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News analysis of Pres Bush's defense of his business dealings at Harken Energy Corp in 1990; focuses on whether his actions undermine his call for improved corporate ethics and stiffer penalties for executives who defraud investors (M)
All-Star Game baseball players discuss issues hovering over game, including setting strike date and steroid use in Major Leagues; photo (M)
EBay announces plans to acquire PayPal, rapidly growing startup that lets people make payments via e-mail, for $1.5 billion; move will let eBay take bigger share of many sales made on its own site, and to expand its business to earn money on tens of thousands of transactions made elsewhere on the Internet (M)
Stark career profiles of victims of September 11 terrorist attack on World Trade Center being prepared by companies with biggest losses to help in determining compensation are arousing anxiety among fragile population of survivors; may not match expectations of those left behind, who may have mistaken idea of how loved ones ranked in jobs and what their prospects were; reports from Marsh & McLennan, Cantor Fitzgerald, Keefe Bryuette & Woods, Carr Futures and others discussed; photo (M)
New York Yankees second baseman Alfonso Soriano sees impressive first half of season and approaches status of upper-echelon players as All-Star Game approaches; photo (M)
Music on My Birthday
The Top 50 albums for the chart week of July 3, 2002, covering July 9, 2002.
Eminem
Papa Roach
Korn
Various Artists
Avril Lavigne
2002Rod Steiger, American actor (born 1925)[†]
Rodney Stephen Steiger was an American actor, noted for his portrayal of offbeat, often volatile and crazed characters. Ranked as "one of Hollywood's most charismatic and dynamic stars", he is closely associated with the art of method acting, embodying the characters he played, which at times led to clashes with directors and co-stars. He starred as Marlon Brando's mobster brother Charley in On the Waterfront (1954), the title character Sol Nazerman in The Pawnbroker (1964) which won him the Silver Bear for Best Actor, and as police chief Bill Gillespie opposite Sidney Poitier in the film In the Heat of the Night (1967) which won him the Academy Award for Best Actor.
2002The African Union is established in Addis Ababa, Ethiopia, replacing the Organisation of African Unity (OAU). The organization's first chairman is Thabo Mbeki, President of South Africa.[†]
The African Union (AU) is a continental union of 55 member states located on the continent of Africa. The AU was announced in the Sirte Declaration in Sirte, Libya, on 9 September 1999, calling for the establishment of the African Union. The bloc was launched on 9 July 2002 in Durban, South Africa. The intention of the AU was to replace the Organisation of African Unity (OAU), established on 25 May 1963 in Addis Ababa by 32 signatory governments; the OAU was disbanded on 9 July 2002. The most important decisions of the AU are made by the Assembly of the African Union, a semi-annual meeting of the heads of state and government of its member states.
In 2002, the world population was approximately 6,337,730,342 people[†]