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US News Archive for November 2007:
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Well: Seized by Alzheimer?s, Then by Love
Sometimes married Alzheimer?s patients fall in love with someone new...
New York Times - November 14, 2007
City Room: ?No Justice! No Noodles!?
Restaurant workers are calling for a boycott of the popular Ollie's Noodles restaurant chain, saying that the owner, Tsu Yue Wang, has been retaliating against employees...
New York Times - November 14, 2007
Wheels: Curtain Rises at L.A. Auto Show
Amid recent news about layoffs and $38.6 billion losses, the L.A. show gives the automakers a chance to promote their shiniest new products...
New York Times - November 14, 2007
The Lede Blog: The Blackwater Gunner?s Account
An account details how Paul, the turret gunner whose last name was withheld, saw the incident in a Baghdad square where 17 Iraqi civilians were killed...
New York Times - November 14, 2007
The Caucus Blog: Giuliani, Romney and Immigration
An increasingly dominant issue for Republicans...
New York Times - November 14, 2007
Musharraf Foe Is Detained in Pakistan
The opposition politician Imran Khan was seized by students and turned over to the police, witnesses said...
New York Times - November 14, 2007
Ruling Expected on Simpson Trial
A judge is expected to rule today whether O. J. Simpson will once again face a criminal trial, this time on a dozen charges including armed robbery and kidnapping...
New York Times - November 14, 2007
Stagehands and Producers Plan Talks
The Broadway producers? league and the stagehands? union announced that they would meet for negotiations this weekend...
New York Times - November 14, 2007
Rodriguez Talks to Yankees Without Agent
Alex Rodriguez, who opted out of his contract, has told the Yankees that he wants to return, Hank Steinbrenner said...
New York Times - November 14, 2007
Stem Cells Taken From Cloned Monkey Embryos
A method of extracting stem cells from monkey embryos should also work in humans, according to researchers...
New York Times - November 14, 2007
Spitzer Drops Bid to Offer Licenses More Widely
New York Gov. Eliot Spitzer conceded that his efforts to sell his proposal to issue driver?s licenses to illegal immigrants had failed...
New York Times - November 14, 2007
Billionaire Buffett Says Tax Him More
Billionaire Warren Buffett told the Senate Finance Committee that Congress should keep the estate tax rather than repeal it and help a few rich Americans like him...
New York Times - November 14, 2007
Stocks Finish Lower After Wobbly Session
Wall Street closed an uneasy session lower as investors, uncertain if the worst of the credit crisis is over, refrained from extending yesterday?s huge advance...
New York Times - November 14, 2007
Fed to Reveal More About Its Forecasts
The Federal Reserve announced plans today to take some of the mystery out of its policy-making...
New York Times - November 14, 2007
US Congress to vote on war funds
The US House of Representatives prepares to vote on a war funding bill despite a further veto threat from the president...
BBC News - November 14, 2007
US war costs report 'incorrect'
US Republicans demand the retraction of a Democrats' report on the hidden costs of wars in Iraq and Afghanistan...
BBC News - November 14, 2007
Merrill Lynch appoints new boss
Merrill Lynch appoints the boss of the New York Stock Exchange, John Thain, as its new chief executive...
BBC News - November 14, 2007
City Room: City Room: Stolen Bike? Chat Room to the Rescue
The improbable tale of a stolen bicycle, a Craigslist query, a flurry of e-mail messages and the bike's recovery from a restaurant worker who had bought it...
New York Times - November 14, 2007
The Lede Blog: The Lede: Meltdown at Madison Square Garden
The team loses a game, and wakes to news of war...
New York Times - November 14, 2007
Powerful Earthquake Hits Chile
SANTIAGO (Reuters) - A powerful 7.7 quake hit mineral-rich northern Chile on Wednesday, injuring some people and damaging buildings in and around Antofagasta, a coastal city that is the country's mining capital, the government and media reports said...
New York Times - November 14, 2007
Rodriguez May Talk to Yankees Without Agent
A Yankee official says Alex Rodriguez told the team he wants to discuss a contract without involving Scott Boras...
New York Times - November 14, 2007
Spitzer Drops His Driver?s License Plan
Gov. Eliot Spitzer said opposition to his proposal to issue licenses to illegal immigrants has been too overwhelming...
New York Times - November 14, 2007
Giuliani-Kerik Angle in Suit by Ex-Publisher
In a lawsuit, Judith Regan says that a News Corporation executive encouraged her to lie to federal investigators about her past affair with Bernard B. Kerik...
