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US News Archive for September 2006:
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American al Qaeda: U.S. should convert to Islam
new videotape has surfaced featuring Osama bin Laden's second-in-command, Ayman al-Zawahiri, and an American member of al Qaeda wanted by the FBI, according to a counterterrorism expert...
CNN - September 2, 2006
A Tough East Coast Cop in Laid-Back Los Angeles
Since arriving in from New York four years ago, William J. Bratton has been bluntly outspoken. Yet he is perhaps the most popular police chief in a generation...
New York Times - September 2, 2006
With Millions in 9/11 Payments, Bereaved Can’t Buy Green Cards
Widows of 9/11 victims living in the U.S. illegally fear they could be deported any day...
New York Times - September 2, 2006
The DNA Age: Couples Cull Embryos to Halt Heritage of Cancer
A growing number of couples are screening embryos to detect a predisposition to cancers that may or may not develop later in life...
New York Times - September 2, 2006
Adding It Up: Pockets Half Empty, or Half Full
What can a handful of numbers tell us aout the state of the American worker?...
New York Times - September 2, 2006
Market Week: A Profit Streak: 17 and Counting
Despite continual reports of sluggish economic growth and a decelerating housing market, there is much to look forward to from the corporate sector...
New York Times - September 2, 2006
No Kid, but Robert Evans Still Stays in the Picture
Paramount Pictures has been swept clean over the last year or so. But one thing remains somehow unchanged on the company’s Hollywood lot: Robert Evans still holds sway...
New York Times - September 2, 2006
Who’s the Man? Dave
An editor uses the male viewpoint to build a franchise...
New York Times - September 2, 2006
Suits: A Crisis Manager Has to Help Itself
The Yes Men, a group of activists, organized a stunt to protest the government’s plan to demolish a city public housing projects in New Orleans...
New York Times - September 2, 2006
Career Couch: E-Mail in Haste, Panic at Leisure
You shouldn't have said what you said in that errant message. Now how do you make amends?...
New York Times - September 2, 2006
The Boss: A Series of Opening Doors
Todd A. Stottlemyer, president and chief executive of the National Federation of Independent Business, wanted to be a professional football player...
New York Times - September 2, 2006
DataBank: Tech and Retail Stocks Lead a Late-Week Rally
Whipsawed all week by conflicting economic data, stocks finished with a flourish after the last statistics to be released — the growth in nonfarm payrolls...
New York Times - September 2, 2006
Everybody's Business: On Buyouts, There Ought to Be a Law
Now that the market has corrected a bit, management buyouts are running riot...
New York Times - September 2, 2006
The Count: A Teacher’s Year, a C.E.O.’s Day: The Pay’s Similar
Enough already on how many millions chief executives earn. Let’s shift gears to a group of workers who earn pennies in comparison...
New York Times - September 2, 2006
Investing: Is a Recession Ahead? A Bond Buyer’s Debate
The Federal Reserve's direction was once fairly predictable; now the experts differ...
New York Times - September 2, 2006
Off the Shelf: Aiming to Level a Global Playing Field
If a prize in politics were awarded for self-righteousness, Joseph E. Stiglitz, despite stiff competition, might be near the top of the list...
New York Times - September 2, 2006
The Goods: Six Feet Over
“Extreme pogoing” is geared toward athletes who pogo for thrills rather than locomotion — leaping over cars or performing tricks...
New York Times - September 2, 2006
Economic View: The State of Research Isn’t All That Grand
What price does America pay for skimping on research?...
New York Times - September 2, 2006
Spending: How to Become a World Citizen, Before Going to College
Spending a year abroad before going to college can foster a solid sense of direction...
New York Times - September 2, 2006
Square Feet : What’s the Bigger Brand: The Hotel or Its Chef?
An increasing number of luxury hotel owners have been forming alliances with well-known chefs, who see them as a way to help increase profits...
New York Times - September 2, 2006
A Bank Survives Katrina. Now, the Hard Part.
Like New Orleans and its ravaged economy, Liberty Bank and Trust Company has a long way to go in its recovery...
New York Times - September 2, 2006
The Last Stand of the 6-Percenters?
As listings migrate to the Web, the broker's traditional fee is threatened...
New York Times - September 2, 2006
Fundamentally: Why the Tide Hasn’t Turned Toward Growth Stocks
Growth-stock investing has required the patience of Job during the last few years. Is it time for a turnaround, for growth to overtake value?...
New York Times - September 2, 2006
Al-Qaeda calls on US to convert
Al-Qaeda urges non-Muslims - especially in the US - to convert to Islam, according to a new videotape...
BBC News - September 2, 2006
14 Britons die in Afghan crash
A NATO aircraft crashed Saturday in southern Afghanistan, killing 14 British servicemen. The alliance said there was no indication hostile fire was involved...
