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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 2006:
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Dancers Land in Iraq. Marines Offer No Resistance.
Tours by a group of shapely dancers, intended to boost morale, have occasionally stirred some controversy...
New York Times - August 26, 2006
Market Week: All Eyes on the Employment Numbers
Stocks have settled into a fairly narrow trading range as investors try to decide whether the economy will make a hard or soft landing...
New York Times - August 26, 2006
The Count: Turning 60, and Checking Their Calculators
As more baby boomers march defiantly across another dreaded threshold and celebrate 60th birthdays, are they prepared for retirement?...
New York Times - August 26, 2006
DataBank: Housing Numbers Dampen Investors’ Outlook
Stocks declined last week as investors worried that rising energy costs and a slowdown in the housing market could send the economy into a slump...
New York Times - August 26, 2006
The Goods: That Final Resting Place, Reimagined
Do not go rectangular into that good night...
New York Times - August 26, 2006
Economic View: The New Fed Isn’t Phoning in Its Interest Rate Moves
A close look at what Bernanke has been saying suggests that quickie evaluations reflect a mistaken assumption about how the Fed works...
New York Times - August 26, 2006
Armchair M.B.A.: The Pros and Cons of Independent Boards
Directors are taking their jobs more seriously, but there's also an element of fear...
New York Times - August 26, 2006
The Boss: Back to College After All
The Peace Corps and Wall Street helped prepare Leo I. Higdon Jr. for his current role as president of Connecticut College...
New York Times - August 26, 2006
Suits: In Delaware, Privacy for Big Paychecks
Bankruptcy court is supposed to be a place where facts remain out in the open. That seems to be changing in one of the largest homes for corporate bankruptcy cases...
New York Times - August 26, 2006
Strategies: Investors Without Borders
It turns out that most American investors are not xenophobic. They invest globally after all...
New York Times - August 26, 2006
Blueprints: Creating a Work Space That Promotes a Brand
A product development company decided to treat its headquarters as packaging for the product it sells — ideas for consumer goods...
New York Times - August 26, 2006
[TS] Gretchen Morgenson: That Other Guy From Omaha
At infoUSA, the perks keep coming for the chief executive...
New York Times - August 26, 2006
What-Ifs of a Media Eclipse
Many people in the newspaper industry are scratching their heads over how a company with relatively high profit margins allowed itself to be wiped off the media landscape...
New York Times - August 26, 2006
Digital Domain: Words of Wisdom vs. Words From Our Sponsor
A small publisher of college textbooks plans to offer free electronic textbooks to students. The catch? Ads are inserted within the text...
New York Times - August 26, 2006
Investing: How Many Fund Choices Are Too Many?
Name a niche. There may be an exchange-traded fund for it...
New York Times - August 26, 2006
At Lunch With: Winning the Battle Against Burnout
When the payoff is low, trying harder can lead to exhaustion...
New York Times - August 26, 2006
Ideas & Trends: Read Between All Those For-Sale Signs
The fate of the housing market will influence whether the economy will merely slow over the next year or fall into a recession...
New York Times - August 26, 2006
Who Signed Off on Those Options?
A software company's pay practices — and the actions of its three outside directors on its compensation and audit committees — have come under scrutiny...
New York Times - August 26, 2006
Hurricane alert in the Caribbean
Cuba and Jamaica go on hurricane watch as Tropical Storm Ernesto churns through the Caribbean...
BBC News - August 26, 2006
Kidnapped Iraqi lawmaker released
Kidnapped Iraqi lawmaker Tayseer al-Mashhadani is released after being held for nearly two months, officials with the Iraqi parliament said...
CNN - August 26, 2006
Iran: Atomic project is peaceful
Iranian President Mahmoud Ahmadinejad has said his country's nuclear program is for peaceful purposes and the new heavy-water production plant he inaugurated Saturday would serve medical, agricultural and scientific needs...
CNN - August 26, 2006
Bush vows to 'learn lessons of Katrina'
President Bush, ahead of next week's anniversary of Hurricane Katrina, says the government is making changes to improve response to national disasters and address the deep-seated poverty the floodwaters exposed...
CNN - August 26, 2006
In Schools Across U.S., the Melting Pot Overflows
Some 55 million youngsters are enrolling in school this fall, making this the largest group of students in America’s history and the most diverse in a century...
