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January 23, 2002

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Headlines from January 23, 2002

In Shift, Bush Assails Enron Over Handling of Collapse

By David E. Sanger With David Barboza

Pres Bush, in abrupt shift, assails bankrupt Enron Corp, company which contributed heavily to his political campaigns; expresses 'outrage' that company misled its employees and investors, including mother-in-law he said lost $8,000 when stock collapsed; calls for first time for government action to force greater corporate disclosure of financial information; strongly defends manner in which cabinet members handled calls for help from Enron's top executives; shift in tone comes as scope of Enron investigation widens; company reports discovery of more shredded documents at headquarters in Houston; suggests employees are still destroying potential evidence despite orders to contrary; shredded remains are turned over to Justice Dept; FBI seals part of headquarters building; House Energy and Commerce committee will subpoena David B Duncan, recently dismissed partner of Arthur Andersen--main accounting firm for Enron and auditor of questionable financial arrangements; investigators say Duncan may invoke Fifth Amendment; three other Andersen partners, including chief executive, will appear before committee (M)

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Kmart Files Bankruptcy, Largest Ever For a Retailer

By Danny Hakim and Leslie Kaufman

Kmart Corp files for bankruptcy protection, largest such filing ever made by retailer; says all 2,114 of its currently operating stores will remain open; analysts say several hundred stores will be closed after corporate review is completed by end of April; Kmart will also extricate itself from leases on 350 stores that it has already closed or leased to other companies; lists $16.29 billion in assets, $10.35 billion in debt and cash position of $366 million at end of quarter ended Oct 31; retailer's stock falls 60 percent, closing at 70 cents; chief executive Charles C Conaway comments; photo (M)

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Music on My Birthday

Billboard 200

The Top 50 albums for the chart week of January 23, 2002, covering January 23, 2002.

  1. 1
    Album cover for Weathered by Creed

    Weathered

    Creed

    Last week
    1
    Peak
    1
    Weeks
    8
  2. 2
    Album cover for [Hybrid Theory] by Linkin Park

    [Hybrid Theory]

    Linkin Park

    Last week
    2
    Peak
    2
    Weeks
    64
  3. 3
    Album cover for Word Of Mouf by Ludacris

    Word Of Mouf

    Ludacris

    Last week
    3
    Peak
    3
    Weeks
    7
  4. 4
    Album cover for Silver Side Up by Nickelback

    Silver Side Up

    Nickelback

    Last week
    4
    Peak
    2
    Weeks
    18
  5. 5
    Album cover for Stillmatic by Nas

    Stillmatic

    Nas

    Last week
    9
    Peak
    5
    Weeks
    4

Notable Births

Joško Gvardiol

2002Joško Gvardiol, Croatian footballer[†]

Joško Gvardiol is a Croatian professional footballer who plays as a left-back or centre-back for Premier League club Manchester City and the Croatia national team.

Nicola Zalewski

2002Nicola Zalewski, Polish footballer[†]

Nicola Zalewski is a Polish professional footballer who plays as a full-back or wing-back for Serie A club Inter Milan, on loan from Roma. Born and raised in Italy to Polish parents, he opted to play for the Poland national team at international level.

Notable Deaths

2002Paul Aars, American race car driver (born 1934)[†]

Paul Charles Aars was an American stock car driver. He was born on June 4, 1934, and lived in San Mateo, California.

Pierre Bourdieu

2002Pierre Bourdieu, French sociologist, anthropologist, and philosopher (born 1930)[†]

Pierre Bourdieu was a French sociologist and public intellectual. Bourdieu's contributions to the sociology of education, the theory of sociology, and sociology of aesthetics have achieved wide influence in several related academic fields. During his academic career he was primarily associated with the School for Advanced Studies in the Social Sciences in Paris and the Collège de France.

Robert Nozick

2002Robert Nozick, American philosopher, author, and academic (born 1938)[†]

Robert Nozick was an American philosopher. He held the Joseph Pellegrino University Professorship at Harvard University, and was president of the American Philosophical Association. He is best known for his book Anarchy, State, and Utopia (1974), a libertarian answer to John Rawls' A Theory of Justice (1971), in which Nozick proposes his minimal state as the only justifiable form of government. His later work Philosophical Explanations (1981) advanced notable epistemological claims, namely his counterfactual theory of knowledge. It won Phi Beta Kappa society's Ralph Waldo Emerson Award the following year.

Historical Events

Daniel Pearl

2002U.S. journalist Daniel Pearl is kidnapped in Karachi, Pakistan and subsequently murdered.[†]

Daniel Pearl was an American journalist who worked for The Wall Street Journal. On January 23, 2002, he was kidnapped by jihadist militants while he was on his way to what he had expected would be an interview with Pakistani Islamic scholar Mubarak Ali Gilani in Karachi, Sindh. Pearl had moved to Mumbai, India, upon taking up a regional posting by his newspaper and later entered Pakistan to cover the war on terror, which was launched by the United States in response to the September 11 attacks in 2001. At the time of his abduction, he had been investigating the alleged links between British citizen Richard Reid and al-Qaeda; Reid had reportedly completed his training at a facility owned by Gilani, who had been accused by the United States of being affiliated with the Pakistani terrorist organization Jamaat ul-Fuqra.

Historical Context for January 23, 2002

In 2002, the world population was approximately 6,337,730,342 people[†]