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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 2007:
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Democrats Take a Tough Line on Florida
The Democratic National Committee voted to refuse to seat any Florida Democrat at the 2008 convention if the state party did not delay its primary...
New York Times - August 25, 2007
Hear a General, Hug a Sheik: Congress Does the Iraq Circuit
Some 50 lawmakers have been to Iraq this summer, and their impressions are having a profound effect on the policy debate...
New York Times - August 25, 2007
Spying Program May Be Tested by Terror Case
The case of two men convicted of supporting terrorism has become central in the effort to challenge the domestic eavesdropping program...
New York Times - August 25, 2007
The Boss: Beyond the Selectric
?Growing up, I was surrounded by family members who were entrepreneurs.?...
New York Times - August 25, 2007
Under New Management: What a Test Can Say About Your Style
Assessment tools are plentiful, but what about the follow-through?...
New York Times - August 25, 2007
Square Feet | Ventures: At Headquarters, Shoes Are the Showcase
A move downtown finally gave the Nina Footwear Corporation the room it needed to efficiently manage its $150-million-a-year business...
New York Times - August 25, 2007
Preoccupations: Minding the Meeting, or Your Computer?
When it comes to laptops in business meetings, it?s not all etiquette, passing electronic notes and Web surfing...
New York Times - August 25, 2007
The Goods: These Boots Are Made for Herding
Justin Boots, based in Fort Worth, developed a special line of boots for working cowboys with inspiration from the feet of polar bears...
New York Times - August 25, 2007
Economic View: A Psychology Lesson From the Markets
The Fed can do many things, but it can?t control the speculative cycle among home buyers...
New York Times - August 25, 2007
Getting Too Big for His Own Taxes?
Leona Helmsley?s oft-quoted sentiment that ?only the little people pay taxes? lives on in the contract of the C.E.O. of CBS, Leslie Moonves...
New York Times - August 25, 2007
Young Workers: U Nd 2 Improve Ur Writing Skills
Nearly half the respondents in a survey of human resources executives said that entry-level workers lacked writing skills...
New York Times - August 25, 2007
[TS] Fair Game: Why the Roller Coaster Seems Wilder
In volatile times, investors? choice of refuge is often the United States Treasury market, which, at $4.4 trillion or so, is easily swamped...
New York Times - August 25, 2007
Strategies: Just How Contagious Is That Hedge Fund?
Even when hedge funds say they are pursuing entirely separate investment strategies, they often actually use common approaches...
New York Times - August 25, 2007
Dealbook: Will the Credit Crisis End the Activists? Run?
All of the strategies typically employed at the behest of activist investors rely on cheap capital, but that financing is vanishing...
New York Times - August 25, 2007
Investing: The Choice: Play Defense, or Bet on a Round of Rate Cuts
Many investors are in a quandary over how to adjust their portfolios while waiting on the Fed?s next move...
New York Times - August 25, 2007
Everybody's Business: Avoid the Craziness and No One Gets Hurt
A few highly preliminary observations about the recent turmoil in the financial markets...
New York Times - August 25, 2007
Market Week: Will the Fed Weigh in Again?
Some analysts are hoping that the Fed will arrive at the conclusion that stronger action is needed to contain the damage from the deterioration of debt markets...
New York Times - August 25, 2007
Spending: Calisthenics for the Older Mind, on the Home Computer
In the past year, some half-dozen cognitive fitness software makers have aimed at aging consumers eager to keep their mental edge...
New York Times - August 25, 2007
Ping: Vaccines and Their Promise Are Roaring Back
As wealthy countries spend more on health care, and as poorer countries put new emphasis on prevention, many companies are jumping into vaccine innovation...
New York Times - August 25, 2007
Is There (Middle Class) Life After Maytag?
The last of the Maytag factories that lifted many people into the middle class in Newton, Iowa, will close in October...
New York Times - August 25, 2007
Slipstream: Mind Over Matter, With a Machine?s Help
A form of MRI is used to fight pain, and maybe even the cravings of addiction...
New York Times - August 25, 2007
Inside the Countrywide Lending Spree
Countrywide Financial systematically led people to high-cost mortgages that were not suited for them, some former employees say...
New York Times - August 25, 2007
Execution site found in Iraq
The U.S. military on Saturday said coalition forces south of Baghdad found a site where people were executed and bodies dumped. full story...
