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In 2002, the world population was approximately 6,337,730,342 people[†]
2002Jérémy Doku, Belgian footballer[†]
Jérémy Baffour Doku is a Belgian professional footballer who plays as a winger for Premier League club Manchester City and the Belgium national team. He is known for his speed and is considered one of the best dribblers in the world.
2002Gabri Veiga, Spanish footballer[†]
Gabriel Veiga Novas is a Spanish professional footballer who plays as an attacking midfielder for Primeira Liga club Porto.
2002Marjorie Ogilvie Anderson, Scottish historian (born 1909)[†]
Marjorie Ogilvie Anderson was a Scottish historian and paleographer.
This Week column: departing New York Philharmonic conductor Kurt Masur will host his final Memorial Day concert at Cathedral of St John the Divine; lineup for Broadway's free annual outdoor concert, Stars in the Alley, will includes Julie Hagerty, John Lithgow, Bill Pullman and Kathleen Turner; Goldman Memorial Band, Merchant Marine Academy Fanfare Trumpets and Great Day Chorale will perform at annual Memorial Day concert at Brooklyn's Green-Wood Cemetery; exhibit of art from Japan's Meiji period is set to open at Portland Art Museum in Oregon; photos (M)
The ball was delivered perfectly to Robert Horry, like a bounce pass in a pregame drill -- into his warm hands, 25 feet from the rim. Catch and shoot, just like practice. When Sacramento's Vlade Divac batted the ball out to the perimeter, all he wanted was to kill the clock, protect a 2-point lead, get out of this arena where the crowd jeered him. He wanted survive to tell about knocking off the defending N.B.A. champions twice in less than 48 hours on their home floor.
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Alvaro Uribe Velez, hardliner, is elected president of Colombia with 53 percent of vote, or more than 20 percentage points ahead of closest rival Horacio Serpa, Liberal Party populist; wins majority needed to avoid runoff; he pledges uncompromising 'hard hand' against insurgents; quickly receives backing of US and congratuations from Amb Anne Patterson; photo (M)
Ailing Pope May Curb Travel As John Paul II ended a tough five-day journey, his spokesman said the pope may curtail a planned trip to Canada and Latin America. PAGE A3 Polanski Wins at Cannes Roman Polanski took the top prize at the Cannes International Film Festival for ''The Pianist,'' starring Adrien Brody. THE ARTS, PAGE E1
Businesses have been forced to review their notions of corporate security in months sine Sept 11 terrorist attacks and have come to realization that chief security officer job calls for new kind of corporate security executive--one with breadth of experience, analytic skills, business acumen and leadership qualities; elusive ideal is executive not only familiar with physical security of people and property, but also fluent in digital security of computers and information; executive headhunters are recruiting people who fit description and, with their talents suddenly much in demand, chief security officers can earn more than $400,000 per year; General Motors Corp's chief information security officer James Christiansen, who was hired well before September attacks, comments; chart; photo (M)
A O Scott Critic's Notebook column on Roman Polanski's movie The Pianist, which has been awarded top honors at 55th Cannes International Film Festival; photos (M)
Article on Jimmy Kimmel, host of Comedy Central's The Man Show, who will, beginning in January, host new ABC late-night talk; photo (M)
Profile of Yale University law Prof Stephen L Carter, whose first novel, The Emperor of Ocean Park, will be published in June; photo (M)
Joyce Purnick questions Andrew M Cuomo's claim that he is running as 'outsider' in Democratic gubernatorial primary (M)
Body scans, once exclusive province of rich, are being offered to masses; as celebrities endorse them, radiologists, medical centers and entrepreneurs have rushed to offer them; prices have dropped, from $1,000 or more to few hundred dollars, as competition has stiffened; growing popularity of scans has raised condundrum of modern medicine, of whether test that can spot abnormalities actually guards against disease; rising chorus of experts and official groups are advising people to save their money; say that under close enough scrutiny almost everyone will have some abnormality, but that imperfections may not constitute threat to health and that treatment may not make difference; photos (M)
Re-examination of events before Sept 11 terrorist attacks clearly suggests Federal Bureau of Investigation failed to assemble coherent picture of available danger signals and failed to communicate what it knew to CIA or other intelligence agencies; interviews with current and former senior policymakers and law enforcement and counterterrorism officials suggest that in summer of 2001, when intelligence report regarding Al Qaeda surfaced, government's counterterrorism apparatus was too lumbering, too compartmentalized and too inattentive--and perhaps bit unlucky (M)