New York Times - August 26, 2006
Missing Chechen Was Secret Bride of Terror Leader
A woman’s disappearance offers glimpses into two Chechen netherworlds: the life of a terrorist leader and the murky circumstances of abductions in the Caucasus...
New York Times - August 26, 2006
Thieves Prey on Immigrants
Robberies of illegal immigrants, especially Guatemalans, have become a serious problem in Florida...
New York Times - August 26, 2006
Lifting Troops’ Morale in Iraq With a Bit of Flesh
There is a long history of providing entertainment for troops in war zones, but a tour by the Purrfect Angelz, a group of shapely dancers, has stirred some controversy...
New York Times - August 26, 2006
The Katrina Year | A Future, Dimly Seen: Two Visions for New Orleans
New Orleans’s boosters describe its future as a boomtown, while pessimists offer gloomy predictions. Somewhere between these visions lies a glimpse of the city’s real future...
New York Times - August 26, 2006
Whispers of Mergers Set Off Bouts of Suspicious Trading
The boom in corporate mergers is creating concern that illicit trading ahead of deal announcements is becoming a systemic problem...
New York Times - August 26, 2006
A City’s Future, and a Dead Man’s Lost Past
The journey of one corpse illuminates the silent ranks of the hundreds of people who died in Hurricane Katrina’s aftermath...
New York Times - August 26, 2006
Schwarzenegger libel 'settled'
A libel action brought by a British TV presenter against Arnold Schwarzenegger is settled...
BBC News - August 26, 2006
8-year kidnap: Accomplices hunted
Austrian police are hunting possible accomplices of a kidnapper, pictured above, who held a young girl in a basement "dungeon" and is believed to have sexually assaulted her over an eight-year period until her escape this week...
CNN - August 26, 2006
Anthony Malara, 69, Ex-Head of CBS TV, Is Dead
Anthony Malara was president of CBS Television and a former head of the New York State Broadcasters Association...
New York Times - August 26, 2006
Shares Flat as Fed Chief Offers No Hints
By The Associated Press...
New York Times - August 26, 2006
BellSouth to Drop Fees on Some Internet Connections
The company said it would stop collecting a regulatory fee of $2.97 a month from its high-speed Internet customers...
New York Times - August 26, 2006
Prudential Financial May Settle Mutual-Fund Trading Inquiries
By Bloomberg News...
New York Times - August 26, 2006
Carson Pirie Set to Close Landmark Store
CHICAGO, Aug. 25 (Reuters) — Just as Chicagoans were coming to terms with the departure of Marshall Field’s, another of the city’s retail legends has decided to leave its landmark building...
New York Times - August 26, 2006
What’s Offline: Brand-Name Stock Picks
THE growing drumbeat for investing in large-cap stocks reaches ear-splitting volume in the current issue of Smart Money...
New York Times - August 26, 2006
Toyota May Delay Models to Work on Quality Control
The company is trying to improve its quality-control process in response to a spate of recalls that is threatening its reputation...
New York Times - August 26, 2006
Toshiba to Make Microsoft’s iPod Competitor
Microsoft said that Toshiba would make the Zune portable media player, Microsoft’s answer to the iPod from Apple Computer...
New York Times - August 26, 2006
Basic Instincts: Don’t Like to Shred? Get a Nephew
Looking at shredder sales, you might think the majority of Americans are devoted to destroying every possible document...
New York Times - August 26, 2006
Five Days: Studio-Star Rift Exposes Hollywood Fault Lines
WHILE many Americans were away on vacation, sparks flew in Hollywood, Apple Computer recalled batteries, the housing market cooled and nervous energy traders watched a developing tropical storm...
New York Times - August 26, 2006
What’s Online: Oil Giant Acts and Skeptics React
BP this week introduced targetneutral.com, with the goal of making drivers “CO2 neutral.”...
New York Times - August 26, 2006
Executive Pursuits: Billiards With a Bottle. And This Game Is Dying?
Bottle pool combines elements of billiards, straight pool and chess under a set of rules that rewards strategic shot making...
New York Times - August 26, 2006
Saturday Interview With John Chen: Sybase Outgrows the Valley
John Chen, the chief executive of Sybase, has managed to stay under the radar and keep his company profitable...
