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Bank of Korea reports number of bankrupt companies increased to 418 in December from 372 in November; also says debt default ratio, measurement of percentage of promissory notes that are overdue in payments, rose to 0.07 percent in December from 0.04 perent in November (S)l
Tampa Bay Buccaneers defensive tackle Warren Sapp and wide receiver Keyshawn Johnson, both vocal and veteran members of team, say their longtime feud ended because of common goals to have successful season; photos (M)
Delta Air Lines, Northwest Airlines and Continental Airlines will defy efforts by Transportation Department to place restrictions on marketing alliance and proceed with partnership on their own terms; transportation officials had criticized plan as being potentially anticompetitive; decision prompts Transportation Department to say it will act for force carriers to comply with strict conditions it laid out on Jan 17 (M)
Ford Motor Co reports narrow-than-expected loss for fourth quarter but continues to lose money and market share; posts net loss of $130 million in quarter compared with loss of $5.03 billion in year earlier; revenue was $41.59 billion, up $869 million; net loss for year was narrowed to $980 million from $5.45 billion in 2001; operating profit was $872 million; chairman-chief executive William Clay Ford Jr comments; photos (M)
Anthony Tommasini reviews Metropolitan Opera production of Mozart opera Abduction From the Seraglio, conducted by James Levine, with staging by Max Charruyer based on John Dexter 1979 production; photo (S)
Music on My Birthday
The Top 50 albums for the chart week of January 22, 2003, covering January 22, 2003.
Norah Jones
Jennifer Lopez
Avril Lavigne
Dixie Chicks
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2003Bill Mauldin, American soldier and cartoonist (born 1921)[†]
William Henry Mauldin was an American editorial cartoonist who won two Pulitzer Prizes for his work. He was most famous for his World War II cartoons depicting American soldiers, as represented by the archetypal characters Willie and Joe, two weary and bedraggled infantry troopers who stoically endure the difficulties and dangers of duty in the field. His cartoons were popular with soldiers throughout Europe, and with civilians in the United States as well. However, his second Pulitzer Prize was for a cartoon published in 1958, and possibly his best-known cartoon was after the Kennedy assassination.
In 2003, the world population was approximately 6,420,361,634 people[†]