The February 21, 2005 was a Monday under the star sign of ♓. It was the 51 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 Saturday, February 21, 2026, 123 days ago. Your next birthday is on Sunday, February 21, 2027, in 241 days. You have lived for 7,793 days, or about 187,035 hours, or about 11,222,121 minutes, or about 673,327,260 seconds.
Date: 21 February 2005
By MARK GLASSMAN
Mark GLASSMAN
Don Imus, host of radio program Imus in the Morning, which MSNBC also televises, makes on-air complaints about on-air personnel after his show moves from small studio in Astoria, Queens, to state-of-the-art suite at company headquarters in Secaucus, NJ; photo (M)
Date: 22 February 2005
By MICHAEL WINES
Michael WINES
Three reporters for major international news organizations flee Zimbabwe and fourth is apparently in hiding after police and intelligence agents search their offices and threaten to arrest them for espionage and slandering the state; all four journalists are Zimbabwe citizens; country bars foreigners from reporting within its boundaries without accreditation, which is raely granted; actions seen as part of campaign by government of Pres Robert Mugabe to suppress international coverage of events in Zimbabwe before crucial national elections on Mar 31; Mugabe, celebrating his 81st birthday, predicts that his government would sweep elections; journalists work for Associated Press, Bloomberg financial news service and The Times of London (M)
Date: 22 February 2005
By Dave Kehr
Dave Kehr
Dave Kehr reviews four-disc box DVD set Edison: The Invention of the Movies and new DVD version of Hayao Miyazaki animated film Porco Rosso; photos (M)
Date: 21 February 2005
Photo of migrant workers in Sichuan Province, China, who traditionally seek work after Lunar New Year
Date: 21 February 2005
By GLEN JUSTICE
Glen JUSTICE
USA Next, conservative lobbying group, hires consultants who advised Swift boat veterans last year to orchestrate attacks on AARP for opposing Pres Bush's plan to revamp Social Security; USA Next says it will spend $10 million on commercials and other tactics assailing AARP, which sent mailings to its 35 million members and spent $5 million on print advertisements opposing private investment accounts at center of Bush's plan; several huge business lobbies, like Business Roundtable, have assembled coalitions to promote Bush's proposals across country; but USA Next, which portrays AARP as liberal organization out of step with Republican values, claims it is not part of White House effort; photo (M)
Date: 22 February 2005
By NEIL A. LEWIS and LINDA GREENHOUSE
Neil LEWIS
Supreme Court Memo: Chief Justice William H Rehnquist will again be absent from bench because of illness when Supreme Court resumes its term on Feb 22; his empty chair will certainly set off new round of speculation and chatter aout his tenure on court (M)
Date: 22 February 2005
By SARAH LYALL
Sarah LYALL
Royal Navy begins actively encouraging gays to enlist and pledges to make life easier when they do, five years after Britain lifted its ban on gays in military; navy says it has asked Stonewall, group that lobbies for gay rights, to help it develop better strategies for recruiting and retaining gay men and lesbians, possibly by advertising in gay mgazines and newspapers; new effort continues pattern of changing official attitudes in navy dating to 1999, when European court ruled that Britain's ban on gays in military violated European human-rights laws; gays in British miltary are subject to same rules of sexual conduct as heterosexuals: no touching, no kissing, no flaunting of sexuality; despite change in policy, relatively few gay men and lesbians already in military have come out (M)
Date: 22 February 2005
By BRUCE LAMBERT
Bruce LAMBERT
Estimated cost of expanding Suffolk County jail jumps 5 percent to $286 million with bond interest, bringing total to $43 million, or $340,000 per cell; staffing would add about $20 million more a year to cost; New York State threatens to send inmates from overcrowded prisons in Suffolk to empty cells upstate at cost of $20 million a year; County Legislator David A Bishop suggests finding alternative programs for 16 percent of inmates who are mentally ill or substance abusers (M)
Date: 21 February 2005
By MARK GLASSMAN
Mark GLASSMAN
Don Imus, host of radio program Imus in the Morning, which MSNBC also televises, makes on-air complaints about on-air personnel after his show moves from small studio in Astoria, Queens, to state-of-the-art suite at company headquarters in Secaucus, NJ; photo (M)
Date: 22 February 2005
By MICHAEL WINES
Michael WINES
