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Gustav stalls offshore in Haiti after killing 23
Southern Ledger - August 28, 2008
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Indian security forces kill 3 in Kashmir
Southern Ledger - August 28, 2008
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Indian security forces kill 5 in Kashmir
Southern Ledger - August 28, 2008
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Kashmir police and suspected rebels in shootout
Southern Ledger - August 28, 2008
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Swiss exonerate Europes last executed witch
Southern Ledger - August 28, 2008
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Combat flares in 3rd area of Pakistan border belt
Southern Ledger - August 28, 2008
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At least 5 dead in Kashmir battle over hostages
Southern Ledger - August 28, 2008
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9 killed in bomb blast in northwestern Pakistan
Southern Ledger - August 28, 2008
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Garth, Doherty make nice while filming new 90210
Southern Ledger - August 28, 2008
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US News Archive for April 2008:
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Letter: A Rental Option
To the Editor:...
New York Times - April 12, 2008
Letter: A Loss of Confidence
To the Editor:...
New York Times - April 12, 2008
Fair Game: You Thought You Had an Equity Line
It was lending institutions and mortgage originators that got us into this credit mess, but it is consumers and taxpayers who will shoulder most of the costs...
New York Times - April 12, 2008
Ideas & Trends: A Fresh Look at the Apostle of Free Markets
As the economy deteriorates, the calls grow louder for government intervention. Is it time to reconsider Milton Friedman?s legacy?...
New York Times - April 12, 2008
Home Front: Behind the Builder, a Skilled Coordinator
When most people think of construction jobs, they do not usually think of people operating computers to ensure that materials and workers will be at the construction sites when they are needed...
New York Times - April 12, 2008
G.E.?s Shortfall Matched the Week?s Mood
General Electric reported a quarterly earnings decline on Friday and the stock market shuddered, closing with substantial weekly losses in all the major indexes...
New York Times - April 12, 2008
The Boss: A Realty Matchmaker
Teaching helped me get organized for business: writing lesson plans each day taught me to plan, and I also developed communication skills...
New York Times - April 12, 2008
Letters: Left Brain, Right Brain
To the Editor:...
New York Times - April 12, 2008
Letter: Why the Bonus?
To the Editor:...
New York Times - April 12, 2008
The Feed: Pity the Pizza, in a Land of Nuggets
The nation?s largest pizza chains are being hammered by sluggish sales and runaway ingredient costs...
New York Times - April 12, 2008
Fresh Starts: Shrinking the World, or at Least Your Corner
PEOPLE who are about to shed personal belongings, by necessity or choice, may find the task overwhelming and emotionally painful. Now they don?t have to go it alone, thanks to an emerging group of workers called ?downsizing specialists.?...
New York Times - April 12, 2008
Everybody?s Business: Dear Watchdogs: Rein In Wall Street
The timing for the Treasure secretary?s proposal to fix the regulation of markets could not have been more ill advised...
New York Times - April 12, 2008
Square Feet | Checking In: Calibrating a Hotel for the Luxury Market
When the Mark Hotel reopens later this year after an extensive renovation, rooms will start at around $1,000 a night. Don?t expect to get a discount...
New York Times - April 12, 2008
Economic View: To Disclose or Not? Ask the Frogs
While ordinary citizens cherish the right to shield their personal financial records from public view, presidential candidates are expected to make disclosures...
New York Times - April 12, 2008
Sizing Up the Utilities, if Carbon Caps Take Hold
Fuel prices and dividends are usually big drivers of the share prices of utilities. Now there is a new variable to consider: how much carbon their power plants emit...
New York Times - April 12, 2008
Fundamentally: A Storm May Lift the Heat
While few people relish 200-point single-day stock market declines like Friday?s, rocky periods serve some useful purposes for long-term investors...
New York Times - April 12, 2008
Slipstream: When Tech Innovation Has a Social Mission
For decades, Silicon Valley has been defined by the tension between the technologist?s urge to share information and the industrialist?s incentive to profit...
New York Times - April 12, 2008
Novelties: Instant Digital Prints (and Polaroid Nostalgia)
Polaroid wants to conjure up those golden analog days of vast sales and instant gratification ? this time with images captured by digital cameras and camera phones...
New York Times - April 12, 2008
It?s a Long, Cold, Cashless Siege
Two months ago ? when the cash-out window of the $330 billion auction-rate securities market slammed shut ? warning signs flashed across the radar screens of investors...
