The March 19, 2005 was a Saturday under the star sign of ♓. It was the 77 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 Thursday, March 19, 2026, 106 days ago. Your next birthday is on Friday, March 19, 2027, in 258 days. You have lived for 7,776 days, or about 186,645 hours, or about 11,198,750 minutes, or about 671,925,000 seconds.
Date: 20 March 2005
By Deborah Solomon
Deborah Solomon
Deborah Solomon interview with Jeff Gannon (aka Jim Guckert), would-be reporter who managed to gain access to White House press briefings for two years and was regularly called on by Scott McClellan, Pres Bush's press secretary, to ask softball questions; photo (M)
Date: 20 March 2005
By Jack Shafer
Jack Shafer
Jack Shafer reviews book The New New Journalism: Conversations With America's Best Nonfiction Writers on Their Craft by Robert S Boynton; drawing (M)
Date: 20 March 2005
By Timothy L. O'Brien
Timothy O'Brien
Profile of Bloomberg LP, financial information and news company, in light of latest management overhaul and comments by Michael R Bloomberg that he plans to sell company someday; timing of any sale will hinge on whether Bloomberg is re-elected mayor of New York in November; estimates of company's value range from $7 billion to $9 billion, putting Bloomberg's 72 percent stake in $5 billion to $6.5 billion range; Peter Grauer, chairman, insists that no sale is imminent; denies that management shuffle, which consolidated his power and stripped Lex Fenwick, chief executive officer, of duties other than continued oversight of Boomberg's sales force, were prompted by friction between him and Fenwick and employees' distaste for Fenwick's leadership; Tom Secunda, who heads research and development, and Matthew Winkler, editor in chief of Bloomberg News, were elevated at same time to equal status with Fenwick, all three of them reporting to Grauer; photos; graph (L)
Date: 20 March 2005
By Anthony Tommasini
Anthony Tommasini
Anthony Tommasini article wonders who will replace famed opera singer Beverly Sills as media personality and public face of opera; in 1980, after slow-starting but sensational 25-year singing career, Sills embarked on second career as most influential administrator for performing arts in New York; article cites her appearances as host of late-night television and says cultural climate that allowed her to thrive so publicly has changed beyond recognition; photos (L)
Date: 19 March 2005
By Bloomberg News
Bloomberg News
Crompton Corp agrees to sell unit that makes waxes and oils for personal care products to Sun Capital Partners for $80 million (S)
Date: 19 March 2005
By Bloomberg News
Bloomberg News
Bausch & Lomb settles patent infringement suit against Alcon Inc over line of eye vitamin products (S)
Date: 19 March 2005
By Bloomberg News
Bloomberg News
Siemens agrees to purchase CTI Molecular Imaging for about $967 million (S)
Date: 19 March 2005
By Bloomberg News
Bloomberg News
Ontario Securities Commission considers fining Conrad Black and barring him from acting as director of a public company over claims that he diverted more than 100 million Canadian dollars ($83 million) from publisher Hollinger International (S)
Date: 19 March 2005
By Bloomberg News
Bloomberg News
Standard & Poor's raises unsecured debt rating of Hasbro to BBB- from BB+ (S)
Date: 19 March 2005
By Bloomberg News
Bloomberg News
Florida jury orders Ford Motor Co to pay $10.2 million to family of Claire Duncan, who was killed when her 2000 Ford Explorer flipped over after being forced off road (S)