New York Times - August 26, 2006
Auto Parts Plant in Ohio to Remain Open
Several hundred workers at the factory have saved their jobs by agreeing to cuts in their pay and a reduction in benefits...
New York Times - August 26, 2006
Japan Accuses 5 of Exporting Equipment With Nuclear Uses
The executives are suspected of illegally exporting equipment to Malaysia that could be used in making nuclear weapons...
New York Times - August 26, 2006
Your Money: Bargains Are Near; Just Keep Waiting
There are ways to look for the better deal in the competitive markets for cameras, televisions and hard drives...
New York Times - August 26, 2006
Off the Charts: In Housing as in Most Things: What’s Up the Most, Falls the Most
Home buyers are suddenly more reluctant to put down their money, and the supply of homes for sale has reached record levels...
New York Times - August 26, 2006
Northwest Walkout Is Blocked
A federal judge temporarily blocked a potential strike by flight attendants at Northwest Airlines and urged the company and its workers to resume contract talks...
New York Times - August 26, 2006
Fed Chief Gives Seminar on History of Globalization
Ben S. Bernanke warned that governments need to help people cope with the disruptions of new competition...
New York Times - August 26, 2006
Lenovo Continues Its Raid on Dell’s Top Ranks, Hiring a Fourth Executive
Christopher J. Askew was hired as a senior executive in charge of a new business unit based in Singapore...
New York Times - August 26, 2006
Learning to Love a Cable Guy
Phone and cable companies are trying harder to please customers because they risk losing them forever if they do not keep them happy...
New York Times - August 26, 2006
Rising Production Costs Join the List of What China Exports
China is beginning to slow its export of something dear to the hearts of many consumers in developed countries: ever cheaper products...
New York Times - August 26, 2006
U.N.: Cluster bombs in s. Lebanon
Homes, gardens and highways across south Lebanon are littered with unexploded cluster bombs dropped by Israel, the U.N. said Friday, and the U.S. State Department has reportedly launched an investigation...
CNN - August 26, 2006
Accused Vermont shooter pleads not guilty
A man accused of killing two people and wounding two others in a shooting rampage that began at his ex-girlfriend's home and continued at an elementary school pleaded not guilty Friday, while a prosecutor said the suspect confessed to the crimes...
CNN - August 26, 2006
To Cut Poverty, Panel Advises a Narrow Focus
The commission charged with eradicating New York City poverty plans to focus on youth and the working poor...
New York Times - August 26, 2006
Ernesto Picks Up Speed in the Caribbean
Tropical Storm Ernesto was on its way to becoming the first hurricane of the season, forecasters said late Friday, and appeared to be headed for the Gulf of Mexico...
New York Times - August 26, 2006
A Power Hitter. And a Source of Jewish Pride.
Shawn Green not only added a boost to the New York Mets roster, but also to the athletic egos of New York Jews...
New York Times - August 26, 2006
Issues Await if Democrats Retake House
With House Democrats within reach of claiming the majority, party leaders are exploring the question of what happens if they win...
New York Times - August 26, 2006
The Katrina Year | The Next Emergency: Despite Steps, Disaster Planning Still Shows Gaps
In large chunks of the country, FEMA has made limited progress to prepare for the next catastrophe...
New York Times - August 26, 2006
Clergywomen Find Hard Path to Bigger Pulpit
Women in the clergy still bump against what many call the stained-glass ceiling — limits and prejudices within their denominations...
New York Times - August 26, 2006
Director at Ford Steps Down
Robert E. Rubin cleared the way for Citigroup to play a bigger role in Ford’s future...
New York Times - August 26, 2006
After Smooth Sales Talk, Stores Take Macy’s Name
The chief executive of Federated has worked to neutralize opposition to the merger of Federated and May...
New York Times - August 26, 2006
US Army reviews combat deaths
The US Army reviews how hundreds of soldiers died in Iraq and Afghanistan following complaints by relatives...
BBC News - August 26, 2006
UN agrees disability treaty text
A new convention to protect the rights of the world's 650m disabled people is agreed at the UN in New York...
BBC News - August 26, 2006
Venezuela says US was smuggling
Venezuela accuses the US embassy in Caracas of importing cargo illegally after seizing diplomatic baggage...
BBC News - August 26, 2006
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