 14 December 2003
By Desmond Butler
Desmond Butler
Taysir Alony, correspondent for Al Jazeera who was arrested in Spain on Sept 5, is fighting charges that he used his job as journalist to cover up ties to Al Qaeda; says he and 34 other terrorism suspects are product of cultural misunderstandings and bias against him because of his work with Al Jazeera; photos (L)
Chass to Enter Hall of Fame
Date: 15 December 2003
New York Times sports reporter Murray Chass is elected winner of J G Taylor Spink Award for baseball writing and will be inducted into Baseball Hall of Fame (S)
Democracy in Russia
Date: 15 December 2003
Letter from Diederik Lohman, Human Rights Watch, contends Pres Vladimir Putin used his tight grip on Russian media to his advantage in recent election, promoting loyalists and demonizing opposition (Dec 8 editorial)
Corrections
Date: 15 December 2003
Correction: Dec 8 article about final Bowl Championship Series ranking of season reversed placements of two teams in 1997 season; Michigan was was No. 1 in news media poll and Nebraska in coaches' poll