New York Times - November 14, 2007
Producer Prices Steady in October
Prices were restrained at the producer level last month while consumer spending cooled amid speculation that economic growth is slowing, the government reported...
New York Times - November 14, 2007
Macy?s Swings to Profit
Third-quarter earnings adjusted for one-time costs were at the high end of the company?s forecasts. But revenue was little changed and sales at stores open at least a year fell...
New York Times - November 14, 2007
HSBC Takes $3.4 Billion Charge
Losses in the housing market are spreading, but revenue growth elsewhere should offset the losses, the bank said...
New York Times - November 14, 2007
Bear Stearns Takes a $1.2 Billion Write-Down
The write-down was less than expected and the firm?s remaining $884 million exposure to C.D.O.s gave comfort to investors that the worst of Bear?s write-downs were over...
New York Times - November 14, 2007
Hedge Fund Seeks Delta Merger With United
Pardus Capital Management has sent a letter to management of Delta Air Lines asking it to seek a stock-for-stock merger with UAL...
New York Times - November 14, 2007
Ford Workers Ratify Contract
United Automobile Workers members at Ford Motor approved the new four-year contract by the widest margin of any auto company, the union said today...
New York Times - November 14, 2007
Fed to Issue Forecasts Quarterly
Ben S. Bernanke said the Federal Reserve would also take other steps to improve communications with Wall Street...
New York Times - November 14, 2007
Stocks Flat Amid More Credit Write-Downs
Wall Street traded flat today as investors, hopeful that the worst of the credit crisis is over, wavered on whether to extend yesterday?s gains...
New York Times - November 14, 2007
NYSE Chief Is Chosen to Lead Merrill Lynch
The selection of John A. Thain, the chief executive of NYSE Euronext and a former co-president of Goldman Sachs, comes as a surprise to many...
New York Times - November 14, 2007
US union agrees final auto deal
Members of the United Auto Workers Union ratify a pay deal with Ford, having already agreed at GM and Chrysler...
BBC News - November 14, 2007
Canada unveils Mulroney inquiry
PM Stephen Harper announces a public inquiry into corruption allegations involving ex-leader Brian Mulroney...
BBC News - November 14, 2007
US trousers-claim judge loses job
A US judge who failed in a $54m dry-clean lawsuit over missing trousers has not been reappointed, it is confirmed...
BBC News - November 14, 2007
Spain king 'arrogant' - Chavez
Venezuelan President Hugo Chavez accuses Spain's king of "arrogance" for telling him to shut up at a summit...
BBC News - November 14, 2007
Korean Prime Ministers Open Talks
The prime ministers of North and South Korea met for the first time in 15 years, hoping to extend a detente across the Cold War?s last frontier following the second-ever summit of their leaders last month...
New York Times - November 14, 2007
Anti-Bush Sign Has Bridge World in an Uproar
In a fight reminiscent of the brouhaha over an anti-Bush statement by Natalie Maines of the Dixie Chicks in 2003, a team of women who represented the United States at the world bridge championships in Shanghai last month is facing sanctions for a spur-of-the-moment protest...
New York Times - November 14, 2007
Four Transplant Recipients Contract H.I.V.
Four transplant recipients in Chicago have contracted H.I.V. from an organ donor, the first known cases in more than a decade in which the virus was spread by organ transplants...
New York Times - November 14, 2007
Spitzer Dropping Plan of Licenses for Illegal Immigrants
Gov. Eliot Spitzer said opposition to his proposal has been too overwhelming to move forward...
New York Times - November 14, 2007
Economic Scene: Good News: Housing?s Down, Market?s Off, Oil?s Up
Recent economic developments probably will not turn out to be as bad as you think. Some are downright welcome...
New York Times - November 14, 2007
US police defend brush shooting
New York police say the shooting dead of a man carrying a hairbrush was within guidelines...
BBC News - November 14, 2007
Chavez calls for cheap oil plan
Venezuela's Hugo Chavez calls on oil-rich nations to reduce what they charge poor countries for the commodity...
BBC News - November 14, 2007
Lat Am police start joint force
Police forces from across Latin America and the Caribbean meet in Colombia to create a new regional police force...
BBC News - November 14, 2007
Bits: Close, but No $1 Million Netflix Prize
Maybe it?s not so easy to improve recommendation software after all...
New York Times - November 14, 2007
The Lede Blog: State Dept. Struggles to Fill Iraq Posts
If diplomats didn't choose to fill the 48 open positions, the bureau would choose them...
