1. Otros premiados La cantante Patti Labelle inauguró la ceremonia, celebrada en el hotel Waldorf Astoria de Nueva York, con la canción If you dont know me by now, popularizada por el grupo Simply Red, para celebrar el ingreso del compositor Kenny Gamble y el productor Leon Huff.

2. Speaking at a leadership and collective prosperity conference in Mexico City, Clinton said that by now, the United States "ought to be organized and settled enough" after the Sept. 11 attacks "to continue a comprehensive campaign against terror and at the same time revitalize our vital relationships in the Americas." As part of revitalizing relations with Mexico, he argued for the need for immigration reform, which he said had become stalled "not because there‘s an antiMexican feeling, but because our Congress sees every issue through the prism of terrorism." He said that new arguments were needed to help convince Congress and the U.S. public that Mexican immigrants posed no security threat to the United States, and that orderly immigration could help provide a solution to pressing domestic issues.