New York Times - April 12, 2008
Suits: Extraordinary Brand, Ordinary Headaches
Although Roxanne Quimby, co-founder of Burt?s Bees, continues to find the life of an entrepreneur appealing, she is disenchanted with her responsibilities as a landlord...
New York Times - April 12, 2008
Market Maker: But What of the Small Investor?
Lost amid all the talk of big changes is a focus on the individual investor...
New York Times - April 12, 2008
Sign of Distress: More Who Can?t Pay Their Bills
Like a ship that keeps springing new leaks, new numbers keep appearing that show an economy in distress...
New York Times - April 12, 2008
A Lender Failed. Did Its Auditor?
As homeowners and federal investigators pick through the subprime wreckage, many have asked how effectively front-line financial monitors carried out their duties...
New York Times - April 12, 2008
Dot Earth: Hurricane Expert Reassesses Link to Warming
The link between warming and hurricanes is being questioned by an early proponent...
New York Times - April 12, 2008
?Steady Hand? for the G.O.P. Guides McCain on a New Path
Charlie Black is easing Senator John McCain into his new role as standard bearer for the party with which he has often clashed...
New York Times - April 12, 2008
Clinton Seizes on Obama Remarks to Question His Appeal to Working Class
Senator Barack Obama was dealing with a torrent of criticism from his Democratic rival and others over his comments about small-town voters...
New York Times - April 12, 2008
Behind Air Chaos, an F.A.A. Pendulum Swing
A current safety crackdown is a shift away from what critics say was the agency?s coddling of the airlines...
New York Times - April 12, 2008
Video Plucks Afghan Detainees From Isolation
Relatives of Afghans detained at an American base can now see the detainees on video screens during visits...
New York Times - April 12, 2008
When Strings Are Attached, Quirky Gifts Can Limit Universities
New attention is being paid to how endowments are structured, and on the restrictions donors impose...
New York Times - April 12, 2008
Secret Iraqi Deal Shows Problems in Arms Orders
Iraq?s military received shoddy equipment under an $833 million deal with Serbia that sidestepped anticorruption safeguards, U.S. commanders said...
New York Times - April 12, 2008
Witness in Track Doping Case Ready to Name Big Names
Lawyers for both sides in a coach?s trial are prepared to reveal that cheating in track is more widespread than previously known...
New York Times - April 12, 2008
Hard-Liner With Soft Touch Reaches Out to U.S. Flock
Pope Benedict XVI has a reputation over many years as a man of doctrinal hardness, but his manner is mild and humble...
New York Times - April 12, 2008
Agency Is Under Pressure to Develop Disaster Housing
The government said it will no longer use travel trailers to house the victims of future disasters, but its effort to develop a replacement has not impressed housing experts...
New York Times - April 12, 2008
Clashes Kill 13 in Baghdad?s Sadr City
BAGHDAD (AP) -- Shiite militants fought U.S. and Iraqi forces around Baghdad's Shiite district of Sadr City early Saturday despite a call for calm by anti-American cleric Muqtada al-Sadr following the assassination of one of his top aides...
New York Times - April 12, 2008
Texas Polygamy Raid May Pose Risk
The raid on a polygamist compound in Texas is complicating law enforcement efforts in Utah and Arizona, where there are more such groups...
New York Times - April 12, 2008
Legal Immigrants, Until They Applied for Citizenship
A growing group of legal immigrants who seek citizenship are running afoul of highly technical statutes and being threatened with expulsion...
New York Times - April 12, 2008
South African Leader Says Zimbabwe Has No Crisis
President Thabo Mbeki of South Africa, after meeting Zimbabwe?s president, said the electoral commission must be given more time to release election results...
New York Times - April 12, 2008
Obama Works to Limit Fallout Over Remark on ?Bitter? Working Class
Democratic and Republican critics alike have accused Senator Barack Obama of being elitist after remarks he made last Sunday...
New York Times - April 12, 2008
The Pope?s Visit: Candles, Clergy and Communion for 57,000
Pope Benedict XVI?s visit to Washington and New York next week is a daunting logistical operation...
New York Times - April 12, 2008
Behind Chaos in the Air, a Pendulum Swing at F.A.A.
The current F.A.A. safety crackdown represents a sudden shift away from what critics describe as the agency?s coddling of the airlines in recent years...
New York Times - April 12, 2008
China and Taiwan Hold Historic Meeting
Chinese President Hu Jintao met with Taiwan?s vice president-elect in the highest-level political contact between the sides in more than half a century...
