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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 December 2007:
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Giuliani?s Doctor to Provide Update
Rudolph W. Giuliani provided the most detailed account yet of the health scare that led to his recent hospitalization, saying that he suffered a ?terrible headache? but did not black out...
New York Times - December 22, 2007
Where Boys Were Kings, a Shift Toward Girls
In South Korea, once a rigidly patriarchal society, a centuries-old preference for baby boys is fast receding...
New York Times - December 22, 2007
Technology Leads a Comeback for Shares
The stock market surged last week on robust earnings from technology companies...
New York Times - December 22, 2007
Correction: Bell Labs Is Gone. Academia Steps In.
A headline last Sunday with the Ping column, about research partnerships between universities and corporations, referred incorrectly to the status of Bell Labs. Although it is no longer part of AT&T, it has not been discontinued; it is now the research arm of Alcatel-Lucent. The column also misspelled the surname of the president of Arizona State University, who said that universities? roles in such partnerships would evolve in coming decades. He is Michael Crow, not Crowe...
New York Times - December 22, 2007
The Count: Few Feel a Need to Walk and Surf at the Same Time
A vast majority of cellphone owners are not taking advantage of this Internet capability, even though it is available to most of them...
New York Times - December 22, 2007
Goldman Chief?s Bonus
The Goldman Sachs Group awarded its chief executive, Lloyd C. Blankfein, a record $67.9 million bonus in 2007...
New York Times - December 22, 2007
The Boss: It All Started With Horses
?I always wanted to learn new things, and I was never afraid of change.?...
New York Times - December 22, 2007
News Corporation Sells 8 TV Stations
The News Corporation agreed to sell eight Fox network-affiliated television stations to Oak Hill Capital Partners for about $1.1 billion...
New York Times - December 22, 2007
Suits: A Conference Call That Backfired
With one conference call and one unprintable word, Sallie Mae?s chief executive learned a $3 billion lesson...
New York Times - December 22, 2007
Home Front: Training for a New Life Through a New Trade
A group called Brooklyn Woods seeks to provide a more promising path to people who are chronically unemployed...
New York Times - December 22, 2007
Fundamentally: The Tax Loss as Consolation Prize
When the tax bill is coming due, it can pay to sell low...
New York Times - December 22, 2007
Novelties: The Television Screen, Sliced Ever Thinner
A television set so thin that you could roll it up and carry it in your briefcase? It?s not as far off as you might think...
New York Times - December 22, 2007
Market Maker: Navigating a Tricky Year, Hands On
In 2007, half of all actively managed diversified United States stock funds have beaten the S.& P. 500...
New York Times - December 22, 2007
Taxes Reassessed in Housing Slump as Prices Decline
Downward assessments appear most pronounced in areas where the market was exploding just a few years ago, or where economic conditions are poorest...
New York Times - December 22, 2007
Consumed: Outlet for Exclusivity
How a ??premium?? brand manages the dance with the mass market...
New York Times - December 22, 2007
Fair Game: Clicking the Way to Mortgage Savings
A Web venture gives borrowers a way to compare what they will probably pay for a mortgage in commissions, points, interest rates and fees...
New York Times - December 22, 2007
You Think Santa Is Busy? Talk to a Wood Toy Maker
With customers leery of buying toys made in China, makers of wooden toys say in the U.S. they can barely keep up with demand and are hiring extra employees...
New York Times - December 22, 2007
Square Feet | Checking In: Hotels Discover the Brooklyn Vibe
Several projects planned in the next few years will end a relatively dry spell in hotel development in Brooklyn...
New York Times - December 22, 2007
Under New Management: A New Corporate Path to Disaster Relief
Corporate donations often rise to the occasion, but a lack of coordination hinders relief...
New York Times - December 22, 2007
Scene Stealer: The Afterlife Is Expensive for Digital Movies
A new study shows that storing the digital master record of a film costs much more than storing archival prints...
New York Times - December 22, 2007
Economic View: How to Avoid Recession? Let the Fed Work
Just as patients should avoid doctors who recommend radical surgery for every ailment, voters should be wary of politicians eager to treat every economic ill...
