23 Ağustos 1998, Pazar yıldız işaretinin altında bir ♌ idi. Yılın 234 günüydü. Amerika Birleşik Devletleri Başkanı William J. (Bill) Clinton idi.
Bu günde doğduysanız, 27 yaşındasınız. Son doğum gününüz 23 Ağustos 2025 Cumartesi, 293 gün önceydi. Bir sonraki doğum gününüz 23 Ağustos 2026 Pazar gün sonra, 71 günü. 10.155 gün veya yaklaşık 243.734 saat veya yaklaşık 14.624.050 dakika veya yaklaşık 877.443.000 saniye yaşadınız.
Date: 24 August 1998
By Lisa Napoli
Lisa Napoli
Traffic to World Wide Web news sites soars durin week of Pres Clinton's testimony before grand jury and when his announcement of military strikes on terrorist targets; this suggests that more people than ever turn to Web to follow breaking news stories; much of traffic occurs during office hours, when television access is limited, and many people use sites to express personal opinions (M)
Date: 24 August 1998
By Felicity Barringer
Felicity Barringer
Time magazine prints its latest issue several days early, while Pres Clinton's grand jury testimony is still fresh news, but move keeps it from covering later United States missile strikes on terrorist targets in Afghanistan and Sudan; photo (M)
Date: 24 August 1998
By Christian Berthelsen
Christian Berthelsen
Los Angeles Daily News reports that Los Angeles Time publisher, Mark H Willes, paid $40,000 to join 26-member Los Angeles Business Advisers, group that opposes giving newly created 'neighborhood councils' more power; Willes defends membership and contribution; inquiries by Los Angeles Times recently prompted Daily News to disclose its support of group seeking to have San Fernando Valley seceed from City of Los Angeles; photo (M)
Date: 24 August 1998
By Christian Berthelsen
Christian Berthelsen
James S Hirsch questions his dismissal by Wall Street Journal for erroneously reporting that New York Times, which owns Boston Globe, declined comment on Globe's decision to rescind demand for columnist Mike Barnicle's resignation; admits he failed to check with Times spokeswoman, Nancy Nielsen, who issued statement affirming Globe's autonomy and later complained to Journal about article (M)
Date: 24 August 1998
By James C. McKinley Jr
James McKinley
Even as officials release little information on investigation into August 7 terrorist bombing of US Embassy in Nairobi, Kenya, welter of untrue, unconfirmed and tantalizing reports about suspects and leads in case have been appearing in Kenyan newspapers; photo (M)
Date: 24 August 1998
By Lisa Napoli
Lisa Napoli
Scott Shugar, media critic for on-line magazine Slate, challenges American newspapers to expose their own columnists like Mike Barnicle, Boston Globe columnist accused of fabrications and plagiarism; threatens to print names of offending columnists unless they confess (S)
Date: 23 August 1998
Aug 22 article about New York Times/CBS News poll on public attitudes toward Pres Clinton misstated source of assertion that Hillary Rodham Clinton first learned of her husband's infidelity during Aug 16 weekend; she has made no public comment on subject; friends of hers, speaking on condition of anonymity, have made such statements
Date: 23 August 1998
Aug 23 picture caption with travel article about Dublin hotels misidentified bridge; it is Ha'penny Bridge, not Penny Bridge
Date: 24 August 1998
INTERNATIONAL A3-9 YELTSIN DISMISSES AIDES PUSHING ECONOMIC REFORM President Boris N. Yeltsin of Russia dismissed his new team of economic reformers and reinstalled Viktor S. Chernomyrdin as Prime Minister, just five months after he derided Mr. Chernomyrdin as a spent force and cast him out of the Government. Mr. Yeltsin offered no explanation for his decision, which raised fresh doubts about the Kremlin's commitment to tough economic reforms and unsettling questions about President Yeltsin's ability to govern. A1 Senior Clinton Administration officials said they were troubled by President Yeltsin's decision, taken so close to a summit meeting between the two leaders scheduled for next week in Moscow. But a spokesman said that Mr. Clinton had decided to go ahead with his trip. Officials acknowledged that the move had caught them by surprise. A9
Date: 23 August 1998
By Harvey Araton
Harvey Araton
Harvey Araton's Sports of The Times column on basball slugger Mark McGwire's admission that he is using testosterone-producing substance called androstenedione that is banned in some sports, but not in baseball; says that now that McGwire has officially announced that Roger Maris has been put on notice, dissection of McGwire will begin in earnest; photo (M)