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In Roger Michell's new morality tale, ''Changing Lanes,'' Ben Affleck and Samuel L. Jackson (above) become ruthless enemies after a traffic accident. Elvis Mitchell's film review, Page 24.
AOL Time Warner's stock has plunged 10 percent over last two days, closing at $19.60, as investors have grown concerned about company's balance sheet, turmoil in its Internet unit and stock sales by big shareholder; Wall Street traders say block of 18.4 million shares was sold for $20 apiece on April 10 through Credit Suisse First Boston; they say $368 million sale was by Janus Capital, AOL's biggest shareholder, which had been selling stock aggressively late last year; James de Castro, former radio executive, is named president of AOL's interactive group, where he will run flagship America Online service; graph; photo (M)
Mexican government says industrial production was down again in February, by 1.8 percent from year earlier; it has been more than year since sector showed any significant growth; graph (M)
The Senate overwhelmingly passed an ambitious bill to clean up the nation's election procedures, to help states buy new voting machines and to prevent ballot disputes like those that left memories of ''butterfly ballots'' and ''hanging chads'' after the last presidential election. The bill must be resolved with the House version, which differs from the Senate bill in significant details. Article, Page A23.
Bank of Japan leaves its monetary policy unchanged after two-day meeting; with overnight rates near zero, bank's board says it will continue to aim for overnight bank reserves of up to 15 trillion yen ($114.71 billion) and buy outright one trillion yen per month in government bonds (S)
Music on My Birthday
The Top 50 albums for the chart week of April 10, 2002, covering April 12, 2002.
Celine Dion
Various Artists
Various Artists
R. Kelly & Jay-Z
Soundtrack
2002George Shevelov, Ukrainian-American linguist and philologist (born 1908)[†]
George Shevelov was a Ukrainian professor, linguist, philologist, essayist, literary historian, and literary critic. A longtime professor of Slavic philology at Columbia University, he challenged the prevailing notion of a unified East Slavic language from which Ukrainian, Belarusian and Russian later developed, instead proposing that these languages emerged independently from one another.
2002A suicide bomber blows herself up at the entrance to Jerusalem's Mahane Yehuda Market, killing seven people and wounding 104.[†]
A suicide bombing occurred on 12 April 2002 at a bus stop located at the entrance to the Mahane Yehuda Market, Jerusalem's main fruit and vegetable market. The site of the attack was chosen in order to cause maximum number of casualties. 6 civilians were killed in the attack and 104 were injured. The al-Aqsa Martyrs' Brigades claimed responsibility for the attack.
In 2002, the world population was approximately 6,337,730,342 people[†]