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Will Smith voted 2008s top moneymaking movie star
Southern Ledger - January 7, 2009
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Review Just say I dont to Bride Wars
Southern Ledger - January 7, 2009
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Intel will miss its already-lowered 4Q targets
Southern Ledger - January 7, 2009
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LG shows off Dick Tracy wristwatch phone
Southern Ledger - January 7, 2009
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Audiovox to expand availability of TV on the road
Southern Ledger - January 7, 2009
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How big Jurassic flying reptiles got off ground
Southern Ledger - January 7, 2009
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Israeli strikes, Hamas rockets resume after pause
Southern Ledger - January 7, 2009
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US supports Egyptian-French initiative on Gaza
Southern Ledger - January 7, 2009
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Gaza fighting rages despite cease-fire proposal
Southern Ledger - January 7, 2009
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US News Archive for Octomber 2007:
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City Room: Disparities in Infant Mortality Persist
The city's new infant mortality data shows continuing disparities among the boroughs and neighborhoods...
New York Times - October 3, 2007
TV Decoder Blog: ABC Sends Digital Reporters Abroad
ABC News announced today that it would dispatch digital reporters to seven foreign cities, a move meant to give the network a broader global presence without incurring the cost of opening full-fledged bureaus. The reporters will serve as their own producers, bookers and assistants, filing reports for all ABC News platforms. Two people will be posted [...]...
New York Times - October 3, 2007
The Lede Blog: Fight Over a Palestinian Image
Seven years later, an Israeli press official strongly rejects video of a Palestinian death...
New York Times - October 3, 2007
Well Blog: How to Keep Teens Safe Behind the Wheel
Driver's ed for a new generation...
New York Times - October 3, 2007
3,000 South African Miners Trapped
The miners were trapped underground at a South African mine belonging to the world?s fifth biggest gold producer, the Harmony Gold company...
New York Times - October 3, 2007
Iraqi Bombing Wounds Polish Ambassador
Poland?s ambassador to Iraq was wounded and two people were killed in what appeared to be a coordinated roadside bomb attack on Wednesday morning in downtown Baghdad, Polish and Iraqi officials said...
New York Times - October 3, 2007
The Caucus Blog: Giuliani Dismisses Evangelical Challenge
Rudolph W. Giuliani today got a heaping helping of questions about his troubles with Christian conservatives...
New York Times - October 3, 2007
Formal Search for Adventurer Is Halted
An unprecedented amount of resources was deployed in the Sierra Nevada range in the search for Steve Fossett...
New York Times - October 3, 2007
Herbert Muschamp, Architecture Critic, Dies at 59
His deeply personal reviews for The Times made him one of his generation?s most influential architecture critics...
New York Times - October 3, 2007
Senator Domenici of New Mexico to Retire
Senator Pete Domenici?s move gives Democrats another opportunity to expand their majority in 2008...
New York Times - October 3, 2007
Bush Vetoes Children?s Health Bill
The veto, which sets the stage for more negotiations between the White House and Congress, sparked unusual dismay from some prominent Republicans...
New York Times - October 3, 2007
When 2 Is Bigger Than 48
The economies of New Hampshire and Iowa are not similar to the rest of America, a fact that can?t help but skew the political debate...
New York Times - October 3, 2007
Laptop With a Mission Widens Its Audience
A low-cost computer intended to aid children in poor countries will soon be on sale here, for two weeks only...
New York Times - October 3, 2007
Strong Quarter for Pepsi Bottler
Pepsi Bottling posted better than expected earnings due to higher prices and cost savings. The company raised its full-year outlook, sending shares higher...
New York Times - October 3, 2007
Hershey Names Its Next Chief
The chocolate maker said Tuesday that its chief operating officer, David J. West, would become its next chief executive...
New York Times - October 3, 2007
Morgan Stanley Will Eliminate 600 Jobs
The cuts represent about 25 percent of Morgan Stanley?s residential mortgage origination and servicing jobs...
New York Times - October 3, 2007
A Purchase by Nasdaq
The Nasdaq Stock Market said Tuesday that it had agreed to buy the Boston Stock Exchange for about $61 million...
