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US News Archive for November 2007:
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Diner's Journal Blog: Chefs Hanging Out With Chefs
Who chefs hang out with...
New York Times - November 19, 2007
The Lede Blog: Jay-Z Impresses Critics and Wall Street
Jay-Z releases a hit album, charms Charlie Rose and shakes economics blogs...
New York Times - November 19, 2007
Dot Earth Blog: Wildlife a Benefits From Warfare
Bonobos seem to be the latest accidental beneficiary of decades of violence and despotism...
New York Times - November 19, 2007
City Room: Fired Principal of Arabic School Sues
Debbie Almontaser asserted in a federal lawsuit that the city violated her right to free speech and "conspired to deny her the opportunity to regain her position as principal" of the Khalil Gibran International Academy...
New York Times - November 19, 2007
Bush Praises America's Giving Spirit
President Bush on Monday honored acts of everyday decency and supreme sacrifice, part of a Thanksgiving tribute like none he had done before...
New York Times - November 19, 2007
U.S. Attorney in Minn. Is Reassigned
Rachel Paulose, the embattled U.S. attorney for Minnesota, will be leaving the post to take a position at the Justice Department in Washington...
New York Times - November 19, 2007
Rodriguez Is Named M.V.P. Again
It is the third time that Alex Rodriguez, who is close to completing a $275 million contract, has won the honor...
New York Times - November 19, 2007
Vick Begins Serving Time Ahead of Sentencing
In an apparent attempt to speed his return to football, Michael Vick began serving his prison sentence today...
New York Times - November 19, 2007
City Claims Final Private Island in East River
New York City is acquiring South Brother Island, the last East River island of any significant size to remain in private hands...
New York Times - November 19, 2007
Somalia Worst Humanitarian Crisis in Africa, U.N. Says
Somalia has higher malnutrition rates, more current bloodshed and many fewer aid workers than Darfur, United Nations officials said...
New York Times - November 19, 2007
Campbell Soup Profit Falls
MOUNT LAUREL, N.J. (AP) -- A warmer than expected autumn and higher than expected cost inflation led to a 7.2 percent decline in first-quarter profit for Campbell Soup Co...
New York Times - November 19, 2007
Nordstrom Posts Quarterly Net Profit Up
LOS ANGELES (Reuters) - Upscale department store chain Nordstrom Inc on Monday reported third-quarter earnings that topped a recently-lowered forecast, calming investor fears about a spending slowdown among affluent consumers...
New York Times - November 19, 2007
Medtronic Earnings Fall After Defibrillator Recall
CHICAGO (Reuters) - Medtronic Inc. on Monday said quarterly net earnings fell 2 percent from a year ago as the recall of a component used with its implantable devices to treat abnormal heart rhythms hurt revenue...
New York Times - November 19, 2007
Oil Eases Below $94
Oil handed back early gains to stand below $94 a barrel today as investors took profits, but concerns over the dollar?s weakess and uncertainties about OPEC?s moves remained...
New York Times - November 19, 2007
Broadway Strike Threatens to Take a Toll on City
Times Square businesses are bracing for a major loss of revenue during their busiest time of the year...
New York Times - November 19, 2007
Bits Blog: Amazon Pitches a Wireless iPod for Books
Amazon's new Kindle reader costs $399 and can download books, newspapers and blog posts wirelessly...
New York Times - November 19, 2007
Swiss Re Takes $1 Billion Write-Down
The company?s stock dropped the most since March 2003 after the announcement, which came two weeks after the company said its exposure to U.S. subprime mortgage woes would be limited...
New York Times - November 19, 2007
New Bribery Allegation Roils Samsung
Samsung sustained another blow to its image on Monday when a former legal adviser to South Korean President Roh Moo Hyun said the company had once offered him a cash bribe...
New York Times - November 19, 2007
Hewlett-Packard Beats Earnings Estimates
H.P.?s returns come as other major technology companies have spooked Wall Street by cautioning of a slow down in spending by their corporate customers in the U.S...
New York Times - November 19, 2007
Stocks Fall on Fresh Woes in Banking Sector
An analyst?s downgrading of Citigroup to ?sell? hit a raw nerve among investors, sending the Dow to its lowest close since August...
New York Times - November 19, 2007
Global stocks fall on credit fear
Global shares tumble after a downgrade of US bank Citigroup renews fears about the impact of the sub-prime crisis...