CNN - August 25, 2007
Twin Bombings Kill 28 in India
A pair of bombings tore through crowded public areas in the southern city of Hyderabad on Saturday night, killing 28 people and wounding dozens more, officials said...
New York Times - August 25, 2007
Taliban Push Poppy Production to a Record Again
A record opium crop in Afghanistan is likely to renewed debate about the United States? troubled $600 million counternarcotics program there...
New York Times - August 25, 2007
Drop Foreseen in Median Price of U.S. Homes
Many government officials and housing-industry executives had said that a nationwide decline would never happen...
New York Times - August 25, 2007
On the Stump With Kids as Sidekicks
Five presidential contenders have children under 10, a circumstance historians say has no recent precedent...
New York Times - August 25, 2007
To Woo Europeans, McDonald?s Goes Upscale
The company?s strategy of remodeling its restaurants and tailoring its menu options is paying off in Europe...
New York Times - August 25, 2007
F1: Massa takes pole position
Ferrari's Felipe Massa will start on pole in Sunday's Turkish Grand Prix ahead of McLaren's Lewis Hamilton...
BBC News - August 25, 2007
Director involved in fatal crash
Oscar-nominated film director John Singleton is involved in a car accident in which a pedestrian died...
BBC News - August 25, 2007
Flood misery engulfs US Midwest
Floods from a week of storms in the US Midwest swamp thousands of homes and cause power blackouts...
BBC News - August 25, 2007
Hamas: Captured Israeli is alive
Israeli soldier Cpl. Gilad Shalit -- captured by Hamas more than a year ago -- is alive and well, the exiled leader of Hamas tells CNN. full story...
CNN - August 25, 2007
Tigers 9, Yankees 6, 11 Innings: Dead of Night: Yankees Lose at 3:30 A.M.
Rain delayed the start of the Yankees? game with the Detroit Tigers for four hours and one minute, and the Tigers took the victory on Carlos Guillen?s three-run homer in the 11th inning...
New York Times - August 25, 2007
Your Money: If There?s a High-Definition TV in Your Future, Wait Till After the Holidays
Electronics retailers are selling more HDTVs than ever, but are making less money on them, so they are tightening return policies, dropping entry-level models and pushing additional services...
New York Times - August 25, 2007
Chinese Seek to Buy an American Maker of Disk Drives
The overture for Seagate Technology from a Chinese technology company has raised concerns among U.S. government officials about risks to national security...
New York Times - August 25, 2007
Galaxy to rest Beckham
Los Angeles Galaxy are to rest David Beckham for Sunday's clash with Colorado Rapids amid workload concerns...
BBC News - August 25, 2007
At 70, McCain Takes On Talk of His Age
John McCain, who will turn 71 on Wednesday, is hoping to become the oldest person ever elected to a first term as president...
New York Times - August 25, 2007
Companies Agree to Pay to Settle SAT Error Suit
Two testing organizations agreed to pay $2.85 million to students whose exams were incorrectly scored in 2005...
New York Times - August 25, 2007
After Warning, Contractor Got Bank Tower Job
City investigators cautioned against using the company that was hired to tear down the Deutsche Bank building...
New York Times - August 25, 2007
After Plea, Vick Is Given Suspension by the N.F.L.
Michael Vick admitted in court papers that he paid for dogfighting bets and helped kill underperforming dogs...
New York Times - August 25, 2007
Giuliani Boasts of Surplus; Reality Is More Complex
As mayor of New York, Rudolph W. Giuliani left office with a bigger budget deficit than existed when he arrived...
New York Times - August 25, 2007
Heinz Profit Up 6 Percent, Lifts View
PITTSBURGH (AP) -- H. J. Heinz Co. said Friday its fiscal first-quarter earnings grew 6 percent, driven by double-digit growth in ketchup, beans, soups and Smart Ones meals, and the ketchup maker raised its outlook for the full year...
New York Times - August 25, 2007
What?s Offline: Praising Private Equity
Maybe the conventional wisdom about private equity firms is wrong; more than half of all Americans receive their income from the government and more...
New York Times - August 25, 2007
Burger King Reports 4Q Profit
MIAMI (AP) -- The turnaround continues at Burger King...
New York Times - August 25, 2007
What's Online: Click if You Read This Column
Online ads can be effective even when not eliciting clicks; opinions on environmental policy are not heavily influencing Americans? voting decisions and more...
