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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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TV Decoder Blog: TV Decoder: Both Sides in Strike Invoke Holidays
Related: NBC Promotes New Shows Despite Strike While Hollywood is largely shut down for the next week, both the Writers Guild of America and the Alliance of Motion Picture and Television Producers invoked the holiday season in pre-Christmas messages to supporters. Michael Winship, president of the East Coast guild, couldn?t resist ribbing the studios in a Dec. [...]...
New York Times - December 26, 2007
The Lede Blog: The Lede: The Story and the Tiger
It?s not every day that a 350-pound tiger breaks out of its cage and runs loose in the United States. Now imagine that tiger running rampant in a zoo and attacking three people, killing one of them and sending the other two to a hospital with bite marks and deep wounds before the animal could [...]...
New York Times - December 26, 2007
Chavez in Talks on Colombia Hostages
CARACAS (Reuters) - Venezuelan President Hugo Chavez offered on Wednesday to send aircraft to pick up three hostages held by Colombia's leftist guerrillas, including a child born in captivity...
New York Times - December 26, 2007
Lots of Home Work
Marcel and Sherrie Deans stumbled upon a 16-room mansion in the Bronx last year that was under contract, but after the deal fell through, the couple bought the home for $675,000...
New York Times - December 26, 2007
Patriots-Giants Game Now on NBC and CBS
The Patriots-Giants game will now be available to the entire nation under an agreement reached by NBC and CBS to simulcast it...
New York Times - December 26, 2007
City Room: The Urge to Destroy New York on Film
What is it with all these movies showing New York City utterly obliterated?...
New York Times - December 26, 2007
Final Sprint Begins Before Iowa Caucuses
Dropping their uplifting holiday ads, the candidates returned to aggressive campaigning for the caucuses...
New York Times - December 26, 2007
State of the Art: Honoring Bright Ideas in Consumer Electronics
Welcome to the third annual Pogie awards presentation. Formal attire is not required, but some measure of product improvement is...
New York Times - December 26, 2007
Shifting Careers: Blogging?s a Low-Cost, High Return Marketing Tool
Although small businesses with blogs are still a distinct minority, blogging can be a low-cost way to market and boost a small company?s brand...
New York Times - December 26, 2007
Stocks End Flat on Unease About Consumer
Wall Street was little changed as investors returned from the Christmas holiday to news of weaker-than-expected retail sales...
New York Times - December 26, 2007
The Moment Blog: The Moment: Who You Calling ?Emerging??
Day 3 with this week's guest blogger, Sheikh Majed Al-Sabah...
New York Times - December 26, 2007
Shifting Careers Blog: Shifting Careers: Year-End Review, With Yourself
For year's end, an exercise to help you set goals for the coming year...
New York Times - December 26, 2007
Turkish Jets Strike Kurdish Rebels
Turkish warplanes hit eight suspected Kurdish rebel hideouts in northern Iraq, the military said, the latest in Turkey?s moves against separatists...
New York Times - December 26, 2007
The Caucus Blog: A Serious Man, Not Taken Seriously
Why hasn?t Joseph Biden gotten more of a hearing?...
New York Times - December 26, 2007
The Long Run: The Résumé Factor: Those 8 Years as First Lady
Hillary Rodham Clinton seemed to learn more as first lady through osmosis than through decision-making...
New York Times - December 26, 2007
Plane Crash Kills Hedge Fund Manager
Michael Klein, the chief executive of Pacificor, was killed along with his daughter and their pilot in the crash in Panama. A 12-year-old girl survived...
New York Times - December 26, 2007
Stocks Slip After Weak Holiday Sales
Wall Street pulled back moderately as investors returned from the Christmas holiday to news of weaker-than-expected retail sales...
New York Times - December 26, 2007
Home Prices Fall for 10th Straight Month
The decline accelerated and spread to more regions of the country in October, according to a series of reports...
New York Times - December 26, 2007
Football: Flamengo eye Ronaldo
Brazilian club Flamengo begin negotiations to take AC Milan striker Ronaldo back to South America...
BBC News - December 26, 2007
Clemens Will Talk to Reporters
The lead attorney for Roger Clemens says he has begun an investigation into allegations linking Clemens to steroids...
