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US News Archive for July 2006:
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Landis Has a Reputation for Honesty
The idea of Floyd Landis as a cheat is at odds with his reputation among many in the cycling world...
New York Times - July 29, 2006
After Sluggish Start, Lieberman Heeds Alarms
Senator Joseph I. Lieberman was warned by Democrats that he was not campaigning with enough urgency...
New York Times - July 29, 2006
Disowning Conservative Politics Is Costly for an Evangelical Pastor
Upheaval at one megachurch reflects concern over the tendency to tie evangelical Christianity to the G.O.P...
New York Times - July 29, 2006
The New Age: So Big and Healthy Grandpa Wouldn’t Even Know You
The past 100 years has seen a change from small, sickly people to humans who are so robust that their ancestors seem almost unrecognizable...
New York Times - July 29, 2006
Tennis: Clijsters makes CA semis
Top seed Kim Clijsters beats Verz Zvonareva in the quater-finals of the Bank of the West Classic...
BBC News - July 29, 2006
Seattle protects temples, mosques
Seattle police are beefing up security at temples and mosques Saturday after a woman was killed in a suspected hate crime killing linked to the Middle East crisis...
CNN - July 29, 2006
Middle East talks gear up
U.S. secretary of state back in the region for "difficult" talksIsrael rejects U.N. request for 72-hour cease-fireHezbollah leader: Israel has failed to reach military victoryReports: Woman and six children die in Israeli airstrike...
CNN - July 29, 2006
Rice returns to Middle East
U.S. Secretary of State Condoleezza Rice returned to the Middle East Saturday, hours after Israel rejected a U.N. call for a three-day cease-fire...
CNN - July 29, 2006
A Counselor Pulled From the Shadows
Silicon Valley is chattering about Larry Sonsini, the lawyer whose firm represented nearly half the companies under scrutiny for backdating stock options...
New York Times - July 29, 2006
Suspect Is Named in Seattle Shooting
Police have identified a man accused of killing a woman and wounding five others at a Jewish agency on Friday...
New York Times - July 29, 2006
Conservative Pastor Steers Clear of Politics, and Pays
An upheaval at one megachurch reflects a widespread concern: that the tendency to tie evangelical Christianity to the Republican Party will hurt the church...
New York Times - July 29, 2006
After Sluggish Start, Lieberman Heeded Warnings of Trouble
A number of early warnings emerged well before Senator Joseph I. Lieberman found himself locked this summer in a career-threatening battle for a Senate seat...
New York Times - July 29, 2006
Minimum Wage Fight Heads to the Senate
The House tied a $2.10 increase in the wage scale to a reduction in the estate tax and a package of tax breaks...
New York Times - July 29, 2006
The New Age: So Big and Healthy Nowadays That Grandpa Wouldn’t Even Know You
It is one of the most striking shifts in human existence - a change from small, sickly people to humans who are so robust that their ancestors seem almost unrecognizable...
New York Times - July 29, 2006
Hezbollah 'agrees' to peace plan
Hezbollah and Lebanese ministers agree plan to end crisisU.S. Secretary of State says plan includes " positive elements"Bodies of nine Lebanese civilians found on roadIsrael carried out 60 airstrikes overnight...
CNN - July 29, 2006
Minimum wage increase passes House
Republicans muscled the first minimum wage increase in a decade through the House of Representatives early Saturday after pairing it with a cut in inheritance taxes on multimillion-dollar estates...
CNN - July 29, 2006
House Passes Minimum Wage Increase
The House approved an increase in the federal minimum wage, but its future was clouded because Republicans tied the pay change to an estate tax cut...
New York Times - July 29, 2006
Five Days: Trade Talks Collapse, War Rages. Us, Worry?
SPREADING conflict in the Middle East and the collapse of global trade talks damped good news about corporate profits and giddiness in the mergers-and-acquisitions market, which is awash in private-equity capital...
New York Times - July 29, 2006
Athletics: Powell v Gatlin 'unlikely'
The chances of a race between 100m record holders Asafa Powell and Justin Gatlin this year are fading, says Powell's agent...
BBC News - July 29, 2006
Hezbollah fires new weapon
Hezbollah guerillas have launched their most destructive rockets yet, reaching Afula -- as far into Israel as they have at any point so far in the conflict, according to Israeli police. The rocket carries nearly five-times the explosives in the standard Katyusha missile...
CNN - July 29, 2006
Israel: Hezbollah has new, powerful missile
Hezbollah guerillas Friday launched their most potentially destructive rockets yet, reaching as far into Israel as they have at any point so far in the conflict, according to Israeli police...
CNN - July 29, 2006
One dead in shooting at Jewish center
One person was killed and five others were wounded, three critically, in a shooting at the Jewish Federation in downtown Seattle, Washington, police said. Police have detained a Pakistani suspect, said a law enforcement official...
CNN - July 29, 2006
Leak of Classified Information Prompts Inquiry
A grand jury is investigating the leak of secret information about intelligence programs to the press...
New York Times - July 29, 2006
Six Are Shot at Seattle Jewish Center
SEATTLE, July 28 — Five people were injured and one was killed Friday afternoon when a man who expressed anger toward Jews opened fire in the offices of the Jewish Federation of Greater Seattle, the authorities said...
New York Times - July 29, 2006
Landis Is on Message, but Points Are Disputed
The problem with assessing the evidence against the cyclist Floyd Landis is that no evidence has been officially released...
