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As a voice professing to be Saddam Hussein's urged more attacks on Americans, the military challenged claims by six suspects in such attacks that they are Americans. Page A13.
World Business Briefing: Ireland: Aircraft Purchase**Ireland's Aer Lingus will buy 7 short-haul A320 planes from Airbus and lease 10 more as it repositions itself as low-budget carrier to compete with Dublin-based Ryanair and Britain's EasyJet (S)
Kathy Boudin, 60's radical, is released from prison 22 years after taking part in armored-car robbery in Rockland County, NY, that left three men dead; friends and relatives of victims deplore her release, while supporters celebrate; Boudin will spend rest of her life on parole; photo (S)
Impotence drug Levitra co-marketed by GlaxoSmithKline and Bayer has in less than month captured half of Pfizer Inc Viagra's market share among new prescriptions after one of most expensive and ribald advertising blitzes in drug industry history; secret of Levitra's success is unapologetic push for recreational use; Pfizer spokeswoman Janice Lipsky says Levitra has benefited from 'false claims and public relations in which they inaccurately state that Levitra works faster and is better, neither of which is true'; Glaxo and Bayer boldly admit that they are focusing on men who may have successful sexual relationships but who simply want to improve quality or duration of their erections (M)
United States steps up timetable for creating new Iraqi army; plan is to have 40,000 troops in field by next year, by bringing back and retraining midlevel officers from old army to run boot camps for recruits; speeding up plans to deploy Iraqi army that might relieve some of pressure on American forces comes against backdrop of mounting difficulties in Iraq for Bush administration; it has had mixed results in its efforts to raise billions of dollars for reconstruction, to secure more foreign troops to deploy there and to stamp out resistance to American-led occupation; nations that felt spurned in lead-up to war now appear wary of providing assistance, partly because of lingering bitterness and because they seek greater control over political and business decisions in Iraq than Bush administration seems ready to concede; new plan for creating Iraqi army is twice as fast as initial plans; photos (M)
Music on My Birthday
The Top 50 albums for the chart week of September 17, 2003, covering September 18, 2003.
Hilary Duff
Mary J. Blige
Alan Jackson
Beyonce
Evanescence
2003Aidan Gallagher, American actor and musician[†]
Aidan Gallagher is an American actor and musician. His first major television role was Nicky Harper on the Nickelodeon sitcom Nicky, Ricky, Dicky & Dawn. In 2019, Gallagher began portraying Number Five on the Netflix superhero series The Umbrella Academy, which is his breakthrough role and has brought him widespread recognition and critical acclaim. In 2018, Gallagher was appointed as a UN Environment Goodwill Ambassador for North America, becoming one of the youngest people to hold the position.
2003Emil Fackenheim, German rabbi and philosopher (born 1916)[†]
Emil Ludwig Fackenheim was a Jewish philosopher and Reform rabbi.
2003Bob Mitchell, English educator and politician (born 1927)[†]
Richard Charles Mitchell, commonly known as Bob Mitchell, was a Labour Member of Parliament (MP) in the United Kingdom. He represented Southampton Test for Labour from 1966 to 1970, and Southampton Itchen for Labour and then the Social Democratic Party from 1971 to 1983.
In 2003, the world population was approximately 6,420,361,634 people[†]