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US News Archive for February 2008:
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Monk and Green Selected for N.F.L.?s Hall
Darrell Green and Art Monk, former teammates on the Washington Redskins, headlined a class of six players selected Saturday for the Pro Football Hall of Fame...
New York Times - February 2, 2008
French President and Ex-Model Wed, Quietly
Three months after their meeting, President Nicolas Sarkozy married Carla Bruni, a singer and former model...
New York Times - February 2, 2008
Gun Battles in Chad?s Capital as Rebels Storm In
A rebel army swarmed Ndjamena in an attack that raised the specter of deeper chaos in the fragile region...
New York Times - February 2, 2008
Tentative $30 Million Settlement in Club Fire
A cameraman and a TV station agreed to pay $30 million over the filming of a 2003 nightclub fire in Rhode Island...
New York Times - February 2, 2008
Gunman Kills 5 at Store Near Chicago
The authorities were seeking a man they say shot five people inside a strip mall clothing store in Tinley Park, Ill...
New York Times - February 2, 2008
A Frail Economy Raises Pressure on Iran?s Rulers
From fundamentalists to reformists, Iranians are talking more loudly about the need for a pragmatic approach...
New York Times - February 2, 2008
Nuclear Leaks and Response Tested Obama in Senate
An Illinois controversy pitting two important constituencies against each other put Barack Obama?s legislative skills to the test...
New York Times - February 2, 2008
Democrats Flood States With Ads as Tuesday Nears
A concentrated burst of advertising is putting the candidates? strategies out in the open and is highlighting the diverging financial fortunes of the two parties...
New York Times - February 2, 2008
Wal-Mart: The New Washington
Look who?s governmentizing the private sector...
New York Times - February 2, 2008
Lenders Who Sold and Left
The mortgage brokers, traders and bankers who took in big bucks steering customers into subprime loans should not be allowed to slink offstage without recognition...
New York Times - February 2, 2008
A Strong Week for Stocks After Fed Cuts
Buoyed by another Federal Reserve interest-rate cut and by Microsoft?s $44.6 billion bid for Yahoo, the broad stock market rose last week...
New York Times - February 2, 2008
Letters
English and Only English?...
New York Times - February 2, 2008
Preconceptions Defied
During my climb up the corporate ladder, I saw some women who didn?t have enough confidence and other women who might make a fight when there didn?t need to be one...
New York Times - February 2, 2008
The Tax Bills of New York?s Rich
Ronald O. Perelman?s neo-Georgian town house on East 63rd Street holds the distinction of being the highest-taxed single-family home in New York City...
New York Times - February 2, 2008
Real Estate Investing, Made Easier Online
With the help of resources that have emerged online in recent years, investing in commercial real estate is easier and far more transparent than a decade ago...
New York Times - February 2, 2008
Gossip Is Information by Another Name
The office grapevine fulfills a human need, but not all needs are benign...
New York Times - February 2, 2008
In Praise of the Decisive C.E.O.
?Judgment,? by Noel M. Tichy and Warren G. Bennis, is a valentine to that savior-leader, especially to the all-deciding C.E.O...
New York Times - February 2, 2008
A Store Where Profit Comes Not in Dollars
A high-end children?s clothing and toy store in Manhattan helps support the Children?s Aid Society, not only with money but also with job-training...
New York Times - February 2, 2008
It?s Even Worse Over There
Amid growing recession fears, it?s only natural that U.S. investors are a little spooked. But how do you explain that foreign stocks are off to an even worse start in 2008?...
New York Times - February 2, 2008
Trying to Clear Fog From Pension Plans
Online tools can help workers assess their plan?s health...
New York Times - February 2, 2008
My Birthday Wish: Not Burdening Our Children
My birthday wish is for all of us to stop asking what the government can do for us today and to focus instead on what we can do to prepare the economy for our children...
New York Times - February 2, 2008
Eureka! It Really Takes Years of Hard Work
As humans, we want to believe that creativity and innovation come in flashes of pure brilliance, with great thunderclaps and echoing ahas. Balderdash...
New York Times - February 2, 2008
An Online Organizer That Helps Connect the Dots
Radar Networks is testing a free, Web-based application, called Twine, that may provide some robotic secretarial help in organizing and retrieving documents...
New York Times - February 2, 2008
Lost Innocence, Now Appearing in the Economy
Economic events in January, it turns out, were enough to crack the composure of some usual glass-is-half-full types...
New York Times - February 2, 2008
Yes, a Giant Can Sprint
Siemens, the 161-year-old conglomerate based in Munich, has been disproving the skeptics who questioned whether an industrial giant could be a stock market star...
New York Times - February 2, 2008
Yahoo Sale Could Be Bad for Minnows
Microsoft?s proposed mega-bid for Yahoo is based on its own particular corporate needs and may not be a harbinger of rampant deal-making in Silicon Valley...
New York Times - February 2, 2008
Belmondo, Bond and Now Kerviel
France has always had a soft spot for the lawbreaker. Now Jérôme Kerviel, the trader who cost Société Générale more than $7 billion, has attracted a fan club of his own...
