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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 November 2007:
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Dot Earth Blog: Growing Pains in Pursuit of Happiness
Is there deeper concern out there, perhaps, about the viability of an economics driven by the engine of growing consumption on a finite planet?...
New York Times - November 25, 2007
News Analysis: In Broadway Dispute, Questions of Fairness
Broadway producers declared, repeatedly, that the stagehands? contract was filled with so many inefficiencies that elemental fairness cried out for overhauling it...
New York Times - November 25, 2007
California Fire Eases as Winds Subside
Firefighters gained the upper hand in efforts to battle a fire in Malibu that burned 4,700 acres and destroyed about 50 homes...
New York Times - November 25, 2007
Anti-Putin Protesters Arrested in Russia
On a second day of rallies against President Putin, riot police officers detained numerous marchers...
New York Times - November 25, 2007
Talks Resume Again in Broadway Strike
Today?s talks were the first time that the two sides had sat down for negotiations since they broke down on Nov. 18...
New York Times - November 25, 2007
Vikings 41, Giants 17: Rough Day for Manning and a Surprising Loss for the Giants
The Vikings defense utterly confused the Giants and Eli Manning, who threw four interceptions, three of them returned for touchdowns, in a loss to Minnesota...
New York Times - November 25, 2007
Retail Sales Rise, but Stores Relied on Discounts and Early Hours
The reports suggest that jittery consumers are flocking to rock-bottom prices and to little else ? a boon for discount stores but trouble for higher-end chains...
New York Times - November 25, 2007
Behind Rice?s Shift on Leading Mideast Peace Efforts
For Condoleezza Rice, the peace negotiations between Israelis and Palestinians in Annapolis, Md., reflect her evolution from passive participant to activist diplomat...
New York Times - November 25, 2007
Retail Sales Rise, but Stores Relied on Discounts and Early Hours
The reports suggest that jittery consumers are flocking to rock-bottom prices and to little else ? a boon for discount stores but trouble for higher-end chains...
New York Times - November 25, 2007
Chavez freezes ties with Colombia
Venezuela's Hugo Chavez freezes ties with Colombia, after his mediation role in a hostage dispute is ended...
BBC News - November 25, 2007
Dot Earth : Song of the Hunted Humpback
The clash between Japan and many western nations over killing whales clicked up another notch last week. As Japanese whalers, claiming to operate under the mantle of science, steamed toward waters near Antarctica, one of the new species on their harvest list was the humpback -- a whale whose eerie song became a platinum-selling recording and whose full-body breaches are a draw for whale watching fleets worldwide...
New York Times - November 25, 2007
The Caucus Blog: Clinton Is Pressed on Murdoch
On the trail, concerns about media consolidation...
New York Times - November 25, 2007
The Quad Blog: Missouri Has That Winning Feeling
Missouri's victory over Kansas legitimized its high ranking and gave quarterback Chase Daniel a serious boost in the Heisman Trophy race...
New York Times - November 25, 2007
Massachusetts Faces a Test on Health Care
As the Democratic presidential candidates debate whether Americans should be forced to obtain health insurance, the people of Massachusetts are living the dilemma...
New York Times - November 25, 2007
Cricket: Lara seeks backing
West Indies great Brian Lara calls for recognition for the rebel Twenty20 league due to begin in India next week...
BBC News - November 25, 2007
North Sea Oil Platform Catches Fire
A North Sea oil platform was being evacuated after a fire broke out on board the rig, rescue officials said...
New York Times - November 25, 2007
Missouri Hands Kansas Its First Loss
If Missouri beats No. 10 Oklahoma for the Big 12 crown, it will move on to play for its first national title...
New York Times - November 25, 2007
Correction: In a Catalog of Catastrophes, Hurricanes Rule
The Count column last Sunday, about insurance losses from catastrophes, misstated the year of Hurricane Katrina, which was responsible for $41.1 billion in losses. It was 2005, not 2002...
New York Times - November 25, 2007
The Count: When Ownership of a Home Turns Negative
Among homes bought in the last year, nearly 16 percent are now worth less than the amount of the original mortgage, according to a real estate research firm...
New York Times - November 25, 2007
Correction: The Lottery Industry?s Own Powerball
An article last Sunday about Rebecca Paul Hargrove, who has run state lotteries in Illinois, Florida, Georgia and now Tennessee, misstated a former title of her husband, Jere L. Hargrove. He was a Tennessee state representative, not state senator. The article also referred incorrectly to the location of two retailers that reflect Ms. Hargrove?s tastes as a consumer. The stores, Target and Tiffany?s, are across the street from each other in the Buckhead area of Atlanta, not in downtown Nashville...