Three reporters for major international news organizations flee Zimbabwe and fourth is apparently in hiding after police and intelligence agents search their offices and threaten to arrest them for espionage and slandering the state; all four journalists are Zimbabwe citizens; country bars foreigners from reporting within its boundaries without accreditation, which is raely granted; actions seen as part of campaign by government of Pres Robert Mugabe to suppress international coverage of events in Zimbabwe before crucial national elections on Mar 31; Mugabe, celebrating his 81st birthday, predicts that his government would sweep elections; journalists work for Associated Press, Bloomberg financial news service and The Times of London (M)
Date: 22 February 2005
By Dave Kehr
Dave Kehr
Dave Kehr reviews four-disc box DVD set Edison: The Invention of the Movies and new DVD version of Hayao Miyazaki animated film Porco Rosso; photos (M)
Date: 21 February 2005
Photo of migrant workers in Sichuan Province, China, who traditionally seek work after Lunar New Year
Date: 21 February 2005
By GLEN JUSTICE
Glen JUSTICE
USA Next, conservative lobbying group, hires consultants who advised Swift boat veterans last year to orchestrate attacks on AARP for opposing Pres Bush's plan to revamp Social Security; USA Next says it will spend $10 million on commercials and other tactics assailing AARP, which sent mailings to its 35 million members and spent $5 million on print advertisements opposing private investment accounts at center of Bush's plan; several huge business lobbies, like Business Roundtable, have assembled coalitions to promote Bush's proposals across country; but USA Next, which portrays AARP as liberal organization out of step with Republican values, claims it is not part of White House effort; photo (M)
Date: 22 February 2005
By NEIL A. LEWIS and LINDA GREENHOUSE
Neil LEWIS
Supreme Court Memo: Chief Justice William H Rehnquist will again be absent from bench because of illness when Supreme Court resumes its term on Feb 22; his empty chair will certainly set off new round of speculation and chatter aout his tenure on court (M)
Date: 22 February 2005
By SARAH LYALL
Sarah LYALL
Royal Navy begins actively encouraging gays to enlist and pledges to make life easier when they do, five years after Britain lifted its ban on gays in military; navy says it has asked Stonewall, group that lobbies for gay rights, to help it develop better strategies for recruiting and retaining gay men and lesbians, possibly by advertising in gay mgazines and newspapers; new effort continues pattern of changing official attitudes in navy dating to 1999, when European court ruled that Britain's ban on gays in military violated European human-rights laws; gays in British miltary are subject to same rules of sexual conduct as heterosexuals: no touching, no kissing, no flaunting of sexuality; despite change in policy, relatively few gay men and lesbians already in military have come out (M)
Date: 22 February 2005
By BRUCE LAMBERT
Bruce LAMBERT
Estimated cost of expanding Suffolk County jail jumps 5 percent to $286 million with bond interest, bringing total to $43 million, or $340,000 per cell; staffing would add about $20 million more a year to cost; New York State threatens to send inmates from overcrowded prisons in Suffolk to empty cells upstate at cost of $20 million a year; County Legislator David A Bishop suggests finding alternative programs for 16 percent of inmates who are mentally ill or substance abusers (M)
Date: 21 February 2005
By MARK GLASSMAN
Mark GLASSMAN
Don Imus, host of radio program Imus in the Morning, which MSNBC also televises, makes on-air complaints about on-air personnel after his show moves from small studio in Astoria, Queens, to state-of-the-art suite at company headquarters in Secaucus, NJ; photo (M)
Date: 22 February 2005
By MICHAEL WINES
Michael WINES
Three reporters for major international news organizations flee Zimbabwe and fourth is apparently in hiding after police and intelligence agents search their offices and threaten to arrest them for espionage and slandering the state; all four journalists are Zimbabwe citizens; country bars foreigners from reporting within its boundaries without accreditation, which is raely granted; actions seen as part of campaign by government of Pres Robert Mugabe to suppress international coverage of events in Zimbabwe before crucial national elections on Mar 31; Mugabe, celebrating his 81st birthday, predicts that his government would sweep elections; journalists work for Associated Press, Bloomberg financial news service and The Times of London (M)
Date: 22 February 2005
By Dave Kehr
Dave Kehr
Dave Kehr reviews four-disc box DVD set Edison: The Invention of the Movies and new DVD version of Hayao Miyazaki animated film Porco Rosso; photos (M)
Date: 21 February 2005
Photo of migrant workers in Sichuan Province, China, who traditionally seek work after Lunar New Year
