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US News Archive for December 2005:
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Iraq shuts borders for election
With parliamentary elections days away, Iraq has closed its borders and imposed a nighttime curfew around those boundaries. "The international crossing borders and the borders and passageways for travelers between Iraq and Syria will be closed with the exception of the commercial trucks authorized by the Iraqi government," Minister Bayan Jabr said...
CNN - December 11, 2005
Lawyer Knew Rove Was a Source, Reporter Says
Karl Rove's lawyer learned that Mr. Rove had probably been a source for Time's July 2003 article that mentioned the Valerie Plame, a Time reporter wrote...
New York Times - December 11, 2005
OPEC Should Not Curtail Production, Minister Says
Saudi Arabia's oil minister added that it was too early to consider paring the group's output in anticipation of a slowdown in consumption next year...
New York Times - December 11, 2005
China Overtakes U.S. as Supplier of Information Technology Goods
After almost a decade of explosive growth in its electronics sector, China has pushed past the U.S. in exports of information and communication technology...
New York Times - December 11, 2005
Brooks and Yearwood marry
Country stars Garth Brooks and Trisha Yearwood marry in a private ceremony at their home in Oklahoma...
BBC News - December 11, 2005
Nigeria crash: 65 children killed
Officials in Nigeria say they are investigating the cause of a passenger plane crash that killed 107 people, including at least 65 secondary school children...
CNN - December 11, 2005
Jet crew says thrusters malfunctioned
The reverse thrusters that should have slowed a Southwest Airlines jetliner before it slid off a runway and into a busy street didn't immediately kick in when the pilots tried to deploy them, federal investigators said after interviewing the crew. The plane ran off Chicago's Midway Airport and hit two cars, killing a 6-year-old boy...
CNN - December 11, 2005
Hostage families wait as deadline passes
Family and friends of four Western humanitarian workers held hostage in Iraq were waiting with growing concern on Sunday as a deadline to kill them passed without word from the kidnappers...
CNN - December 11, 2005
Two U.S. Soldiers Killed by a Concealed Bomb
Also, police discovered the body of an Egyptian engineer who had been abducted a day earlier and witnesses in Saddam Hussein's trial received death threats...
New York Times - December 11, 2005
Bullfights? Your Club or Mine?
There is not one but two clubs in New York City for bullfighting fans, which are part of a national network called peņas taurinas...
New York Times - December 11, 2005
DreamWorks 'in Viacom deal'
Viacom, the owner of Paramount, has secured a deal to buy rival studio Dreamworks, reports say...
BBC News - December 11, 2005
UK fuel depot blasts injure dozens
Explosions tear through a fuel depot north of London before dawn, creating a wall of smoke and flames and injuring 36 people, four of them seriously, in what police said appeared to be an accident...
CNN - December 11, 2005
Leaders urge peace if Williams is executed
Community leaders in Los Angeles are calling for peace if convicted killer and Crips gang co-founder Stanley Tookie Williams is put to death as scheduled Tuesday. Gov. Arnold Schwarzenegger heard arguments Thursday from lawyers seeking to spare Williams' life but hasn't said if he will grant clemency...
CNN - December 11, 2005
As NATO Forces Ease Role of G.I.'s in Afghanistan, the Taliban Steps Up Attacks
By June or July, the NATO-led International Security Assistance Force will become the main military force in Afghanistan, allowing a reduction in the overall U.S. presence...
New York Times - December 11, 2005
Golf: Clarke takes California lead
Darren Clarke blazed an eight-under-par 64 to take a one-shot lead at the Target World Challenge...
BBC News - December 11, 2005
Officer Dies Interrupting Burglary Near Bronx Home; Actor Is Held
It was the second killing of a New York City police officer in the line of duty this year; the first was less than two weeks ago...
New York Times - December 11, 2005
Richard Pryor, Iconoclastic Comedian, Dies at 65
Richard Pryor brought the biting, irreverent humor of the black ghetto into mainstream America's living rooms...
New York Times - December 11, 2005
Investing: The Bonds That Fight the Monster Called Inflation
Series I Bonds, United States government savings bonds, are intended to give investors the ability to hedge against inflation and to earn a guaranteed return...
New York Times - December 11, 2005
Doing the Hollywood Math: What Slump?
Everyone has a theory about what's ailing Hollywood. But look closely: the film industry is still fairly flush...
New York Times - December 11, 2005
Television: TV Stardom on $20 a Day
In the right hands, vlogs, or video blogs, are microdocumentaries of surprising beauty, wit and intelligence, and are also increasingly lucrative...
New York Times - December 11, 2005
The Way We Live Now: Mass-Produced Individuality
How consumers make distinctive products without actually making anything...