New York Times - October 3, 2007
2nd Democrat to Leave S.E.C.
WASHINGTON, Oct. 2 (AP) — Annette L. Nazareth, a member of the Securities and Exchange Commission, said Tuesday that she was leaving the agency for the private sector. She will be the second Democrat on the five-member panel to do so in a month...
New York Times - October 3, 2007
Dean Foods Cuts Forecast and Workers
the nation?s largest dairy producer said Tuesday that record high milk prices were cutting into profit, and that it planned to cut 600 to 700 jobs...
New York Times - October 3, 2007
Microsoft to Increase Ad Business
Steve Ballmer, the company?s chief executive, said Tuesday that advertising would become 25 percent of Microsoft?s business within a few years...
New York Times - October 3, 2007
Citigroup to Acquire Rest of Firm in Japan
Citigroup said Tuesday that it would buy out minority shareholders in the Japanese brokerage firm Nikko Cordial for $4.6 billion...
New York Times - October 3, 2007
Flipping Slows, but Landlords Continue to Raise Rents
Landlords are increasing rents just as building values appear to be dropping slightly in many cities due to the credit squeeze...
New York Times - October 3, 2007
Shares Close Mixed Amid Profit-Taking
The Dow Jones industrials closed with a moderate loss as investors cashed in gains following Monday?s big rally. The Nasdaq composite posted a moderate gain...
New York Times - October 3, 2007
Nike Adds Indian Artifacts to Its Swoosh
Some bloggers have found Nike?s new shoe - designed specifically for American Indians - off-putting. Nike said it aimed to promote a healthy lifestyle on reservations...
New York Times - October 3, 2007
Appeals Court Extends Time for Suit on Holocaust Insurance Payments
The extension potentially revived the long-running dispute over unpaid life insurance claims brought by victims of the Holocaust...
New York Times - October 3, 2007
A Bank for the Masses Reaches for the Elite
Bank of America?s new campaign aims to convince the wealthy that a mass-market institution with a blue-collar image can also manage money for millionaires...
New York Times - October 3, 2007
TD Bank to Acquire Commerce
For Toronto-Dominion, the deal to buy Commerce Bancorp provides another way for the Canadian bank to overcome limited growth opportunities at home...
New York Times - October 3, 2007
Buyout Group Alters Its Offer for Sallie Mae
A consortium led by the private equity firm, J. C. Flowers, offered $50 a share in cash for Sallie Mae, below the $60 a share they agreed to pay in April...
New York Times - October 3, 2007
A September Sales Drop of 18.2% Ends Dismal 2007 Model Year for Ford
G.M.?s U.S. sales were up 4 percent in September, while Honda?s increased 13.8 percent. But Toyota, Ford and Chrysler all sold fewer vehicles...
New York Times - October 3, 2007
Swedish Smokeless Tobacco Aims at U.S. Market
The American tobacco industry is looking to snus - moist ground tobacco that users tuck between the cheek and the gum - as a potentially profitable alternative to cigarettes...
New York Times - October 3, 2007
Unlike U.S., Japanese Push Fiber Over Profit
Japan is a broadband paradise with the world?s fastest and cheapest Internet connections, but some analysts wonder if the country?s push to install fiber is worth the effort...
New York Times - October 3, 2007
Microsoft Updates Its iPod Competitor
Microsoft has revamped its slow-selling Zune digital music players and created a MySpace-style social-networking site in its drive to compete with Apple...
New York Times - October 3, 2007
Scrutiny for Insurers of the Aged
The top-ranking Republican on the Senate Finance Committee has asked 11 long-term care insurance companies to explain ?troubling data? regarding how policyholders? claims are handled and paid...
New York Times - October 3, 2007
Stocks Slide as Investors Await Data
Wall Street extended its pullback as investors awaited signs of how well corporate earnings and the job market have held up in an uneven economy...
New York Times - October 3, 2007
Insider-Trading Inquiry at Airbus Owner Advances
The case in France centers on whether executives of E.A.D.S. and Airbus were aware of problems with production of the Airbus A380 when they exercised stock options...
