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US News Archive for January 2008:
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Police Kill Maryland Inmate After He Escapes
A 45-year-old prisoner who escaped from a hospital in Maryland was fatally shot by the police on Wednesday afternoon...
New York Times - January 2, 2008
Fans Line Up for ?Late Night? While Writers Picket
Writers' guild members walked a picket line outside Rockefeller Center in New York on Wednesday. (Frank Franklin II/AP) The Writers Guild of America mounted a small line of picketers outside an entrance to Rockefeller Center Wednesday afternoon as audience members of ?Late Night with Conan O?Brien? waited inside. About 15 writers quietly picketed in the numbing cold [...]...
New York Times - January 2, 2008
Murder Charges Against Tankleff Are Dropped
The Suffolk County District Attorney announced on Wednesday that he was dropping the charges against Martin H. Tankleff for the 1988 murders of his parents...
New York Times - January 2, 2008
The Caucus Blog: The McCain-Lieberman Duet
One last stop before the Republican candidate jetted off to Iowa for one last round of campaign visits there.One last stop before the Republican candidate jetted off to Iowa for one last round of campaign visits there...
New York Times - January 2, 2008
Democrats: More Than Health Care
A look at the policies of Senators Hillary Clinton and Barack Obama reveals that the candidates have actually laid out two competing economic philosophies. The fight over health insurance is just one part of their disagreement...
New York Times - January 2, 2008
A Punishing Sun, a Mystery Treatment, and Happy Faces
Too much sun provides a chance to put a product to the test on a mother-daughter business trip...
New York Times - January 2, 2008
When It?s Time to Call the Cavalry
Some business travel problems are solved by hiring special services; others by not submitting to a no...
New York Times - January 2, 2008
A Film Year Full of Escapism, Flat in Attendance
Despite a modest increase in 2007 box office receipts, moviedom is trudging into January with a droop in its shoulders...
New York Times - January 2, 2008
St. Paul Stops a Waterfront Developer From Crossing the Mississippi
St. Paul has blocked a well-known local developer from building an upscale mixed-use community directly across the river from the downtown area...
New York Times - January 2, 2008
Hollywood Defendant Seeks to Act as Counsel
The Hollywood private investigator Anthony Pellicano is seeking to represent himself in his trial for illegally wiretapping celebrities...
New York Times - January 2, 2008
Big Makeovers for Office Buildings Outside of Midtown
Extreme makeovers provide many of the plotlines for reality television. The same could also be said for some recent Manhattan real estate deals...
New York Times - January 2, 2008
Deal to Buy Mortgage Company Collapses
In a sign of continuing mortgage industry woes, PHH, one of the largest originators of residential home loans, said it is scrapping a planned $1.8 billion sale...
New York Times - January 2, 2008
Hotel?s Prime Audience: Sitting in a Meeting, Dreaming of the Greens
The Crowne Plaza Hotels & Resorts chain has signed a celebrity spokesman whose specialty is near and dear to the guests? hearts: golf...
New York Times - January 2, 2008
For Celebrity Magazine, Pregnancy Is a Bonus
OK!, the celebrity magazine, could not possibly have purchased all the attention it enjoyed after it got the scoop that Jamie Lynn Spears was pregnant. Or could it?...
New York Times - January 2, 2008
Mall Owner in Australia Seeks Buyers for Company
The Centro Properties Group, which owns 700 malls in the United States, will weigh offers for all of the company or assets including its Australian and United States funds...
New York Times - January 2, 2008
India?s Exports Surge Before an Expected Slowdown
India?s exports of manufactured goods rose in November as companies completed orders and hedged to cope with the rupee?s appreciation...
New York Times - January 2, 2008
2007 Was Unpredictable, but Let?s Brave 2008 Anyway
Like baseball or the weather, the economy can be a difficult thing to predict. Nonetheless, here?s a sampling of what economists expect for 2008...
New York Times - January 2, 2008
Losing an Edge, Japanese Envy India?s Schools
Worried about its ability to compete with Asian rivals, Japan is in the midst of a craze for Indian education...
New York Times - January 2, 2008
Customers, Not Brokers, Profited in an Odd 2007
Last year, many ordinary investors did reasonably well. The brokers did not. How could that happen?...
New York Times - January 2, 2008
Eased Rules on Tech Sales to China Questioned
Experts are concerned that some high-tech exports could help China modernize its military...
