27 augustus 2002 was een dinsdag onder het sterrenbeeld ♍. Het was de 238e dag van het jaar. President van de Verenigde Staten was George W. Bush.
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Date: 27 August 2002
By Clyde Haberman
Clyde Haberman
Clyde Haberman NYC column comments on recent announcement that Columbia University president Lee C Bollinger has suspended search for dean of its journalism school; offers humorous suggestions about what students learn in journalism program (M)
Date: 28 August 2002
By Stuart Elliott
Stuart Elliott
Most marketers, ad agencies and media companies are deciding that they would rather forgo ads on first anniversary of terrorist attacks on World Trade Center and Pentagon than risk being perceived as exploiting day for mercenary purposes; among those marketers that will forgo television, print and radio advertising completely on Sept 11 are Coca-Cola, General Motors, HBO unit of AOL Time Warner, Miller Brewing, Nissan North American division of Nissan Motor and Target Stores; most of companies that are choosing to advertise on Sept 11, like Ford Motor and Procter & Gamble, will keep their ads away from any coverage related to anniversary of attacks; special 96-page Sept 11 'commemorative issue' of US News & World Report, which is now being sold at newsstands, carries no paid advertising; photo (M)
Date: 28 August 2002
Montana legislative leaders, after receiving complaint from reporter, issue memorandum warning lawmakers against making 'flirtatious overtures' toward female reporters (S)
Date: 27 August 2002
By Joyce Wadler
Joyce Wadler
Magician Criss Angel has himself immersed in tank of water for 24 hours; publicity junket for new movie The Four Feathers described; photos (M)
Date: 27 August 2002
Excerpts from ruling by United States Court of Appeals for the Sixth Circuit that Bush administration illegally held hundreds of deportation hearings in secret
Date: 27 August 2002
By Bloomberg News
Bloomberg News
XO Communications wins bankruptcy judge's approval of reorganization plan, clearing way for company to try to enforce $800 million investment agreement with Forstmann Little & Co and Telefonos de Mexico; two companies once planned to invest $400 million each in XO, but backed out in June, citing XO's deteriorating finances (S)
Date: 27 August 2002
By Bloomberg News
Bloomberg News
General Dynamics Corp sells its spacecraft-propulsion and fire-suppression businesses to GenCorp for about $90 million (S)
Date: 28 August 2002
By Bloomberg News
Bloomberg News
Nortel Networks Corp will cut 87,000 more jobs by end of year; says third-quarter revenue will miss its forecast because of decline in spending on equipment by US companies (S)
Date: 27 August 2002
By Bloomberg News
Bloomberg News
Finland's Orion files application with Food and Drug Administration for combination treatment for Parkinson's disease; unnamed drug combines three existing medicines, levodopa, carbidopa and entacapone; Orion expects to start marketing new therapy in US in 2003 (S)
Date: 28 August 2002
By Bloomberg News
Bloomberg News
Shares of Geron Corp rise 15 percent after it wins patent for technology to develop immune-system-based cancer therapies; patent covers Geron technology to stimulating body's immune system to attack cancer cells by aiming at telomerase, protein linked to cancer growth (S)