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Saints QB Brees is AP Offensive Player of Year
Southern Ledger - January 7, 2009
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Laura Bush unveils George W. Bush state china
Southern Ledger - January 7, 2009
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Bush headed to Midland, Texas, after presidency
Southern Ledger - January 7, 2009
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Obama hails extraordinary gathering
Southern Ledger - January 7, 2009
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Obama has lunch with 4 presidents
Southern Ledger - January 7, 2009
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Obama names special watchdog for federal spending
Southern Ledger - January 7, 2009
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Will Smith voted 2008s top moneymaking movie star
Southern Ledger - January 7, 2009
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Apples Jobs has hormone imbalance, will stay CEO
Southern Ledger - January 7, 2009
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Apple cuts copy protection and prices on iTunes
Southern Ledger - January 7, 2009
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US News Archive for Octomber 2005:
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City and Teachers Union Reach Tentative Accord on New Contract
The deal requires longer hours, fewer seniority rights and a new master teacher position with higher pay...
New York Times - October 3, 2005
Boat That Sank, Killing 20, in Adirondacks Is Raised
Officials said that so far there was no evidence that the boat had been speeding, or that captain was intoxicated...
New York Times - October 3, 2005
NTL to Buy Cable Rival Telewest in $6 Billion Deal
The $6 billion deal would bolster NTL's ability to compete with British Sky Broadcasting and British Telecom...
New York Times - October 3, 2005
Questions over US boat accident
Police investigating a deadly boat accident in New York State say they have found no evidence of negligence...
BBC News - October 3, 2005
US carmakers take September hit
Ford and General Motors report a slump in September sales as Asian rivals erode their market share...
BBC News - October 3, 2005
Landslides bury Central Americans
At least 29 people are killed across Central America in the aftermath of Tropical Storm Stan...
BBC News - October 3, 2005
Bid to save EU Turkish entry talks
European foreign ministers were trying to rescue talks on Turkey's entry to the EU after they were forced to postpone them after a hard line by Austria on full Turkish membership...
CNN - October 3, 2005
Miers is new court nominee
President Bush nominated White House counsel Harriet Miers on Monday to replace retiring Supreme Court Justice Sandra Day O'Connor. "She will strictly interpret our Constitution and laws. She will not legislate from the bench," Bush said...
CNN - October 3, 2005
Longtime Confidante of Bush Has Never Been a Judge
Harriet Miers, the White House counsel, lacks a long history of judicial rulings that could reveal ideological tendencies...
New York Times - October 3, 2005
City and Teachers to Announce New Contract
The public school teachers union has agreed on a contract with the city, after more than two years of working without one, officials said Monday...
New York Times - October 3, 2005
Investigators Seek Cause of Deadly Boat Sinking
A boat filled with elderly tourists on a cruise of Lake George capsized suddenly and sank yesterday afternoon under a clear sky...
New York Times - October 3, 2005
People and Accounts of Note
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New York Times - October 3, 2005
Donnelley Agrees to Purchase Dex Media
The R.H. Donnelley Corporation, the yellow pages company, said this morning that it would acquire a rival, Dex Media Inc., for $4.2 billion in cash and stock...
New York Times - October 3, 2005
2 Big Drug Chains in Britain Plan to Merge
Boots, the British drug store chain, announced plans to merge with Alliance UniChem in the first step of a global expansion plan...
New York Times - October 3, 2005
Bear necessities
In his weekly opinion column, A Point of View, Harold Evans reflects on how an environmental success story - rescuing grizzlies from extinction - could be set back by the relentless quest for oil...
BBC News - October 3, 2005
Farc 'abducts' Colombia policemen
Colombia's Farc rebels are reported to have killed one police officer and kidnapped dozens during an attack...
BBC News - October 3, 2005
CBC in tentative deal with union
Canada's public broadcaster and its main union reach an agreement in principle to end a 50-day lockout...
BBC News - October 3, 2005
NY imam quits over 9/11 remarks
New York's fire department hunts for another Muslim chaplain after its new imam resigns over his 9/11 views...
BBC News - October 3, 2005
EU 'on precipice' over Turkey
The European Union is on the "edge of a precipice" over terms for historic membership talks with Turkey, according to the bloc's current president, Britain...