CNN - September 2, 2006
Media Frenzy: Time Warner’s Anxious Autumn
Regardless of how much Time Warner tries to regroup, retool and reorganize its sprawling media empire, the stock market just yawns...
New York Times - September 2, 2006
Rove’s Word Is No Longer G.O.P. Gospel
Karl Rove is struggling to steer the Republican Party to victory this fall at a time when he appears to have the least political authority since he came to Washington...
New York Times - September 2, 2006
Compensation Heightens Unease of 9/11 Relatives in U.S. Illegally
Although they have been awarded millions of dollars, three spouses of people who died in the Sept. 11 attacks fear they could be deported any day...
New York Times - September 2, 2006
The DNA Age: Seeking Healthy Children, Couples Cull Embryos
A growing number of couples are screening embryos to detect a predisposition to cancers that may or may not develop later in life, and are often treatable if they do...
New York Times - September 2, 2006
Storm Blamed for 5 Deaths and Power Cuts
The remnants of Tropical Storm Ernesto drenched the Mid-Atlantic region today, cutting power to more than 400,000 customers and forcing evacuations...
New York Times - September 2, 2006
Get Me to the Las Vegas Marriage Bureau on Time
Anyone who wants to say “I do” in the middle of the night in Las Vegas will be required to use a bit of forethought...
New York Times - September 2, 2006
Screening Tools Slow to Arrive in U.S. Airports
The federal government has been unable to move bomb-detection technologies from the laboratory to the airport successfully...
New York Times - September 2, 2006
Basketball: US claim bronze
The United States recover from their crushing semi-final defeat to win the bronze medal at the World Basketball Championship in Japan...
BBC News - September 2, 2006
Isley singer jailed for tax fraud
Isley Brothers star Ronald Isley is sentenced to three years in prison for multiple tax evasion charges...
BBC News - September 2, 2006
16 held in British terror swoops
Sixteen men were arrested in two separate incidents in anti-terrorism raids in Britain Saturday. Fourteen of the men were arrested in south and east London in a "pre-planned intelligence-led operation," police said...
CNN - September 2, 2006
Italian troops arrive in Lebanon
At least 100 Italian military personnel pull up on the Lebanese shore in small motor boats Saturday prior to the departure of approximately 800 Italian troops from their destroyer ship poised vigilantly nearby...
CNN - September 2, 2006
Tennis: NY ready for Agassi
Andre Agassi is once again poised to take centre stage at the US Open on Saturday - but more rain is forecast...
BBC News - September 2, 2006
Latest images show lively Castro
Fidel Castro is shown in animated conversation in the latest images broadcast since he underwent surgery...
BBC News - September 2, 2006
Sudan 'launches new offensive'
The Sudanese government has launched a major offensive against rebels in war-torn Darfur, human rights activists and African Union officials say. Sudan on Thursday rejected as "illegal" a U.N. Security Council resolution paving the way for the replacement of 7,000 ill-equipped African Union peacekeepers in Darfur with more than 20,000 U.N. forces...
CNN - September 2, 2006
Leftist lawmakers muzzle President Fox
Dozens of Mexico's opposition lawmakers took control of the stage Friday in Congress minutes before President Vicente Fox was scheduled to deliver his last state-of-the-nation address...
CNN - September 2, 2006
Pittsburgh Mayor Bob O'Connor, 61, dies
Mayor Bob O'Connor, who learned he had a rare form of brain cancer only seven months into his term, died Friday night, his spokesman said. He was 61...
CNN - September 2, 2006
Boredom in the West Fuels Binge Drinking
A survey shows that people in a handful of northern tier states drink to excess at very early ages...
New York Times - September 2, 2006
Missile Defense System Intercepts Rocket in Test
Pentagon officials said that the success showed that the system would have a good chance of stopping a ballistic missile...
New York Times - September 2, 2006
Japan’s Likely Next Premier in Hawkish Stand
Shinzo Abe, declaring his candidacy, said that Japan should revise the pacifist Constitution imposed on it by the United States...
New York Times - September 2, 2006
At 2-Year Colleges, Students Eager but Unready
Community colleges are being deluged with hundreds of thousands of students unprepared for college-level work...
New York Times - September 2, 2006
3 States’ Firefighters Honor a Fallen Comrade
Hundreds of firefighters from New York, New Jersey and Connecticut filled a church and thousands more stood outside for the funeral of Michael Curran Reilly, who died fighting a fire in the Bronx...
New York Times - September 2, 2006
New Questions About Inquiry in C.I.A. Leak
Patrick J. Fitzgerald knew the identity of the leaker early on, but he kept the inquiry open for nearly two years...
New York Times - September 2, 2006
Dragnet Widens as 2 Troopers Are Shot in Ambush
Nearly 300 state troopers converged on southwestern New York as the manhunt for Bucky took an urgent turn...