BBC News - November 19, 2007
US criticises Japan whaling
The US adds its voice to international criticism of the launch of Japan's largest-ever whaling expedition...
BBC News - November 19, 2007
Dog-fighting NFL man chooses jail
Michael Vick, the American football star who pleaded guilty to dog-fighting charges, turns himself in to start his jail term early...
BBC News - November 19, 2007
Homeland Security Adviser Resigns
Frances Fragos Townsend?s tough approach had made her one of President George W. Bush?s most trusted aides...
New York Times - November 19, 2007
City Room: Estimating the Broadway Strike?s Economic Cost
The city comptroller has estimated that the city?s economy is losing about $2 million a day because of the Broadway strike, but those losses could rise if tourists cancel their vacation plans...
New York Times - November 19, 2007
Swiss Re Reports $878 Million Subprime Loss
Swiss Re said the loss, which occurred in October, stems mainly from its so-called credit default swaps. But it said it will still post a full-year net profit for 2007...
New York Times - November 19, 2007
Lowe?s Posts Lower Profit and Cuts Outlook
The home improvement chain said third-quarter profit fell 10.2 percent amid a continuing housing slump, and it slashed its outlook for the fourth quarter and the full year...
New York Times - November 19, 2007
Stocks Fall on Fresh Woes in Financial Sector
The morning retreat started after Citigroup was downgraded to ?sell? by a Goldman Sachs analyst...
New York Times - November 19, 2007
NFL: Cleveland win drama
Cleveland beat Baltimore in dramatic fashion after a field-goal hits the centre support and bounces back into the field of play...
BBC News - November 19, 2007
US prison system 'costly failure'
The US prison population has risen eight-fold since 1970, with little impact on crime but at great cost, a report says...
BBC News - November 19, 2007
TV Decoder: Music Awards With No Jokes Written
More than 13 minutes into ABC's live broadcast of the American Music Awards last night, the host finally made his appearance. Jimmy Kimmel went on to explain that as a member of the Writers Guild he was on strike --...
New York Times - November 19, 2007
The Caucus: Obama Calls Clinton Nafta View New
Senator Barack Obama says presidential politics has turned Senator Hillary Rodham Clinton into a critic of Nafta...
New York Times - November 19, 2007
Creativity, Strikes and Power
With the ability to darken theaters, the stagehands have what the writers lack: actual leverage...
New York Times - November 19, 2007
Brazil Discovers an Oil Field Can Be a Political Tool
The discovery of a huge new oil field has the potential to transform Brazil into a global energy powerhouse and to reshape the politics of this energy-starved continent...
New York Times - November 19, 2007
French Commuters Face Longer Strike
French commuters braced for a sixth day of no train service and snarled traffic on Monday after transportation unions voted Sunday to press on with their strike...
New York Times - November 19, 2007
Strike Causes NBC to Skip Event for TV Journalists
For the first time in 20 years, one network is not attending the twice-yearly conference for television journalists...
New York Times - November 19, 2007
Treasury Auctions Set 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 - November 19, 2007
Making News, Without Saying a Word
The Associated Press hastily withdrew an article about Paris Hilton?s concern for drunk elephants after it became clear that it was false...
New York Times - November 19, 2007
Part of an Oil Book Relied on Wikipedia
The publisher John Wiley & Sons confirmed last week that a recent book on oil had lifted five paragraphs from a Wikipedia article on the Khobar Towers bombing in Saudi Arabia...
New York Times - November 19, 2007
Environmental Groups Cutting Catalog Stacks
A coalition of environmental groups has introduced a free Web site, CatalogChoice.org, that allows people to remove themselves from more than 1,000 mailing lists...
New York Times - November 19, 2007
A Web Site for Pet Lovers, and Marketers Who Love Them
NBC Universal and Procter & Gamble have set up a Web portal that looks something like a Yahoo or AOL for pet owners, with a bit of Facebook and MySpace thrown in...
New York Times - November 19, 2007
The Week Ahead
The coming week in the finance and business worlds...
New York Times - November 19, 2007
Humor Can Bring Back an Audience
Comedies do much better in repeats than do dramas...
New York Times - November 19, 2007
Saudi Arabia Gas Explosion Kills 28
An explosion and fire killed 28 people working on a natural gas pipeline in eastern Saudi Arabia on Sunday, the Saudi national oil company, Saudi Aramco, said...
New York Times - November 19, 2007
Web Sites Go Fishing in TV?s Advertising Revenue Stream
Web sites are going after the advertising revenue stream of television and their content is starting to look a lot more like traditional TV, including the commercials...