CNN - October 3, 2005
Bali bombers' severed heads shown
Police hunting the masterminds behind the suicide bombings in Bali that killed 19 people and injured at least 132 others have shown photos of the bombers' severed heads...
CNN - October 3, 2005
Tour boat tragedy kills 20
Investigators from the National Transportation Safety Board will try today to determine how and why a tour boat capsized on an upstate New York lake, killing 20 passengers. Many of the 49 people aboard were senior citizens...
CNN - October 3, 2005
Ambitious Experiment Leads Kosovo to a Crossroads
For more than six years, a United Nations mission has been trying to forge a modern democratic system in this region...
New York Times - October 3, 2005
A Time for Some Well-Placed Greed
The economy has a system for persuading the rest of us to step aside and let New Orleans have lumber for rebuilding. It's called price gouging...
New York Times - October 3, 2005
Fashion Magazines Rush to Mold China's Sense of Style
Vogue Magazine is wagering $8.6 million for postage-stamp-size portion of China's population...
New York Times - October 3, 2005
Just Hold the Memoir and Pass the Advice
John F. Welch Jr.'s book, "Winning," has sold an estimated 440,000 copies since April, making it a bona fide best seller despite his reputation...
New York Times - October 3, 2005
NTL, a British Cable Provider, May Buy Rival
The British cable operator NTL plans to acquire Telewest, a counterpart, in a long-awaited deal that will create a $10 billion company...
New York Times - October 3, 2005
European Phone Companies Begin Merger Talks
Telefónica of Spain is in preliminary talks to acquire KPN of the Netherlands for about $24 billion, according to executives involved...
New York Times - October 3, 2005
Herding Cats? Try Herding People to Cat Shows
Promoters for the Moscow Cats Theater faced a challenge: the show is not likely to draw the same theatergoer as the new David Mamet...
New York Times - October 3, 2005
People and Accounts of Note
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New York Times - October 3, 2005
Beauty and power in Colombia
Hundreds of beauty pageants are held every year in Colombia, where beauty and power appear to have an intricate relationship, reports the BBC's Alicia Trujillo...
BBC News - October 3, 2005
Who has the power in Hollywood?
Among Hollywood's stars, directors, producers, scriptwriters, and studio executives, who is the most powerful?...
BBC News - October 3, 2005
US school swaps books for bytes
A school in Arizona, US, has thrown out its paper-based text books to rely solely on laptops and digital material...
BBC News - October 3, 2005
ABC anchor leaves $50m estate
US news anchor Peter Jennings, who died in August, left an estate valued at more than $50m (£28.5m)...
BBC News - October 3, 2005
Baseball: Hopes alive for Red Sox
Boston clinch the AL wild card play-off berth thanks to Cleveland's 3-1 loss to the Chicago White Sox...
BBC News - October 3, 2005
Nascar: Jarrett takes win
Dale Jarrett ends a 98-race Nascar victory drought by winning at Talladega Superspeedway...
BBC News - October 3, 2005
Leading US playwright Wilson dies
Pulitzer Prize-winning playwright August Wilson, who wrote about life in black America, dies aged 60...
BBC News - October 3, 2005
Farc 'abducts 60 Colombia police'
Colombia's Farc rebels are reported to have kidnapped more than 60 police officers after an attack on a village...
BBC News - October 3, 2005
U.S. tour boat capsizes, 20 dead
Twenty people are dead and 29 have been rescued after their tour boat capsized on Lake George, in upstate New York, according to Warren County Sheriff Larry Cleveland...
CNN - October 3, 2005
Tour boat tragedy kills 20
Twenty senior citizens died Sunday when a tour boat capsized on Lake George, in upstate New York, Warren County Sheriff Larry Cleveland said. The 40-foot vessel apparently rolled over after being hit by the wake of a larger craft, he said...
CNN - October 3, 2005
Luck and Fate Placed Victims on Storm Bus
As fate would have it, Hurricane Rita killed nobody in the Houston area except those running from its predicted fury...
New York Times - October 3, 2005
August Wilson, Theater's Poet of Black America, Is Dead at 60
Mr. Wilson chronicled the African-American experience in a series of plays that will stand as a landmark in the history of black culture...
