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US News Archive for January 2007:
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Attorney General in N.C. Agrees to Take Duke Case
The state attorney general said his office would assume full control of the Duke lacrosse sexual assault case...
New York Times - January 13, 2007
Bush Proposal for Iraq Adds to ?08 Intrigue
As the politics of the war shift, no prospective presidential candidates face more scrutiny or greater risk than Senators John McCain and Hillary Rodham Clinton...
New York Times - January 13, 2007
Equal Cheers for Boys and Girls Draw Some Boos
Some schools are sending cheerleaders to girls? basketball games to comply with a new ruling from federal officials...
New York Times - January 13, 2007
Military Expands Intelligence Role in U.S.
The Pentagon has been using a little-known power to obtain banking and credit records of hundreds of Americans and others suspected of terrorism or espionage inside the U.S...
New York Times - January 13, 2007
Economic View: A Tepid Winter Warms Some Wallets
Benefits of the balmy days may extend from poor families to big-time investors, but are they just borrowing present prosperity from the future?...
New York Times - January 13, 2007
Market Week: A Burst of Numbers to Distill
Clues about the course of the economy will be revealed in reports on inflation, manufacturing, housing and consumer confidence...
New York Times - January 13, 2007
DataBank: Strong Earnings Have Stocks Sizzling
The stock market turned in its best performance in months last week, with all three major indexes posting substantial gains...
New York Times - January 13, 2007
Armchair M.B.A.: Private Equity Deals? Join the Club
In the new wave of buyouts, more buyers, more equity and bigger targets...
New York Times - January 13, 2007
The Goods: Thinking Outside the Cardboard
The Bag-in-Box Wine Dispenser resembles a cross between an Italian coffeemaker and a ?Star Wars? droid...
New York Times - January 13, 2007
The Boss: A Widening Vista
Mark Thompson's first job at the BBC was as a trainee researcher. Today, he is the director general of the British broadcast company...
New York Times - January 13, 2007
The Count: For Top Executives, a Need to Be Aware of the Nearest Exit
Being a chief executive has many perks, but job security is not one of them...
New York Times - January 13, 2007
Life's Work: A Time to Grieve, and to Forge a Bond
One would think that even in the absence of a legal requirement, human decency would demand simple kindness toward employees mourning a loss...
New York Times - January 13, 2007
[TS] Gretchen Morgenson: A Tax Secret Emerges From the Murk
A new rule to make financial statements more transparent...
New York Times - January 13, 2007
Suits: A Corporate Director Who Plays Hardball
If Zach Nelson, the chief executive of NetSuite, hopes to be paid like a pro athlete, his company may have chosen the wrong baseball executive...
New York Times - January 13, 2007
Anytown, Online
In suburban towns across the greater New York area, citizen bloggers and entrepreneurs are creating town-specific, and even neighborhood-specific, Web sites...
New York Times - January 13, 2007
Fundamentally: When Those Blue Chips Aren?t Made in the U.S.A.
Investors have redirected much of their money into shares of blue-chip foreign companies based largely in Western Europe and Japan...
New York Times - January 13, 2007
Spending: A Badge of Childhood, Now Worn by More Adults
More than one million adults in the United States are currently in braces, and adults now account for one of every five orthodontic patients...
New York Times - January 13, 2007
Investing: How to Catch a Falling Dollar (and Even Make a Profit)
Some strategists caution that it may be wiser to try to benefit indirectly from a weaker dollar than by betting directly on foreign currencies...
New York Times - January 13, 2007
Square Feet | Blueprints: Celebrating a Chinese Heritage, With Nods to New York
Tai Ping's luxury showroom has views of Union Square and was home to Andy Warhol?s Factory in the mid-1970s...
New York Times - January 13, 2007
Spending: Building a Stairway to Paradise, for Your Beloved Pet
There are more than 1,000 pet cemeteries across the United States, and many offer an array of items like urns, coffins, vaults and grave markers...
New York Times - January 13, 2007
Dealbook: When Money?s Involved, the Truth Can Take a Beating
Gerald Grinstein is just the latest executive who, faced with an unsolicited offer, seems to be speaking out of both sides of his mouth...
New York Times - January 13, 2007
Magical or Overrated? A Food Additive in a Swirl
The industrialization of food has reduced the presence of omega-3s in the food chain, creating a moneymaking opportunity to any company that can find a way to make up for its absence...
New York Times - January 13, 2007
Digital Domain: Want an iPhone? Beware the iHandcuffs
Like its slimmer iPod siblings, the iPhone?s music-playing function will be limited by factory-installed ?crippleware.?...
