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US News Archive for April 2008:
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The Media Equation: Dirty Job, but Someone Has to Do It
The Smoking Gun, the Web site that specializes in ferreting out embarrassing legal documents, is a happy byproduct of the digital revolution...
New York Times - April 13, 2008
NBC Tests Family Hour Boundaries
It was almost as if the NBC comedy writers had decided to test the limits of prime time taste just as the network unveiled a family-friendly philosophy of scheduling...
New York Times - April 13, 2008
Bond Trader to Sell Rare Stamps for Charity
It is the second time that Bill Gross, the billionaire bond trader who has also acquired a reputation as a shrewd trader of rare stamps, will auction some of his collection for charity...
New York Times - April 13, 2008
Drilling Down: Even Credit Card Offers Are Ebbing
A market research firm has found that banks in February sent out fewer direct mail credit card offer than in any month since April 2004...
New York Times - April 13, 2008
Treasury Auctions Set for This Week
The Treasury?s schedule of financing this week included today?s regular weekly auction of new three- and six-month bills and an auction of four-week bills on Tuesday...
New York Times - April 13, 2008
Looking Ahead: The Week?s Major Economic Reports
ECONOMIC REPORTS It is a big week for economic news, led Wednesday by the Consumer Price Index for March and the Federal Reserve?s beige book report. They should give a snapshot of economic growth versus inflation...
New York Times - April 13, 2008
A Funnier-Than-Usual Journal Gets Snapped Up Early
A satire of The Wall Street Journal is selling mysteriously well, a few days before its sales release date...
New York Times - April 13, 2008
Despite Silicon Valley Optimism, a Disease Resists Cure
Even as the outlook for a former Silicon Valley executive stricken with a brain-wasting disorder is not encouraging, a campaign on his behalf is hoping to make a difference in other areas...
New York Times - April 13, 2008
Singing McCain?s Praises, or Joking?
For a while, it was not clear whether the videos of the ?McCain Girls,? a trio of singing and dancing campaign supporters, were meant to be sincere or ironic...
New York Times - April 13, 2008
Study Says I.R.S. Scrutiny of Big Firms Has Plummeted
The I.R.S.?s scrutiny of the nation?s biggest companies is at a 20-year low, ?a historic collapse in audits,? according to a new study...
New York Times - April 13, 2008
Expecting Jabs, Tribune Decides to Mock Itself
Last week, the Tribune Company took an unorthodox approach to announcing a new top hire at the company, in a release that said, ?this whole thing is a sham.?...
New York Times - April 13, 2008
Link By Link: He Wrote 200,000 Books (but Computers Did Some of the Work)
A professor has developed computer algorithms that collect publicly available information on a given subject, turn them into into books, printed on demand or delivered digitally...
New York Times - April 13, 2008
Rowling to Testify in Trial Over Potter Lexicon
J. K. Rowling, the author of the Harry Potter series, is expected to testify against a small publisher looking to bring out an encyclopedia based on her work...
New York Times - April 13, 2008
E-Commerce: Beaming Online Services Toward Blacks
A new search engine, Rushmore Drive, is going after the dominance of Google by offering search results targeted to ethnic groups...
New York Times - April 13, 2008
Off New York Streets, Film Piracy Is Online
While bootlegged DVDs are harder to find on the streets of New York, worldwide and on the Internet, video piracy remains rampant...
New York Times - April 13, 2008
In Europe, a Push to Take Away Piracy Suspects? Internet Access
Resistance is building against a plan to use internet service providers as copyright cops against users illegally downloading copyrighted material, possible disconnection from services being at stake...
New York Times - April 13, 2008
At CBS, Bad News Doesn?t End at 7
No new hit has emerged this year in the network?s prime-time schedule, which makes CBS likely to lose the crown of most-watched network to the Fox network...
New York Times - April 13, 2008
Advertising: Tibet Backers Show China Value of P.R.
With the Olympics in mind, China has been exploring American-style public relations approaches...
New York Times - April 13, 2008
Airline Says Fleet Is Back in Service
American Airlines said that its fleet of 300 MD-80 jets was back to full strength, after the cancellation of about 3,300 flights last week...
New York Times - April 13, 2008
Bush Aide Sees ?Cop-out? in Olympic Boycotts
President Bush?s national security adviser dismissed plans by European leaders to shun the opening of the Games...
New York Times - April 13, 2008
Zimbabwe Opposition Faces Crucial Court Rulings
Zimbabwe?s political opposition is facing crucial court decisions this week that could reshape its electoral stalemate with the governing party of Robert Mugabe...
New York Times - April 13, 2008
Kenyan Sets Record in London Marathon
Martin Lel, the defending London and New York champion, finish in a course record 2 hours 5 minutes 15 seconds...