New York Times - October 3, 2007
Merrill Replaces Head of Fixed-Income Unit
Merrill Lynch said Wednesday that its global head of fixed income, currencies and commodities, Osman Semerci, had left the firm and been replaced...
New York Times - October 3, 2007
Service Economy Growth Below Forecast
The report by the Institute for Supply Management painted a mixed picture of the economy, with prices rising but employment improving...
New York Times - October 3, 2007
Deutsche Bank Writes Down $3.1 Billion
The losses will dampen Deutsche Bank?s 3rd-quarter net income, but including tax credits and the sale of its Wall Street office tower, the bank will exceed its results of the period a year earlier...
New York Times - October 3, 2007
Argentina hands on Dirty War site
The navy in Argentina formally hands over one of the most notorious "Dirty War" sites to human rights groups...
BBC News - October 3, 2007
Chavez Farc-swap talks delayed
A meeting between Venezuela's leader and Colombian Farc rebels to discuss a hostage exchange is postponed...
BBC News - October 3, 2007
Iran says US too tied up to fight
Washington's other military operations put it in no position to launch an assault on Iran, says Iran's foreign minister...
BBC News - October 3, 2007
The Lede Blog: Jimmy Carter Barks Back in Darfur
A local official tries to hold back the former president...
New York Times - October 3, 2007
Paper Cuts Blog: Paper Cuts: A Playlist by Joe Hill
Joe Hill. (Photo: Shane Leonard) On Wednesdays, this blog is the delivery vehicle for ?Living With Music,? a playlist of songs from a writer or some other kind of book-world personage. This week: Joe Hill, whose books include the novel “Heart-Shaped Box” and the story collection “20th Century Ghosts.” Joe Hill’s October 2007 Playlist: 1) A Prayer [...]...
New York Times - October 3, 2007
The Caucus Blog: Primary Roles of S.C. and Nevada
Do these two states offer enough diversity from Iowa and New Hampshire?...
New York Times - October 3, 2007
City Room: Ask About Homelessness in New York
Taking Questions: Mary Brosnahan and Patrick Markee will answer City Room readers' questions on homelessness in New York City this week...
New York Times - October 3, 2007
U.N. Worker Arrested in Myanmar
A local staff member of the United Nations in Myanmar and three of her family members were detained by security personnel before dawn today...
New York Times - October 3, 2007
Congressional Memo: Limbaugh Latest Target in War of Condemnation
Having abandoned for now their effort to force President Bush to withdraw troops from Iraq, Democrats are not giving ground against a lesser nemesis: Rush Limbaugh...
New York Times - October 3, 2007
2 Detectives Hurt in Bronx Shooting
The police detectives were in stable condition after a gun battle in a Bronx alley while trying to arrest a man...
New York Times - October 3, 2007
Sports of The Times: The Garden Needs a Warning Label
The dark side of Madison Square Garden remained a secret until Anucha Browne Sanders took the stand...
New York Times - October 3, 2007
Bush Vetoes Children?s Health Insurance Bill
The veto today sets the stage for more negotiations between the White House and Congress...
New York Times - October 3, 2007
Texas Ruling Signals Indefinite Halt to Executions
A reprieve issued yesterday was seen as a sign that the state?s judges were taking guidance from the Supreme Court and putting off imminent executions...
New York Times - October 3, 2007
Service Economy Growth Below Forecast
The report by the Institute for Supply Management painted a mixed picture of the economy, with prices rising but employment improving...
New York Times - October 3, 2007
Stocks Pare Losses After Economic Data
Investors juggled uncertainty about the health of the economy with a renewed sense that Wall Street has skirted the worst of a widespread credit squeeze...
New York Times - October 3, 2007
Deutsche Bank to Write Down $3.1 Billion in Loans
The losses will dampen the bank?s 3rd-quarter net income, but it will actually exceed its results of the period a year earlier...
New York Times - October 3, 2007
Visa fined for competition abuse
European regulators fine Visa 10.2m euros for blocking Morgan Stanley from joining its European payment network...