New York Times - February 2, 2008
He Can?t Stop Looking Over His Shoulder
A feud over influence at American International Group, the world?s largest insurer, continues in legal papers and in public...
New York Times - February 2, 2008
Deal to End Hollywood Writers? Strike May Be Near
Informal talks have eliminated the major roadblocks to a new contract, people briefed on the situation said...
New York Times - February 2, 2008
Toll Increases to 98 in Iraq Attack
Prime Minister Nuri Kamal al-Maliki and other high ranking officials sought to reassure Iraqis after Friday?s pet market bombings...
New York Times - February 2, 2008
Hamas to Cooperate on Sealing Border
Hamas said that it would cooperate with Egypt to close the breached border between Egypt and the Gaza Strip on Sunday...
New York Times - February 2, 2008
French President Weds Former Model
Only three months after their first meeting, the super-model-turned-pop-singer Carla Bruni married the French president, Nicolas Sarkozy...
New York Times - February 2, 2008
Mormons Say Farewell to President
Tens of thousands of people passed by the coffin of the president of the Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints in Salt Lake City...
New York Times - February 2, 2008
At a Small Ohio Factory, Leather and Laces Mesh
The Wilson factory in Ada, a town of 5,500, is the birthplace of every Super Bowl football since 1969...
New York Times - February 2, 2008
Yahoo Deal Is Big, but Is It the Next Big Thing?
In Silicon Valley, buying rather than building is regarded as counter to the reinvention culture...
New York Times - February 2, 2008
Chad Shuts Down Capital as 1,000 Rebels March In
Rebels forced the city to close its airport. The fighting is spillover from the Darfur conflict in neighboring Sudan...
New York Times - February 2, 2008
Campaigning Is Furious on Final Weekend Before Big Vote
On Saturday the presidential nominating fight carried the intensity normally reserved for the closing days of a general election campaign...
New York Times - February 2, 2008
Motivated by a Tax, Irish Spurn Plastic Bags
The Irish have embraced the use of cloth bags to carry groceries, encouraged by a 33-cent tax on plastic ones...
New York Times - February 2, 2008
Spears' father takes over estate
An LA court hands troubled singer Britney Spears' father temporary control of her finances and affairs...
BBC News - February 2, 2008
Chadian Rebels Fight Around Presidential Palace
Chadian rebels seeking to overthrow President Idriss Deby battled their way into the capital, N?Djamena...
New York Times - February 2, 2008
New Operation to Put Heavily Armed Officers in Subways
Roving teams of city police officers armed with automatic rifles and accompanied by bomb-sniffing dogs will patrol the city?s subway system daily, beginning next month...
New York Times - February 2, 2008
All survive Bolivia plane crash
More than 150 passengers survive as a plane operated by Lloyd Aereo Boliviano crash lands in a swamp...
BBC News - February 2, 2008
Gisele at Rag & Bone Show
Bruce Pask, men?s fashion director, reporting on Rag & Bone from Cipriani on 42nd Street...
New York Times - February 2, 2008
Bush to Seek Budget Cuts, Except in Child Health
Dozens of popular health, housing and education programs would be eliminated or sharply reduced under the budget that President Bush plans to announce on Monday...
New York Times - February 2, 2008
Fake Newspaper Offers Real Apology
One of The Onion?s earnest-looking everymen turns out to have a real problem...
New York Times - February 2, 2008
Italy Lends the Getty a Bounty of Berninis
A major loan exhibition of Bernini?s sculptures, paintings and drawings is headed for the J. Paul Getty Museum in Los Angeles this summer...
New York Times - February 2, 2008
Given Reprieve, N.F.L. Star?s Dogs Find Kindness
The Best Friends Animal Society sanctuary in Kanab, Utah, is a new home for 22 of Michael Vick?s former dogs...
New York Times - February 2, 2008
Two Bombings Wreak Carnage in Iraqi Capital
Two women strapped with explosives killed dozens of people in the deadliest day in Baghdad in months...
New York Times - February 2, 2008
Kennedy Revels in Limelight as He Stumps for Obama
Senator Edward M. Kennedy, the white-haired liberal legend, is drawing raucous crowds...
New York Times - February 2, 2008
Clinton?s Gradual Education on Issues of Race
Senator Hillary Rodham Clinton, who grew up in the palest of Chicago suburbs, is now competing for black votes across the South...
New York Times - February 2, 2008
A Giant Bid That Shows How Tired the Giant Is
If the proposed acquisition of Yahoo signals anything, it serves as a confirmation that Microsoft?s glory days are in the past...
New York Times - February 2, 2008
Bracing Small Business in a Turbulent Economy
Under the leadership of Steven C. Preston, the Small Business Administration - the chief advocate for small business owners - is trying to revitalize itself...
New York Times - February 2, 2008
The Dollar?s Long Fade
The dollar may gain a bit against other currencies in 2008, Bloomberg Markets reports, but its long-term prospects are bleak...
New York Times - February 2, 2008
When Just Handing Over a Ring Won?t Do
Marriage proposals are becoming increasingly elaborate and expensive, with proposal planners, proposal photographers and others getting into the act of helping men...