New York Times - November 19, 2007
After Global Agreement, Companies May Bid Higher at Wireless Auction in U.S.
A global agreement on the versatile 700-megahertz band of ultra-high frequencies could help boost confidence, and prices, in January?s U.S. auction of wireless spectrum...
New York Times - November 19, 2007
Italians Tune in to Real-Life ?Sopranos?
Millions of Italians have tuned in to watch the biographical rise-and-fall saga of Salvatore (Totò) Riina, the mob boss who once commanded organized crime in Sicily...
New York Times - November 19, 2007
Publishers Seek to Mine Book Circles
Increasingly, authors and publishers are tipping their hats to the power of book groups in helping to fuel sales...
New York Times - November 19, 2007
Fox Cable Guy Edges Into the Big Pay Leagues
Shepard Smith, recently named by Fox News chairman Roger Ailes to lead the channel?s coverage any time news breaks has signed a new multi-million dollar contract with the network...
New York Times - November 19, 2007
Hollywood Producer of Varied Interests, Many Hits, but Little Fame
Brian Grazer is one of the most successful producers in Hollywood, but his public profile remains relatively slight when compared with his Hollywood peers...
New York Times - November 19, 2007
Retailers Explore New Ways of Being Paid
Several high-end Web retailers are introducing promotions with PayPal, hoping to attract consumers willing to try methods other than credit cards to pay for online purchases...
New York Times - November 19, 2007
A Guerrilla Video Site Meets MTV
Vice magazine, known for a raw, ironic sensibility, risqué photographs and a willingness to deal in taboo subjects, is now giving Viacom a lab for Web programming...
New York Times - November 19, 2007
Celgene to Acquire Pharmion
The biotech company Celgene said Sunday that it would pay $2.9 billion in cash and stock to acquire Pharmion, strengthening Celgene?s cancer drug portfolio and its distribution in Europe...
New York Times - November 19, 2007
Critics Assail Weak Dollar at OPEC Event
A meeting of the heads of state of the OPEC countries ended on a political note, with two leaders blaming the weakness of the U.S. dollar for high oil prices...
New York Times - November 19, 2007
Financials, Once a Balm, Now Hamper the Market
Many market specialists expect that financial stocks will remain under pressure in the coming year, making it harder for the broader market to regain its footing...
New York Times - November 19, 2007
Goldman Sachs Rakes in Profit in Credit Crisis
Rarely on Wall Street, where money travels in herds, has one firm gotten it so right when nearly everyone else was getting it so wrong...
New York Times - November 19, 2007
Dubai eyes cheap US investments
A Dubai investment agency says the mortgage crisis in the US has created a wealth of cheap investment deals...
BBC News - November 19, 2007
Canada pig farmer trial nears end
Closing arguments are due in the trial of Vancouver pig farmer Robert Pickton who faces multiple murder charges...
BBC News - November 19, 2007
Toll in Bangladesh Cyclone Hits 2,300
The death toll from Bangladesh?s most devastating cyclone in a decade climbed to at least 2,300 on Sunday, and officials warned that the figure could jump sharply...
New York Times - November 19, 2007
Study Finds Higher Costs for Caregivers of Elderly
The out-of-pocket cost of caring for an aging parent or spouse averages about $5,500 a year, a sum that is more than double previous estimates...
New York Times - November 19, 2007
Scared Silent: Keeping Witnesses Off Stand to Keep Them Safe
In New Jersey cities, detectives are being urged to build criminal cases with as few witnesses as possible...
New York Times - November 19, 2007
In Railyards, Seeing a Blank Canvas on the Hudson
Renderings from the five developers competing to buy the development rights over the Metropolitan Transportation Authority railyards that straddle 11th Avenue, between 30th and 33rd Streets...
New York Times - November 19, 2007
Stagehands and Producers Break Off Talks
The breakdown of the latest talks leaves no end in sight for the strike that has darkened Broadway for nine days...
New York Times - November 19, 2007
Saudi Arabia Gas Explosion Kills 28
An explosion and fire killed 28 people working on a natural gas pipeline in eastern Saudi Arabia on Sunday, the Saudi national oil company, Saudi Aramco, said...
New York Times - November 19, 2007
Drilling Down: Humor Can Bring Back an Audience
Comedies do much better in repeats than do dramas...
New York Times - November 19, 2007
The Week Ahead
The coming week in the finance and business worlds...