New York Times - December 22, 2007
Spending: Champagne Beyond the Big Names
A relatively new genre of Champagne, made by independent grower-producers, has been quietly gaining a foothold...
New York Times - December 22, 2007
Prototype: Capital Ideas and Social Goals
Attracting investors without putting the charitable focus at risk...
New York Times - December 22, 2007
Everybody?s Business: Tattered Standard of Duty on Wall Street
Some of the biggest names on Wall Street sold securities that they ? apparently ? barely understood themselves...
New York Times - December 22, 2007
Labor Board Restricts Union Use of E-Mail
It is legal for employers to prohibit works from using company e-mail to send out union-related messages, a federal board has ruled...
New York Times - December 22, 2007
Age of Riches: 2 Candidates, 2 Fortunes, 2 Views of Wealth
John Edwards?s and Mitt Romney?s runs are based in large part on the lessons each has taken from his own success...
New York Times - December 22, 2007
Porsche and VW: One Happy Family?
The Beetle and 911 Turbo in one garage: A dynasty is going full circle...
New York Times - December 22, 2007
This Is the Sound of a Bubble Bursting
As real estate values fall, local governments from northern Virginia to southern California are cutting services, eliminating staff and shelving projects...
New York Times - December 22, 2007
As Earth Warms, Virus From Tropics Moves to Italy
Aided by global warming and globalization, Italy suffered the first outbreak of a tropical disease in modern Europe...
New York Times - December 22, 2007
Ruling Lets Firms Bar Union E-mail
The ruling lets employers prohibit workers from using corporate e-mail to distribute union-related messages...
New York Times - December 22, 2007
A 1950 Plan: Arrest 12,000, Suspend Due Process
A declassified document shows J. Edgar Hoover had a plan to imprison 12,000 Americans he suspected of disloyalty...
New York Times - December 22, 2007
Christmas Flourishes, Across a Green Stillness
Around the country, this is the season when cemeteries become homes for many families? second Christmas tree...
New York Times - December 22, 2007
Democrats Make Bush School Act an Election Issue
Unceasing criticism of the No Child Left Behind Act by the Democratic presidential contenders promises to make a second effort to renew it even harder...
New York Times - December 22, 2007
Emerald City of Giving Does Exist
When it comes to corporate philanthropy, Minneapolis-St. Paul is a bastion of giving in an age when most companies are cutting back...
New York Times - December 22, 2007
At Heinz, Hoping to Leave a Legacy of Product Safety
Heinz chief executive William R. Johnson discusses product quality and the influence of shareholder activist Nelson Peltz on the company...
New York Times - December 22, 2007
Shares Decline on Larger Loss at Circuit City
Shares of the electronics retailer Circuit City Stores fell sharply after the company reported a wider-than-expected loss...
New York Times - December 22, 2007
Philips in $5.1 Billion Deal for Respironics
The acquisition of Respironics, which makes medical devices that assist or monitor breathing, is one of a steady stream of takeovers of U.S. companies by Philips? medical arm...
New York Times - December 22, 2007
Vermont Rejects Sale of Verizon Lines
Vermont regulators rejected a $2.7 billion plan by FairPoint Communications to buy Verizon?s landlines in northern New England...
New York Times - December 22, 2007
Hunting Expands. So Does Camouflage. Can You See a Pattern Here?
With more than 100 different patterns of camouflage now available, the American hunter has a lot more thinking to do about his or her appearance in the field...
New York Times - December 22, 2007
Goldman Is Buying Stake in a Troubled Student-Loan Company
Goldman Sachs agreed to buy a $260.5 million stake in the First Marblehead Corporation, shoring up the troubled student-loan company and sending its stock soaring...
New York Times - December 22, 2007
Groceries on the Computer, and Immigrants in the Cold
Fresh Direct?s great successes have been built on a low-wage, transient workforce anchored by illegal immigrants...
New York Times - December 22, 2007
I.R.S. Bars Investment Strategy Used to Sidestep Rule on Losses
The Internal Revenue Service has banned a year-end investment strategy used to get around the so-called wash sale rules on harvesting tax losses...