New York Times - September 2, 2006
Some Ways to Ease the Pain
Strategies to limit tax bills for Americans living overseas...
New York Times - September 2, 2006
McDonald’s Says Investor Plans to Buy Stake for Hedge Funds
The McDonald’s Corporation said that hedge fund investor William A. Ackman planned to buy more than $793.8 million worth of shares...
New York Times - September 2, 2006
Former Enron Executive Seeks to Withdraw His Guilty Plea
Christopher F. Calger, a former vice president said his guilty plea should be withdrawn because he did what his supervisors asked him to do for Enron’s benefit...
New York Times - September 2, 2006
Workers at Mitsubishi Plant Accept Cuts in Pay and Benefits
The deal was in exchange for a promise that their jobs are safe for the next two years at the troubled company’s assembly plant...
New York Times - September 2, 2006
Jobs Data Is Welcomed With a Rally
Shares rallied after the government said that employers added more jobs and that wage increases slowed last month...
New York Times - September 2, 2006
U.S. Deal by Japanese Auto Parts Maker
The Asahi Tec Corporation agreed to buy the American auto parts supplier Metaldyne for $1.2 billion, including assumed debt...
New York Times - September 2, 2006
What's Online: It’s My Idea, and I’ll Pay You for It
The magazine Business 2.0 offers a rundown of invention ideas from venture capitalists and the amounts they are offering for people willing to carry out their ideas...
New York Times - September 2, 2006
What’s Offline: Listen Up. Know Your Audience.
Not only do you have to know who you are talking to, you need to know how they listen...
New York Times - September 2, 2006
Market Values: A Swoon in Autumn, With Asterisks
More cautious market watchers may not expect an imminent decline, but they express doubts about what lies beyond the next several months...
New York Times - September 2, 2006
Pace Slowed in Manufacturing and Construction Last Month
The growth in manufacturing eased in August to a pace that is consistent with the recent cooling in the economy...
New York Times - September 2, 2006
Off The Charts: The Odd Recovery: Unemployment Is Low and So Is Employment
The low unemployment rate has come about despite a slow rate of job creation...
New York Times - September 2, 2006
Rush Testing Is Under Way for Microsoft’s New System
Microsoft rushed what may be the final test version of its Windows Vista operating system to more than a million testers, trying to meet deadlines for its long-delayed release...
New York Times - September 2, 2006
MySpace Will Open Digital Music Store
The popular online community site said it will sell songs from nearly three million unsigned bands, in an attempt to challenge Apple’s iTunes Music Store...
New York Times - September 2, 2006
Sales Are Off at Ford and Chrysler, but G.M. Reports a Modest Gain
Sales at Ford fell for the seventh consecutive month while General Motors gained market share but announced that it would cut production 12 percent in the fourth quarter...
New York Times - September 2, 2006
Saturday Interview With Stephen P. Holmes: 10 Brands to Freshen, Plus Linens
The chairman, president and chief executive of the hotel company Wyndham Worldwide spoke about the prospects of 10 lodging brands competing in a thriving market...
New York Times - September 2, 2006
[TS] Would Ruth Have Left New Orleans?
Ruth’s Chris Steak House was the first company to abandon New Orleans after Hurricane Katrina. Ever since, some have wondered if Ruth Fertel, the company’s founder, would have done the same...
New York Times - September 2, 2006
Short Cuts: If You Can Click a Mouse You Can Help on Homework
Online homework help sites may be confusing at first but are quickly becoming a welcome resource...
New York Times - September 2, 2006
I.M.F. Board Supports Giving China and 3 Others Bigger Voices on Policy
The move was in response to appeals by the United States to give greater voting share to fast-growing countries...
New York Times - September 2, 2006
Blow Seen to Profit at Bristol
Bristol-Myers Squibb, reeling from the incursion of a generic competitor to its top-selling drug Plavix, lowered its earnings forecast for the year...
New York Times - September 2, 2006
Where Detroit Pins Its Hopes
Detroit companies are counting on the crossover, a vehicle that looks like an S.U.V. but is built on the underpinnings of a car, to fill the sales void left by S.U.V.’s...
New York Times - September 2, 2006
Your Money: For Workers Sent Abroad, a Tax Jolt
Congress sharply raised the percentage tax rates on Americans working overseas, also imposing taxes on the rent assistance that many companies provide their employees...
New York Times - September 2, 2006
Five Days: It’s Their Holiday, but Wage Earners Aren’t Happy
Three opinion polls found deep pessimism among American workers, with most saying that their wages were not keeping pace with inflation...
New York Times - September 2, 2006
Jobs and Wages Increased Modestly Last Month
Job growth is reaching its peak, confirming that economic activity is slowing to a more sustainable rate...
New York Times - September 2, 2006
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