The December 27, 2003 was a Saturday under the star sign of ♑. It was the 360 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 Saturday, December 27, 2025, 192 days ago. Your next birthday is on Sunday, December 27, 2026, in 172 days. You have lived for 8,228 days, or about 197,483 hours, or about 11,849,016 minutes, or about 710,940,960 seconds.
27th of December 2003 News
News as it appeared on the front page of the New York Times on December 27, 2003
Murdoch Gets a Jewel. Who'll Get His Crown?
Date: 28 December 2003
By David D. Kirkpatrick
David
Rupert Murdoch, chairman of News Corp, gives interview in which he discusses impending acquisition of Hughes Electronics and its DirectTV satellite service, ratings slump at Fox broadcast network and his aspiration to have one of his children succeed him at helm of News Corp; pledges to use News Corp's vast resources -- Hollywood studios, broadcast and cable channels, satellite systems and newspapers -- to redouble DirecTV's threat to cable companies; says he has no plans to slow down at 72 or go anywhere for several years to come; says he would never sacrifice shareholders' interest to see one of his children in charge of News Corp; James Murdoch, recently named chief executive of British Sky Broadcasting, has supplanted his brother Lachlan as favorite to succeed their father; Elisabeth Murdoch may have better record of success outside News Corp than either either James or Lachlan; photos (L)
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For Your Information . . .
Date: 28 December 2003
By Tom Zeller
Tom Zeller
Coverage of the war in Iraq, suggestions for personal happiness and tales of sushi memos were some of the most e-mailed stories from NYTimes.com in 2003.
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Page Two: THE YEAR IN REVIEW; On America's Mind
Date: 28 December 2003
By Tom Zeller
Tom Zeller
Events in Iraq commandeered Americans' remote controls, radio dials and newsstand purchases like no other story in 2003, cutting across all demographic lines; interest in other major stories often depended on matters of age, sex, race and religion; photos (M)
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The Next Generation of Diseases Are in Hiding, Somewhere
Date: 28 December 2003
By Donald G. McNeil Jr
Donald McNeil
Article in series, The Years Ahead, on difficulty of forecasting and policing epidemics; notes that for many diseases, world does not put clues together in time; says, however, that thanks to world's ever-freer media, it is harder to mount kinds of cover-ups that have occurred in past; drawing (M)
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Nixon's Image Maker
Date: 28 December 2003
By David Greenberg
David Greenberg
David Greenberg remembrance of Edward A (Ted) Rogers, who died this year; Rogers was Richard M Nixon's media adviser throughout his vice presidency and until he ran in 1968 for president; photo (M)
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Two-Front Battle in Puerto Rico: Crime and Apathy
Date: 28 December 2003
By Abby Goodnough
Abby Goodnough
More than 750 people have been killed in Puerto Rico this year, giving island homicide rate that is more than three times US average; police attribute killings to drug trade; three superintendents of Puerto Rico Police Dept have quit in two years; latest, Victor Rivera Gonzalez, says root problem is insufficent staffing; island's major newspapers keep running tab of deaths, with graphic articles about shootings, stabbings, and carjackings almost daily; photos (L)
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Forget Most Wanted Poster. Think Newspaper Instead.
Date: 28 December 2003
Paul Jacobs and wife, Krista and Alexander Ziwak and sister, Nellie Ziwak, investors in New Haven area, plan to start State's Most Wanted, free newspaper in Connecticut devoted to catching fugitives, offering safety and security advice and profiling law enforcement personnel (M)
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Nothing in the World, But Time to Read
Date: 28 December 2003
By Seth Kugel
Seth Kugel
Article on Hilda and Emilio Luna, owners of El Turf shop in Jackson Heights, Queens, who have carved out niche by sending Latin American newspapers and magazines to prisoners nationwide; photo (M)
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Big Lender Is Indicted In Japan
Date: 27 December 2003
By Ken Belson
Ken Belson
Takefuji Corp, one of Japan's biggest consumer loan companies, is indicted on charges of wiretapping conversations of journalists who have criticized its lending practices; chairman Yasuo Takei is arrested for violating telecommunications laws after admitting to ordering wiretaps; Standard & Poor's and Moody's Investors Service lower credit ratings for Takefuji, and share price falls 2.8 percent; photo (M)
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Where's the Mayor? Not Your Business, Staff Says
Date: 27 December 2003
By Eric Lipton
Eric Lipton
Eric Lipton analyzes policy of New York officials on informing public about personal travel; Mayor Michael R Bloomberg refuses to inform press of his personal travels, while Gov George E Pataki gives only vague destinations and periods (M)
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