New York Times - November 25, 2007
The Boss: A Serious Side of Fun
?One thing that my generation got right, I think, was that we believed that the personal, professional and political are inextricably intertwined.?...
New York Times - November 25, 2007
Fed?s Forecast Weighs on Stocks
Despite a rally during a shortened trading session on Friday, the stock market gave up more ground last week, as the Federal Reserve issued an expanded and rather gloomy report on the economy...
New York Times - November 25, 2007
Novelties: A Web Tour Will Show Stores From the Inside Out
A new three-dimensional promotional tool will allow Web surfers to venture down streets and inside some local businesses...
New York Times - November 25, 2007
The List Is Stellar, but a Little Dated
At least four of the ?100 Best C.E.O.?s? listed in a new magazine will not be around for future lists...
New York Times - November 25, 2007
Market Week: Tea Leaves Don?t Show a Holiday Lift
For stocks to reverse their slide, investors probably will have to overlook the negative impact that the housing market seems to be having...
New York Times - November 25, 2007
Home Front: School Renovation as a Learning Experience
A group of New York City architects and designers gives high school students a taste of the work that these professionals do...
New York Times - November 25, 2007
Investing: From New Mutual Funds, Help in Serving the Nest Egg
Many investors reach retirement with only the vaguest notion of how to switch from accumulating assets to tapping them to finance their usual standard of living...
New York Times - November 25, 2007
Fair Game: Blame the Borrowers? Not So Fast
Many subprime borrowers with fixed-rate loans are doing fine...
New York Times - November 25, 2007
Go Figure: Trying to Guess What Happens Next
You don?t need to be a Wall Street chieftain to feel the anxiety that has wrapped its arms around the American economy. But how bad could things get?...
New York Times - November 25, 2007
Dr. Drug Rep
During a year of being paid to give talks to doctors about an antidepressant, a psychiatrist comes to terms with the fact that taking pharmaceutical money can cloud your judgment...
New York Times - November 25, 2007
Spending: An Allowance That?s Measured in Minutes, Not Cents
For some children, household chores and school work earn ?screen time? with a computer or television...
New York Times - November 25, 2007
Prototype: Mobile Web: So Close Yet So Far
The wireless communications business smacks of a soap opera, with disaster lurking like your next dropped call...
New York Times - November 25, 2007
Square Feet | Checking In: Luxury Lodging for the Eco-Tourist
The options are expanding for travelers to Costa Rica who wish to celebrate and preserve the natural environment...
New York Times - November 25, 2007
Under New Management: The Office Party, as a Tightrope Walk
Planning holiday festivities at the workplace is complicated enough to make some managers wish that the Grinch had succeeded after all...
New York Times - November 25, 2007
Scene Stealer: The Line Between Homage and Parody
Poking fun at revered Disney characters could damage their image...
New York Times - November 25, 2007
Everybody's Business: Time Runs Out on a Place to See and Be Seen
Of all the sorrows on display in Los Angeles lately, the saddest for me is the closing of Morton?s...
New York Times - November 25, 2007
Economic View: A Time for Bold Thinking on Housing
For lessons in real-estate innovation, look back to the 1930s...
New York Times - November 25, 2007
Fundamentally: It May Not Be Double-Digit, but It?s Still a Gain
Lost amid the angst on Wall Street is the fact that the average domestic stock fund was still up 2.4 percent this year...
New York Times - November 25, 2007
DNA Tests Find Branches but Few Roots
A number of scientists and scholars are questioning assertions made by companies offering DNA testing to individuals exploring their ancestry...
New York Times - November 25, 2007
Market Maker: The Store Is Jumpin?. The Stock Isn?t.
One classic bit of investor folklore ? the retailer you discover at the mall whose stock ends up going through the roof ? may no longer be helpful...
New York Times - November 25, 2007
Payload: Taking Aim at Corporate Bribery
A probe of a British military contractor is but one in a bounty of investigations recently started under a once-obscure anticorruption law...
New York Times - November 25, 2007
UK missile plan 'sneaked out'
Plans to use an RAF base for a US ballistic missile defence system were sneaked out by ministers, MPs say...