BBC News - October 3, 2007
Chevron fined in Kazakh oil row
Kazakh authorities fine Chevron $609m for alleged environmental lapses, the latest in a number of moves against foreign investors...
BBC News - October 3, 2007
Blaze Kills 5 Workers in Colorado
Workers at a hydroelectric plant were trapped and killed at the bottom of a water tunnel where they were working...
New York Times - October 3, 2007
Texas Ruling Signals Indefinite Halt of Executions
The state?s highest criminal appeals court stayed the lethal injection of a 28-year-old Honduran man...
New York Times - October 3, 2007
North Korea Nuclear Deal Is Reached
North Korea agreed to provide a ?complete and correct declaration? of its nuclear programs and will disable its facilities at its main reactor complex by Dec. 31 under a deal with five other countries...
New York Times - October 3, 2007
Making a Thundering Comeback After 65 Million Years
?Walking With Dinosaurs: The Live Experience? is a show with life-size animatronic dinosaurs that walk and talk (well, roar), not simply on screen, but also in three dimensions...
New York Times - October 3, 2007
When 2 Is Bigger Than 48
The economies of New Hampshire and Iowa are not similar to the rest of America, a fact that can?t help but skew the political debate...
New York Times - October 3, 2007
Strong Quarter for Pepsi Bottler
Pepsi Bottling posted better than expected earnings due to higher prices and cost savings. The company raised its full-year outlook, sending shares higher...
New York Times - October 3, 2007
A Purchase by Nasdaq
The Nasdaq Stock Market said Tuesday that it had agreed to buy the Boston Stock Exchange for about $61 million...
New York Times - October 3, 2007
Hershey Names Its Next Chief
The chocolate maker said Tuesday that its chief operating officer, David J. West, would become its next chief executive...
New York Times - October 3, 2007
Dean Foods Cuts Forecast and Workers
the nation?s largest dairy producer said Tuesday that record high milk prices were cutting into profit, and that it planned to cut 600 to 700 jobs...
New York Times - October 3, 2007
Morgan Stanley Will Eliminate 600 Jobs
The cuts represent about 25 percent of Morgan Stanley?s residential mortgage origination and servicing jobs...
New York Times - October 3, 2007
2nd Democrat to Leave S.E.C.
WASHINGTON, Oct. 2 (AP) — Annette L. Nazareth, a member of the Securities and Exchange Commission, said Tuesday that she was leaving the agency for the private sector. She will be the second Democrat on the five-member panel to do so in a month...
New York Times - October 3, 2007
Microsoft to Increase Ad Business
Steve Ballmer, the company?s chief executive, said Tuesday that advertising would become 25 percent of Microsoft?s business within a few years...
New York Times - October 3, 2007
Citigroup to Acquire Rest of Firm in Japan
Citigroup said Tuesday that it would buy out minority shareholders in the Japanese brokerage firm Nikko Cordial for $4.6 billion...
New York Times - October 3, 2007
Shares Close Mixed Amid Profit-Taking
The Dow Jones industrials closed with a moderate loss as investors cashed in gains following Monday?s big rally. The Nasdaq composite posted a moderate gain...
New York Times - October 3, 2007
Nike Adds Indian Artifacts to Its Swoosh
Some bloggers have found Nike?s new shoe - designed specifically for American Indians - off-putting. Nike said it aimed to promote a healthy lifestyle on reservations...
New York Times - October 3, 2007
Flipping Slows, but Landlords Continue to Raise Rents
Landlords are increasing rents just as building values appear to be dropping slightly in many cities due to the credit squeeze...
New York Times - October 3, 2007
A Bank for the Masses Reaches for the Elite
Bank of America?s new campaign aims to convince the wealthy that a mass-market institution with a blue-collar image can also manage money for millionaires...
New York Times - October 3, 2007
Buyout Group Alters Its Offer for Sallie Mae
A consortium led by the private equity firm, J. C. Flowers, offered $50 a share in cash for Sallie Mae, below the $60 a share they agreed to pay in April...