New York Times - April 13, 2008
Shifting Careers: Finding a New Job, on the Road
How do you find a new job when your current one requires that you travel Monday through Friday?...
New York Times - April 13, 2008
Iraq Dismisses 1,300 After Basra Offensive
The dismissals of soldiers and policemen for refusing to fight or performing badly during the offensive in Basra were an implicit admission of failures...
New York Times - April 13, 2008
Delta-Northwest Merger Talks Pick Up Pace Again
The two companies have seemed on the verge of announcing a deal several times in recent months only to back away from a merger...
New York Times - April 13, 2008
Unity Cabinet Formed in Kenya, Ending Deadlock
The president?s party kept the most powerful posts, but key ministries went to the leading opposition party, whose leader was appointed prime minister...
New York Times - April 13, 2008
The Caucus: Clinton Keeps Up Pressure Over Obama?s Remarks
The controversy over remarks by Senator Barack Obama has become a constant refrain for Senator Hillary Rodham Clinton...
New York Times - April 13, 2008
Marathon Matriarch Is Still in the Race
Joan Benoit Samuelson qualified for the Olympic marathon trials, but at 50, she doesn?t expect to make the team. ?It?s just me against me,? she said...
New York Times - April 13, 2008
On the Defensive, Obama Calls His Words Ill-Chosen
Senator Barack Obama fought back against accusations from his rivals that he misunderstands small-town values...
New York Times - April 13, 2008
In Job Search, Gonzales Sees No Takers
Former Attorney General Alberto R. Gonzales has been unable to interest law firms in hiring him...
New York Times - April 13, 2008
Rival in Kenya Named to Lead Coalition Cabinet
Kenya?s president, Mwai Kibaki, named his political rival, Raila Odinga, as head of a power-sharing cabinet, ending weeks of deadlock...
New York Times - April 13, 2008
American Says Its Flights Are Getting Back to Normal
American Airlines said that its fleet of 300 MD-80 jets was back to full strength, but it was still working to reduce a passenger backlog...
New York Times - April 13, 2008
American Airlines 'back to normal'
American Airlines says its flight schedules have returned to normal following a week of cancellations...
BBC News - April 13, 2008
Iranian Media Say Mosque Blast Was Not an Attack
A blast in a mosque in southern Iran that killed at least 10 people as not an attack and was probably caused by negligence, Iranian media quoted a police official as saying...
New York Times - April 13, 2008
Southern African Leaders Press Zimbabwe
Regional political leaders told the government of President Robert Mugabe that it must permit representatives of the opposition to be present when vote tabulations are verified...
New York Times - April 13, 2008
Toll Road Offers New Jersey a Fiscal Test Drive
A 157-mile-long stretch of highway in Indiana run by an Australian-Spanish consortium is being closely watched as New Jersey considers privatizing its roadways...
New York Times - April 13, 2008
Letter: Why the Bonus?
To the Editor:...
New York Times - April 13, 2008
Letter: A Rental Option
To the Editor:...
New York Times - April 13, 2008
Letter: A Loss of Confidence
To the Editor:...
New York Times - April 13, 2008
Fair Game: You Thought You Had an Equity Line
Lending institutions and mortgage originators got us into this credit mess, but consumers and taxpayers will shoulder most of the costs...
New York Times - April 13, 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 13, 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 13, 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 13, 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 13, 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 13, 2008
Letters: Left Brain, Right Brain
To the Editor:...
New York Times - April 13, 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 13, 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 13, 2008
Can the Cellphone Help End Global Poverty?
Why a corporate ?user anthropologist? is spending so much of his time in the shantytowns of the world...
New York Times - April 13, 2008
Fresh Starts: Shrinking the World, or at Least Your Corner
?Downsizing specialist? is a term for a job that combines organizing, psychology and plain old hand-holding...
New York Times - April 13, 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 13, 2008
The Count: 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 13, 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 13, 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 13, 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 13, 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 13, 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 13, 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 13, 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 13, 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 13, 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 13, 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 13, 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 13, 2008
Well: Will a 9-Year-Old Change the Vaccine Debate?
A government settlement continues to stir the controversy about autism and vaccines...
New York Times - April 13, 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 13, 2008
Hard-Liner With Soft Touch Reaches Out to U.S. Flock
Pope Benedict XVI is known as a man of doctrinal hardness, but his manner is mild and humble...
New York Times - April 13, 2008
Rebels? Border War Prolongs Darfur?s Misery
Analysts, diplomats and the combatants say Sudan and Chad are backing rebellions on each other?s soil...
New York Times - April 13, 2008
Obama, Now on the Defensive, Calls ?Bitter? Words Ill-Chosen
Senator Barack Obama tried to explain a comment that small-town voters, frustrated by the economy, ?cling to guns or religion or antipathy to people who aren?t like them.?...
New York Times - April 13, 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 13, 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 13, 2008
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