New York Times - February 2, 2008
Where the Capitalism Is (Always on Display)
If our city?s status and the currency that backs it are more contested than they once were, that only makes the opening of the Museum of American Finance on Wall Street last month more urgently intriguing...
New York Times - February 2, 2008
Profit Declines 31% at Gannett
The country?s largest newspaper publisher said Friday that its fourth-quarter profit dropped because of a decline in broadcasting revenue and weak newspaper ad sales...
New York Times - February 2, 2008
Housing Illness Spreading to Rest of Construction
A plunge in construction spending threatens to drive the American economy into recession...
New York Times - February 2, 2008
Best Week Since March ?03 for 2 Indexes
Wall Street set aside anxiety over news that the economy lost jobs last month and focused on Microsoft?s bid for Yahoo...
New York Times - February 2, 2008
Utility Stocks No Longer Such a Haven
If your grandmother played the market, she probably invested in utilities for safety and income, not capital gains. She would need to adjust her strategy today...
New York Times - February 2, 2008
If It?s Hit, Strummed or Plucked, It?ll Be Here
Robert J. Ulrich is donating millions of dollars to establish the decidedly unglamorous Musical Instrument Museum...
New York Times - February 2, 2008
If It?s Tuesday, It Must Be Spanish
An increasing number of American parents want their children to be bilingual if not multilingual...
New York Times - February 2, 2008
Ericsson Cutting 4,000 Jobs as Profit Plunges
The cellphone-network equipment maker said that it would cut up to 4,000 jobs, about 5.4 percent of its work force, after profit plunged 42 percent in the fourth quarter...
New York Times - February 2, 2008
Disney Signs Its Chief to a New Five-Year Contract
The move signaled the company?s confidence in Robert A. Iger?s ability to navigate a turbulent economy and sweeping changes in the media business...
New York Times - February 2, 2008
Bullish About the Web
A January report by JPMorgan Chase said growing revenues from online advertising would in part lead to a great year for Internet stocks...
New York Times - February 2, 2008
For Just a Few Dollars, a Big TV and Years of Debt
Rent-A-Center, a chain of appliance and furniture rental stores, offers a deal that is much like a sub-prime mortgage for pull-out sofas and television sets...
New York Times - February 2, 2008
Yahoo Offer Is Strategy Shift for Microsoft
Google?s dominance has forced Microsoft to concede that it did not get its Internet business right...
New York Times - February 2, 2008
Lone Star Executive Sentenced
A South Korean court found the private equity fund and one of its executives guilty of manipulating stock prices. The executive, Paul Yoo, was sentenced to five years...
New York Times - February 2, 2008
G.M.?s Car Sales Rise in an Otherwise Tough Month
Automakers got off to a rough start in 2008, but General Motors served up a surprise on Friday with higher sales in January on strong demand for its new car models...
New York Times - February 2, 2008
Deal That May Create More, Not Less, Competition
Advertising and media executives said that Google has become so dominant in the online advertising market that a combined Microsoft and Yahoo might be the only way to produce a legitimate competitor...
New York Times - February 2, 2008
Bank Chief May Face Questions
A senior prosecutor recommended that Daniel Bouton be questioned by judges in connection with accusations he has made about a rogue trader?s role in Société Générale?s loss of billions of euros...
New York Times - February 2, 2008
Icahn Is Said to Buy Stake in Penney
The investor Carl C. Icahn has gone shopping again, this time acquiring shares in the retailer J. C. Penney, people briefed on the matter said Friday...
New York Times - February 2, 2008
Exxon Sets Profit Record: $40.6 Billion Last Year
Like most oil companies, Exxon benefited from a near doubling of oil prices, as well as higher demand for gasoline last year...
New York Times - February 2, 2008
8 Banks Discuss Aid for Bond Insurer
The banks are considering injecting capital into the Ambac Financial Group and assuming some of the risks associated with guarantees written by the company...
New York Times - February 2, 2008
Alcoa and Chinese Rival Buy 12% Stake in Rio Tinto
The move underscored the strategic significance of mining in a resource-stretched age as well as China?s formidable and still largely untapped economic might...
New York Times - February 2, 2008
Massachusetts Accuses Merrill of Fraud
The state?s top securities regulator accused Merrill Lynch on Friday of defrauding the city of Springfield with subprime-linked investments...
New York Times - February 2, 2008
With Irish Tax, Plastic Bags Go the Way of the Snakes
The Irish have embraced the use of cloth bags to carry their groceries, encouraged by a 33-cent tax on each plastic bag grabbed at the register...
New York Times - February 2, 2008
First Job Losses in 4 Years Raise Recession Fears
Employers cut 17,000 jobs in January, the first decline in the work force in more than four years...
New York Times - February 2, 2008
Wesley Snipes Cleared of Serious Tax Charges
The actor was convicted on three lesser charges and must pay up to $17 million of back taxes, penalties and interest...
New York Times - February 2, 2008
Eyes on Google, Microsoft Bids $44 Billion for Yahoo
If consummated, the deal would instantly redraw the competitive landscape on the Internet and escalate the battle between Microsoft and Google...
New York Times - February 2, 2008
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