New York Times - December 22, 2007
China Less Willing to Be America?s Piggy Bank
China has been the financier keeping the U.S. government well funded, but the rate of increase of its holdings of dollar-based securities seems to have slowed...
New York Times - December 22, 2007
Insurance Brokerage to Replace Its Chief
Marsh & McLennan Companies, the insurance broker, said it would replace its embattled chief executive, Michael G. Cherkasky...
New York Times - December 22, 2007
United Rentals Loses Bid to Make Suitor Complete Buyout
In a victory for Cerberus Capital Management, a judge ruled against United Rentals? petition to force the private equity firm to complete its $4 billion buyout...
New York Times - December 22, 2007
Now on Sale: The Discards of Investors
One less festive sign of the holiday season is the magnification of losses in some of the worst-performing stocks...
New York Times - December 22, 2007
BMW Plans Thousands of Layoffs
Facing rising costs and resurgent competition from rivals like Mercedes, BMW announced its first significant layoffs in at least a decade...
New York Times - December 22, 2007
Alan Wagner, 76, First President of the Disney Channel, Is Dead
Mr. Wagner was a former CBS programming executive who became the first president of the Disney Channel...
New York Times - December 22, 2007
Back Talk on Pretending to Be Busy, or Infallible
Readers respond with wit, wisdom, and sometimes some venom, to Shortcuts columns...
New York Times - December 22, 2007
Buy Little, Waste Less
A group of environmentally concerned friends spent a year off the ?consumer grid? and spawned a new sort of abstinence movement...
New York Times - December 22, 2007
For Small Animals, a Fleck Is a Lot
Lead poisoning in pets is decreasing as lead paint grows more rare. But if your pet shows symptoms of lead poisoning, you should be tested as well...
New York Times - December 22, 2007
Do-It-Yourself Music Stardom
Both Radiohead and a former Talking Head have advice for young artists on navigating the chaotic music industry...
New York Times - December 22, 2007
Truce Reached in Fight Over Chinese Beverage Company
Group Danone and the Wahaha Group, one of China?s biggest beverage makers, pledged to ?suspend all lawsuits and arbitrations? to revive a troubled joint venture...
New York Times - December 22, 2007
A Brisk Business in Selling Hope by the Wick
Devotional candles, kindled by anyone with a wish or a prayer, are a lucrative niche in the $2 billion candle market in the United States...
New York Times - December 22, 2007
A Buyout for Manager of Drug Trials
One Equity Partners agreed to sell its stake in Quintiles Transnational, a big manager of clinical drug trials, to its C.E.O. and two buyout firms...
New York Times - December 22, 2007
In Trade Ruling, Antigua Wins a Right to Piracy
In an unusual W.T.O. ruling, Antigua won the right to violate copyright protections on goods like films and music from the United States as part of a dispute over online gambling...
New York Times - December 22, 2007
No Joke, Bulb Change Is Challenge for U.S.
When 2012 hits, stores will no longer be able to sell the cheap but inefficient incandescent light bulbs that are fixtures in most homes...
New York Times - December 22, 2007
Everyday Items, Complex Chemistry
Holiday shoppers may worry about whether the toys they buy contain lead, but some scientists are urging consumers to focus on the thousands of chemicals in everyday household items...
New York Times - December 22, 2007
For Pet Owners, Too, Toys a Reason for Concern
Following the pet food scare this year, and a spate of children?s toy recalls, pet owners have been stepping forward to ask: How safe are pet toys?...
New York Times - December 22, 2007
The Recalls? Aftershocks
What happened to all the lead-tainted products that have been recalled recently? Most, it turns out, may still be in consumers? hands...
New York Times - December 22, 2007
News Mixed, but Stocks Still Manage Strong Rally
Stock markets ended the week with a surge on reports of a possible foreign investment in Merrill Lynch and an uptick in consumer spending...
New York Times - December 22, 2007
Big Fund to Prop Up Securities Is Scrapped
Big banks have pulled the plug on a Treasury Department-backed plan to rescue troubled investment vehicles leveled by the subprime mortgage crisis...