New York Times - November 14, 2007
Patients Contract 2 Viruses in Transplants
Four transplant recipients in Chicago have contracted H.I.V. from an organ donor, the first known cases in more than a decade in which the virus was spread by organ transplants...
New York Times - November 14, 2007
Ira Levin, of ?Rosemary?s Baby,? Dies at 78
Ira Levin was a mild-mannered playwright and novelist who liked nothing better than to give people the creeps ? and who did so repeatedly, with best-selling novels like ?Rosemary?s Baby,? ?The Stepford Wives? and ?The Boys From Brazil.?...
New York Times - November 14, 2007
A Troubled Man and 20 Police Bullets in Brooklyn
The police gave their version of events Tuesday in the fatal shooting of an unarmed, 18-year-old man in Brooklyn...
New York Times - November 14, 2007
Spitzer Dropping His License Plan
Gov. Eliot Spitzer said that opposition is just too overwhelming to move forward...
New York Times - November 14, 2007
On Education: Building a Nation of Polyglots, Starting With the Very Young
With an economy that recognizes few geographical borders, more Americans are demanding language instruction earlier in school...
New York Times - November 14, 2007
Polls Find Voters Weighing Issues vs. Electability
Twin New York Times/CBS News polls suggest that the outcome for the presidential nominating battle is far from settled in either Iowa or New Hampshire, which will begin voting in less than two months...
New York Times - November 14, 2007
Investor Makes a New Offer to Buy Wendy?s
DUBLIN, Ohio, Nov. 13 (AP) ? The investor Nelson Peltz submitted an offer to buy Wendy?s International, but the price was below what he previously said the hamburger chain was worth, according to a regulatory filing Tuesday...
New York Times - November 14, 2007
McDonald?s Sales Plan
McDonald?s said yesterday it would sell up to 21 percent of its company-owned restaurants to franchisees over the next three years...
New York Times - November 14, 2007
Shareholders Back Satellite Radio Deal
Shareholders approved Sirius Satellite Radio?s offer to acquire rival XM Satellite Radio Holdings, but regulatory hurdles remain...
New York Times - November 14, 2007
Yahoo Settles With Chinese Journalists
Yahoo settled a lawsuit with two Chinese journalists who were jailed after the company provided Chinese authorities with information about their online activities...
New York Times - November 14, 2007
Apple Shares Soar on Chinese Interest in iPhone
Rebounding after three days of declines, shares of Apple climbed after China Mobile, the world?s biggest wireless operator, said it was in talks to sell the iPhone...
New York Times - November 14, 2007
Countrywide Reports Fewer Loans for October
LOS ANGELES, Nov. 13 (AP) ? The Countrywide Financial Corporation said Tuesday that the number of mortgages it originated fell by nearly half in October compared with the month a year ago, while the percentage of delinquent loans rose...
New York Times - November 14, 2007
Vodafone Posts Return to Profit
The Vodafone Group earned £3.29 billion ($6.83 billion) for the six months ended Sept. 30, compared with a loss of £5.1 billion a year earlier...
New York Times - November 14, 2007
Citigroup Overhauls Capital Markets Unit
The firm?s capital markets division will see another round of changes that would organize it to be more like its investment banking rivals...
New York Times - November 14, 2007
Square Feet: Near Seattle, Tribal Casinos Lead to Even Bigger Bets
A group of several American Indian tribes who live about 35 miles north of Seattle are helping to transform a rural area into one of Washington state?s fastest-growing suburbs...
New York Times - November 14, 2007
Square Feet: Come for the Karts, Stay for the Cocktails
A once-abandoned warehouse in a prosperous community in Westchester County is being transformed to serve a highly unusual dual function: kart raceway and conference center...
New York Times - November 14, 2007
Murdoch Said to Stress Free Access to Wall St. Journal?s Web Site
Rupert Murdoch says he plans to abolish subscription fees at The Wall Street Journal?s Web site, according to news accounts from Australia...
New York Times - November 14, 2007
4th Woman Joins U.S. Bias Suit Against Bloomberg L.P.
Another woman has joined the federal government?s lawsuit against Bloomberg L.P., accusing the company of discriminating against pregnant employees...
New York Times - November 14, 2007
Ford Chairman Frustrated About Pace of Alternative Fuel Development
William Clay Ford Jr. said Tuesday that if consumers have to wait too long for alternative fuels, if may be hard to persuade them to switch from lower-priced gasoline...
New York Times - November 14, 2007
Taking a Whack at Making a Car
A generation of digital-era Henry Fords are trying to apply to carmaking the same entrepreneurial spirit that built the information superhighway...
