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US News Archive for September 2007:
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Thousands Protest War in Washington
WASHINGTON (AP) -- Thousands of protesters marched Saturday from the White House to the Capitol to demand an end to the Iraq war, leading to the arrests of at least 150 people...
New York Times - September 15, 2007
The Missionary Mogul
He?s the world?s biggest cutter and polisher of diamonds. His real estate empire extends through Israel, the former Soviet Union, Europe and the United States. He has the ear of the Russian and Israeli governments. But what Lev Leviev really cares about is what is good for the Jews (at least the Chabadniks)...
New York Times - September 15, 2007
Fund-Raiser?s Wallet Matched His Need to Please
Campaigns and charities took Norman Hsu?s money, but harbored doubts about his background and behavior...
New York Times - September 15, 2007
Economic View: One Answer to Global Warming: A New Tax
The case for using a carbon tax to reduce emissions of greenhouse gases...
New York Times - September 15, 2007
[TS] Fair Game: It?s Just a Matter of Equity
A warning that ?innovations? are eroding a once-superior business model, from the man whom many consider to be the intellectual father of private equity...
New York Times - September 15, 2007
Former Fed Chief Attacks Bush on Fiscal Role
In his memoir, Alan Greenspan is critical of Republicans for abandoning their principles on spending and deficits...
New York Times - September 15, 2007
Energy and Mining Lead Stocks Higher
The rising price of oil and of other commodities served as a tonic for the stock market, with energy and mining companies helping to lead the market upward...
New York Times - September 15, 2007
Correction: When Balance Sheets Collide With the New Economy
The Re:Framing column last Sunday about accounting for intangible assets referred incorrectly at one point to the Social Venture Technology Group, which specializes in developing nonfinancial valuation methods. It is known as the S.V.T. Group, not the S.V.P. Group...
New York Times - September 15, 2007
A Quick Brunello on the Way to Rome
A sleek new chain of wine bars in airports offer wines by the glass or bottle, small plates of cheese and cured meats, leather chairs and outlets for laptops...
New York Times - September 15, 2007
The Count: Car Ads Sell Sizzle. Drivers Don?t Buy It.
Ford commercials trying to lend a sexier image to the company?s Mercury division don?t seem to be helping sales...
New York Times - September 15, 2007
Home Front: Once Jobless With AIDS, She Now Helps Others
Barbara Cassis, whose AIDS once compelled her to leave her job, found a new job after getting help from Gay Men?s Health Crisis in Manhattan...
New York Times - September 15, 2007
The Boss: It?s About the Journey
?The noise, yelling and constant stream of data from the markets invigorated me. I put that against going to school again, and working won.?...
New York Times - September 15, 2007
Market Maker: A Stock Caught in the Iraq Debate
One of the biggest business beneficiaries of the war in Iraq is a little-known maker of specialty ceramics used in body armor...
New York Times - September 15, 2007
Career Couch: Walking the Tightrope of Workspace Décor
Your cubicle isn?t really yours, so no political messages or dirty jokes...
New York Times - September 15, 2007
Fundamentally: Why Haven?t Investors Played It Safe With Blue Chips?
Trouble in the credit and mortgage industries looms large...
New York Times - September 15, 2007
Market Week: Should Fed Tread Lightly on Rates?
As the debate heats up over how much the Federal Reserve will lower rates, one investment adviser thinks the smaller option is better...
New York Times - September 15, 2007
National Perspectives: For Rich Mexicans, Parallel Lives in U.S.
A small but growing group of Mexican citizens are creating parallel lives in Houston, Dallas and other cities north of the border...
New York Times - September 15, 2007
Freakonomics: The Jane Fonda Effect
Is a 1979 thriller to blame for America?s overreliance on fossil fuels?...
New York Times - September 15, 2007
Off The Shelf: Why There?s Strength in Small Numbers
Mark J. Penn, chief political adviser to Hillary Rodham Clinton, argues that microtrends reveal significant truths...
New York Times - September 15, 2007
Spending: This Glass Is for the Cabernet, That One the Pinot Noir
The bowl, the rim, the tapering of the glass ? some say it matters in the tasting...
New York Times - September 15, 2007
Square Feet | Ventures: REITs, Down Sharply, May Be a Good Buy
After seven consecutive years of extraordinary gains, real estate investment trusts are posting negative returns, but some analysts think that the decline has been too severe...
New York Times - September 15, 2007
The Feed: Sugar Finds Its Way Back to the School Cafeteria
A change in an agreement with health advocates will allow beverage makers to sell enhanced water products in schools...
New York Times - September 15, 2007
Planning: Navigating a Path Through a Turbulent Housing Market
With prices falling, home sellers might have to accept lower prices than they had hoped for, while buyers might find it tougher to qualify for a mortgage...
New York Times - September 15, 2007
Digital Domain: A Window of Opportunity for Macs, Soon to Close
The Mac?s presence in the retail world remains limited, a shame given the rare opportunity for Apple to gain market share that opened up when Vista arrived...