New York Times - December 26, 2007
Managing Globalization
Daniel Altman explains why foreign investment in major American financial institutions may be a good sign...
New York Times - December 26, 2007
Edwards Gets Demerits for Tardiness on the Trail
Like Bill Clinton and Jesse Jackson before him, John Edwards nearly always runs late while campaigning for the Democratic presidential nomination...
New York Times - December 26, 2007
Late Library Books Can Take Toll on Credit Scores
The Queens Library system often flexes its muscles in collecting overdue books and late fees...
New York Times - December 26, 2007
Tiger Kills 1 After Escaping at San Francisco Zoo
One person was killed and two others were seriously injured Tuesday evening after a tiger at the San Francisco Zoo escaped from its cage shortly after the facility closed...
New York Times - December 26, 2007
Six Killers: Alzheimer?s Disease: Finding Alzheimer?s Before a Mind Fails
Though Alzheimer?s disease seems to suddenly strike in old age, scientists think it begins long before symptoms occur...
New York Times - December 26, 2007
At 60% of Total, Texas Is Bucking Execution Trend
As enthusiasm for executions fell elsewhere, more than 60 percent of all U.S. executions took place in Texas this year...
New York Times - December 26, 2007
The Long Run: Clinton?s Résumé Factor: Those 8 Years as First Lady
During her time in the White House, Hillary Rodham Clinton appeared to learn more through osmosis than through decision-making...
New York Times - December 26, 2007
Switzerland: UBS Examined
The country?s banking regulator is planning to find out how UBS racked up $10 billion in write-downs related to the subprime lending problems in the United States. ?We have to look how the situation got so far? into a loss, a spokesman for the Federal Banking Commission, Alain Bichsel, said. ?It?s our job.? On Dec. 10, UBS announced the largest subprime write-downs by any European bank and said it would raise $16.8 billion to improve its financial strength. Mr. Bichsel said that the bank?s response to the losses was ?very good? and that UBS would not face an ?investigation in the legal sense.? There is no evidence of any wrongdoing by UBS, Europe?s largest bank by assets, he added. A spokesman for UBS, Serge Steiner, declined to comment...
New York Times - December 26, 2007
Canada: Railway Buys Oil Sands Line
The Canadian National Railway Company extended its reach further into Alberta?s oil sands region with a deal to buy and rebuild the struggling Athabasca Northern Railway. CN Rail will pay 25 million Canadian dollars for Athabasca Northern and pay 135 million Canadian dollars over the next three years to rebuild the 202-mile rail line under a long-term agreement with three major shippers. The Athabasca Northern had been threatened with abandonment because of deteriorating tracks. It was owned by Cando Contracting...
New York Times - December 26, 2007
Singapore: Temasek Raises Stake
Temasek Holdings, the biggest shareholder in Standard Chartered, increased its stake in the British bank to 18 percent, increasing the financial services investments in its $100 billion portfolio. Temasek bought 12 million shares of Standard Chartered, raising its holding by one percentage point, the bank said in a filing. Standard Chartered gets most of its profit from Asia and spent more than $2.7 billion since 2006 on acquisitions, including Hsinchu International Bank in Taiwan and Union Bank Ltd. in Pakistan. The shares purchased by Temasek, worth £220 million ($436 million), lift the total holding to 253.7 million shares...
New York Times - December 26, 2007
China: Company Plans Share Buyback
The online game operator Giant Interactive Group said that it would buy back up to $200 million worth of American depositary shares. The company plans to fund the repurchases from available working capital, it said in a statement...
New York Times - December 26, 2007
Britain: Deal Reached on S.I.V. Sale
An agreement has been reached on the sale of Cheyne Finance, a structured investment vehicle now known as S.I.V. Portfolio, to bidders including Goldman Sachs, the fund?s receivers, Deloitte & Touche said. The $7 billion S.I.V. Portfolio, managed by the hedge fund Cheyne Capital Management, went into receivership in September. The agreement comes after talks with a number of bidders over the last few weeks and consultation with the informal creditors? committees, Deloitte said. Under the deal, certain reinvestment opportunities will be offered to some existing creditors of the company. S.I.V.?s, held by banks, hedge funds or other institutions, issue a mixture of short-term debt and capital and buy longer-term assets, which may pay more interest than the amount they pay on their notes. The vehicles encountered trouble in August when liquidity in the credit markets dried up as investors faced exposure to the subprime market...
