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Madonna, Ritchie get preliminary divorce decree
Southern Ledger - November 22, 2008
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Madonna, Ritchie granted preliminary divorce
Southern Ledger - November 22, 2008
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Spears makes unexpected appearance in court
Southern Ledger - November 22, 2008
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Astronauts step out for longest, hardest spacewalk
Southern Ledger - November 22, 2008
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Zimbabwe rejects Carter, Annan, Machel
Southern Ledger - November 22, 2008
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Nepals Buddha boy returns to jungle to meditate
Southern Ledger - November 22, 2008
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Romes chaos and crime meets its would-be Giuliani
Southern Ledger - November 22, 2008
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Jetliner plot suspect believed killed in Pakistan
Southern Ledger - November 22, 2008
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Economy, not rights, rules the new China-US world
Southern Ledger - November 22, 2008
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US News Archive for August 2005:
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Saddam: My soul to be 'sacrificed'
Imprisoned former Iraqi President Saddam Hussein has written a letter to a friend saying he is prepared to sacrifice himself for the Arab cause, and calls on other Arabs to follow his example...
CNN - August 21, 2005
Democrats on the Attack in Second Mayoral Debate
Showing new aggressiveness, the four Democratic candidates mounted sharp, sometimes snide attacks on one another...
New York Times - August 21, 2005
Girls Just Want to Belong
A retail "club" sells packaged fantasies — and sociability — in the shopping mall...
New York Times - August 21, 2005
Once a Booming Market, Educational Software for the PC Takes a Nose Dive
In 2000, sales of educational software for home computers reached $498 million. Yet in less than five years, that entire market has come undone...
New York Times - August 21, 2005
Lord Black's Man Preferred the Ledger to the Limelight
Conrad M. Black and F. David Radler, once top executives of Hollinger, are case studies in a stunning corporate meltdown...
New York Times - August 21, 2005
Israeli troops resume Gaza pullout
Israeli troops use a front-end loader to break through a locked gate and a flaming barricade at the Katif settlement, as historic Gaza evacuations resume after the Jewish Sabbath...
CNN - August 21, 2005
General: Four more years in Iraq
The U.S. Army is making plans to keep the current number of soldiers in Iraq -- well over 100,000 -- for four more years, the Army's top general said Saturday...
CNN - August 21, 2005
Iraqi negotiators agree on constitution sticking point
Iraqi negotiators have reached agreement on a major roadblock to a new Iraqi constitution and an agreement could be reached on another soon, a senior Iraqi official said on Sunday...
CNN - August 21, 2005
Hagel: Iraq war has destabilized Mideast
A leading Republican senator and decorated Vietnam War veteran said Sunday the Iraq war has destabilized the Mideast and is looking more like the Vietnam conflict a generation ago...
CNN - August 21, 2005
Boxing: Soto interim champion
Fernando Vargas wins his second comeback fight while Humberto Soto upsets Ricardo Juarez...
BBC News - August 21, 2005
Afghan blasts target US officials
Two roadside bombs hit US targets, killing four American soldiers and injuring two embassy officials...
BBC News - August 21, 2005
François Dalle, Ex-Chief of L'Oréal, Is Dead at 87
François Dalle was a prominent French industrialist who guided L'Oréal in the years it became a worldwide cosmetics empire...
New York Times - August 21, 2005
Brooks in deal with retail giant
Country music star Garth Brooks signs a deal with Wal-Mart to exclusively sell his records...
BBC News - August 21, 2005
Tennis: Roddick secures win
Andy Roddick beats Lleyton Hewitt to set up a final against Roger Federer at the Cincinnati Masters...
BBC News - August 21, 2005
Golf: Woods and Perry set pace
Tiger Woods and Kenny Perry lead at the rain-interrrupted NEC World Golf Championship event...
BBC News - August 21, 2005
Cuba and Panama restore relations
Cuba and Panama renew ties severed after a row over a suspected plot to assassinate Fidel Castro...
BBC News - August 21, 2005
Col Gaddafi invites Bush to Libya
Libya's Colonel Muammar Gaddafi invites President Bush to visit his country, a visiting US senator says...
BBC News - August 21, 2005
DNA clues to Greek air crash
Authorities verify that blood found in the cockpit of the airliner that crashed in Greece was that of a flight attendant, according to a source close to the investigation. Mystery continues to shroud the final moments of Helios Airways Flight 522 before it crashed, killing all 121 people on board...
CNN - August 21, 2005
Constitution deadline nears
The role of Islam and the relationship between Iraq's central and regional governments remain the major roadblocks in completing a draft constitution, sources told CNN. With a Monday deadline looming, questions remain on what kind of compromise can be reached between Kurds, Shiite Arabs and Sunni Arabs...
