5 december 2003 was een vrijdag onder het sterrenbeeld ♐. Het was de 338e dag van het jaar. President van de Verenigde Staten was George W. Bush.
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Date: 05 December 2003
By David Carr
David Carr
Richard Leiby, currently editor and writer in Style section of Washington Post, will begin writing The Reliable Source gossip column in newspaper in January that has been on hiatus since end of July; column has been absent from newspaper since Lloyd Grove left to become gossip columnist for Daily News in New York (M)
Date: 05 December 2003
By Colin Campbell (NYT)
Colin NYT
Toronto lawyer Rocco Galati, who recently represented former terrorism suspect Abdurahman Khadr, plays threatening message left on his answering machine for reporters; claims voice is someone in Canadian or United States intelligence service; announces he will withdraw from all terror-related cases (S)
Date: 05 December 2003
Editorial on probe into suspected Republican mischief-makers leaking minority Democrats' confidential memos to sympathetic media outlets; says vindictive politicking is being ratcheted up toward self-satire(National Edition)
Date: 05 December 2003
By Richard W. Stevenson (NYT)
Richard Stevenson
Robert L Bartley, former editorial page editor of Wall Street Journal, is awarded Presidential Medal of Freedom (S)
Date: 05 December 2003
By Bob Herbert
Bob Herbert
Bob Herbert Op-Ed column on Prof David Protess of Northwestern's Medill School of Journalism, whose students have used techniques of investigative journalism to expose tragic miscarriages of justice in number of high-profile cases in Illinois; says their efforts have led to exoneration of some prisoners on death row; says Protess is winner of this year's Puffin/Nation Prize for Creative Citizenship; says Protess believes some innocent people have been put to death, but he is hopeful that situation will improve as media coverage increases, DNA evidence becomes more widely available and there is more support for legislation designed to address problem of prisoners who are innocent (M)
Date: 05 December 2003
By Bloomberg News
Bloomberg News
Rockwell Automation promotes Keith Nosbusch to president and chief executive, succeeding Don Davis, who will remain chairman (S)
Date: 05 December 2003
By Bloomberg News
Bloomberg News
FAO Inc, owner of FAO Schwarz toy store chain, seeks bankruptcy protection for second time this year and says it will shut down unless it receives rescue offer within 11 days; FAO will close its Zany Brainy chain and seek buyers for its FAO Schwarz and Right Start stores by Dec 15 (S)
Date: 06 December 2003
By Bloomberg News
Bloomberg News
Progress Software, which develops Internet sites and software for business, agrees to acquire DataDirect Technologies for $88 million; DataDirect is owned by Golden Gate Capital (S)
Date: 05 December 2003
By Bloomberg News
Bloomberg News
General Motors is preparing to join auction for South Korea's Ssangyong Motor Co with bid for controlling stake worth about $550 million (S)
Date: 05 December 2003
By Bloomberg News
Bloomberg News
Marathon Oil Corp appoints Nuevo Energy Co's chief financial officer Janet F Clark as chief financial officer and senior vice president, succeeding John T Mills, who has retired (S)