New York Times - August 25, 2007
Guilty Plea Is Arranged in Tax Plot
Gene F. Haas, owner of the nation?s largest maker of machine tools, agreed on Friday to plead guilty to conspiracy in tax evasion and will face two years in prison...
New York Times - August 25, 2007
American Instincts in a French Executive
Denis Hennequin, head of McDonald?s European division, has combined European roots and American tastes to make his unit among the company?s most successful...
New York Times - August 25, 2007
Five Days: Wall Street, Still a Little Wobbly, Steadies Itself
While stocks leveled off after the Fed?s rate cut, the woes from the collapse of the subprime mortgage market continued to claim more victims...
New York Times - August 25, 2007
Stocks & Bonds: After Calm Week, Dow Up 142
Stocks were up on Friday after stronger-than-expected new home sales in July and another report showing a rise in factory orders for big-ticket items...
New York Times - August 25, 2007
Wachovia Sues Mortgage Specialist Firm in Dispute Over Collateral
Wachovia is suing Thornburg Mortgage for failing to return collateral used in a derivatives transaction...
New York Times - August 25, 2007
Saturday Interview: Green and Fashionable
George Feldenkreis, chairman of fashion giant Perry Ellis International, talks about the difficulties of taking fashion green and why his company will continue to try...
New York Times - August 25, 2007
Two Big Law Firms in Merger Talks
Dewey Ballantine and LeBoeuf, Lamb, Greene & MacRae are considering a merger that would create one of the nation?s biggest legal adivsers, with nearly 1,300 lawyers...
New York Times - August 25, 2007
[TS] Talking Business: Running an Empire? No Sweat
Despite a tough ride as Time Warner C.E.O., Richard D. Parsons prefers that you never see him busting his chops...
New York Times - August 25, 2007
Luxury Miami Condo Conversion Is Facing Financial Trouble
Miami?s Savoy Hotel development may be facing foreclosure, leading banks to start taking a second look at the relatively unscathed luxury housing market...
New York Times - August 25, 2007
Bank of China Shares Plunge
Shares in the Bank of China dropped 5.4 percent on Friday after it disclosed that it held nearly $9.7 billion in securities backed by subprime mortgages...
New York Times - August 25, 2007
Basic Instincts: Cards Train Teenagers to Use Plastic
Credit card companies are increasingly marketing a variety of cards that are a hybrid of credit, debit and gift cards to teenagers...
New York Times - August 25, 2007
Executive Pursuits: In the Corner With the Gladiators: Trying Out the Life of the Cut Man
Cut men tend to the wounds of mixed martial arts fighters, who combine elements of boxing, wrestling, karate and Brazilian jiu-jitsu in one of the country?s fastest-growing sports...
New York Times - August 25, 2007
New-Home Sales Climb, Giving Markets a Break
New home sales rose 2.8 percent in July, only the second time this year that such sales increased from the previous month...
New York Times - August 25, 2007
Your Money: If There's a High-Definition TV in Your Future, Wait Till After the Holidays
Electronics retailers are selling more HDTVs than ever, but are making less money on them, so they are tightening return policies, dropping entry-level models and pushing additional servers...
New York Times - August 25, 2007
To Woo Europeans, McDonald?s Takes an Upscale Turn
McDonald?s strategy of remodeling its restaurants and tailoring its menu options is paying off in Europe...
New York Times - August 25, 2007
Altria Board to Consider a Spinoff Overseas
The parent company of Philip Morris is considering whether to spin off the international arm of its cigarette business...
New York Times - August 25, 2007
As Woes Grow, Mortgage Ads Keep Up Pitch
Despite troubles in the mortgage business, advertising that critics say is often misleading continues unabated...
New York Times - August 25, 2007
With Software and Soldering, a Non-AT&T iPhone
A 17-year-old New Jersey resident has published instructions on how to unlock Apple?s iPhone so it will work on some competing cellular networks...
New York Times - August 25, 2007
Chinese Seek to Buy a U.S. Maker of Disk Drives
American government officials have national security concerns about a Chinese company?s interest in acquiring Seagate Technology...
New York Times - August 25, 2007
US 'sole survivor' to leave Iraq
A US soldier will leave Iraq under special dispensation after losing both of his brothers in fighting there...
BBC News - August 25, 2007
Colombia warlord loses benefits
A leading Colombian paramilitary leader is accused of running a drugs empire from prison and loses privileges,...
BBC News - August 25, 2007
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