New York Times - July 29, 2006
After 4 Decades, a Cold War Symbol Stands Down
Norad’s day-to-day operations at Cheyenne Mountain, Colo., will be consolidated in an ordinary building nearby...
New York Times - July 29, 2006
House Moves Toward Overhaul of Pension System
Lawmakers clashed over minimum wage legislation in a prelude to the fall campaign for control of Congress...
New York Times - July 29, 2006
Refugees: A Frantic Rush Overwhelms a Lebanese Border Town
Hundreds of thousands of Lebanese fleeing violence have created a crisis that their government says is bigger than it can handle...
New York Times - July 29, 2006
2008 May Test Clinton’s Bond With McCain
The interplay between the two senators could make the 2008 race less vicious than the last two campaigns...
New York Times - July 29, 2006
Violence in Iraq Is Creating Chaos in Bank System
Once praised by the U.S. as a success story, the system has become a wild landscape of robberies and kidnappings...
New York Times - July 29, 2006
Conviction of Ex-WorldCom Chief Is Upheld
By The Associated Press...
New York Times - July 29, 2006
Trial Date Set for Investor Jailed Since 2000
By The Bloomberg News...
New York Times - July 29, 2006
Slowdown Spurs a Rally in Treasuries
By Reuters...
New York Times - July 29, 2006
Today in Business
EX-QWEST OFFICIAL IS SENTENCED The former chief financial officer of Qwest Communications was fined $250,000 and sentenced to two years’ probation after pleading guilty to insider trading last year...
New York Times - July 29, 2006
S.E.C. Seeks Option Data From Activision
The video-game publisher said it received a letter from the commission requesting information related to its stock option grant practices...
New York Times - July 29, 2006
Spain Approves Bid by E.On, but Imposes 19 Conditions
Regulators approved the German company’s bid to acquire the Spanish electricity company Endesa, but critics portrayed the conditions as an indirect form of protectionism...
New York Times - July 29, 2006
What’s Offline: Falling Short of Greatness
TO be a great marketer requires the ability to nudge a business forward, “particularly in mature or established industries,” Strategy + Business reports, adding most marketers fall substantially short of being great...
New York Times - July 29, 2006
Basic Instincts: What Does ‘Organic’ Really Mean?
The labels on some products that are called organic are not worth an extra cent, according to a study of organic food by Consumer Reports...
New York Times - July 29, 2006
Maker of Baseball Cards Settles a Proxy Dispute
The Topps Company and two activist hedge funds agreed to a last-minute compromise on candidates for the board...
New York Times - July 29, 2006
What’s Online: Dinosaurs Go Digital
Bloggers and others registered their contempt for Metallica when it finally decided to make its music available on iTunes...
New York Times - July 29, 2006
Chevron, Like Its Rivals, Reports Higher Profit Amid Global Concerns
Chevron’s second-quarter earnings climbed by 18 percent, marking the company’s highest profit for any three-month period...
New York Times - July 29, 2006
Inco Drops Attempt to Buy a Rival Mining Company
The move by the Canadian mining company appears to clear the way for a hostile offer for Falconbridge by Xstrata of Switzerland...
New York Times - July 29, 2006
Off the Charts: Many Homes Are on the Market and Sales Numbers Are Declining
Those who warned of a housing bubble must be wondering if their fears are finally becoming reality...
New York Times - July 29, 2006
Apple Gets French Support in Music Compatibility Case
The French constitutional council has declared major aspects of the so-called iPod law unconstitutional...
New York Times - July 29, 2006
A Long Shot Becomes Pfizer’s Latest Chief Executive
Pfizer abruptly replaced its chief, Hank McKinnell, picking its general counsel, Jeffrey B. Kindler, to run the company...
New York Times - July 29, 2006
Wal-Mart to Abandon Germany
The decision amounts to a marked retreat by the world’s largest retailer from its breakneck global expansion...
New York Times - July 29, 2006
Executive Pursuits: An Avian Universe in the Asphalt Jungle
I had no idea what thrills bird-watching could provide until I saw the president of New York City Audubon perform a miracle in Central Park...
New York Times - July 29, 2006
Bristol-Myers Chief Stays Cool Even After Lawsuits, the F.D.A. and the F.B.I.
Peter R. Dolan, the chief executive of Bristol-Myers Squibb, has learned to carry on in the midst of a storm...
New York Times - July 29, 2006
Saturday Interview With William J. Amelio: Lenovo Aims to Calm Fears Over Security
Less than six months into his new job as president and chief executive of Lenovo, William J. Amelio faced his first big public relations test...
New York Times - July 29, 2006
[TS] Joe Nocera: A Defense of Short-Termism
Two groups have produced a report about the corrosive effect of short-term thinking in American business. But long-termism can be just as much a problem as short-termism...
New York Times - July 29, 2006
Housing Slows, Taking Big Toll on the Economy
The slowdown was caused in part by the third consecutive quarterly decline in spending on houses and apartment buildings...
New York Times - July 29, 2006
Economy Slowed This Spring
Economic growth braked sharply in the second quarter as the housing market cooled and consumer spending pulled back...
New York Times - July 29, 2006
The Wi-Fi in Your Handset
The potential for cheap calls through new phones that will make use of Wi-Fi hotspots has cellphone companies on edge...
New York Times - July 29, 2006
Tehran awaits Venezuelan leader
Venezuela's President Hugo Chavez will meet his Iranian counterpart on the latest stage of his world tour...
BBC News - July 29, 2006
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