New York Times - October 3, 2007
Appeals Court Extends Time for Suit on Holocaust Insurance Payments
The extension potentially revived the long-running dispute over unpaid life insurance claims brought by victims of the Holocaust...
New York Times - October 3, 2007
A September Sales Drop of 18.2% Ends Dismal 2007 Model Year for Ford
G.M.?s U.S. sales were up 4 percent in September, while Honda?s increased 13.8 percent. But Toyota, Ford and Chrysler all sold fewer vehicles...
New York Times - October 3, 2007
Microsoft Updates Its iPod Competitor
Microsoft has revamped its slow-selling Zune digital music players and created a MySpace-style social-networking site in its drive to compete with Apple...
New York Times - October 3, 2007
Scrutiny for Insurers of the Aged
The top-ranking Republican on the Senate Finance Committee has asked 11 long-term care insurance companies to explain ?troubling data? regarding how policyholders? claims are handled and paid...
New York Times - October 3, 2007
TD Bank to Acquire Commerce
For Toronto-Dominion, the deal to buy Commerce Bancorp provides another way for the Canadian bank to overcome limited growth opportunities at home...
New York Times - October 3, 2007
Unlike U.S., Japanese Push Fiber Over Profit
Japan is a broadband paradise with the world?s fastest and cheapest Internet connections, but some analysts wonder if the country?s push to install fiber is worth the effort...
New York Times - October 3, 2007
Swedish Smokeless Tobacco Aims at U.S. Market
The American tobacco industry is looking to snus - moist ground tobacco that users tuck between the cheek and the gum - as a potentially profitable alternative to cigarettes...
New York Times - October 3, 2007
Wal-Mart to open Mexico banks
Wal-Mart says it has cleared the final regulatory hurdle to opening its own bank in Mexico...
BBC News - October 3, 2007
Argentine village isolates teens
An Argentine indigenous community quarantines teenagers for 60 days to limit their "spiritual disorientation"...
BBC News - October 3, 2007
Clinton Steals Obama?s Fund-Raising Thunder
Senator Hillary Rodham Clinton?s campaign said that it had beaten Senator Barack Obama in donations and new donors since July, stripping him of a crucial advantage...
New York Times - October 3, 2007
The Hard Part: In Newark, the Mayor?s Crusade Gets Personal
Mayor Cory Booker of Newark has been mentoring three young men from some of the city?s toughest streets...
New York Times - October 3, 2007
American Album: In the Clouds, Sitting Watch Over Paradise
Mike Gates has been a fire lookout, a sky-high voyeur in the battle against wildfires, for the last 21 years...
New York Times - October 3, 2007
Fire at Power Plant Kills 5 Workers
A chemical fire at a hydroelectric plant outside Georgetown, Colo., about 30 miles west of Denver, killed five workers who were trapped inside an empty water tunnel...
New York Times - October 3, 2007
An Escape Plan Stayed Hidden at a Fatal Fire
Firefighters weren?t aware of a plan to allow emergency use of the stairs in the former Deutsche Bank building...
New York Times - October 3, 2007
Economic Scene: When 2 Is Bigger Than 48
The economies of New Hampshire and Iowa are not similar to the rest of America, a fact which can?t help but skew the political debate...
New York Times - October 3, 2007
Strong Quarter for Pepsi Bottler
Pepsi Bottling posted better than expected earnings due to higher prices and cost savings. The company raised its full-year outlook, sending shares higher...
New York Times - October 3, 2007
Hershey Names Its Next Chief
The chocolate maker said Tuesday that its chief operating officer, David J. West, would become its next chief executive...
New York Times - October 3, 2007
A Purchase by Nasdaq
The Nasdaq Stock Market said Tuesday that it had agreed to buy the Boston Stock Exchange for about $61 million...
New York Times - October 3, 2007
Morgan Stanley Will Eliminate 600 Jobs
The cuts represent about 25 percent of Morgan Stanley?s residential mortgage origination and servicing jobs...
New York Times - October 3, 2007
2nd Democrat to Leave S.E.C.
