The May 11, 2003 was a Sunday under the star sign of ♉. It was the 130 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 Monday, May 11, 2026, 54 days ago. Your next birthday is on Tuesday, May 11, 2027, in 310 days. You have lived for 8,455 days, or about 202,933 hours, or about 12,175,991 minutes, or about 730,559,460 seconds.
Date: 12 May 2003
Ellen Braune letter on May 7 article says that while employing high-profile journalists to hawk pharmaceutical products is unethical at best, it is only one example of what has evolved into almost seamless boundary between advertising, entertainment and TV journalism
Date: 11 May 2003
INTERNATIONAL 3-11 Powell Arrives in Jerusalem And Urges Reconciliation Secretary of State Colin L. Powell arrived in Jerusalem, and he called on both sides of the Israeli-Palestinian dispute to take quick conciliatory steps and not just to focus on the long term peace plan. 1
Date: 12 May 2003
By Bloomberg News
Bloomberg News
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Date: 12 May 2003
INTERNATIONAL A3-12 Powell Meets in Jerusalem For Peace Negotiations Secretary of State Colin L. Powell held separate meetings with the Israeli and Palestinian prime ministers, and sought to restart peace negotiations. Mr. Powell said that Israel would take steps to ease the hardships of Palestinians but declined to provide details. A1 Overhaul for U.S. Team in Iraq Bush administration officials confirmed that several senior officials helping run postwar Iraq will be replaced, including the top civil administrator, Jay Garner. American officials acknowledge that the task of re-establishing order in Iraq has proved far more daunting than planned. A1
Date: 11 May 2003
By Margo Jefferson
Margo Jefferson
Margo Jefferson On Writers and Writing column discusses some poems she encountered in The Vintage Book of Contemporary World Poetry, edited by J D McClatchy; brief excerpts; drawing (M)
Date: 12 May 2003
By Richard Sandomir
Richard Sandomir
Sports writers say that Boston Globe columnist Bob Ryan's misstep on live sports program, during which he said he wanted to 'smack' Joumana Kidd, wife of New Jersey Nets guard Jason Kidd, reminded them of danger of speaking live and on air (M)
Date: 11 May 2003
Correction of Jayson Blair's Nov 23, 2002, article on concerns about new NCAA minimum attendance rule for Division I football programs; Pete Mahoney of Kent State denies making quoted statement or speaking with Blair; quotation from San Jose Mercury News was included without attribution; Daily Kent Stater, student newspaper, published article in Dec taking issue with Blair's reporting; writer of article says he was unable to reach Blair and that detailed messages he left for The Times's sports department were never answered
Date: 12 May 2003
By William Safire
William Safire
William Safire Op-Ed column on finding that New York Times reporter Jayson Blair faked and plagiarized articles that have appeared in Times for last few years; addresses 375 disheartened members of Times newsroom; says fact is that they make up greatest assemblage of talent and enterprise in field of gathering and writing news; advises them that self-examination is healthy but self-absorption is not, that self-correction is winner but self-flagellation is loser; says they should learn from this dismaying example, and carry on (M)
Date: 11 May 2003
This article was reported and written by Dan Barry, David Barstow, Jonathan D. Glater, Adam Liptak and Jacques Steinberg. Research support was provided by Alain Delaquérière and Carolyn Wilder
Investigation by team of New York Times journalists finds reporter Jayson Blair committed frequent acts of journalistic fraud while covering significant news events in recent months; major findings are these: he filed dispatches that purported to be from Maryland, Texas and other states, when often he was in New York; fabricated comments, concocted scenes and lifted material from other newspapers and wire services; also he selected details from photographs to create impression he had been somewhere or seen someone, when he had not; Times journalists uncover new problems in at least 36 of 73 articles he wrote after he started getting national reporting assignments in Oct 2002; spot checks of more than 600 articles he wrote before Oct 2002 find other apparent fabrications, and that inquiry continues; The Times asks readers to report any additional falsehoods in his work; investigation by Times journalists suggests several reasons why his deceits went undetected for so long: failure of communication among senior editors, few complaints from subjects of his articles and his ingenious ways of covering his tracks; some examples cited; most of all, no one saw his carelessness as sign that he was capable of systematic fraud; article offers detailed look at his career at The Times and at errors that have been uncovered in his articles; he resigned on May 1 when editors confronted him with evidence of his deception; photos (L)
Date: 11 May 2003
This article was reported and written by Dan Barry, David Barstow, Jonathan D. Glater, Adam Liptak and Jacques Steinberg. Research Support Was Provided By Alain DelaquéRièRe and Carolyn Wilder
A staff reporter for The New York Times committed frequent acts of journalistic fraud while covering significant news events in recent months, an investigation by Times journalists has found. The widespread fabrication and plagiarism represent a profound betrayal of trust and a low point in the 152-year history of the newspaper. The reporter, Jayson Blair, 27, misled readers and Times colleagues with dispatches that purported to be from Maryland, Texas and other states, when often he was far away, in New York. He fabricated comments. He concocted scenes. He lifted material from other newspapers and wire services. He selected details from photographs to create the impression he had been somewhere or seen someone, when he had not.