New York Times - December 22, 2007
Fliers Fed Up? Airline Employees Feel the Same
A rich record of employee discontent emerges from question-and-answer sessions at US Airways...
New York Times - December 22, 2007
Stricken US ship pilot 'novice'
The navigator of a ship that ran aground off Alaska was only 22 and had no knowledge of the area, a report says...
BBC News - December 22, 2007
Belgium Frees 14 Detained Over Prisoner Plot
Because of a lack of evidence, 14 suspects detained over an alleged plot to free an al-Qaida prisoner were released...
New York Times - December 22, 2007
Alan Wagner, 76, First President of the Disney Channel, Is Dead
Mr. Wagner was a former CBS programming executive who became the first president of the Disney Channel...
New York Times - December 22, 2007
Giuliani, on the Mend, Slows Campaign Pace
Rudolph W. Giuliani, who was hospitalized this week, said he was ?feeling good, I got a good night?s sleep.?...
New York Times - December 22, 2007
Jailed 17 Years, Long Island Man Wins Second Trial
A state appeals court overturned the conviction of Martin H. Tankleff in the grisly murders of his parents in 1988...
New York Times - December 22, 2007
About New York: In a Flash, a Life of Helping Shifts to Needing Help
Susan Barron, a psychologist, mentor and volunteer, was injured in a random attack by a knife-wielding man...
New York Times - December 22, 2007
For Jets, Silence on Concussions Signals Unease
Concussions are an issue in all of football, but for the New York Jets, an institutional silence persists on the matter...
New York Times - December 22, 2007
The Long Run: Persuasive Huckabee Changed a State, His Way
Mike Huckabee produced a legacy in Arkansas like few other Republican governors in the South, but he tended to freeze out anyone who disagreed with his plans...
New York Times - December 22, 2007
Philips in $5.1 Billion Deal for Respironics
The acquisition of Respironics, which makes medical devices that assist or monitor breathing, is one of a steady stream of takeovers of U.S. companies by Philips? medical arm...
New York Times - December 22, 2007
Shares Decline on Larger Loss at Circuit City
Shares of the electronics retailer Circuit City Stores fell sharply after the company reported a wider-than-expected loss...
New York Times - December 22, 2007
Hunting Expands. So Does Camouflage. Can You See a Pattern Here?
With more than 100 different patterns of camouflage now available, the American hunter has a lot more thinking to do about his or her appearance in the field...
New York Times - December 22, 2007
Goldman Is Buying Stake in a Troubled Student-Loan Company
Goldman Sachs agreed to buy a $260.5 million stake in the First Marblehead Corporation, shoring up the troubled student-loan company and sending its stock soaring...
New York Times - December 22, 2007
Vermont Rejects Sale of Verizon Lines
Vermont regulators rejected a $2.7 billion plan by FairPoint Communications to buy Verizon?s landlines in northern New England...
New York Times - December 22, 2007
Groceries on the Computer, and Immigrants in the Cold
Fresh Direct?s great successes have been built on a low-wage, transient workforce anchored by illegal immigrants...
New York Times - December 22, 2007
I.R.S. Bars Investment Strategy Used to Sidestep Rule on Losses
The Internal Revenue Service has banned a year-end investment strategy used to get around the so-called wash sale rules on harvesting tax losses...
New York Times - December 22, 2007
Off The Charts: China Less Willing to Be America?s Piggy Bank
China has been the financier keeping the U.S. government well funded, but the rate of increase of its holdings of dollar-based securities seems to have slowed...
New York Times - December 22, 2007
Insurance Brokerage to Replace Its Chief
Marsh & McLennan Companies, the insurance broker, said it would replace its embattled chief executive, Michael G. Cherkasky...
New York Times - December 22, 2007
BMW Plans Thousands of Layoffs
Facing rising costs and resurgent competition from rivals like Mercedes, BMW announced its first significant layoffs in at least a decade...
New York Times - December 22, 2007
United Rentals Loses Bid to Make Suitor Complete Buyout
In a victory for Cerberus Capital Management, a judge ruled against United Rentals? petition to force the private equity firm to complete its $4 billion buyout...