New York Times - January 2, 2008
Housing, Credit and Financial Problems Drove Fed Rate Cut
The problems also greatly increased uncertainty about the economy?s outlook, prompting Fed policymakers to keep their options open about their next move, meeting minutes show...
New York Times - January 2, 2008
In the Land of Many Ifs
Plunging housing prices and soaring oil costs have provoked gloomy talk of a possible recession. Yet the economy has kept growing. How much longer can the expansion carry on?...
New York Times - January 2, 2008
Stocks Drop on Manufacturing Report
Hopes for a bullish start to the year for stocks faded after a key measure of manufacturing activity unexpectedly fell in December to its lowest level since 2003...
New York Times - January 2, 2008
Oil Hits $100 a Barrel for the First Time
Oil prices briefly reached $100 a barrel on Wednesday, a long-awaited milestone in an era of rapidly escalating energy demand and tightening supplies...
New York Times - January 2, 2008
Fed may cut rates 'substantially'
The US Federal Reserve minutes say there is a risk of a situation that will require 'substantial' rate cuts...
BBC News - January 2, 2008
US to send investigators to Sudan
The US State Department says FBI agents will be sent to Sudan to investigate the murder of a diplomat...
BBC News - January 2, 2008
TV Decoder Blog: TV Decoder: Letterman and Leno Return Tonight
Fans wait outside the Ed Sullivan Theater for tickets to watch the first Late Show with David Letterman in New York on Jan. 2. (Lucas Jackson/Reuters) When Jay Leno and Conan O'Brien of NBC and Jimmy Kimmel of ABC return to their late-night television homes tonight, their guests and audience members will face picket lines of [...]...
New York Times - January 2, 2008
The Lede Blog: The Lede: Unlikely Celebrity Sex Tape in Malaysia
It's not easy to stay in public office when streetcorner peddlars are selling not one but two full-length DVDs of you and a "friend," captured in flagrante delicto from four different camera angles...
New York Times - January 2, 2008
New H.I.V. Cases Drop but Rise in Young Gay Men
In New York City, there has been a sharp increase in new infections for men under 30 who have sex with men...
New York Times - January 2, 2008
City Room: City Room: A New D.A. for Manhattan . . . on TV
The actor Sam Waterston will become the fourth district attorney on NBC's "Law & Order," now in its 18th season. During that time, Manhattan has actually had just one DA, Robert M. Morgenthau, first elected in 1974...
New York Times - January 2, 2008
Candidates Unleash Final Efforts in Iowa
John Edwards was on 36-hour bus tour and Hillary Rodham Clinton released a 2-minute advertisement on the day before the caucuses...
New York Times - January 2, 2008
Eased Rules on Tech Sales to China Questioned
Weapons experts are concerned that some high-tech exports could help China modernize its military...
New York Times - January 2, 2008
Oil Hits $100 a Barrel for the First Time
Driven by an unprecedented surge in demand, oil prices reached a long-awaited symbolic milestone...
New York Times - January 2, 2008
Stocks Drop on Manufacturing Report
Hopes for a bullish start to the year for stocks faded after a key measure of manufacturing activity unexpectedly fell in December to its lowest level since 2003...
New York Times - January 2, 2008
US election polltracker
Chart how the main Republican and Democrat contenders are faring in the polls ahead of the first key primary...
BBC News - January 2, 2008
Argentine freed in Somalia
Kidnappers in Somalia's northern Puntland region free two aid workers from Medecins Sans Frontieres...
BBC News - January 2, 2008
Map: Key primary states
Use our map to find out more about key primary contests across the US in the race for the White House...
BBC News - January 2, 2008
Sugar Bowl | Georgia 41, Hawaii 10: Georgia Runs Over Hawaii in Sugar Bowl, 41-10
Georgia?s blowout victory over Hawaii came thanks to a dominating ground game and relentless pressure on quarterback Colt Brennan, who was sacked eight times...
New York Times - January 2, 2008
Caucuses Give Iowa Influence, but Leave Out Some
The Iowa caucuses, which are held in the evening and do not allow absentee voting, leave out categories of voters...
New York Times - January 2, 2008
St. Paul Stops a Waterfront Developer From Crossing the Mississippi
St. Paul has blocked a well-known local developer from building an upscale mixed-use community directly across the river from the downtown area...
New York Times - January 2, 2008
Plug is pulled on Blackstone deal
A $1.8bn deal involving Blackstone collapses after the private equity firm fails to raise the funds...