New York Times - April 12, 2008
Wawarsing Journal: Aqueduct Tunnels Are Suspected in Dry-Weather Flooding of Homes
Residents of an upstate town have water leaking from cracks in their cellars, rain or shine. Many believe it comes from an aging water tunnel supplying New York City...
New York Times - April 12, 2008
American sees end to flight chaos
American Airlines says services should return to normal by Sunday, after cancellations over safety fears...
BBC News - April 12, 2008
Today In Business: Generic Schizophrenia Drug
Teva Pharmaceutical Industries said on Friday that a federal court had given the company 180 days of exclusivity to sell a generic version of Risperdal, a drug widely used to treat schizophrenia...
New York Times - April 12, 2008
Today In Business: Apax to Buy Software Maker
Apax Partners Worldwide, the London-based private equity firm, agreed to buy the TriZetto Group for $1.4 billion...
New York Times - April 12, 2008
Today In Business: TiVO Patent Suit
TiVo said on Friday that a federal appeals court had denied EchoStar?s request to have a panel of judges rehear arguments related to their long-standing patent dispute, bringing the case closer to a resolution...
New York Times - April 12, 2008
Today In Business: Toyota Expands in India
Toyota is building its second plant in India to increase production in a growing market...
New York Times - April 12, 2008
Talking Business: China Tries to Solve Its Brand X Blues
Even as the West fears Chinese manufacturing, China fears Western brands and marketing...
New York Times - April 12, 2008
What?s Offline: A Defense of the Boss?s Pay
A researcher pointed out that salary increases of corporate chief executives were almost exactly in line with the rise in market capitalization of large U.S.-based companies over time...
New York Times - April 12, 2008
From Repairs to Exit Strategies, Details Matter
Buying a vacation home with friends or relatives can reduce individual costs and operating expenses as well as divide responsibilities, but there are a few things to consider...
New York Times - April 12, 2008
Judge Rejects Banks' Request in Clear Channel Case
A Texas judge rejected a request by a group of banks in a dispute over the buyout of Clear Channel to throw out a lawsuit against them and set a June 2 trial date...
New York Times - April 12, 2008
Today In Business: Insurer Will Cut Jobs
Zurich Financial Services, Switzerland?s biggest insurer, will eliminate about 400 jobs in the United States as prices for commercial insurance decline...
New York Times - April 12, 2008
Today In Business: Home Depot Chief?s Pay
Home Depot, the home improvement retailer that ousted its chief executive in early 2007, gave his successor compensation valued at $8.28 million last year, even as profit slid 24 percent...
New York Times - April 12, 2008
Technology Chief Quits Advanced Micro Devices
Phillip D. Hester is the third A.M.D. senior executive to depart in less than a year...
New York Times - April 12, 2008
Pinkberry Settles Suit Over Claims on Dessert
The company has agreed to pay $750,000 to those who sued it for making bogus health claims about a product that did not meet the legal definition of frozen yogurt...
New York Times - April 12, 2008
Saab Builds Its Future Around Its Fighter
The Gripen, a multi-role combat aircraft, has become Saab?s flagship, with recent deals in Thailand, the Czech Republic, Hungary and South Africa...
New York Times - April 12, 2008
Shortcuts: At a Certain Age, Simplicity Sells in High-Tech Gadgets
Companies have noticed a growing market for simple devices aimed at older customers...
New York Times - April 12, 2008
What's Online: Cubicles Make Poor Nurseries
The United States and Australia are the only countries in the industrialized world that do not require employers to offer paid maternity leave...
New York Times - April 12, 2008
Market Values: Woes Here. Opportunity Elsewhere.
Despite declines on foreign markets, experts still advise to look into foreign investments as a way to hedge one?s bets against the bumpy days of the U.S. economy...
New York Times - April 12, 2008
News Analysis: For CBS, Long-Simmering Troubles That One Star Couldn?t Solve
If a journalism class of the future is asked to identify low points in the vaunted history of CBS News, it might do well to examine the second week of April 2008...
New York Times - April 12, 2008
Priests Are Driving Force Behind Samsung Inquiry
Since October, the country?s priests, quoting the Bible, have urged South Koreans to join in their effort to fight presumed corruption at Samsung...
New York Times - April 12, 2008
Rising to His Defense, Pellicano Is Done Quickly
Mounting his own defense, Anthony Pellicano, the accused wiretapper-to-the-stars on trial for racketeering, called a single witness and was as puzzling as ever...
New York Times - April 12, 2008
Yahoo, Weighing Options, Keeps Them Open
The company?s board met Friday to evaluate Microsoft?s takeover bid and other alternatives, and authorized the continuation of meetings with Microsoft and with Time Warner...