New York Times - December 22, 2007
Buy Little, Waste Less
A group of environmentally concerned friends spent a year off the ?consumer grid? and spawned a new sort of abstinence movement...
New York Times - December 22, 2007
Market Values: Now on Sale: The Discards of Investors
One less festive sign of the holiday season is the magnification of losses in some of the worst-performing stocks...
New York Times - December 22, 2007
Shortcuts: Back Talk on Pretending to Be Busy, or Infallible
Readers respond with wit, wisdom, and sometimes some venom, to Shortcuts columns...
New York Times - December 22, 2007
Talking Business: Emerald City of Giving Does Exist
When it comes to corporate philanthropy, Minneapolis-St. Paul is a bastion of giving in an age when most companies are cutting back...
New York Times - December 22, 2007
Saturday Interview: At Heinz, Hoping to Leave a Legacy of Product Safety
Heinz chief executive William R. Johnson discusses product quality and the influence of shareholder activist Nelson Peltz on the company...
New York Times - December 22, 2007
Truce Reached in Fight Over Chinese Beverage Company
Group Danone and the Wahaha Group, one of China?s biggest beverage makers, pledged to ?suspend all lawsuits and arbitrations? to revive its troubled joint venture...
New York Times - December 22, 2007
What?s Online: Do-It-Yourself Music Stardom
Both Radiohead a former Talking Head have advice for young artists on navigating the chaotic music industry...
New York Times - December 22, 2007
In Trade Ruling, Antigua Wins a Right to Piracy
In an unusual W.T.O. ruling, Antigua won the right to violate copyright protections on goods like films and music from the United States as part of a dispute over online gambling...
New York Times - December 22, 2007
A Buyout for Manager of Drug Trials
One Equity Partners agreed to sell its stake in Quintiles Transnational, a big manager of clinical drug trials, to its CEO and two buyout firms...
New York Times - December 22, 2007
A Brisk Business in Selling Hope by the Wick
Devotional candles, kindled by anyone with a wish or a prayer, are a lucrative niche in the $2 billion candle market in the United States...
New York Times - December 22, 2007
No Joke, Bulb Change Is Challenge for U.S.
When 2012 hits, stores can no longer sell the cheap but inefficient incandescent light bulbs that are fixtures in most homes...
New York Times - December 22, 2007
For Small Animals, a Fleck Is a Lot
Lead poisoning in pets is decreasing as lead paint grows more rare. But if your pet shows symptoms of lead poisoning, you should be tested as well...
New York Times - December 22, 2007
Everyday Items, Complex Chemistry
Holiday shoppers may worry if the toys they buy contain lead, but some scientists are urging consumers to focus on the thousands of chemicals in everyday household items...
New York Times - December 22, 2007
Toys a Worry for Pet Owners, Too
Following the pet food scare this year, and a spate of children?s toy recalls, pet owners have been stepping forward to ask: How safe are pet toys?...
New York Times - December 22, 2007
The Recalls? Aftershocks
What happened to all the lead-tainted products that have been recalled recently? Most, it turns out, may still be in the consumers? hands...
New York Times - December 22, 2007
Big Fund to Prop Up Securities Is Scrapped
Big banks have pulled the plug on a Treasury Department-backed plan to rescue troubled investment vehicles leveled by the subprime mortgage crisis...
New York Times - December 22, 2007
Fliers Fed Up? Airline Employees Feel the Same
A rich record of employee discontent emerges from question-and-answer sessions at US Airways, which encourages workers to ask tough questions...
New York Times - December 22, 2007
News Mixed, but Stocks Still Manage Strong Rally
Stock markets ended the week with a surge on reports of a possible foreign investment in Merrill Lynch and an uptick in consumer spending...
New York Times - December 22, 2007
Court row over CIA tape inquiry
A US federal judge considers a call to probe the CIA's deletion of interrogation tapes of two al-Qaeda suspects...
BBC News - December 22, 2007
Fujimori 'regrets' rights abuses
Peru's ex-President Alberto Fujimori voices regret over abuses committed under his rule but denies ordering them...
BBC News - December 22, 2007
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