New York Times - November 14, 2007
News Writers Weigh Step Toward Strike Against CBS
With one writers? strike already under way, CBS will face the prospect of a second one when news writers, producers, editors and artists take a strike authorization vote on Wednesday and Friday...
New York Times - November 14, 2007
In Complaint, a Portrait of a Company Marked by Rivalry
The lengthy defamation complaint filed in State Supreme Court in Manhattan by Judith Regan creates a picture of rivalry and retaliation within the HarperCollins publishing house...
New York Times - November 14, 2007
Market Place: Unfazed by Market Ills, Hedge Fund Has Debut
The first pure hedge fund to offer shares on an American public market, Och-Ziff - priced at $32 per share - is expected to start trading Wednesday...
New York Times - November 14, 2007
Google Hits European Hurdle on DoubleClick Deal
European regulators refused Tuesday to approve Google?s $3.1 billion purchase of the Internet advertising company DoubleClick. Instead they ordered a review of the deal...
New York Times - November 14, 2007
AT&T to Sell Equipment to Monitor Workplaces
AT&T plans to introduce a nationwide program Monday that gives owners of small- and medium-size businesses some of the same tools big security companies offer for monitoring employees...
New York Times - November 14, 2007
Plan to Cut Jet Pollution Is Approved in Europe
Setting up a fight with the United States, the European Union voted Tuesday to impose quotas on the emission of carbon dioxide by airlines...
New York Times - November 14, 2007
Bush, Confident on Economy, Vetoes Domestic Spending Bill
Even in the darkest times, President Bush has been able to draw hope from the almost uncanny ability of the American economy to endure shock after shock...
New York Times - November 14, 2007
Advertising: For Olympics, China?s Marketers Are Showing Their Pride
With fears that the tumult in the American economy may lead marketers to cut budgets for next year, the Olympic campaigns could make the forecasts of growth in global ad spending in 2008 come true...
New York Times - November 14, 2007
Economic Scene: A Close Look Reveals Silver Linings in the Economy
The recent spate of gloomy economic developments probably will not turn out to be as bad as you think...
New York Times - November 14, 2007
Oil Price Drops Sharply as Global Agency Sees Demand Easing
The prospect of oil at $100 a barrel seems to have receded for the moment, after a prominent energy group lowered its estimate for worldwide oil demand...
New York Times - November 14, 2007
Weak Dollar May Reduce European Bonuses
Already bracing for reduced bonuses because of the credit market crisis, European bankers working for American firms may suffer further damage because their bonuses are paid in dollars...
New York Times - November 14, 2007
As Home Depot Fights a Weak Economy, Wal-Mart Sees a Ray of Holiday Hope
Economic unease is proving a boon to the nation?s largest discount retailer, Wal-Mart Stores, but a bust for the biggest home improvement chain, Home Depot...
New York Times - November 14, 2007
?Seaweed? Clothing Has None, Tests Show
Lululemon Athletica, the maker of popular yoga clothing, says one of its lines is made with seaweed. But some of the company?s claims about the fabric are now being called into question...
New York Times - November 14, 2007
Stocks Soar on Hopes Fed by Wal-Mart and 2 Banks
The Dow Jones industrials surged on sunnier forecasts from Wal-Mart and two major banks, but many analysts doubted the high spirits would last...
New York Times - November 14, 2007
For G.M., Better Cars, Worse Sales
This year, General Motors has been getting some warm reviews for its new cars. Yet the company still has a hard time getting on drivers? shopping lists...
New York Times - November 14, 2007
Few Friends for Proposal on Media
The Federal Communications Commission?s new deregulatory proposal may actually force some large media companies to shed stations or newspapers...
New York Times - November 14, 2007
Investor Safe Haven Becomes a Concern
In another sign of turmoil in the credit markets, large financial firms are being forced to protect money market funds from losses brought on by investments that no longer seem safe...
New York Times - November 14, 2007
Ex-Publisher?s Suit Plays a Giuliani-Kerik Angle
In a lawsuit, Judith Regan says that an executive with the company encouraged her to mislead investigators about her relationship with Bernard B. Kerik...
New York Times - November 14, 2007
Texas mayors want deeper border
A groups of mayors in Texas call for a system of dams on the river border with Mexico to deter illegal immigrants...
BBC News - November 14, 2007
Brazil's Aids policy 'remarkable'
Brazil's policy of bargaining with drug companies on Aids medicine has been a great success, a US study says...
BBC News - November 14, 2007
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