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Dead teens Web activities a focus in hoax trial
Southern Ledger - November 21, 2008
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Detective handcuffed to Oswald cant escape photo
Southern Ledger - November 21, 2008
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Astronauts end 2nd spacewalk at space station
Southern Ledger - November 21, 2008
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Texas executes man who killed ex-girlfriend
Southern Ledger - November 21, 2008
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3 US airports open new runways amid economic woes
Southern Ledger - November 21, 2008
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Calif. trains collide no serious injuries
Southern Ledger - November 21, 2008
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Witness recalls last messages in MySpace hoax case
Southern Ledger - November 21, 2008
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Americans still giving, despite economic meltdown
Southern Ledger - November 21, 2008
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Lawyers attack prosecutor who had Cheney indicted
Southern Ledger - November 21, 2008
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US News Archive for June 2005:
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Living With Social Security: Small Dreams and Safety Nets
Residents of Grand Rapids, Mich., afford a nuanced model of Social Security. For many, it is the bedrock of their existence...
New York Times - June 18, 2005
Big Paycheck Is Exhibit A
L. Dennis Kozlowski's conviction shows that high pay scales can serve as proof of the defendant's knowledge of wrongdoing...
New York Times - June 18, 2005
Rice, on Trip, Tries to Propel Israeli and Palestinian Talks
RAMALLAH, West Bank, June 18 - Secretary of State Condoleezza Rice, opening a tour of the Middle East, sought Saturday to energize the faltering negotiations between Israel and the Palestinians over Israel's planned withdrawal from Gaza and parts of the West Bank...
New York Times - June 18, 2005
Iran Moderate Says Hard-Liners Rigged Election
The race for Iran's presidency was thrown into turmoil when a top vote getter accused conservatives of rigging the election...
New York Times - June 18, 2005
Big Paychecks Are Exhibit A
L. Dennis Kozlowski's conviction shows that high pay scales can serve as the government's proof of the defendant's potential knowledge of wrongdoing...
New York Times - June 18, 2005
Up to 40m credit cards 'hacked'
A computer hacker may have broken into more than 40 million credit card accounts...
BBC News - June 18, 2005
Second helicopter crashes in NY
A helicopter plunges into New York's East River in the second such crash in four days...
BBC News - June 18, 2005
Security alert issued for 40 million credit cards
A security breach at a third-party processor of payment card transactions affects over 40 million credit card accounts, according to Mastercard International. The breach took place at CardSystems Solutions, which processes transactions on behalf of financial institutions and merchants. "It looks like a hacker gained access to CardSystems' database and installed a script that acts like a virus, searching out certain types of card transaction data, " according to Mastercard spokeswoman Jessica Antle...
CNN - June 18, 2005
Iran poll to go to run-off
The Iranian presidential election looks set to go to a runoff after officials said no clear winner has emerged with two thirds of the vote counted...
CNN - June 18, 2005
Just Across the River in Iraq, Expatriates Send a Message Home
This election marked the first time Iranian expatriates in Iraq were able to vote in Iranian elections since the 1979 revolution in Iran...
New York Times - June 18, 2005
Bin Laden deputy sends message
Osama bin Laden's top lieutenant urged Muslims to press on with their jihad against U.S. and Western interests in the "land of Islam," saying that Islamic nations must be allowed to run their own affairs without foreign interference. With an assault rifle propped up against a wall behind his right shoulder, Ayman al-Zawahiri said: "Reform and expulsion of the invaders out of the Muslim land will only be accomplished by fighting for the sake of God."...
CNN - June 18, 2005
New York G.O.P. Clashes Over Candidates for 2006
Republicans fear the Democrats could win control of all major statewide offices for the first time in generations...
New York Times - June 18, 2005
Museum Reopens Without Its 'Scream'
When the Munch Museum in Oslo reopened after a security overhaul, all of the artist's pictures were framed behind glass and bolted to the wall...
New York Times - June 18, 2005
In Business, Tough Guys Finish Last
The fall of Philip Purcell as chief of Morgan Stanley is evidence that the autocratic executives heralded a generation ago have fallen out of favor...
New York Times - June 18, 2005
Citigroup Is Cleared in Trading Inquiry
Citigroup was cleared of wrongdoing in Germany relating to a trading case and won a court ruling in Britain regarding a claim against the Russian oil giant Yukos...
New York Times - June 18, 2005
It's Getting Cheaper to Tap the Sun
Providing homes with electricity and heat from the sun is getting more buzz than it has in decades...
New York Times - June 18, 2005
And Wall St. Was Filled With Settlements and Lamentations
JUDGMENT DAY arrived this week for several big names in business and finance, including J. P. Morgan Chase and Bristol-Myers Squibb. General Motors, meanwhile, warned its labor unions to expect their own retribution unless they help the company control its labor costs...