New York Times - December 26, 2007
Canada: Airline Added to Inquiry
Air Canada said it had been included in the European Commission?s investigation into price fixing on freight services. The airline added that it might suffer a liability as a result. Air Canada, Canada?s biggest airline, said it was cooperating with investigators. It said it had received an official charge sheet, which sets out the commission?s preliminary assessment in its investigation into suspected anticompetitive cargo pricing activities. The activities include the levying of certain fuel surcharges by a number of airlines and cargo operators in breach of antitrust laws. The European Commission last week charged several airlines, including British Airways , Lufthansa and SAS, with fixing freight service prices. Cathay Pacific and Singapore Airlines said they too had received a notice from the commission...
New York Times - December 26, 2007
Frequent Flier: A TV Doctor Who Travels Into Trouble
Some of the riskiest aspects of working on the television series ?Dr. Danger? occur in the air, not on the ground...
New York Times - December 26, 2007
Britain: A Drop in Home Prices
Home prices in Britain fell the most in three years in December, and the threat of more declines may cause the property market to seize up in 2008, said Hometrack Ltd., a London-based research group. The average cost of a home in England and Wales slipped for a third month, dropping 0.3 percent to £175,200 ($348,350). ?The second half of the year has seen a major reversal in confidence,? Richard Donnell, director for research at Hometrack, said in a statement. ?Just as the financial markets have faced a liquidity squeeze, so the housing market is in danger of facing its own liquidity squeeze.? Prices increased 3 percent from a year earlier, the least in 18 months, Hometrack said...
New York Times - December 26, 2007
United Rentals Will Not Appeal Ruling
United Rentals said that it would not appeal a Delaware judge?s ruling that a private equity firm cannot be forced to complete its $4 billion buyout of the rental equipment operator...
New York Times - December 26, 2007
Price Range for Morgan Stock
SHANGHAI ? Morgan Stanley, the investment bank, and the Chinese government said Monday that the bank had determined the range of prices to be used when China?s international investment fund converts $5 billion in securities into Morgan Stanley stock...
New York Times - December 26, 2007
All-Business Class Airline Ceases Flights
Maxjet Airways, which flew between London and three United States cities, took what it called a ?drastic measure? because of soaring fuel prices and the deteriorating credit market...
New York Times - December 26, 2007
Hyundai Appoints a Chief Executive for North America
Hyundai Motor America said Jong Eun Kim would become president and chief executive of North American operations, based in Fountain Valley, Calif...
New York Times - December 26, 2007
A Partridge, a Pear Tree, a Price Tag That Grows
This year, the song?s true love would spend $19,507 to give every whimsy on the 12th day, according to a yearly holiday index tabulated by PNC Wealth Management...
New York Times - December 26, 2007
When Faith and Work Are at Odds
Many professionals of the Jewish, Muslim and Hindu faiths regularly have to balance their religion and their jobs...
New York Times - December 26, 2007
Wyeth Hit by Generic Competition and Regulatory Setback
Shares in Wyeth fell sharply on Monday after its heartburn medicine attracted generic competition and American regulators delayed its experimental drug for preventing bone loss...
New York Times - December 26, 2007
Professor Cites Bible in Faulting Tax Policies
The work of a professor at the University of Alabama Law School has prompted some other scholars to scour religious texts to explore the moral basis of tax and spending policies...
New York Times - December 26, 2007
On The Road: For the Lost and Stranded, Help From a Smiling Face
For forlorn travelers, volunteers at Travelers Aid stations around the country offer a friendly face and a helping hand...
New York Times - December 26, 2007
Hedge Fund Increases Its Stake in Target
Pershing Square Capital Management said on Monday that it had raised its stake in the discount retailer Target to nearly 10 percent and had met with management to discuss ways to bolster the company?s share price...
New York Times - December 26, 2007
In San Francisco, It?s Work to Find Toys
San Franciscans searching for the perfect toy this holiday season have had the added hurdle of finding a place to buy it...