BBC News - January 2, 2008
Screen return for talk show hosts
US talk show hosts Jay Leno and David Letterman are to make a comeback despite the writers' strike...
BBC News - January 2, 2008
Chile volcano forces evacuations
A volcano erupts in southern Chile, leading to 150 people being evacuated from the vicinity...
BBC News - January 2, 2008
US diplomat killing condemned
Sudan condemns the fatal shooting of a US diplomat and his driver in the Sudanese capital of Khartoum...
BBC News - January 2, 2008
A Divide as Wolves Rebound in a Changing West
The gray wolves of the West are about to step out onto the high wire of life in the real world, when their status as endangered animals formally comes to an end early this year...
New York Times - January 2, 2008
New H.I.V. Cases Drop, but Rise in Young Gay Men
The number of new H.I.V. infections in men under 30 who have sex with men has increased sharply in New York City in the last five years...
New York Times - January 2, 2008
In Winds of Winter, Midair Park Takes Shape
A defunct railway on the Far West Side is a construction site these days but from it, a park in the sky will emerge...
New York Times - January 2, 2008
Saying Race Is No Barrier, Obama Still Courts Blacks
Barack Obama?s presidential campaign has vigorously courted Iowa?s relatively small number of black voters...
New York Times - January 2, 2008
Economic Scene: Democrats: More Than Health Care
A look at the policies of Senators Clinton and Obama, reveals that the candidates have actually laid out two competing economic philosophies. The fight over health insurance is just one part of their disagreement...
New York Times - January 2, 2008
Square Feet: Big Makeovers for Office Buildings Outside of Midtown
Extreme makeovers provide many of the plotlines for reality television. The same could also be said for some recent Manhattan real estate deals...
New York Times - January 2, 2008
A Film Year Full of Escapism, Flat in Attendance
Despite a modest increase in 2007 box office receipts, moviedom is trudging into January with a droop in its shoulders...
New York Times - January 2, 2008
Hollywood Defendant Seeks to Act as Counsel
The Hollywood private investigator Anthony Pellicano is seeking to represent himself in his trial for illegally wiretapping celebrities...
New York Times - January 2, 2008
Deal to Buy Mortgage Company Collapses
In a sign of continuing mortgage industry woes, PHH, one of the largest originators of residential home loans, said it is scrapping a planned $1.8 billion sale...
New York Times - January 2, 2008
Advertising: Hotel?s Prime Audience: Sitting in a Meeting, Dreaming of the Greens
The Crowne Plaza Hotels & Resorts chain has signed up a celebrity spokesman whose specialty is near and dear to the guests? hearts: golf...
New York Times - January 2, 2008
India?s Exports Surge Before an Expected Slowdown
India?s exports of manufactured goods rose in November as companies completed orders and hedged to cope with the rupee?s appreciation...
New York Times - January 2, 2008
2007 Was Unpredictable, but Let?s Brave 2008 Anyway
Like baseball or the weather, the economy can be a difficult thing to predict. Nonetheless, here?s a sampling of what economists expect for 2008...
New York Times - January 2, 2008
Losing an Edge, Japanese Envy India?s Schools
Suffering a crisis of confidence these days about its ability to compete with its emerging Asian rivals, Japan is in the midst of a growing craze for Indian education...
New York Times - January 2, 2008
Mall Owner in Australia Seeks Buyers for Company
The Centro Properties Group, which owns 700 malls in the United States, will weigh offers for all of the company or assets including its Australian and United States funds...
New York Times - January 2, 2008
Tech Sales to China Questioned
The Bush administration is facing questions from weapons experts about whether some equipment ? newly authorized for export to Chinese companies ? could instead end up helping China modernize its military...
New York Times - January 2, 2008
For Celebrity Magazine, Pregnancy Is a Bonus
OK!, the celebrity magazine, could not possibly have purchased all the attention it enjoyed in late December after it got the scoop that Jamie Lynn Spears, the younger and until then less sensational sister of the troubled pop queen Britney Spears, was three months pregnant. Or could it?...
New York Times - January 2, 2008
In the Land of Many Ifs
Plunging housing prices and soaring oil costs have provoked gloomy talk of a possible recession. Yet the economy has kept growing. How much longer can the expansion carry on? How much longer can the expansion carry on?...
New York Times - January 2, 2008
News Analysis: Customers, Not Brokers, Profited in an Odd 2007
In 2007, the brokers? customers did reasonably well. The brokers did not. How could that happen?...
New York Times - January 2, 2008
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