In 2003, Morgan Stanley agreed to pay $ 125 million in order to settle its portion of a $ 1. 4 billion settlement brought by Eliott Spitzer, the Attorney General of New York, the National Association of Securities Dealers ( now the Financial Industry Regulatory Authority ( FINRA )), the United States Securities and Exchange Commission, ( SEC ) and a number of state securities regulators, relating to intentionally misleading research motivated by a desire to win investment banking business with the companies covered.

by Mark Spitzer and Simon Green, Green Integer, 2003

* Spitzer Space Telescope, a space observatory observing in the infrared launched in 2003

On September 3, 2003, New York Attorney General Eliot Spitzer announced the issuance of a complaint against New Jersey hedge fund company Canary Capital Partners LLC, charging that they had engaged in " late trading " in collusion with Bank of America's Nations Funds.

In May 2003, New York Attorney General Eliot Spitzer reached a settlement with Anschutz after the AG filed a civil complaint accusing Anschutz of accepting IPO shares from Salomon Smith Barney in exchange for his firm, Qwest's, investment banking business.

The controversial suit by Spitzer was panned in a Wall Street Journal editorial headlined, " The Anschutz Ransom ".< ref > WSJ Review and Outlook, May 15, 2003 .</ REF > The U. S. Securities and Exchange Commission and the U. S. Department of Justice extensively investigated Qwest officials, and determined that there was no justification for taking action against any board member.

The Spitzer Space Telescope ( formerly SIRTF, the Space Infrared Telescope Facility ) was launched into space by a Delta rocket from Cape Canaveral, Florida on 25 August 2003.

In 2003, Wilshire was targeted by New York State Attorney General Elliot Spitzer in connection to its trading practices as part of a wide ranging 2003 investigation of mutual funds.

Campbell, in turn, won 75 % of the vote in the 2003 special election to fill the vacancy on the Board of Supervisors left when Spitzer resigned to become an Assemblyman.

In 2003, Claus Schönig published a critical overview of the history of the Altaic hypothesis up to that time.

In 2003, the An Etymological Dictionary of the Altaic Languages was published by Starostin, Dybo, and Mudrak.

The first surviving edition ( bilingual Swedish – Esperanto ) was published in Sweden in 2003.

& C. Black, London, OCLC 4365382, and subsequent editions, 2003 edition published by Kessinger, Whitefish, Montana, ISBN 0-7661-2826-1

During grand jury testimony in December 2003 – which was illegally leaked to the San Francisco Chronicle and published in December 2004 – Giambi allegedly admitted to using many different steroids, including fertility drugs ( which could account for his declining health in the past few years ).

The Beano Specials returned in 2003, and were now published seasonally.

In 2003, a Roman Catholic adaptation of the BCP was published called the Book of Divine Worship.

The rise of comic book specialty stores in the late 1970s created / paralleled a dedicated market for " independent " or " alternative comics " in the U. S. The first such comics included the anthology series Star Reach, published by comic book writer Mike Friedrich from 1974 to 1979, and Harvey Pekar's American Splendor, which continued sporadic publication into the 21st century and which Shari Springer Berman and Robert Pulcini adapted into a 2003 film.

:* Emma Brown, by Clare Boylan, published 2003

The first book, Conan of Cimmeria: Volume One ( 1932 – 1933 ) ( 2003 ; published in the US as The Coming of Conan the Cimmerian ) includes Howard's notes on his fictional setting, as well as letters and poems concerning the genesis of his ideas.

In 1996, the Moldovan parliament, citing fears of " Romanian expansionism ," rejected a proposal from President Mircea Snegur to change the name of the language to Romanian, and in 2003 a Moldovan-Romanian dictionary was published, purporting to show that the two countries speak different languages.

In the United Kingdom the term often retains its positive sense as a reference to natural selection, and for example Richard Dawkins wrote in his collection of essays A Devil's Chaplain, published in 2003, that as a scientist he is a Darwinist.

Inspired by the minority language example of Norsk Allkunnebok, a Swedish-language encyclopedia of Finland was initiated in 1969 and eventually published as Uppslagsverket Finland ( 3 volumes, 1982 – 1985 ; 2nd edition in 5 volumes, 2003 – 2007 ).

In 2003, Matt Stephens and Doug Rosenberg published Extreme Programming Refactored: The Case Against XP which questioned the value of the XP process and suggested ways in which it could be improved.

Certain aspects of XP have changed since the book Extreme Programming Refactored ( 2003 ) was published ; in particular, XP now accommodates modifications to the practices as long as the required objectives are still met.

The repression of memory led to historical revisionism in Italy and in 2003 the Italian media published Silvio Berlusconi's statement that the Benito Mussolini only " used to send people on vacation ", denying the existence of Italian concentration camps, such as Rab concentration camp.

In 2003, its National Research Council published a report whose conclusions called into question 30 years of FBI testimony.

* In the timeline of Robert Heinlein's utopian novel For Us, the Living – written in 1939 but only published posthumously in 2003 – LaGuardia is elected President in 1951 and serves two terms as a militant reforming president, effectively nationalizing the banking system and instituting a system of Social Credit.