WASHINGTON, Oct. 2 (AP) ? Annette L. Nazareth, a member of the Securities and Exchange Commission, said Tuesday that she was leaving the agency for the private sector. She will be the second Democrat on the five-member panel to do so in a month...
New York Times - October 3, 2007
Dean Foods Cuts Forecast and Workers
the nation?s largest dairy producer said Tuesday that record high milk prices were cutting into profit, and that it planned to cut 600 to 700 jobs...
New York Times - October 3, 2007
Microsoft to Increase Ad Business
Steve Ballmer, the company?s chief executive, said today that advertising would become 25 percent of Microsoft?s business within a few years...
New York Times - October 3, 2007
Citigroup to Acquire Rest of Firm in Japan
Citigroup said Tuesday that it would buy out minority shareholders in the Japanese brokerage firm Nikko Cordial for $4.6 billion...
New York Times - October 3, 2007
Square Feet: New Buildings That Embrace the Old
Some New York City developments are causing certain areas to resemble exotic jigsaw puzzles, as elegant old brownstones sit cheek by jowl with shiny glass towers...
New York Times - October 3, 2007
Shares Close Mixed Amid Profit-Taking
The Dow Jones industrials closed with a moderate loss as investors cashed in gains following Monday?s big rally. The Nasdaq composite posted a moderate gain...
New York Times - October 3, 2007
Square Feet: Flipping Slows, but Landlords Continue to Raise Rents
Landlords are increasing rents just as building values appear to be dropping slightly in many cities due to the credit squeeze...
New York Times - October 3, 2007
Advertising: A Bank for the Masses Reaches for the Elite
Bank of America?s new campaign aims to convince the wealthy that a mass-market institution with a blue-collar image can also manage money for millionaires...
New York Times - October 3, 2007
Nike Adds Indian Artifacts to Its Swoosh
Some bloggers have found Nike?s new shoe - designed specifically for American Indians - off-putting. Nike said it aimed to promote a healthy lifestyle on reservations...
New York Times - October 3, 2007
Buyout Group Alters Its Offer for Sallie Mae
A consortium led by the private equity firm, J. C. Flowers, offered $50 a share in cash for Sallie Mae, below the $60 a share they agreed to pay in April...
New York Times - October 3, 2007
Appeals Court Extends Time for Suit on Holocaust Insurance Payments
The extension potentially revived the long-running dispute over unpaid life insurance claims brought by victims of the Holocaust...
New York Times - October 3, 2007
Microsoft Updates Its iPod Competitor
Microsoft has revamped its slow-selling Zune digital music players and created a MySpace-style social-networking site in its drive to compete with Apple...
New York Times - October 3, 2007
A September Sales Drop of 18.2% Ends Dismal 2007 Model Year for Ford
G.M.?s U.S. sales were up 4 percent in September, while Honda?s increased 13.8 percent. But Toyota, Ford and Chrysler all sold fewer vehicles...
New York Times - October 3, 2007
Unlike U.S., Japanese Push Fiber Over Profit
Japan is a broadband paradise with the world?s fastest and cheapest Internet connections, but some analysts wonder if the country?s push to install fiber is worth the effort...
New York Times - October 3, 2007
Scrutiny for Insurers of the Aged
The top-ranking Republican on the Senate Finance Committee has asked 11 long-term care insurance companies to explain ?troubling data? regarding how policyholders? claims are handled and paid...
New York Times - October 3, 2007
TD Bank to Acquire Commerce
For Toronto-Dominion, the deal to buy Commerce Bancorp provides another way for the Canadian bank to overcome limited growth opportunities at home...
New York Times - October 3, 2007
Swedish Smokeless Tobacco Aims at U.S. Market
The American tobacco industry is looking to snus - moist ground tobacco that users tuck between the cheek and the gum - as a potentially profitable alternative to cigarettes...
New York Times - October 3, 2007
US plant fire kills five workers
Five workers have been killed in a fire at a hydro-electric power plant in the US state of Colorado, police say...
BBC News - October 3, 2007
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