New York Times - April 12, 2008
Some Tempered Reassurances From Paulson
The Treasury secretary sought Friday to assure the finance ministers and central bankers of the world?s wealthiest countries that the American economic picture could improve later this year...
New York Times - April 12, 2008
your money: How to Jointly Own a Home and Still Be Friends
Teaming up with friends or relatives to buy a second home can prove a boon to the pocketbook and the relationship, but only if ground rules are established before the first check is written...
New York Times - April 12, 2008
Saturday Interview: Restaurants Lead to Kitchens and to Other Rooms
Barbara Smith, better known as B. Smith, has her smile imprinted on all sorts of things, from biscuits to shower curtains, and is always on the lookout for the next trend...
New York Times - April 12, 2008
Off The Charts: Many More Are Jobless Than Are Unemployed
Only people without jobs who are actively looking for work qualify as unemployed. It does not count people who are not looking for work, whether or not they would like to have a job...
New York Times - April 12, 2008
Aging Jet Fleets an Added Strain on U.S. Airlines
As airlines have been too financially squeezed to buy new airplanes, they are facing large repair bills and increased scrutiny for the old ones onto which they have held...
New York Times - April 12, 2008
Sure It?s Frustrating and Expensive, but Travelers Just Have to Travel
Despite the many flight cancellations in recent days, the slowing economy, rising gas prices and the weak dollar, the number of air travelers is holding steady so far this year...
New York Times - April 12, 2008
Major Indexes Fall More Than 2 Percent
Wall Street stumbled Friday after a disappointing first-quarter report from General Electric surprised the market and stoked concern about both corporate profits and the wider economy...
New York Times - April 12, 2008
Charities Seek Donors to Replace Wall Street
Charities that benefit from the largess of Wall Street, law firms and corporations have begun defensive planning...
New York Times - April 12, 2008
Congressmen Question Notes From Expert Panel?s Meeting on Drug
House Democrats are questioning whether Merck and Schering-Plough made up information about a meeting of medical specialists to discuss Vytorin, after lawmakers began investigating a failed study of the drug...
New York Times - April 12, 2008
Opponents Call Obama ?Out of Touch?
Hillary Rodham Clinton and John McCain seized on a comment that Barack Obama made about ?bitter? Americans, accusing him of elitism...
New York Times - April 12, 2008
Legal Immigrants, Until They Sought Citizenship
Some immigrants whose naturalization applications were denied over legal details have been ordered to be deported...
New York Times - April 12, 2008
Officer Accused of 2nd Career: Robbing Banks
The police said Christian A. Torres, who was just beginning a career in law enforcement, turned to the brazen life of a serial bank robber...
New York Times - April 12, 2008
Yankees 4, Red Sox 1: Wang?s Stoic Presence Silences the Red Sox
When the Yankees and Red Sox met at Fenway Park on Friday for the first time this season, it was Chien-Ming Wang who took over, pitching a two-hitter...
New York Times - April 12, 2008
Clinton Aide?s Private Databank Venture Breaks Ground in Politicking
Catalist, a for-profit databank that sells voter information to progressive candidates, has raised eyebrows among campaign finance watchdogs...
New York Times - April 12, 2008
Great Expectations for a Conservative Group Seem All but Dashed
Freedom?s Watch, which was expected to be a conservative counterweight to MoveOn.org, has been paralyzed by internal problems...
New York Times - April 12, 2008
Fewer Options Open to Pay for Costs of College
Student loan companies are in turmoil and banks are tightening their standards and raising rates, making it harder for families to use multiple financing sources...
New York Times - April 12, 2008
G.E. Earnings Drop, Raising Broader Fears
Sharply disappointing results at a company widely viewed as a bellwether underscore the damage done by the credit crisis throughout the economy...
New York Times - April 12, 2008
Polygamy Raid May Pose Risk for Authorities
A raid on a Texas compound is complicating efforts by Utah and Arizona officials to open communications with polygamist groups while winning the trust of girls taken as under-age wives...
New York Times - April 12, 2008
Even the Whales Have Their Predators: Ships
The federal fisheries service is attempting to put a speed limit on some ships to keep them from killing endangered right whales...
New York Times - April 12, 2008
The Pope?s Visit: Candles, Clergy, and Communion for 57,000
The visit of Pope Benedict XVI to Washington and New York next week will be a daunting logistical operation...
New York Times - April 12, 2008
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