Orwell's list, not published until 2003, consisted mainly of writers but also included actors and Labour MPs.

In 2003 an unofficial, but well received conclusion to the series was published under the title GW11 Omega Project-see Gap material below.

In 2003, a fan ( Les Braun ) published GW11 Omega Project on the internet, finishing the Third Edition series by closely following Eastland's original storyline.

In 2003, Rolling Stone magazine published a list called The 100 Greatest Guitarists of All Time.

In 2003, Kodansha published Ghost in the Shell 1. 5: Human-Error Processer, a collection of manga chapters previously unreleased by Shirow.

* The Lord Is My Shepherd: Healing Wisdom of the Twenty-third Psalm published in 2003

In 2003, a meta-analysis of the efficacy of hypnotherapy was published by two researchers from the university of Konstanz in Germany, Flammer and Bongartz.

The January 2003 CIA paper Iraqi Support for Terrorism states that al-Libi told a foreign intelligence service that " Iraq — acting on the request of al-Qa ' ida militant Abu Abdullah, who was Muhammad Atif's emissary — agreed to provide unspecified chemical or biological weapons training for two al-Qa ' ida associates beginning in December 2000.

* ISO 14416: 2003 Information and documentation — Requirements for binding of books, periodicals, serials and other paper documents for archive and library use — Methods and materials

Craig Blomberg stated in a 2003 paper titled " The Untold Story of a Good Translation " that 70 % of the changes in the TNIV move in a " more literal direction three times more often than not.

Chakrabarti's opinions were echoed by another archaeologist focusing in on India, Peter Johansen, in a 2003 paper published in Asian Perspectives.

A 2003 paper entitled " The Earliest North American Record of Auk ( Aves: Alcidae ) From the Late Eocene of Central Georgia " by Robert M. Chandler and Dennis Parmley of Georgia College and State University reports a Late Eocene, wing-propelled diving, auk from the Priabonain Stage of the Late Eocene.

* Modern Market Manipulation, Mike Riess, 2003, paper at the International Precious Metals Institute 27th Annual Conference

Patrick J. Buchanan writes that the 2003 invasion of Iraq has significant similarities to the 1996 neoconservative policy paper A Clean Break: A New Strategy for Securing the Realm.

A weekly all-local paper, The Livingston Community News, was launched in May 2003 with offices in downtown Brighton and was closed in July 2009 when " The Ann Arbor News, the newspaper's parent company, ceased publication.

* Peter Howard, " Heritage: Management, Interpretation, Identity " Continuum Press, 2003, 278 pages, ISBN 0-8264-5897-1 ( cloth ); 0-8264-5898-X ( paper )

During the 2003 blackout, the Star printed the paper at a press in Welland, Ontario.

The reorganisation had the desired effect ; after posting losses of almost € 3 million in 2002, the paper returned to profit in 2003.

A SAE paper from 2003 deals with a high-speed, small-displacement sleeve-valve engine, calculated, but not experimentally shown, to have a higher SFC than the poppet-valve alternative, a year-2009 work compares two different side-opening intake strategies for sleeve-valve engines.

Nat Turner: A Slave Rebellion in History and Memory, New York: Oxford University Press, 2003. xix + 289 pp. $ 35. 00 ( cloth ), ISBN 978-0-19-513404-9 ; $ 26. 00 ( paper ), ISBN 978-0-19-517756-5.

Building on Prospect theory and Kahneman and Tversky's body of work, Thaler published " Toward a Positive Theory of Consumer Choice " in 1980, a paper which Kahneman has called " the founding text in behavioral economics " ( Kahneman, 2003, p. 438 ).

The corruption scandal was uncovered by Norwegian paper Dagens Næringsliv on 3 September 2003.

* Joshua F. Drake, ‘ Randomness and Patterns: repeated texts in Petrucci ’ s Motet Prints ’, paper given at the Annual Medieval and Renaissance Music Conference, Jena, Germany, July 2003.

An article published in Science in 2002 on the neurotoxicity of the drug MDMA (" ecstasy ") caused some controversy when a mix-up of vials caused the paper to be retracted in 2003 ( see Retracted article on dopaminergic neurotoxicity of MDMA ).

Edinburgh: Barrington Stoke, 2003 ( paper ).

The parent body of the Quadrantids was recently tentatively identified ( in a paper by Peter Jenniskens ) as the minor planet 2003 EH < sub > 1 </ sub >, which in turn may be the same object as the comet C / 1490 Y1 2003 EH < sub > 1 </ sub > Is the Quadrantid Shower Parent Comet that was observed by Chinese, Japanese and Korean astronomers some 500 years ago.

A recent summary of this literature is the 2003 paper by Viscusi and Aldy.

This paper was awarded with an Ig Nobel Prize in 2003.

In early 2003, Izzy Asper purged top management at the Post, including Whyte and deputy editor Martin Newland, while the paper continued to suffer heavy financial losses, which were estimated to have peaked at $ 60 million annually.

According to a government white paper published in early 2005, " by the end of 2003, 22 ethnic minorities in China used 28 written languages.