BBC News - November 25, 2007
Amateurs Unravel Russia?s Last Royal Mystery
A discovery may have finally put to rest rumors that two of the children of Czar Nicholas II had escaped execution...
New York Times - November 25, 2007
Farmyard Stills Quench a Thirst for Local Spirits
On the heels of the microbrewing boom, new microdistilleries are thriving from coast to coast, including one on a Kansas farm...
New York Times - November 25, 2007
Fire in Southern California Prompts Evacuations
A wildfire driven by the dry, seasonal Santa Ana winds destroyed dozens of houses as it raced through the canyons and hills above Malibu, forcing hundreds of residents to flee...
New York Times - November 25, 2007
Australian Premier, an Ally of Bush, Is Defeated
Prime Minister John Howard, one of President Bush?s staunchest allies in Asia, suffered a resounding loss after 11 years in power...
New York Times - November 25, 2007
Unthinkable in September, Missouri Just One Win Away
If the Tigers beat No. 10 Oklahoma for the Big 12 championship, they will move on to play for their first national title...
New York Times - November 25, 2007
Talk of Efforts to Fix Matches Rattles Pro Tennis
Several ranked players have said they have been asked to throw matches in a scandal that has grown into the worst crisis in tennis...
New York Times - November 25, 2007
As Democrats See Security Gains in Iraq, Tone Shifts
Democratic presidential candidates are trying to shift the focus to the lack of political progress, and are highlighting other issues...
New York Times - November 25, 2007
Revised Rule for Employers That Hire Immigrants
The Bush administration will suspend its legal defense of a new rule to punish employers who hire illegal immigrants...
New York Times - November 25, 2007
Vindicated by DNA, but a Lost Man on the Outside
Exonerated after 16 years in prison, Jeffrey Mark Deskovic is a free man who has yet to feel truly free...
New York Times - November 25, 2007
U.S. Scales Back Political Goals for Iraqi Unity
The Bush administration does not expect quick progress on major goals like regional elections and a plan to share oil revenues...
New York Times - November 25, 2007
Blame the Borrowers? Not So Fast
Many subprime borrowers with fixed-rate loans are doing fine...
New York Times - November 25, 2007
Bland Menu if Cable Goes à la Carte
As appealing as à la carte cable may sound, there is a reason that Congress has not taken the bait: it would be a consumer disaster...
New York Times - November 25, 2007
Broadway Now Brighter as ?The Grinch? Reopens
?Dr. Seuss? How the Grinch Stole Christmas! The Musical? reopened ? the ninth Broadway production to be running...
New York Times - November 25, 2007
The Many Errors in Thinking About Mistakes
Of the many mistakes I have no doubt made over the last few weeks, two stand out: One cost me money and one cost me some pride...
New York Times - November 25, 2007
Selling Jewelry Is Mostly Pitfalls, Not Much Glitter
While buying jewelry, whether at department or specialty stores, at craft fairs or on eBay, is quick and easy, selling it is often slow, difficult and confusing...
New York Times - November 25, 2007
Being Skeptical of Green
Consumers who think they can help improve the environment should be careful when it comes to their purchasing decisions and avoid relying on labels...
New York Times - November 25, 2007
Loss of Tax Data Rocks British Government
Opinion polls taken after the government on Wednesday announced the loss of the computer data suggested slumping support for Prime Minister Gordon Brown...
New York Times - November 25, 2007
Deputy Finance Minister Is Charged in Russia
Sergei A. Storchak is charged with conspiring to embezzle $43.4 million, in a politically tinged case seen as undermining the position of liberals in the Russian government...
New York Times - November 25, 2007
Jet?s Snags Don?t Deter Boeing?s Fans
Boeing has been blessed with a nearly perfect environment in which to do business, at least until recently...
New York Times - November 25, 2007
In Europe, Weathering Credit Storm From U.S.
Jolting announcements from CIFG Holdings and Swiss Re are stoking fears that Europe will suffer more of the credit ills that have plagued major banks in the United States...
New York Times - November 25, 2007
Publisher Gets Web Readers to Fill the Pages of Its Magazines
A funny thing happened while Halsey Minor, the founder of CNet.com, was trying to kill print journalism. He ended up publishing magazines - the kind he and others had declared obsolete...
New York Times - November 25, 2007
Far From Beijing?s Reach, Officials Bend Energy Rules
When the Chinese government announced a campaign to cut energy use two years ago, some local officials got to work: not to comply, but to devise schemes to evade the requirements...
