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US News Archive for May 2005:
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Newsweek retracts Quran desecration story
Newsweek magazine issued a retraction Monday of its report on the desecration of the Quran at the U.S. military prison at Guantanamo Bay, Cuba. The report -- which stated that American interrogators put copies of the Quran on toilets or in one case, flushed one down a toilet -- was blamed for anti-American riots, which eyewitnesses said left at least 15 people dead...
CNN - May 16, 2005
Uzbek toll mounts as unrest spreads
The death toll from a crackdown by Uzbekistan security forces is mounting -- amid reports that unrest has spread from Andijan to at least three other towns...
CNN - May 16, 2005
Israelis Against Gaza Pullout Clash With Police
Several thousand protesters took part at some 40 separate sites, and more than 200 were arrested, according to police reports...
New York Times - May 16, 2005
Rumsfeld Faces Panel Considering Base Closings
The Pentagon chief called for caution as a commission begins reviewing his plan to close 180 installations...
New York Times - May 16, 2005
Jury Awards Perelman $604.3 Million in Morgan Stanley Suit
The billionaire financier Ronald O. Perelman claimed that the firm knowingly misled him in a takeover deal...
New York Times - May 16, 2005
In pictures: Viva Las Vegas
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BBC News - May 16, 2005
Forecasters predict active hurricane season
This year's Atlantic hurricane season is forecast to be above normal like 2004 -- when four storms slammed the Florida coast. The annual forecast from the National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration, announced today, calls for seven to nine hurricanes during the coming season, June 1 to November 30. As many as five of those hurricanes could become major storms...
CNN - May 16, 2005
Active hurricane season predicted
This year's Atlantic hurricane season is forecast to be above normal like 2004, when four storms slammed the Florida coast. Hurricane season lasts from June 1 to November 30...
CNN - May 16, 2005
More bodies found in Iraq
The bodies of at least 46 dead Iraqis were found in Iraq over the weekend, including a dozen executed men Sunday in Baghdad, police said...
CNN - May 16, 2005
Supreme Court Strikes Down Bans on Wine Shipments
The ruling affects millions of wine-drinkers and those who make their livings in the multibillion-dollar industry...
New York Times - May 16, 2005
Spotlight Returns to Ex-Mayor, and He Isn't Running From It
David N. Dinkins finds himself courted by Mayor Bloomberg and sought after by the four major Democrats running to oust him...
New York Times - May 16, 2005
Some Surprises in That Galaxy Far, Far Away
"Revenge of the Sith" is the best of the four episodes George Lucas has directed. That's right: it's better than "Star Wars."...
New York Times - May 16, 2005
Abolitionists eye end to execution
Serial killer Michael Ross's execution is the first state-sanctioned killing in New England for 45 years, but across the US there are signs America's appetite for the death penalty is on the wane...
BBC News - May 16, 2005
Bolivians to stage energy protest
Demonstrators are to hold a day of protests to toughen a law imposing big taxes on foreign energy firms in Bolivia...
BBC News - May 16, 2005
Newsweek backs off report
Newsweek magazine backed away Sunday from a report that U.S. interrogators had desecrated copies of the Quran while questioning prisoners at the Guantanamo Bay naval base -- an account blamed for sparking violent riots in Afghanistan...
CNN - May 16, 2005
More bodies found in Iraq
The bodies of a dozen executed Iraqi men have been found in eastern Baghdad, bringing to at least 46 the number of Iraqis found dead in five locations across the country, police said...
CNN - May 16, 2005
Coffee 'may save' wildlife
Coffee drinkers around the world could be helping to save what is left of the threatened wildlife of El Salvador, writes Tim Hirsch...
BBC News - May 16, 2005
NBA: Trio bounce back
Detroit, Seattle and Dallas tie their respective semi-finals in the NBA Conference play-offs...
BBC News - May 16, 2005
Baseball: Eighth win for Yankees
The New York Yankees got their eighth consecutive win to move to the .500 mark...
BBC News - May 16, 2005
Soldiers reported killed in Uzbek clash
Eight Uzbek soldiers and three Islamic militants died in a clash near the Kyrgyz border Sunday and more than 500 Uzbeks fled to safety across the frontier, villagers said, according to The Associated Press...
CNN - May 16, 2005
On Boards Without Boys, Girls Reassert Their Power
The All-Girls National Chess Championships, a rare pink-and-ponytailed respite in the testosterone universe of checkmate, is one new effort to promote chess among girls and women...
New York Times - May 16, 2005
Political Split Leaves a Church Sadder and Grayer
Over the past two weeks, a church in North Carolina has found itself at the center of a national debate, a crash test site in the mixing of politics and religion...
New York Times - May 16, 2005
NBC's Fall Roster Leans on Comedy and 'The Apprentice'
NBC is expected to unveil a schedule of programs that will try to reinvigorate a comedy heritage gone fallow...
New York Times - May 16, 2005
Crispin Porter Wins 12 Awards From One Club
Crispin Porter Wins...
New York Times - May 16, 2005
Intrigue in Ancient Greece. But Did They Talk This Way?
The special effects are astounding in this otherwise forgettable three-hour Hallmark Entertainment production on NBC...
New York Times - May 16, 2005
And Now, the News in Latin America's View
An initiative pushed by President Hugo Chávez of Venezuela will soon give Latin America a regionwide television station...
New York Times - May 16, 2005
E-Mail Irritants Act at Different Speeds
The first step for any spammer is finding e-mail addresses, usually by harvesting them on the Web. After that, some spammers work much faster than others, according to the spam tracking service Project Honey Pot...