CNN - August 21, 2005
Pentagon defends base closures plan
Pentagon officials said Saturday in their final appearance before the commission reviewing their plan to close or scale back military bases that the changes do not overestimate savings and would strengthen national security...
CNN - August 21, 2005
Bush Confidante Begins Task of Repairing America's Image Abroad
Karen Hughes, installed at the State Department, plans to set up "rapid response" teams to defend administration policies around the globe...
New York Times - August 21, 2005
Young and Coastal? Your Identity Is Most at Risk
Young and Coastal?...
New York Times - August 21, 2005
Travels With My Florida Parrot T-Shirt
In "The Travels of a T-Shirt in the Global Economy," Pietra Rivoli has mined a subject known for dry polemics and created an engaging and illuminating saga...
New York Times - August 21, 2005
François Dalle Ex-Chief of L'Oréal, Is Dead at 87
François Dalle, a prominent French industrialist who guided L'Oréal in the years it became a worldwide cosmetics empire, died in Geneva, where he lived, on Aug. 9. He was 87...
New York Times - August 21, 2005
Staring at the Sun, Despite Mom's Advice
The Solarscope is a sophisticated viewing apparatus for observing a total eclipse of the sun...
New York Times - August 21, 2005
Letters
Inheriting Taxes...
New York Times - August 21, 2005
And They Call This Advice?
How curious: only one advisory firm supports Providian Financial Corporation's merger with Washington Mutual...
New York Times - August 21, 2005
U.S. Trade Pact Divides the Central Americans, With Farmers and Others Fearful
If the Central America Free Trade Agreement is approved, small farmers say they will be wiped out. If it is not, manufacturers say they may move to another country...
New York Times - August 21, 2005
Girls Just Want to Belong
A retail "club" sells packaged fantasies — and sociability — in the shopping mall...
New York Times - August 21, 2005
Productivity Is Up. Or Down. Pick Your Statistic.
Two contradictory measures of productivity could mean there's a big problem with productivity in the financial sector...
New York Times - August 21, 2005
An Investor Gingerly Returns to Treasuries
THOMAS H. ATTEBERRY, a manager of the New Income Fund at First Pacific Advisors in Los Angeles, is inching back into the Treasury market. That's news from a portfolio manager who had as much as 40 percent of his fund in money market funds as recently as February...
New York Times - August 21, 2005
Fining the Directors Misses the Mark
What's the best way to deter corporate malfeasance? Fining the board of directors may not be the best way to go...
New York Times - August 21, 2005
If the Contrarians Are at the Gate, They May Just Be Lost
SOME financial advisers who watch the VIX, a Chicago Board Options Exchange index that reflects traders' expectations of volatility in the stock market, have come to resemble cowboys patrolling their camp at night: They worry that trouble must be brewing when it becomes too quiet...
New York Times - August 21, 2005
Corporate Law Class: First, What Not to Do
In what must be an unusual welcome for new law students, Timothy P. Glynn led a crash course on Thursday on how not to practice law...
New York Times - August 21, 2005
Why Invest in a Strip Mall If You Can Own a Prison?
Some real estate investment trusts specialize in car dealerships, movie theaters, timberland and even prisons...
New York Times - August 21, 2005
The Smallest Raise in the Office Was Yours
If your salary increase doesn't match your co-workers', should you make a fuss?...
New York Times - August 21, 2005
M.D. From Mayberry R.F.D.
Julie L. Gerberding is the director of the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention in Atlanta...
New York Times - August 21, 2005
As Oil Prices Soar, Is It Time to Bail Out?
Some professionals are counseling that investors should take caution and take profits while energy markets are still bubbling...
New York Times - August 21, 2005
Steal This Book. Or at Least Download It Free.
Warren Adler, the author of "The War of the Roses," talks about the impact of the Internet on publishing...
New York Times - August 21, 2005
Exile From Wall Street
In the annals of Wall Street, Philip J. Purcell's humiliating fate is unprecedented. What will the former chief executive of Morgan Stanley do now?...
New York Times - August 21, 2005
For Merck, Vioxx Paper Trail Won't Go Away
The explanation for the $253.5 million verdict returned against Merck last week may lie in the "bad facts" that the plaintiff's lawyer presented to the jury...
New York Times - August 21, 2005
Be Warned: Mr. Bubble's Worried Again
Robert J. Shiller is arguing that the housing craze is another bubble destined to end badly, just as every other real-estate boom on record has...
New York Times - August 21, 2005
Mark Cuban Is Mad (Again). But Why?
Mark Cuban, the entrepreneur and owner of the Dallas Mavericks basketball team, has focused his infamous bark on a corporate boardroom...
New York Times - August 21, 2005
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