New York Times - October 3, 2005
Theft Case Rattles Sedate World of Rare Maps
The case against E. Forbes Smiley III, a dealer in antiquities, has jolted the closed and covetous world of map dealers and collectors...
New York Times - October 3, 2005
21 Die in Sinking of Tourist Boat in Adirondacks
Witnesses said the boat had flipped over with startling speed and plunged dozens of mostly elderly passengers into the water...
New York Times - October 3, 2005
Locked Away Forever After Crimes as Teenagers
Juvenile criminals are serving life terms in at least 48 states, and their numbers have increased sharply over the past decade...
New York Times - October 3, 2005
This Time, Retaliation by the Sharper Image Is a Bit Less Litigious
Two years ago when Consumer Reports reported that the Ionic Breeze air purifier was ineffective at its job, Sharper Image struck back with a lawsuit...
New York Times - October 3, 2005
A Hometown Favorite, Acquitted, Casts His Gaze at Hollywood
Lawyers for Richard Scrushy, the former CEO of the HealthSouth Corporation, have met with producers about making a feature film of his trial...
New York Times - October 3, 2005
Employee No. 1 Is Scouting China for Google
Kai-Fu Lee, Google's new man in China, is fresh from a court victory over Microsoft. Now, he is talking about plans to set up a China base for Google...
New York Times - October 3, 2005
Treasury Bills Set for This Week
The Treasury's schedule of financing this week includes Monday's auction of new three- and six-month bills and an auction of four-week bills Tuesday...
New York Times - October 3, 2005
Are There No Blockbusters to Be Found?
Last year, after the beginning of the television season, everyone was talking about "Lost" and "Desperate Housewives." This year, it's the same thing...
New York Times - October 3, 2005
To Promote a New Drug Benefit, Marketers Are Using Some Old Scripts
Pop culture figures of a certain age, or from a certain era, are playing lead roles in a vast new marketing and advertising blitz...
New York Times - October 3, 2005
The Ad-Averse: Finicky and Opinionated
The online marketing research firm Intelliseek released data last week suggesting that so-called ad-skippers behave differently...
New York Times - October 3, 2005
In Challenge To Google, Yahoo Will Scan Books
An unusual alliance of corporations, nonprofit groups and universities plans to announce today an ambitious plan to digitize hundreds of thousands of books over the next several years and put them on the Internet, with the full text accessible to anyone...
New York Times - October 3, 2005
NRG to Acquire Texas Genco in a Deal Valued at $5.8 Billion
By Reuters...
New York Times - October 3, 2005
By Tearing Open That Cardboard Box, Are You Also Signing on the Dotted Line?
Pay attention next time you rip open a cardboard box - you may be entering into a contract without realizing it...
New York Times - October 3, 2005
New Video Search Sites Offer Glimpse of Future TV
For those tired of navigating hundreds of television channels to find shows worth watching, the Web sends this message: let us do the work...
New York Times - October 3, 2005
British Air May Cut 15% of Ground Staff
By The New York Times...
New York Times - October 3, 2005
KPMG Had Doubts About Its Tax Shelters, Memos Show
Internal e-mail messages in two lawsuits brought by former clients against KPMG describe how executives doubted the legitimacy of the firm's tax shelters...
New York Times - October 3, 2005
Parmalat Creditors Approve a Return to Trading Shares
By Bloomberg News...
New York Times - October 3, 2005
In DVD Format Split, Paramount Goes 2 Ways
Paramount Pictures said Sunday that it will make DVD movies in the Blu-ray format and the HD DVD standard, in recognition of divergent technologies...
New York Times - October 3, 2005
Drug Chains in Britain May Merge
Boots, the British drug store chain, plans to merge with Alliance UniChem in the first step of a global expansion plan...
New York Times - October 3, 2005
Donnelly Reported Near Deal to Buy Dex Media
The R. H. Donnelley Corporation, the yellow pages company, was near a deal Sunday night to acquire a rival, Dex Media Inc., for about $4.2 billion...
New York Times - October 3, 2005
G.M. and a U.S. Agency See Pensions in Different Lights
The government contends that General Motors' pension fund is $31 billion short of what it owes its work force, according to closely held government data...
New York Times - October 3, 2005
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