New York Times - May 16, 2005
Treasury Bills Scheduled for This Week
The Treasury's schedule of financing this week includes today's regular weekly auction of new three- and six-month bills and an auction of four-week bills tomorrow...
New York Times - May 16, 2005
Stock Offerings This Week
The following equity and convertible debt offerings are expected this week:...
New York Times - May 16, 2005
Economic Calendar
Today...
New York Times - May 16, 2005
Looking at the Week Ahead
Clinically Speaking Investors in biotechnology companies will be considering the most promising news from the annual American Society of Clinical Oncology meeting in Orlando, Fla. (Through Tuesday)...
New York Times - May 16, 2005
Don't Believe the Hype. A Hip-Hop Mogul Says It's Propaganda.
Testimony given by the hip hop entrepreneur Russell Simmons might be seen as very candid or very troubling...
New York Times - May 16, 2005
Tina Brown Has Left the Beehive
Now that Tina Brown's talk show on CNBC has been canceled, media watchers are saying that she has lost her magic touch...
New York Times - May 16, 2005
HDTV Is a New Reality for Game Developers
High-definition television has not yet made it into many American homes, but it is certainly high in the minds of the video game industry...
New York Times - May 16, 2005
Makers of Cellphone Video Games Suddenly Find Great Expectations
Video games for cellular phones are beginning to catch on, making hot properties of companies that develop games for them...
New York Times - May 16, 2005
Will Box-Office Blues Put Newspapers in Red?
Movie studios have significantly increased ad spending in newspapers in recent years, but with shrinking ticket sales and an array of new places to advertise, that trend may be tapering off...
New York Times - May 16, 2005
Delaware Records Act Ruled Unconstitutional
A federal judge has ruled that Delaware's Freedom of Information Act is unconstitutional because it denies nonresidents access to public records in the state, which is the legal home of many major companies...
New York Times - May 16, 2005
Bill Clinton Lets His Anger Over a Column Show
When Bill Clinton joined Norman Pearlstine, editor in chief of Time Inc., on a stage last week at the Time Warner Center before an audience of 100 media people, there seemed to be a chill in the air...
New York Times - May 16, 2005
Phone Companies Shut Out of Local Cable for Some Ads
Competitors of Comcast, Cox and other cable providers are chafing against being denied the ability to place certain ads on local cable channels...
New York Times - May 16, 2005
A Stylist and a Professor Clash on Who Devised New Journalism
The pages of The Chronicle of Higher Education, a usually staid academic magazine, have been bloodied with ripostes over Tom Wolfe's place in the evolution of magazine journalism...
New York Times - May 16, 2005
CNN Will Add Free Video to Its Web Site
CNN.com plans to enhance and reorganize its Web offerings, adding free features that it hopes will attract both viewers and ad dollars...
New York Times - May 16, 2005
Why That Doggie in the Window Costs a Lot More Than You Think
Now more than ever, entire industries rely largely on wooing people with promises of deals and then subtly persuading them to pay far more than they had planned...
New York Times - May 16, 2005
A Stylist and a Professor Clash on Who Devised New Journalism
The pages of The Chronicle of Higher Education, a usually staid academic magazine, have been bloodied with ripostes over the place of Tom Wolfe, in the evolution of magazine journalism...
New York Times - May 16, 2005
With a New Editor, Rolling Stone Rejects Its Inner Lad
Finally, Jann Wenner, the editor and publisher of Rolling Stone, is filling a vacancy at the top of his masthead by elevating Will Dana, one of his three deputy managing editors, to managing editor...
New York Times - May 16, 2005
Burger King Ads Make the Best of an Unappetizing Situation
Burger King Restaurants of Canada is promoting a special "100 percent Canadian beef" version of its Whopper hamburger...
New York Times - May 16, 2005
NBC Television's Zucker Aims to Fix Prime Time
NBC television's Jeff Zucker is getting plenty of advice as the network is projected to finish the season ranked fourth in a four-way race...
New York Times - May 16, 2005
A New Hollywood Player Pushes a Different Game
Jason Hall, the head of Warner Bros. Interactive, is the company's point man for a new Hollywood effort to link video games and movies...
New York Times - May 16, 2005
Nike Changes Strategy on Women's Apparel
Nike wants to find new ways to capture the women's sports market, acknowledging that women want to wear athletic clothing outside the gym...
New York Times - May 16, 2005
Deal by A.I.G. Executive Puts Pressure on Ex-Chief
The decision last week by a senior executive at American International Group, the huge insurer, to cooperate with an investigation by Eliot Spitzer, the New York attorney general, ratchets up the pressure on Maurice R. Greenberg, the company's former chairman and chief executive, legal experts say...
New York Times - May 16, 2005
In Trials, Drugs Show Promise Against Kidney Cancer
New drugs are offering new hope to people with kidney cancer, which until now has more or less defied treatment, doctors said...
New York Times - May 16, 2005
US Airways and America West Are Said to Speed Merger Talks
US Airways and America West Airlines have accelerated talks on a potential $1 billion merger...
New York Times - May 16, 2005
A Battle Over Programming at National Public Radio
Executives at NPR are increasingly at odds with Bush appointees at the Corporation for Public Broadcasting, who are considering monitoring NPR's coverage for bias...
New York Times - May 16, 2005
Ice hockey: Canada defeated
The Czech Republic beat Canada 3-0 to win the World Ice Hockey Championship...
BBC News - May 16, 2005
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