Date: 21 February 2005
By GLEN JUSTICE
Glen JUSTICE
USA Next, conservative lobbying group, hires consultants who advised Swift boat veterans last year to orchestrate attacks on AARP for opposing Pres Bush's plan to revamp Social Security; USA Next says it will spend $10 million on commercials and other tactics assailing AARP, which sent mailings to its 35 million members and spent $5 million on print advertisements opposing private investment accounts at center of Bush's plan; several huge business lobbies, like Business Roundtable, have assembled coalitions to promote Bush's proposals across country; but USA Next, which portrays AARP as liberal organization out of step with Republican values, claims it is not part of White House effort; photo (M)
Date: 22 February 2005
By NEIL A. LEWIS and LINDA GREENHOUSE
Neil LEWIS
Supreme Court Memo: Chief Justice William H Rehnquist will again be absent from bench because of illness when Supreme Court resumes its term on Feb 22; his empty chair will certainly set off new round of speculation and chatter aout his tenure on court (M)
Date: 22 February 2005
By SARAH LYALL
Sarah LYALL
Royal Navy begins actively encouraging gays to enlist and pledges to make life easier when they do, five years after Britain lifted its ban on gays in military; navy says it has asked Stonewall, group that lobbies for gay rights, to help it develop better strategies for recruiting and retaining gay men and lesbians, possibly by advertising in gay mgazines and newspapers; new effort continues pattern of changing official attitudes in navy dating to 1999, when European court ruled that Britain's ban on gays in military violated European human-rights laws; gays in British miltary are subject to same rules of sexual conduct as heterosexuals: no touching, no kissing, no flaunting of sexuality; despite change in policy, relatively few gay men and lesbians already in military have come out (M)
Date: 22 February 2005
By BRUCE LAMBERT
Bruce LAMBERT
Estimated cost of expanding Suffolk County jail jumps 5 percent to $286 million with bond interest, bringing total to $43 million, or $340,000 per cell; staffing would add about $20 million more a year to cost; New York State threatens to send inmates from overcrowded prisons in Suffolk to empty cells upstate at cost of $20 million a year; County Legislator David A Bishop suggests finding alternative programs for 16 percent of inmates who are mentally ill or substance abusers (M)
Date: 21 February 2005
By MARK GLASSMAN
Mark GLASSMAN
Don Imus, host of radio program Imus in the Morning, which MSNBC also televises, makes on-air complaints about on-air personnel after his show moves from small studio in Astoria, Queens, to state-of-the-art suite at company headquarters in Secaucus, NJ; photo (M)
Date: 22 February 2005
By MICHAEL WINES
Michael WINES
Three reporters for major international news organizations flee Zimbabwe and fourth is apparently in hiding after police and intelligence agents search their offices and threaten to arrest them for espionage and slandering the state; all four journalists are Zimbabwe citizens; country bars foreigners from reporting within its boundaries without accreditation, which is raely granted; actions seen as part of campaign by government of Pres Robert Mugabe to suppress international coverage of events in Zimbabwe before crucial national elections on Mar 31; Mugabe, celebrating his 81st birthday, predicts that his government would sweep elections; journalists work for Associated Press, Bloomberg financial news service and The Times of London (M)
Date: 22 February 2005
By Dave Kehr
Dave Kehr
Dave Kehr reviews four-disc box DVD set Edison: The Invention of the Movies and new DVD version of Hayao Miyazaki animated film Porco Rosso; photos (M)
Date: 21 February 2005
Photo of migrant workers in Sichuan Province, China, who traditionally seek work after Lunar New Year
Date: 22 February 2005
By NEIL A. LEWIS and LINDA GREENHOUSE
Neil LEWIS
Supreme Court Memo: Chief Justice William H Rehnquist will again be absent from bench because of illness when Supreme Court resumes its term on Feb 22; his empty chair will certainly set off new round of speculation and chatter aout his tenure on court (M)
Date: 22 February 2005
By BRUCE LAMBERT
Bruce LAMBERT
Estimated cost of expanding Suffolk County jail jumps 5 percent to $286 million with bond interest, bringing total to $43 million, or $340,000 per cell; staffing would add about $20 million more a year to cost; New York State threatens to send inmates from overcrowded prisons in Suffolk to empty cells upstate at cost of $20 million a year; County Legislator David A Bishop suggests finding alternative programs for 16 percent of inmates who are mentally ill or substance abusers (M)