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In 2002, the world population was approximately 6,337,730,342 people[†]
2002Mary Hansen, Australian singer and guitarist (born 1966)[†]
Mary Therese Hansen was an Australian guitarist and singer. She joined the London-based avant-pop band Stereolab in 1992. As a member, Hansen recorded six studio albums from Transient Random-Noise Bursts with Announcements to Sound-Dust.
2002Ian Hornak, American painter and sculptor (born 1944)[†]
Ian Hornak was an American draughtsman, painter and printmaker. He was one of the founding artists of the Hyperrealist and Photorealist fine art movements; credited with having been the first Photorealist artist to incorporate the effect of multiple exposure photography into his landscape paintings; and the first contemporary artist to entirely expand the imagery of his primary paintings onto the frames.
2002Stan Rice, American painter and poet (born 1942)[†]
Stanley Travis Rice Jr. was an American poet and artist. He was the husband of author Anne Rice.
Jennifer Lopez, singer and star of forthcoming film Maid in Manhattan, and men guiding her career are working to prevent overexposure and to see that she does not spread herself too thin as she branches out from her hip-hop roots; Thomas D Mottola, chairman and chief executive of Sony Music Entertainment, Benny Medina, Lopez's agent, and Lopez confer on all matters, from which tracks to put on album to movie scripts and ways to tweak her image; photos (M)
America Online's plan to create add-on services to sell to subscribers to make up for sagging advertising revenue assumes that users will be willing to pay for information and entertainment they now receive free, but other online publishers do not see their businesses changing as fast and as far as AOL does; industry experts agree that subscription services are becoming more popular, but they warn that opportunities may be more specialized and selective than AOL envisions (M)
Pres Bush is expected to name John W Snow to replace Paul H O'Neill as Treasury secretary; Snow, economist and lawyer, is chairman of CSX Corp; he served in variety of posts in Ford administration and is former chairman of Business Roundtable; he has been outspoken in calling for improved business ethics in corporations, important consideration for administration that has come under intense pressure to deal with fallout from scandals involving Enron and other big companies; others Bush has considered to replace O'Neill include Commerce Sec Donald I Evans and Gerald L Parsky, assistant Treasury secretary in Ford administration; Bush is also close to naming replacement for Lawrence B Lindsey as chairman of White House's National Economic Council; he reportedly will name Stephen Friedman, former co-chairman of Goldman Sachs whom friends describe as consensus builder and strong manager; photo (M)
IBM's plan to acquire Rational Software, leading supplier of software tools, continues IBM's aggressive drive to build its prowess in software based on Internet standards, thus positioning itself as main challenger to Microsoft and its dominance of software industry; IBM believes that networked computing world is more technologically diverse than Microsoft's model can handle and that benefits to companies and consumers will come more quickly by using open-technology standards, like Linux and Java, that are not controlled by one company; Bill Gates argues that IBM offers only a patchwork of programming, not as coherent or as integrated as Microsoft's products; disputes notion that using Linux is ultimately cheaper than Windows; photos (M)
Bowl Championship Series final ranking is released and bowl matchups are decided; Oklahoma University will face Washington State University in Rose Bowl; Georgia University will face Florida State University in Sugar Bowl; Iowa University will face Southern California University in Orange Bowl; Ohio State University will face Miami University in Fiesta Bowl; photos (M)
Growing numbers of Americans are giving cash or gift certificates instead of presents this holiday season; national survey conducted by America's Research Group finds number of people who want to give cash or gift certificates has increased to 51 percent, from 39 percent last year; American Express survey finds 69 percent are opting for money or gift certificates, up from 41 percent five years ago; finds 72 percent want to receive them; old-fashioned gift certificates are being replaced by electronic gift cards that can be ordered in any amount for almost any occasion; many merchants are promoting these cards heavily; merchants love these cards: up to 15 percent of recipients never cash them in; photos (M)
Chesa Boudin, son of two members of 1970's radical group the Weathermen, is named Rhodes scholar; parents Kathy Boudin and David Gilbert have been in prison since he was 14 months old, for roles in 1981 Brink's robbery in Rockland County, NY, in which two police officers and guard were killed; his mother was denied parole in 2001, and his father is serving 75-year sentence; they write to him daily; he was raised by two other Weathermen leaders, Bill Ayers and Bernardine Dohrn, and as child had epilepsy, dyslexia and emotional problems; he went on to become Phi Beta Kappa student at Yale Univ; his selection as Rhodes scholar reflects changes in nation's premier academic award in its 100th year; Rhodes in recent years has rewarded array of students who have overcome striking challenges; photo (M)
Presidential Prospects A weekly series about the prospective candidates for the 2004 Democratic presidential nomination begins with Senator John Kerry of Massachusetts, a wealthy candidate with a decidedly liberal voting record. PAGE A24 Rising Criticism of Cardinal Cardinal Bernard F. Law of Boston flew to Rome as anger mounted about his handling of abuse cases and some priests signed a letter calling for his resignation. PAGE A15
Pres Saddam Hussein's close adviser, Gen Amir al-Saadi, challenges United States and Britain to produce any evidence they have that Iraq still has any weapons of mass destruction or programs to develop them; says at news conference that Iraq's 12,000-page declaration to UN Security Council denying any banned weapons or programs is 'entirely accurate,' but strongly implies that Iraq came close to building at least one Nagasaki-sized atom bomb by 1991 at time of Persian Gulf war, as American intelligence has contended; Saadi, a chemical engineer, seems regretful that gulf war with US, and American bombing of Iraq's most coveted nuclear sites, disrupted his country's most ambitious weapons venture of all; his comments and his posture of punchy self-confidence are seen to reflect Hussein's gamble that American threat of war will prove to be bluff; Bush administration has alerted CIA and national laboratories to be ready to go into overdrive, homing in on few crucial Iraqi claims that US believes it can show to be false; privately, administration officials concede there is no single piece of dramatic intelligence that Iraq has continued to try to acquire nuclear, chemical and biological weapons; photo (M)
New York Jets defeat Denver Broncos, 19-13; photos (M)
No teams in American Football Conference have clinched spot in playoffs, with only three weeks left in regular season; photo (M)
Bruce Weber Critic's Notebook reviews Nativity: A Life Story, a Christmas pageant at United Palace in Washington Heights; show's creator hope it will become holiday tradition; photo (M)