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Article recalls past Oscar-winning films, which were often stuffy, overproduced behemoths and outright duds and notes more recent winners, which have been more hip and sophisticated; photos (M)
New York Marriott Brooklyn hotel will undergo $53 million expansion, adding 280 guest rooms (S)
Tom Rogers, chief executive of Primedia, remains very confident of company's future straddling worlds of old and new media, even though digital media are starving for financing and advertising and Primedia's core business -- magazines -- is suffering from ad recession; Primedia is now laboring under crushing debt, flat earnings and depressed stock price and is being forced it to sell assets and cut costs; photo (M)
Independent counsel's $64-million investigation into collective matters known as Whitewater ends with heavy thud, just ten years after The New York Times first reported Bill and Hillary Clinton's ties to Arkansas real estate venture; five-volume report seems like relic of another era, dredging up names like Monica Lewinsky, Kenneth Starr and Linda Tripp at time when nation is preoccupied with terrorism; chronology; photos (M)
Home Front column on plight of New York City 'black car' drivers, independent contractors who ferry mostly corporate clients; so many drivers quit after Sept 11 attacks caused business to plunge that dispatchers are searching for replacements, even though business is still down by over 20 percent from year ago; those that are still working are struggling to cover costs; photo (M)
Music on My Birthday
The Top 50 albums for the chart week of March 20, 2002, covering March 24, 2002.
Soundtrack
Brandy
Alanis Morissette
Linkin Park
Alan Jackson
2002César Milstein, Argentinian-English biochemist and academic, Nobel Prize laureate (born 1927)[†]
César Milstein, CH, FRS was an Argentine biochemist in the field of antibody research. Milstein shared the Nobel Prize in Physiology or Medicine in 1984 with Niels Kaj Jerne and Georges J. F. Köhler for developing the hybridoma technique for the production of monoclonal antibodies.
2002Bob Said, American race car driver and bobsledder (born 1932)[†]
Boris Said Jr., better known as Bob Said, was an American racing driver from the United States. The son of a Syrian father and a Russian mother, he grew up in Greenwich, Connecticut, and attended Deerfield Academy and Princeton. He discovered sports car racing during his first year at Princeton.
In 2002, the world population was approximately 6,337,730,342 people[†]