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US News Archive for February 2008:
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Barak to Remain in Israeli Coalition Government
The move stabilizes Prime Minister Ehud Olmert?s coalition despite last week?s harsh report on the handling of the Lebanon war in 2006...
New York Times - February 3, 2008
Iraq Allows Baathists to Reclaim Jobs
BAGHDAD (AP) -- Iraq's presidency council issued a law Sunday that will allow thousands of Saddam Hussein-era officials to return to government jobs, legislation viewed by the Bush administration as central to mending deep fissures between minority Sunni Arabs and Kurds and the majority Shiites who now wield power...
New York Times - February 3, 2008
Pentagon Seeks Record Level in 2009 Budget
The Pentagon?s proposed budget of $515.4 billion represents the highest annual military spending, when adjusted for inflation, since World War II...
New York Times - February 3, 2008
Patriots Lead Giants in Second Quarter, 7-3
Share your thoughts on the Giants-Patriots matchup, see what others are saying, and check back at 6 p.m. ET for live coverage of the game and the telecast...
New York Times - February 3, 2008
Candidates Go to Final Round in Battle for Super Tuesday
Polls showed Senator John McCain with a clear lead on the Republican side, and Senator Hillary Rodham Clinton slightly ahead in the Democratic race...
New York Times - February 3, 2008
Google Assails Microsoft?s Bid for Yahoo
In a post on its Web site, Google said that the proposed deal could pose threats to ?innovation and openness? on the Internet...
New York Times - February 3, 2008
Live - Super Bowl XLII
The New England Patriots take on the New York Giants in the NFL's showpiece game in Arizona...
BBC News - February 3, 2008
Sri Lanka Suicide Bombing Kills 11
A female suicide bomber blew herself up at the main railway station in the Sri Lankan capital Sunday, killing six people and wounding 95 others, the military and a hospital official said...
New York Times - February 3, 2008
From Irrelevance to Influence
For the first time in recent elections, Northeastern voters will figure prominently in choosing the presidential nominees...
New York Times - February 3, 2008
A Second Day of Fighting in Chad
Fighting raged for the second day on Sunday in the Chadian capital after rebels intent on toppling President Idriss Deby battled their way into the city and surrounded his palace and loyalist troops...
New York Times - February 3, 2008
Egyptian Troops Seal Gaza Border
The move appears to bring an end to 11 days of free movement for Palestinian residents of the blockaded territory...
New York Times - February 3, 2008
Offering New Roles to Wounded Marines
The Wounded Marine Careers Foundation is a film school where disabled marines see a path to dreams...
New York Times - February 3, 2008
US warning set to hit Pfizer drug
Pfizer is expected to see a sharp fall in sales of one of its best-selling drugs after a warning by US regulators...
BBC News - February 3, 2008
Colombia hostages 'to be freed'
Colombia's Farc rebel group says it will release three hostages kidnapped over six years ago, for health reasons...
BBC News - February 3, 2008
Perfection Is Afterthought, Perfect Examples Say
Athletes with flawless achievements say making history will not be on the New England Patriots? minds Sunday...
New York Times - February 3, 2008
Still Trying to Bring Their Fallen Heroes Home
Spurred by technological strides like DNA matching, some families hope to find the remains of World War II soldiers...
New York Times - February 3, 2008
Robber Kills 5 Women at Store in Chicago Suburb
The authorities were seeking a man they say shot and killed five women in a clothing store during a robbery attempt gone wrong...
New York Times - February 3, 2008
All Forgiven, WIMUS-AM Is on a Roll
In the two months since his microphone was turned back on, Don Imus has hardly suffered for company...
New York Times - February 3, 2008
Yahoo Deal Is Big, but Is It the Next Big Thing?
In Silicon Valley, buying rather than building from the bottom up is seen as counter to the reinvention culture...
New York Times - February 3, 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 3, 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 3, 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 3, 2008
Letters
English and Only English?...
New York Times - February 3, 2008
Wal-Mart: The New Washington
Look who?s governmentizing the private sector...
New York Times - February 3, 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 3, 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 3, 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 3, 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 3, 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 3, 2008
Gossip Is Information by Another Name
The office grapevine fulfills a human need, but not all needs are benign...
New York Times - February 3, 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 3, 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 3, 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 3, 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 3, 2008
Trying to Clear Fog From Pension Plans
Online tools can help workers assess their plan?s health...
New York Times - February 3, 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 3, 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 3, 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 3, 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 3, 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 3, 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 3, 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 3, 2008
Deal to End 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 3, 2008
'Breakthrough' in writers strike
A breakthrough is reported in talks between Hollywood production companies and striking writers...
BBC News - February 3, 2008
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