New York Times - November 19, 2007
Advertising: A Web Site for Pet Lovers, and Marketers Who Love Them
NBC Universal and Procter & Gamble have set up a Web portal that looks something like a Yahoo or AOL for pet owners, with a bit of Facebook and MySpace thrown in...
New York Times - November 19, 2007
Environmental Groups Cutting Catalog Stacks
A coalition of environmental groups has introduced a free Web site, CatalogChoice.org, that allows people to remove themselves from more than 1,000 mailing lists...
New York Times - November 19, 2007
Making News, Without Saying a Word
The Associated Press hastily withdrew an article about Paris Hilton?s concern for drunk elephants after it became clear that it was false...
New York Times - November 19, 2007
Part of an Oil Book Relied on Wikipedia
The publisher John Wiley & Sons confirmed last week that a recent book on oil had lifted five paragraphs from a Wikipedia article on the Khobar Towers bombing in Saudi Arabia...
New York Times - November 19, 2007
French Commuters Face Longer Strike
French commuters braced for a sixth day of no train service and snarled traffic on Monday after transportation unions voted Sunday to press on with their strike...
New York Times - November 19, 2007
Treasury Auctions Set 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 - November 19, 2007
Strike Causes NBC to Skip Event for TV Journalists
For the first time in 20 years, one network is not attending the twice-yearly conference for television journalists...
New York Times - November 19, 2007
The Media Equation: Creativity, Strikes and Power
With the ability to darken theaters, the stagehands have what the writers lack: actual leverage...
New York Times - November 19, 2007
Brazil Discovers an Oil Field Can Be a Political Tool
The discovery of a huge new oil field has the potential to transform Brazil into a global energy powerhouse and to reshape the politics of this energy-starved continent...
New York Times - November 19, 2007
After Global Agreement, Companies May Bid Higher at Wireless Auction in U.S.
A global agreement on the versatile 700-megahertz band of ultra-high frequencies could help boost confidence, and prices, in January?s U.S. auction of wireless spectrum...
New York Times - November 19, 2007
Web Sites Go Fishing in TV?s Advertising Revenue Stream
Web sites are going after the advertising revenue stream of television and their content is starting to look a lot more like traditional TV, including the commercials...
New York Times - November 19, 2007
Fox Cable Guy Edges Into the Big Pay Leagues
Shepard Smith, recently named by Fox News chairman Roger Ailes to lead the channel?s coverage any time news breaks has signed a new multi-million dollar contract with the network...
New York Times - November 19, 2007
Italians Tune in to Real-Life ?Sopranos?
Millions of Italians have tuned in to watch the biographical rise-and-fall saga of Salvatore (Totò) Riina, the mob boss who once commanded organized crime in Sicily...
New York Times - November 19, 2007
Publishers Seek to Mine Book Circles
Increasingly, authors and publishers are tipping their hats to the power of book groups in helping to fuel sales...
New York Times - November 19, 2007
Hollywood Producer of Varied Interests, Many Hits, but Little Fame
Brian Grazer is one of the most successful producers in Hollywood, but his public profile remains relatively slight when compared with his Hollywood peers...
New York Times - November 19, 2007
E-Commerce Report: Retailers Explore New Ways of Being Paid
Several high-end Web retailers are introducing promotions with PayPal, hoping to attract consumers willing try methods other than credit cards to pay for online purchases...
New York Times - November 19, 2007
Celgene to Acquire Pharmion
The biotech company Celgene said Sunday that it would pay $2.9 billion in cash and stock to acquire Pharmion, strengthening Celgene?s cancer drug portfolio and its distribution in Europe...
New York Times - November 19, 2007
A Guerrilla Video Site Meets MTV
Vice magazine, known for a raw, ironic sensibility, risqué photographs and a willingness to deal in taboo subjects, is now giving Viacom a lab for Web programming...
New York Times - November 19, 2007
Goldman Sachs Rakes in Profit in Credit Crisis
Rarely on Wall Street, where money travels in herds, has one firm gotten it so right when nearly everyone else was getting it so wrong...
New York Times - November 19, 2007
US vote rivals in 'scandal' spat
The two top contenders for the Democratic Party's presidential nomination are locked in a bitter dispute...
BBC News - November 19, 2007
Iran brands US dollar 'worthless'
Iranian President Mahmoud Ahmadinejad calls the US dollar "worthless" at the end of the Opec summit...
BBC News - November 19, 2007
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