New York Times - December 26, 2007
Jay-Z to Quit His Day Job as President of Def Jam
The rap superstar said Monday that he would end his unusual three-year turn in the corporate suite...
New York Times - December 26, 2007
Restructuring Aims to Give Canada?s Debt Market a $33 Billion Lift
A tentative restructuring agreement should unlock $33 billion of Canada?s debt market that has been frozen since August, its chief architect said...
New York Times - December 26, 2007
It?s Downhill for Sleds, Lamentably
Toy retailers across the country have largely pushed sleds and toboggans off their shelves and out of their catalog pages, victims of warmer weather and the changing taste of children...
New York Times - December 26, 2007
A Threat So Big, Academics Try Collaboration
Scholars from different disciplines are crossing lines to share ideas about reducing the threat of climate change...
New York Times - December 26, 2007
Crash Kills Fund Chief
A plane crash in the mountains of Panama killed Michael Klein, manager of Pacificor, his teenage daughter and the Panamanian pilot...
New York Times - December 26, 2007
Denmark Feels the Pinch as Young Workers Flee to Lands of Lower Taxes
Often educated abroad and fluent in English, young Danes are primed to quit Denmark for greener pastures. One reason is the income tax rate, which can reach 63 percent...
New York Times - December 26, 2007
Shares Decline in China; Japan Surges
Stocks fell in China, but surged in Japan on a quiet day as most exchanges around the world were closed for Christmas...
New York Times - December 26, 2007
Let?s Raise a Glass to Fairness
Globalization and low taxes have created a golden age of inexpensive wine and liquor, but cheap booze comes at a heavy societal cost...
New York Times - December 26, 2007
Offering Big Spaces, Amsterdam Avenue Is Catching More Retailers? Eyes
Amsterdam Avenue is no longer a homely cousin of Broadway and Columbus Avenue, the strong retail corridors on Manhattan?s Upper West Side...
New York Times - December 26, 2007
Qantas Polishes Outlook as Industry Retrenches
Riding the tailwinds of a humming Australian economy, Qantas Airways predicts a 40 percent increase in 2008 fiscal year profits...
New York Times - December 26, 2007
Gum That Won?t Stick to Shoes? It?s in the Works
Inspired by the gum-splotched sidewalks of New York, a British professor is taking on the sticky problem and developing a nonstick chewing gum...
New York Times - December 26, 2007
In Providence, a Waterfront Promoter Finds Opponents
A proposal to position a $300 million mixed-use development on a stretch of gritty, industrial waterfront in Providence, R.I., is meeting with strong opposition from local business owners...
New York Times - December 26, 2007
Advertising: Ritz?s New Approach Stresses Fun Over Function
Kraft Foods will launch ad blitz to give popular cracker brand a punch of playfulness...
New York Times - December 26, 2007
Toyota Aims to Be No. 1 in 2008 Vehicle Sales
Toyota said it?s aiming to sell 9.85 million vehicles worldwide in 2008, setting an ambitious target despite worries about a slowing U.S. car market...
New York Times - December 26, 2007
Masterful Web Entrepreneurs Hit a Snag in Miami?s Condo Market
Silicon Valley stars Jim Clark and Tom Jermoluk are finding it a lot harder to maneuver through the real estate market than to master the Internet...
New York Times - December 26, 2007
Both Sides Cite Science to Address Altered Corn
A proposal to ban the planting of a genetically modified corn strain, sets up a bitter war within the European Union...
New York Times - December 26, 2007
Holiday Spending Is Weak, as Retailers Expected
Uneasy about the economy and unimpressed by merchandise, American shoppers delivered the bleak holiday shopping season retailers had expected. Spending rose just 3.6 percent over 2006...
New York Times - December 26, 2007
Rapidly, Buffett Secures a Deal for $4.5 Billion
Warren E. Buffett?s deal for an industrial conglomerate after just two weeks of talks suggests that he is finally finding some acquisitions he can get excited about...
New York Times - December 26, 2007
Hospitals Chase a Nuclear Tool to Fight Cancer
A push by medical centers to turn nuclear particle accelerators into weapons against cancer reflects the best and worst of America?s health system, experts say...
New York Times - December 26, 2007
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