New York Times - September 15, 2007
Novelties: While in the Kitchen, Stir the Stew and Surf the Web
Dream kitchens may soon include a computer along with the latest refrigerator or oven, so people can satisfy their digital needs along with nutritional ones...
New York Times - September 15, 2007
Age of Riches: Bye, Bye B-School
Many young people on the fast track to fat paydays in the financial industry are choosing to forgo M.B.A. programs...
New York Times - September 15, 2007
The Dialysis Business: Fair Treatment?
Congress is moving to stop separate Medicare reimbursement in order to end an incentive to overuse a drug frequently given to dialysis patients...
New York Times - September 15, 2007
Workers Tense as G.M. Talks Drag On
Negotiators resumed talks on Saturday morning after talks continued past a midnight contract deadline...
New York Times - September 15, 2007
Japanese Wives Sweat as Markets Reel
Japanese homemakers who moonlight as currency speculators have been hit hard by turmoil in the markets...
New York Times - September 15, 2007
In Turnaround, Industries Seek U.S. Regulation
Trying to fend off lawsuits, foreign competition and state rules, a variety of the nation?s big industries are backing off their objections to federal regulations...
New York Times - September 15, 2007
4 Winners of Lasker Medical Prize
Two surgeons who developed prosthetic heart valves that have prolonged millions of lives are among the winners of this year?s awards...
New York Times - September 15, 2007
?No Surrender,? but No Longer Talking of Bush
Avoiding mention of President Bush, Senator John McCain has focused his support for efforts to win the war in Iraq on General Petraeus...
New York Times - September 15, 2007
At the U.S. Border, the Desert Takes a Rising Toll
The number of migrants dying while trying to cross the desert border into Pima County, Ariz., is on pace this year to set a record...
New York Times - September 15, 2007
Cancer Free at Age 33, but Weighing a Mastectomy
A growing number of young women are learning early that they are genetically prone to breast cancer, raising difficult choices...
New York Times - September 15, 2007
Greenspan attacks Bush on economy
The ex-chairman of the US Federal Reserve Alan Greenspan says President Bush ignored his advice...
BBC News - September 15, 2007
General admits Iraq war mistakes
If U.S. General Peter Pace knew now what he knew then, he might have made some different decisions before the start of the Iraq war in 2003, the outgoing chairman of the Joint Chiefs of Staff told reporters Friday. full story...
CNN - September 15, 2007
U.A.W. and G.M. Bargain Past Deadline
Negotiators met past a midnight contract deadline as unions across the country prepared for a possible strike...
New York Times - September 15, 2007
Pace: Mistakes were made at start of Iraq war
If he knew now what he knew then, he might have made some different decisions before the start of the Iraq war in 2003, the outgoing chairman of the Joint Chiefs of Staff told reporters Friday. full story...
CNN - September 15, 2007
Al Qaeda in Iraq claims sheik killing
Al Qaeda in Iraq claimed responsibility Friday for the assassination of a Sunni sheik who had united with U.S. forces to fight the terrorist group in Anbar province. In a Web site posting Abdul Sattar Abu Reesha was called "one of the dogs carrying Bush's flag." full story...
CNN - September 15, 2007
Yankees 8, Red Sox 7: New York Rallies for Six Runs in Eighth to Beat Red Sox
By winning a 4-hour, 43-minute marathon the Yankees closed within 4.5 games of AL East-leading Boston...
New York Times - September 15, 2007
U.S. Official Says Syria May Have Nuclear Ties
A top U.S. non-proliferation official said that North Korea may be aiding Syria in a covert nuclear program...
New York Times - September 15, 2007
Known for Famous Photos, Not All of Them His
Joe O?Donnell, who died Aug. 9, came to be described as a fraud who had claimed as his own some of the 20th century?s most famous images...
New York Times - September 15, 2007
At the Border, Desert Takes a Rising Toll
The number of migrants dying while trying to cross the border in Pima County, Ariz., is on pace to set a record...
New York Times - September 15, 2007
A Town?s Darkest Day Is Playing Out on Stage
Not everyone in Waterloo, Ill., is keen on the idea of a musical that chronicles the destruction of the nearby village of Valmeyer in the Great Flood of 1993...
New York Times - September 15, 2007
In High School Football, an Injury No One Sees
Many teenagers who play high school football do not know what a concussion is, yet this ignorance undermines the gravity of the injury...
New York Times - September 15, 2007
It Came From Outer Space, to Be Auctioned in New York
A 30-pound chunk sliced off one of the most famous meteorites in the world, the Willamette meteorite, will be auctioned on Oct. 28...
New York Times - September 15, 2007
Net Watch: Giuliani Attacks Clinton on War
Rudolph W. Giuliani?s campaign unveiled a Web video linking Senator Hillary Rodham Clinton to a newspaper advertisement critical of Gen. David H. Petraeus...
New York Times - September 15, 2007
Behind an Antiwar Ad, a Powerful Liberal Group
There is no mistaking the influence of MoveOn.org, with its 3.2 million members and powerful fund-raising apparatus, within the Democratic Party...
