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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 2005:
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Feds rack up $39 million Katrina credit tab
Federal employees helping Katrina victims charged more than $39 million on government credit cards for disaster relief items, and congressional investigators want to make sure the taxpayers got a good deal. One senator, citing past abuse, wants to know whether anyone used the cards for holiday shopping...
CNN - December 25, 2005
Fiddling with Formats While DVD's Burn
There are growing signs that the battle for supremacy in the multibillion-dollar market for the next-generation DVD may yield a hollow victory...
New York Times - December 25, 2005
Officials Want to Expand Review of Domestic Spying
Congressional officials want to investigate the disclosure that the National Security Agency had gained access to some of the country's main telephone arteries...
New York Times - December 25, 2005
Shiites Decline Sunni Bid for More Iraq Parliament Seats
Post-election violence killed 17 people in Iraq today, including one U.S. soldier...
New York Times - December 25, 2005
On Gulf Coast, Big Difference Between Corps and Private Cleanups
One Mississippi county watches a slow federal cleanup while another moves more quickly with private contractors...
New York Times - December 25, 2005
Retrial ordered in Libya HIV case
Libya's supreme court overturns the death sentences against five Bulgarian nurses and a Palestinian doctor on charges of infecting children with the HIV virus, and orders a retrial...
CNN - December 25, 2005
Gun toters surrender weapons for gifts
A gun swap program in Los Angeles, California turned three shotguns into a plasma TV and a homemade pistol into Christmas dinner. Dozens of gun-toting residents surrendered firearms for $100 gift cards for Circuit City or the Ralphs supermarket chain. Authorities created the program after a sharp spike in Compton's crime rate this year...
CNN - December 25, 2005
Sandra Dee | b. 1944: Gidget Doesn't Live Here Anymore
Her life was the opposite of her perky, innocent image...
New York Times - December 25, 2005
Football: Brazil 'best ever'
The Brazil side which won the 1970 World Cup is voted greatest team of all time by BBC Radio Five Live listeners...
BBC News - December 25, 2005
NFL: Alexander equals record
Shaun Alexander scores three touchdowns to equal an NFL record and help Seattle beat Indianapolis 28-13...
BBC News - December 25, 2005
Retrial ordered in Libya AIDS case
Libya's supreme court on Sunday overturned the death sentences against five Bulgarian nurses and a Palestinian doctor on charges of infecting children with the HIV virus and ordered a retrial...
CNN - December 25, 2005
Quiet ceremonies mark tsunami
Grieving relatives gathered on beaches and at mass graves Sunday to remember the 216,000 people killed or washed away by the tsunami that crashed into coastlines from Asia to Africa one year ago...
CNN - December 25, 2005
The World: When Doing Good Also Aids the Devil
What if your gift could relieve Tiny Tim's misery for now, but risked perpetuating it - or even worsening it - in the long run?...
New York Times - December 25, 2005
Midnight Mass held at the Vatican
Pope Benedict XVI delivered his first Christmas service since becoming pontiff -- a midnight Mass in St. Peter's Basilica. Benedict blessed the crowd when he arrived, which was packed with pilgrims, tourists and Romans...
CNN - December 25, 2005
He Loves New York, and It Loves Him Right Back
Yuki Endo, born with a rare disorder, has formed an extended family with people he meets on his explorations...
New York Times - December 25, 2005
Ideas & Trends: Ghosts of a Christmas Past, in Plastic and Tinsel
Just about everyone envies the Christmas experience of others, but no one gets all misty about the Christmas traditions of the late 1960's...
New York Times - December 25, 2005
The Studios: First the Audiences Shrank. Now It's the Studios' Turn.
As the number of people going to the movies shrank in 2005, so did some of the studios making them...
New York Times - December 25, 2005
The Boss: The Luck of the Draft
Thomas Rockwell Shepard III. says his father, who had worked for the now-defunct Look magazine, had been mistreated and publishing wasn't an avenue for me...
New York Times - December 25, 2005
Shopping: You've Opened the Gift. Now Give It a Review.
Free or otherwise, some of the best Web sites combine editorial product reviews with consumer feedback...
New York Times - December 25, 2005
Take It From Japan: Bubbles Hurt
What Americans see in the apparent real estate bubble may scare them, but they may also learn ways to ease the pain...
New York Times - December 25, 2005
Checking In: Filling the Last Rooms, for Pure Profit
Once fixed costs have been met, almost all the revenue from renting an additional hotel room falls to the bottom line as profit...
New York Times - December 25, 2005
Career Couch: How to Shush the Office Magpie
One of your co-workers loves to chat, and whenever he isn't dealing with a pressing deadline, he barges into your work space to shoot the breeze. What do you do?...
New York Times - December 25, 2005
Investing: Too Big? Too Small? Midsize Seems Just Right for Stocks
In 2005, shares of midsize companies have been serving up the best results - a trend that some market strategists predict will continue...
New York Times - December 25, 2005
Spending: An Answer to the Harried Life: Personal Shoppers
During the holiday season, professional shoppers can seem like magical elves come to life. But they also help busy shoppers at any time of year...
New York Times - December 25, 2005
What Santa Rally? The Market Barely Budges
Hopes for a year-end rise in the broad stock market were dashed as flagging home sales and falling energy prices hit the stocks of companies in those industries...
New York Times - December 25, 2005
Economic View: What Makes a Nation More Productive? It's Not Just Technology
Some economists say that a major breakthrough in information technology is not required to fuel further productivity growth...
New York Times - December 25, 2005
The Count: Reasoning the Need: Which of Our Things Are Superfluous?
Since Christmas is a day that's almost entirely about stuff, it seems a good time to pause and consider exactly what stuff really matters to the American of the species...
New York Times - December 25, 2005
Fundamentally: Why Investors Don't Live by Currency Bets Alone
The reason for Americans to continue investing abroad isn't that the dollar is expected to weaken. Instead, investors should focus on why the dollar could fall in 2006...
New York Times - December 25, 2005
Market Week: All Eyes on January, and History
THere is likely to be little economic or corporate news to occupy investors' attention in this holiday week, so anyone looking to escape from the family or the stores may have to look into January...
New York Times - December 25, 2005
Suits: Making the Best of the Tyco Mess
Can education thwart greed?...
New York Times - December 25, 2005
Will You Still Need Me, Will You Still Read Me?
As the media and cultural landscape surrounding Rolling Stone's shifts yet again, Jann S. Wenner's stewardship of the magazine will be squarely tested in coming months...
New York Times - December 25, 2005
[TS] Gretchen Morgenson: Severance Pay Doesn't Go Better With Coke
Under pressure from one of its big shareholders, Coke adopted a new policy requiring that its stockholders approve certain executive severance agreements...
New York Times - December 25, 2005
Media Frenzy: Swagger-Free, but Still Kicking and So Very French
As Jean-Bernard Levy tells it, the lure of being the chief executive of Vivendi Universal is quite simply the opportunity to revive a French industrial legend...
New York Times - December 25, 2005
The Goods: Downhill Cycling, Minus One Wheel
Balancing atop a unicycle looks impressive enough. But the mind boggles at the exploits of Kris Holm, whose hobby is unicycling down mountainsides and leaping over boulders...
New York Times - December 25, 2005
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