New York Times - November 25, 2007
Bargains Draw Crowds, but the Thrill Is Gone
Shoppers favored discounted chains over more expensive retailers as an uncertain economy hung over their heads...
New York Times - November 25, 2007
Bargain Hunting on Wall Street
Investors leapt into the ailing stock market, snapping up discounted shares of financial companies that had been battered by shake-ups and write-downs tied to subprime mortgages...
New York Times - November 25, 2007
Strategies to Avoid Medicare?s Big Hole
A gap in Medicare?s prescription drug coverage is helping to curb growth in the nation?s drug spending by pushing people toward low-cost generic drugs...
New York Times - November 25, 2007
Fed?s Forecast Weighs on Stocks
Despite a rally during a shortened trading session on Friday, the stock market gave up more ground last week, as the Federal Reserve issued an expanded and rather gloomy report on the economy...
New York Times - November 25, 2007
When Ownership of a Home Turns Negative
Among homes bought in the last year, nearly 16 percent are now worth less than the amount of the original mortgage, according to a real estate research firm...
New York Times - November 25, 2007
The List Is Stellar, but a Little Dated
At least four of the ?100 Best C.E.O.?s? listed in a new magazine will not be around for future lists...
New York Times - November 25, 2007
A Serious Side of Fun
?One thing that my generation got right, I think, was that we believed that the personal, professional and political are inextricably intertwined.?...
New York Times - November 25, 2007
Tea Leaves Don?t Show a Holiday Lift
For stocks to reverse their slide, investors probably will have to overlook the negative impact that the housing market seems to be having...
New York Times - November 25, 2007
A Web Tour Will Show Stores From the Inside Out
A new three-dimensional promotional tool will allow Web surfers to venture down streets and inside some local businesses...
New York Times - November 25, 2007
School Renovation as a Learning Experience
A group of New York City architects and designers gives high school students a taste of the work that these professionals do...
New York Times - November 25, 2007
From New Mutual Funds, Help in Serving the Nest Egg
Many investors reach retirement with only the vaguest notion of how to switch from accumulating assets to tapping them to finance their usual standard of living...
New York Times - November 25, 2007
Trying to Guess What Happens Next
You don?t need to be a Wall Street chieftain to feel the anxiety that has wrapped its arms around the American economy. But how bad could things get?...
New York Times - November 25, 2007
Dr. Drug Rep
During a year of being paid to give talks to doctors about an antidepressant, a psychiatrist comes to terms with the fact that taking pharmaceutical money can cloud your judgment...
New York Times - November 25, 2007
An Allowance That?s Measured in Minutes, Not Cents
For some children, household chores and school work earn ?screen time? with a computer or television...
New York Times - November 25, 2007
Mobile Web: So Close Yet So Far
The wireless communications business smacks of a soap opera, with disaster lurking like your next dropped call...
New York Times - November 25, 2007
Luxury Lodging for the Eco-Tourist
The options are expanding for travelers to Costa Rica who wish to celebrate and preserve the natural environment...
New York Times - November 25, 2007
The Line Between Homage and Parody
Poking fun at revered Disney characters could damage their image...
New York Times - November 25, 2007
Time Runs Out on a Place to See and Be Seen
Of all the sorrows on display in Los Angeles lately, the saddest for me is the closing of Morton?s...
New York Times - November 25, 2007
The Office Party, as a Tightrope Walk
Planning holiday festivities at the workplace is complicated enough to make some managers wish that the Grinch had succeeded after all...
New York Times - November 25, 2007
A Time for Bold Thinking on Housing
For lessons in real-estate innovation, look back to the 1930s...
New York Times - November 25, 2007
It May Not Be Double-Digit, but It?s Still a Gain
Lost amid the angst on Wall Street is the fact that the average domestic stock fund was still up 2.4 percent this year...
New York Times - November 25, 2007
DNA Tests Find Branches but Few Roots
A number of scientists and scholars are questioning assertions made by companies offering DNA testing to individuals exploring their ancestry...
New York Times - November 25, 2007
The Store Is Jumpin?. The Stock Isn?t.
One classic bit of investor folklore ? the retailer you discover at the mall whose stock ends up going through the roof ? may no longer be helpful...
New York Times - November 25, 2007
Payload: Taking Aim at Corporate Bribery
A probe of a British military contractor is but one in a bounty of investigations recently started under a once-obscure anti-corruption law...
New York Times - November 25, 2007
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