New York Times - January 13, 2007
Southeast Asians Agree to Trade Zone
The Association of Southeast Asian Nations failed to find common ground over Myanmar?s human rights record...
New York Times - January 13, 2007
Out of Africa: Cotton and Cash
A lucrative crop links African farmers and American companies...
New York Times - January 13, 2007
Company Clinics Cut Health Costs
Frustrated by runaway health costs, the nation?s largest employers are moving rapidly to open more primary care medical centers in their offices...
New York Times - January 13, 2007
Ahmadinejad tours Latin America
Iranian President Mahmoud Ahmadinejad is in Venezuela at the start of a Latin America tour likely to alarm the US...
BBC News - January 13, 2007
Rice seeks more support on Iraq
U.S. Secretary of State Condoleezza Rice begins a Mideast trip designed to encourage Iraq's neighbors to lend greater help Iraq's struggling government. Rice is also testing possible initiatives to revive the peace process between Israel and the Palestinians...
CNN - January 13, 2007
Rescued boy's parents hail 'miracle'
Shawn Hornbeck smiled broadly at a news conference with his mom and stepdad Saturday, less than a day after they took him home, four years after he went missing...
CNN - January 13, 2007
Southeast Asians Agree to Draft New Charter
The Association of Southeast Asian Nations failed to find common ground over Myanmar?s human rights record...
New York Times - January 13, 2007
Rice seeks support on Iraq
U.S. Secretary of State Condoleezza Rice begins a Mideast trip designed to encourage Iraq's neighbors to lend greater help Iraq's struggling government. Rice is also road testing possible initiatives to nudge Israel and the Palestinians closer to a political accommodation...
CNN - January 13, 2007
Rice: U.S. won't pull plug on Iraq
Americans' skeptical view of the Iraq war won't change until they see progress there, but the United States won't "pull the plug" on the conflict, Secretary of State Condoleezza Rice said...
CNN - January 13, 2007
Huge crowds at porn convention
About 30,000 people gather in the US for a pornography convention, showcasing pioneering use of new technology...
BBC News - January 13, 2007
Tyson in court over drug charges
Former boxing champion Mike Tyson is charged in court with possessing cocaine and driving under the influence...
BBC News - January 13, 2007
Tsunami alerts follow huge quake
A tsunami warning was issued Saturday for Japan and a broad area surrounding the Pacific Ocean after a major undersea earthquake east of the Kuril Islands, according to the Pacific Tsunami Warning Center...
CNN - January 13, 2007
Official: Somalia's warlords agree to give up guns
Hours after Somali warlords signed a deal to lay down their weapons, Defense Minister Col. Barre "Hirale" Aden Shire said Ethiopian-backed government forces had captured the last remaining stronghold of the Islamic movement...
CNN - January 13, 2007
Bruno Bought Stock With Campaign Funds
The N.Y. Senate majority leader invested thousands of dollars from two campaign accounts in four Albany firms...
New York Times - January 13, 2007
Judge Rejects Defamation Suit Against The Times
Dr. Stephen J. Hatfill had said in his suit that the columns by Nicholas D. Kristof about the anthrax mailings had defamed him...
New York Times - January 13, 2007
Passing Exchange Becomes Political Flashpoint
Senator Barbara Boxer said her comments to Condoleezza Rice about motherhood and Iraq had been misunderstood...
New York Times - January 13, 2007
A Taste of Family Life in U.S., but Adoption Is in Limbo
Programs that allow orphans to visit host families in America often lead to happily-ever-after, but sometimes end painfully...
New York Times - January 13, 2007
Official Attacks Top Law Firms Over Detainees
A Pentagon official said that he was dismayed lawyers at many of the nation's top firms were representing prisoners at Guantánamo Bay, Cuba...
New York Times - January 13, 2007
Prosecutor Asks to Exit Duke Case
The decision threw new doubt on the future of a prosecution that has already suffered a series of setbacks...
New York Times - January 13, 2007
House Democrats Propose Cut in Student Loan Rates
Democrats said they would pay for the $6 billion measure by reducing the largest lenders? government-guaranteed profits...
New York Times - January 13, 2007
Yury Golubev, 64, a Founder of Yukos Oil, Dies
Yury A. Golubev is credited with helping to create Yukos, Russia?s most prominent and successful company until the government began to dismantle it in 2003...
New York Times - January 13, 2007
Early Loss Overcome, Dow Sets a Record
The Dow had its second consecutive record close as investors embraced robust economic data and shrugged off several profit warnings...
