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Selena Roberts Sports of The Times column discusses Maine University football coach Jack Cosgrove, who is waging public campaign to clear names of players Paris Minor and Stefan Gomes, accused of raping woman and subsequently suspended from team; photos (M)
Tiger Woods says he was surprised to find himself lightning rod in divisive issue over admission of women to Augusta National Golf Club, home of Masters tournament; Woods, interviewed at Walt Disney Golf Classic, denies steering clear of political controversy for fear of harming his financial interests; calls on both sides to work out compromise; critics insist that Woods, whose father is black and mother Thai, has obligation to speak out against discrimination; others, like fellow golfer David Duval, says Woods is 26 years old and should be left alone to play golf; photos; chronology of athletes who have found themselves at center of controversial social issues (M)
Notre Dame University defeats US Air Force Academy, 21-14; photo (M)
Anemona Hartocollis Coping column on loss of security she and other shoppers at Home Depot in Brooklyn feel since latest Beltway sniper attack, at Home Depot in Falls Church, Va; drawing (M)
Music on My Birthday
The Top 50 albums for the chart week of October 16, 2002, covering October 20, 2002.
Elvis Presley
The Rolling Stones
Xzibit
Soundtrack
Dixie Chicks
2002Top Gear, the revived popular British TV motoring magazine, premieres on BBC.[†]
Top Gear is a British automotive magazine motoring-themed television programme. It is a revival of the 1977–2001 show of the same name for the BBC, devised by Jeremy Clarkson and Andy Wilman, which premiered on 20 October 2002. The programme expanded upon its earlier incarnation which focused on reviewing cars to incorporate films featuring motoring-based challenges, races, timed laps of notable cars, and celebrity timed laps on a specially designed track. The programme drew acclaim for its visual and presentation style, as well as criticism over the controversial nature of some content. The show was also praised for its humour and lore existing in not just the automotive community but in the form of internet memes and jokes. The programme aired on BBC Two until it was moved to BBC One in 2020.
In 2002, the world population was approximately 6,337,730,342 people[†]