New York Times - June 18, 2005
What Is Google, Anyway?
Is Google a media company? One answer is: Sure, Google is a media company, except when it isn't. The other answer is: It doesn't really matter anyway...
New York Times - June 18, 2005
You Need a Vacation. No, Really.
While vacations are good for your health and bring a new perspective to your job, about a third of all employees forfeit vacation time, Health magazine reports...
New York Times - June 18, 2005
Keeping Moviegoers Away From the Dark Side
Music came first, but now Hollywood is facing its own Internet challenge, with a version of the latest "Star Wars" movie posted on a file-sharing site the day the movie opened...
New York Times - June 18, 2005
At Paris Air Show, Yachts That Fly
As was seen at the Paris Air Show, some entrepreneurs are trying to stretch the definition of private jets both upward and downward...
New York Times - June 18, 2005
Spitzer Derides Regulator's Suit That Seeks to Block Lending Inquiry
The New York State attorney general, Eliot Spitzer, fired back at the Office of the Comptroller of the Currency yesterday, calling its lawsuit to block his inquiry into lending practices at three national banks "shameful" and "unconscionable."...
New York Times - June 18, 2005
How to Play Golf Like a Billionaire
ONE of my favorite billionaires knows he can be a real pain on or off the golf course. That's what I like about him: Not that he can be a jerk, but that he knows it and admits it. Such awareness, coupled with his self-effacing candor kind of evens things out when we venture onto the links...
New York Times - June 18, 2005
Treasury Yields Rise Again, Spurring Talk of a Trend
What goes down must come up...
New York Times - June 18, 2005
File Swappers Get Creative as Wheels of Justice Turn
In the more than three years it took for the Grokster case to percolate up to the Supreme Court, the file-sharing landscape has so shifted that many users have moved from early peer-to-peer networks to more efficient or discreet ways of getting digital music. Some are even paying...
New York Times - June 18, 2005
Chinese Bank Takes Lead in Privatizing
The China Construction Bank is expected to lead the way as the first of China's four big state-owned banks to go ahead with an initial public offering of stock...
New York Times - June 18, 2005
F.D.A. Restricts Access to Cancer Drug, Citing Ineffectiveness
The Food and Drug Administration stopped just short of withdrawing the lung cancer pill Iressa from the market...
New York Times - June 18, 2005
G.M. Promotions Are Yielding Higher Sales, Study Concludes
DETROIT, June 17 - The latest effort by General Motors to regain market share and lift falling sales appears to be working, according to an independent analysis of the automaker's recent sales numbers...
New York Times - June 18, 2005
Cut Up Cards. Make a Budget. Be Debt-Free.
Living on borrowed money has never been so easy, but if you're in debt, it's never been so hard to get out...
New York Times - June 18, 2005
U.S. Attorney Subpoenas 2 Insurers in Widening Inquiry
Two large insurance companies, the St. Paul Companies and Ace, said yesterday that they had received subpoenas from the United States attorney in Manhattan as part of a widening investigation into insurance that companies can use to inflate financial results artificially...
New York Times - June 18, 2005
Designer Picks a President for His Label
John Varvatos has hired Peter Arnold, the director of the Council of Fashion Designers of America, to be president of his company label...
New York Times - June 18, 2005
Consumers More Optimistic This Month
By Bloomberg News...
New York Times - June 18, 2005
Enron and Royal Bank of Scotland Settle Lawsuit
The Enron Corporation said that the Royal Bank of Scotland had agreed to pay $41.8 million and forfeit some claims in its bankruptcy case to settle a lawsuit...
New York Times - June 18, 2005
She Watches Who's Watching What
The chief executive of Nielsen Media Research recently spoke about delaying the introduction of people meters for demographic measurement and TiVo use...
New York Times - June 18, 2005
Quarterly Trade Gap Hits $195 Billion
The United States hit a record deficit of $195.1 billion in the first quarter in trade and capital flows with the rest of the world...
New York Times - June 18, 2005
MasterCard Says 40 Million Files Are Put at Risk
MasterCard reported that more than 40 million cards might have been exposed to fraud through a computer security breach...
New York Times - June 18, 2005
Citing Flaws, Maker Recalls Heart Devices
The Guidant Corporation is recalling about 29,000 implanted heart devices because of flaws that might cause them to short-circuit...
New York Times - June 18, 2005
Rumors Put Oil Traders on Edge
Oil prices surged to a record of more than $58 a barrel, spurred by a hint of a terrorist threat in Nigeria and worries about a lack of refining capacity...
New York Times - June 18, 2005
Ex-Chief and Aide Guilty of Looting Millions at Tyco
The conviction of L. Dennis Kozlowski and his top lieutenant ends a case that came to symbolize an era of corporate scandal...
New York Times - June 18, 2005
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