New York Times - January 13, 2007
Northwest Files Plan, Seeing Exit From Bankruptcy This Year
The plan aims to give fresh stock to some creditors and raise capital from investors...
New York Times - January 13, 2007
Recording Industry Wins Judgment in Piracy Case
Michelle Santangelo was ordered to pay $30,750 for the 41 songs she is accused of downloading illegally because she failed to respond to the record companies? claims...
New York Times - January 13, 2007
Retail Sales Last Month Surprised With Big Rise
The numbers were a sign of economic resilience that poured cold water on the idea of interest rates dropping anytime soon...
New York Times - January 13, 2007
H.P. Investigator Pleads Guilty to Identity Theft and Conspiracy
Bryan Wagner admitted to illegally obtaining Social Security numbers and other personal information to snoop on private telephone records...
New York Times - January 13, 2007
Saturday Interview: Sun?s Chief Doesn?t Fear the Snarky
Jonathan I. Schwartz, the chief executive of Sun Microsystems, talked about the changes he has been making at the company...
New York Times - January 13, 2007
Five Days: A Lot of Uncertainty, Except on Wall Street
Stocks rallied despite uncertainty, suggesting investor optimism, in part because of acceleration of the sustained fall in energy prices...
New York Times - January 13, 2007
What?s Offline: The 6 People You Meet on the Road
Travelers tend to fall into one of six categories, and knowing your type can keep you from being disappointed...
New York Times - January 13, 2007
A.M.D., in Price War With Intel, Warns of Disappointing Revenue
The warning signaled that the price war between A.M.D. and its main rival, Intel, had taken its toll...
New York Times - January 13, 2007
What?s Online: China?s ?Leninist Corporatism?
In his new book, Will Hutton writes that China is ruled by a ?Leninist corporatism? that threatens to unravel all the economic progress the country has made...
New York Times - January 13, 2007
Executive Pursuits: My Father Was a New York Jet, and I Don?t Give a Darn
Harry Hurt III and his son are invited to the New York Jets? final regular-season game...
New York Times - January 13, 2007
Oil Companies Attack Legislation Aimed at Tax Incentives
The nation?s oil and gas companies angrily denounced an effort to repeal billions of dollars worth of incentives...
New York Times - January 13, 2007
U.S. Official Sees Opening for Revival of Trade Talks
Susan C. Schwab said she was optimistic that the Doha trade negotiations could be restarted, but added that there were still obstacles...
New York Times - January 13, 2007
Basic Instincts: The Bride Became Debt-Free
If only the great minds in personal finance would spend a few minutes in the shower dreaming up some clever solutions to common money problems...
New York Times - January 13, 2007
Wal-Mart Chooses Ad Agencies Yet Again
Wal-Mart chose the Martin Agency and MediaVest five weeks after overturning decisions to hire the Draft FCB Group as the lead agency to create ads...
New York Times - January 13, 2007
BP Names Its Next Chief; Succession Pace Stepped Up
BP unexpectedly named a successor for its chief executive, John Browne, and said that he would step down more than a year earlier than expected...
New York Times - January 13, 2007
AOL, Now Focused on Free, Sells Its Paid Music Service
After six years of trying to build an online music service, AOL agreed to sell its AOL Music Now to Napster for $15 million...
New York Times - January 13, 2007
With Ousters, EMI Group Is Said to Be Packaging Itself for Sale
The dismissal of two top executives may have been a precursor to a radical reorganization of the company and a new drive to explore a sale or merger...
New York Times - January 13, 2007
New Inquiry on Loans by Allied
Federal investigations into small-business loans issued by a unit of the Allied Capital Corporation are growing...
New York Times - January 13, 2007
[TS] Talking Business: Nice Phone, Mr. Jobs, But ...
Steve Jobs may have a golden gut when it comes to cool tech products. But when it comes to dealing with regulators, it looks as if he and his company have a tin ear...
New York Times - January 13, 2007
Wine Tastings Loosen Up. Butter Pecan With That Cabernet?
As wine has gone mainstream and the thirst for knowledge has expanded beyond the snobby set, tastings have loosened up...
New York Times - January 13, 2007
Wielding Kitchen Knives and Honing Office Skills
More companies are sending their employees to cooking class as part of a new wave in corporate team-building...
New York Times - January 13, 2007
Cablevision Buyout Bid Is Raised
The Dolan family increased their bid for the company by about $1 billion, to $8.9 billion, from their October offer...
New York Times - January 13, 2007
Your Money: In Gadgets, Excitement Is in the Price
For consumer electronics makers, the faster pace of price-cutting seemed to be even more of an obsession than a revolutionary new device...
New York Times - January 13, 2007
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