'Newsical'
Date: 20 October 2004
By Lawrence Van Gelder
Lawrence Gelder
Lawrence Van Gelder reviews musical revue Newsical, directed by Donna Drake with lyrics and music by Rick Crom; photo (M)
Replaying Tuesday, October 19, 2004
The October 19, 2004 was a Tuesday under the star sign of ♎. It was the 292 day of the year. President of the United States was George W. Bush.
If you were born on this day, you are 21 years old. Your last birthday was on the Sunday, October 19, 2025, 259 days ago. Your next birthday is on Monday, October 19, 2026, in 105 days. You have lived for 7,929 days, or about 190,305 hours, or about 11,418,343 minutes, or about 685,100,580 seconds.
Some people who share this birthday:
19th of October 2004 News
News as it appeared on the front page of the New York Times on October 19, 2004
No Jokes or Spin. It's Time (Gasp) to Talk.
Date: 20 October 2004
By Alessandra Stanley
Alessandra Stanley
Alessandra Stanley TV Watch column on surprise attack by Jon Stewart on CNN's Crossfire co-hosts Paul Begala and Tucker Carlson when he appeared as guest on their show; fondly recalls time when famous people held long and sometimes legendarily hostile discussions on talk shows; photo (M)
An Asylum of Inflated Personalities
Date: 19 October 2004
By Lawrence Van Gelder
Lawrence Gelder
"Newsical" is a fast, funny and irreverent topic musical revue that zestfully serves up its skewered famous and foolish.
Top Colleges, Rated by Those Who Chose Them
Date: 20 October 2004
By Eric Dash
Eric Dash
Four economists develop method of rating colleges based on preferences of more than 3,200 high-achieving high school seniors; say this market-based ranking is more accurate and more relevant than other rankings now available, which are based on what administrators, faculty members, students and other experts think is best school; critics say new system turns choosing schools into popularity contest and students into lemmings; authors concede that students could be wrong in some cases, but say their list is still superior; chart compares economists' rankings with list compiled by US New and World Report (M)
Radar Magazine Lines Up Financing
Date: 19 October 2004
By David Carr
David Carr
Daily News owner Mortimer Zuckerman and Wall Street financier Jeffrey Epstein agree to commit up to $25 million to back Radar, celebrity and pop culture magazine that published two test issues in 2003, and its editor and chief founder, Maer Roshan; first issue under new ownership will appear in April 2005, with issues to follow every other month for rest of year before it moves to monthly publication (M)
POLL SHOWS TIE; CONCERNS CITED ON BOTH RIVALS
Date: 19 October 2004
By Adam Nagourney and Janet Elder
Adam Nagourney
New York Times/CBS News poll finds presidential race in tie two weeks before Election Day, with voters sharply critical of Pres Bush's record in office but holding strong reservations about Sen John Kerry; finds Bush's job approval rating is 44 percent, dangerously low number for incumbent president, and one of lowest of his tenure; majority of voters say they disapprove of way Bush managed economy and war in Iraq, and echo Kerry's charge that Bush's tax cuts favored wealthy; say Kerry would do better job of preserving Social Security, creating jobs and ending war in Iraq; majority of Americans see Kerry as untrustworthy politician who will say what he thinks people want to hear; over 50 percent of respondents echo Bush's charge that Kerry is liberal; poll was conducted over four days after final debate; some other polls taken at that time show Bush in slightly stronger position among likely voters; variations reflect difficulty of determining who is going to vote, particularly in campaign in which both sides have invested so many resources in registering new voters; graphs (L)
Bush Leads. Make That Kerry. Why Can't the Pollsters Agree?
Date: 19 October 2004
By Jim Rutenberg
Jim Rutenberg
What is going to happen on Election Day? It depends on which pollster you ask. President Bush leads Senator John Kerry by a margin of eight points among likely voters, according to the most recent poll from Gallup, USA Today and CNN. The margin of sampling error was four points.
Polls Show Gains for Kerry Among Women in Electorate
Date: 20 October 2004
By Katharine Q. Seelye
Katharine Seelye
New polls show that Sen Jon Kerry appears to have reversed his slide among women who are voters and has taken lead over Pres Bush in this crucial category; New York Times/CBS News Poll finds that Kerry is leading among women who are voters, 50 percent to 40 percent; polls shows Kerry solidifying already strong lead among single women; one of few categories of women in which Bush leads Kerry is among those who are married, who tend to vote Republican (M)
How Many Iraqis Are Dying? By One Count, 208 in a Week
Date: 19 October 2004
By Norimitsu Onishi
Norimitsu Onishi
Estimated 208 Iraqis were killed in war-related incidents in week of Oct 11-17, significantly higher than average week; 23 members of United States military died over same period; tally remains imprecise and does not fully answer many questions, including how to distinguish civilians from insurgents, and how to reconcile contradictory accounts of same death; deaths of Iraqis, particularly civilians, have become increasingly delicate topic; Iraqi Health Ministry recently stopped giving journalists casualty figures, which are clearly embarrassment to government as well as to Americans; many Iraqis blame American airstrikes and other military actions for taking lives of innocents, but they also believe that foreign fighters are behind suicide attacks that tend to kill more Iraqis than Americans; United States military emphasizes that targets of its actions have been insurgents; it blames insurgents for other deaths and damage that results from raids; map of Iraq showing where deaths occurred in week cited; photo (M)
Subpoena Issued to Insurer Over Sales to G.I.'s
Date: 19 October 2004
By DIANA B. HENRIQUES
Diana
The American Amicable Life Insurance Company of Waco, Tex., confirmed yesterday that the Justice Department had subpoenaed documents relating to the company's sale of insurance products to military personnel and other federal employees.