New York Times - September 15, 2007
N.F.L. Roundup: No Camera on Spies, NBC Says
When the Patriots play the Chargers on NBC on Sunday, the network will not devote a camera to spying on the Patriots spymasters...
New York Times - September 15, 2007
Antiwar Ad Prompts Dispute
An advertisement by MoveOn.org in The New York Times has become the focus of a rancorous political dispute that has now rippled through the presidential campaign...
New York Times - September 15, 2007
Broke but Still Borrowing
Last year?s bankruptcy reforms could make the current credit squeeze even worse; the varieties of money laundering; and a warning to customer service managers...
New York Times - September 15, 2007
What?s Offline: Your Workplace Enemy Is You
The ways workers sabotage their own careers, work with teams, get fat on the job and more...
New York Times - September 15, 2007
SCO, a Software Maker, Is Seeking Bankruptcy
The SCO Group, the software maker that sued I.B.M. for copyright infringement, filed for bankruptcy yesterday, 10 days after conceding that much of the case should be dropped...
New York Times - September 15, 2007
Shares Steady on Rate-Cut Hopes
Wall Street finished little changed yesterday after a strong week as investors looked past weaker-than-expected economic readings and focused on the Federal Reserve?s meeting on interest rates next week...
New York Times - September 15, 2007
Retail Sales Rose Slightly in August
Retail sales posted a modest gain, despite a drop in consumer confidence spurred by the housing downturn and turbulence in the financial market...
New York Times - September 15, 2007
Profit Warning by Merrill
Merrill Lynch warned yesterday that shaky credit markets forced it to reduce the value of securities linked to risky subprime mortgages and other products, a move that could hurt third-quarter profit...
New York Times - September 15, 2007
Saturday Interview: The Future for XM, With or Without a Sirius Merger
Nate Davis, president and interim chief executive of XM Satellite Radio, and Gary Parsons, the company?s chairman, recently discussed the merger and the future of the company if the merger petition is not successful...
New York Times - September 15, 2007
Market Values: What to Own if Economy Turns Sour
As concerns about a possible recession increase, there are steps that investors can take to protect their portfolios...
New York Times - September 15, 2007
Your Money: A Good Time to Sharpen Furniture Shopping Skills
The housing slowdown, industry consolidation, and an influx of imports make this a very good time to shop for furniture...
New York Times - September 15, 2007
Off The Charts: Double Warning That a Recession May Be on the Way
Both employment statistics and the bond market are indicating that the U.S. could be heading toward recession...
New York Times - September 15, 2007
Mayo Clinic Recommends Universal Health Insurance Plan
The Mayo Clinic proposal doesn?t advocate a government-run single-payer system, but urges private insurance companies to offer plans with many options. The Mayo Clinic proposal doesn?t advocate a government-run single-payer system, but urges private insurance companies to offer plans with many options...
New York Times - September 15, 2007
Former ABC Consultant Says He Faked Nothing
A former consultant to ABC News has denied accusations that he fabricated interviews with American political figures for a French magazine...
New York Times - September 15, 2007
Shortcuts: Another Way for Wind to Put Holes in Homeowners? Pockets
A growing number of insurance companies are adding high windstorm damage deductibles to homeowner policies...
New York Times - September 15, 2007
Mexico Enacts a Tax-Overhaul Bill
The Mexican Congress passed a comprehensive tax bill to raise corporate taxes on many companies, give back more money to the country?s cash-short oil monopoly and impose a gasoline tax...
New York Times - September 15, 2007
Managing Outcomes Helps a Children?s Hospital Climb in Renown
The Cincinnati Children?s Hospital Medical Center has used its focus on rare or complex conditions to emerge as a national name in pediatric medicine, drawing patients from distant cities...
New York Times - September 15, 2007
Banks Try Easing Into a $26 Billion Debt Sale
Next week?s debt offering financing the purchase of the First Data Corporation is widely seen as an indicator of whether the credit markets have begun to thaw...
New York Times - September 15, 2007
Credit Crisis Hits Lender in Britain
Northern Rock?s need for emergency funding represents a broadening of the effects of the global financial crisis...
New York Times - September 15, 2007
Tell-All PCs and Phones Transforming Divorce
In the digital age, it?s growing increasingly difficult to hide dirty secrets from a former spouse...
New York Times - September 15, 2007
Preparations for Strike at G.M. as Deadline Passes
Negotiators met today ahead of a midnight deadline as unions across the country prepared for a possible strike...
New York Times - September 15, 2007
Ayn Rand?s Literature of Capitalism
Ayn Rand?s ?Atlas Shrugged,?a glorification of the right of individuals to live entirely for their own interest, influenced Alan Greenspan and others...
New York Times - September 15, 2007
Fed?s Ex-Chief Attacks Bush on Fiscal Role
In his long-awaited memoir, Alan Greenspan says he was mystified at the Republicans? abandonment of their party?s small government principles...
New York Times - September 15, 2007
Golf: Woods leads in Atlanta
Tiger Woods takes control of the Tour Championship in Atlanta with a stunning second round of 63...
BBC News - September 15, 2007
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