New York Times - December 11, 2005
Ideas & Trends: The Rich, Sometimes, Are the Best Medicine
In seeing that money can sometimes move mountains in public health, Bill and Melinda Gates are following in the footsteps of the industrial giants of the late-19th century...
New York Times - December 11, 2005
New York Up Close: An Irish Paper Wants the Mother Country to Read All About It
For the first time, The Irish Echo, a weekly founded in 1928 and based in Midtown Manhattan, is focusing on those headed back to Ireland...
New York Times - December 11, 2005
Spending: Finding Savings Around the Fire
Amid dire warnings about fuel prices, sales of wood stoves have jumped...
New York Times - December 11, 2005
Career Couch: When a Friend Is Also Your Boss
It can be very rewarding to share passion for a mission with pals you've known for years, but working for a friend can be a minefield...
New York Times - December 11, 2005
The Goods: Hawaii Calls, With Clarity
IF there is a ukulele stashed in your closet, chances are that it's a flimsy model bought during a Hawaiian vacation. It might have been played once upon your return home, at which point everyone within earshot complained about its shrillness. And so it was cast into storage, to languish beside old blankets and jigsaw puzzles...
New York Times - December 11, 2005
Market Week: The Fed Wears Its Feelings on Its Sleeve
THE Federal Reserve is a modern, sensitive central bank that likes to communicate how it feels. Its well-telegraphed signals to the market leave virtually no doubt that it will execute a 13th consecutive quarter-point increase in its benchmark interest rate this week; the debate among investors is whether the accompanying statement will reveal a change in mood about further increases...
New York Times - December 11, 2005
[TS] Nice Funds, Naughty Video Game
It's a mighty big gamble when a fund company, acting as a fiduciary to its investors, owns more than a quarter of a concern's shares...
New York Times - December 11, 2005
Dealbook: They're All Paying Customers to Wall Street
WHEN Bruce Wasserstein, the chairman of the investment bank Lazard, took on Carl C. Icahn as a client two weeks ago to go after Time Warner, rainmakers across Wall Street raised eyebrows. They worriedly whispered to each other: How could such a white-shoe firm back one of those unsavory characters called corporate raiders? What are big corporate clients going to think? Whose side is Lazard on?...
New York Times - December 11, 2005
The Boss: A Tale of Two Streets
Joe Moglia is chief executive of Ameritrade...
New York Times - December 11, 2005
Ventures: REIT's Poised to End 2005 On Another High Note
WALL STREET pundits expected 2005 to be a bad year for real estate investment trusts. Interest rates were heading north, economic growth was uncertain and many REIT's were already pricey after a two-year run-up...
New York Times - December 11, 2005
Fundamentally: Giving Yourself a Tax Cut on Investments
Though tax rates have come down in recent years, the government's cut of capital gains and dividend income is still one of the biggest drags on many portfolios...
New York Times - December 11, 2005
The Count: As Gas Prices Fall, Thirsty S.U.V.'s Regain Their Allure
As Gas Prices Fall,...
New York Times - December 11, 2005
Spending: How to Make Your (Accounting) Relationship Work
Advice on how to handle the softer side of the accounting relationship is harder to come by...
New York Times - December 11, 2005
Ford Workers Reach Deal on Health Care
DETROIT, Dec. 10 (AP) - The United Auto Workers said on Saturday that it had reached a tentative agreement on health care costs with the Ford Motor Company that would require...
New York Times - December 11, 2005
Jurors in Vioxx Trial Are Told to Press On
HOUSTON, Dec. 10 (Reuters) - Jurors in the first federal lawsuit against Merck over the painkiller Vioxx adjourned on Saturday and will return on Monday to try to reach a verdict, despite telling the judge earlier in the day that they were deadlocked...
New York Times - December 11, 2005
Media Frenzy: Satellite Radio: Out of the Car and Under Fire
Portable receivers show how far satellite has come, but they also show how far all media businesses have to go to fulfill their digital potential...
New York Times - December 11, 2005
Economic View: What's the Return on Education?
Schools' costs are easy to gauge. Their economic value is not...
New York Times - December 11, 2005
A Little Sleuthing Unmasks Writer of Wikipedia Prank
It started as a joke and ended up as a shot heard round the Internet, with the joker losing his job and Wikipedia, the online encyclopedia, suffering a blow to its credibility...
New York Times - December 11, 2005
On the Contrary: Unbundles of Joy
WHEN the Internet age dawned, the priests of this new technology spoke knowingly of...
New York Times - December 11, 2005
The Next Retirement Time Bomb
A new accounting rule threatens to propel radical cutbacks for government retirees and to open the way for powerful economic and social repercussions...
New York Times - December 11, 2005
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