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US News Archive for March 2007:
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Iraqi PM vows shake-up, arrests
Iraqi Prime Minister Nuri al-Maliki said he will shake up his Cabinet within two weeks and that officials -- including members of parliament -- would face prosecution for ties to insurgents, sectarian militias and death squads...
CNN - March 3, 2007
Facing N.C.A.A., the Best Defense Is a Legal Team
Outside law firms, by helping colleges navigate N.C.A.A. rules, are the nexus for law and order in college sports...
New York Times - March 3, 2007
[TS] This Land: A Soldier?s Goodbyes on the Road to Over There
In Mohave Valley, Ariz., a dozen motorcyclists gathered to escort a fresh young soldier to her flight to Fort Hood, Tex...
New York Times - March 3, 2007
Newark Officer Is Killed in Crash
A police sergeant was killed when his car flipped over while chasing a handcuffed suspect who had managed to drive away in another squad car, the authorities said...
New York Times - March 3, 2007
Recalling Civil Rights, Democrats Seek Black Votes
The Democratic candidates for president are embroiled in one of the most competitive scrambles for black supporters in decades...
New York Times - March 3, 2007
A New Mystery to Prosecutors: Their Lost Jobs
A furor over the ouster of eight U.S. attorneys has taken the Bush administration by surprise...
New York Times - March 3, 2007
Doubts Rise as States Hold Sex Offenders After Prison Terms
Confining sex offenders is popular with politicians and voters, but programs to do so have almost never been able to treat the worst criminals until they no longer pose a threat...
New York Times - March 3, 2007
Smoke-Free Gambling Site Thrives Amid Debate on Ban
The owners of racetracks with video slot machines say smoking bans have not cut into their popularity or profitability...
New York Times - March 3, 2007
Market Week: Get Well, but Not Too Quickly
Investors will be looking for a quick recovery in the stock market this week, but such a rebound might do more harm than good over the long run, one analyst warns...
New York Times - March 3, 2007
DataBank: A Tremor in Shanghai Is Felt Around the World
On Wall Street, stocks had their worst weekly performance since January 2003...
New York Times - March 3, 2007
Suits: On the Way Out but Feeling O.K.
What?s one year and 335 days between brothers? At Alcoa, it is nothing...
New York Times - March 3, 2007
Strategies: 2 + 20, and Other Hedge Fund Math
Fees have hurt long-term performance, a study says...
New York Times - March 3, 2007
The Count: A Scary Tuesday Was No Black Monday
The 3.3 percent decline in the Dow Jones industrial average last Tuesday could almost be called a blip when measured against the biggest plunges on record...
New York Times - March 3, 2007
The Goods: Diamonds as a Bentley?s Best Friend
No one buys bejeweled wheel rims or a platinum steering wheel because he wants to keep a low profile...
New York Times - March 3, 2007
Off The Shelf: Sit Down for a Chat With Hedge Fund Movers
In ?Inside the House of Money,? the ruminations of supposedly hush-hush hedge fund operators are richly illuminating, and much less expensive than the fees they charge...
New York Times - March 3, 2007
Questions for Ira Glass: This American TV Show
The public-radio personality talks about taking on another medium, why his program won?t be like ??60 Minutes?? and why he went to Showtime, even though he usually doesn?t watch it...
New York Times - March 3, 2007
Novelties: A Cozy Book Club, in a Virtual Reading Room
Social networks that tap the interests and buying power of traditionally reserved groups like the bookish are a small but growing force on the Web...
New York Times - March 3, 2007
[TS] Gretchen Morgenson: Mortgages May Be Messier Than You Think
Investors need to be aware of an industry?s maneuvers...
New York Times - March 3, 2007
Economic View: The Forecast for the Forecasters Is Dismal
Alan Greenspan proved that a retired maestro can still seem to conduct the world?s financial orchestra...
New York Times - March 3, 2007
Naughty Little Red Book: The People?s Republic of Sex Kittens and Metrosexuals
China?s latest revolution is sexual: soft-core, online and the girls-next-door gone wild...
New York Times - March 3, 2007
Spending: The Family Vacation (Climate-Change Lessons Included)
An increasing number of parents want to spend their often-scarce leisure time with their children, doing something enriching and educational...
New York Times - March 3, 2007
Investing: Has Real Estate Lost Its Sizzle? Not on the Farm
Driven by ethanol, cornfields are fetching record prices...
New York Times - March 3, 2007
National Perspectives: How to Build a Village in the Middle of a City
Unity Village, in Portland, Me., is stirring again after decades of neglect...
New York Times - March 3, 2007
The World: Shanghai What-If: How a Shock Can Become a Shock Wave
In China, the stock market dominoes could fall. But a collapse would not resemble 1997?s...
New York Times - March 3, 2007
Media Frenzy: The Karmazin Way: Build It, Sell It, Run It, Repeat
Trying to make a case for one satellite radio company instead of two...
New York Times - March 3, 2007
Square Feet | Ventures: Are Home Builders Out of the Basement Yet?
At least one housing market analyst is upbeat about the sector...
New York Times - March 3, 2007
That Ship Will Come in, Right?
There is an argument to be made that if Wave is ever going to succeed, the moment of truth has arrived...
New York Times - March 3, 2007
Digital Domain: What Starbucks Can Learn From the Movie Palace
Free Wi-Fi is to the cafe what cold air was to the cinema...
New York Times - March 3, 2007
Mission Improbable: Tom Cruise as Mogul
United Artists in its new incarnation is a basket of contradictions and question marks...
New York Times - March 3, 2007
Bush tours tornado disaster site
US President George W Bush visits the school in Alabama where eight pupils died in a tornado two days ago...
BBC News - March 3, 2007
Denmark braces for more violence
Copenhagen police brace for more violence after two nights of street clashes with leftist youths from several countries that have turned parts of the Danish capital into a battlefield strewn with burning cars and shattered glass...
CNN - March 3, 2007
Bush Surveys Tornado Damage and Promises Aid
After an aerial inspection today, President Bush offered sympathy and promised aid to Alabama residents...
New York Times - March 3, 2007
Gunmen kill 6 Sunnis in Iraq
Six Sunni men were shot to death execution-style by gunmen who stormed their home in a village south of the Iraqi capital, an official with the Iraqi Interior Ministry told CNN.
Meanwhile, the bodies of 14 policemen found in Diyala province are the same men who were seen blindfolded on an al Qaeda-connected Web site, officials say...
CNN - March 3, 2007
S. Korea raps Japan over sex slaves
South Korea raps Japan's prime minister for disavowing his country's responsibility for using Asian women as sex slaves for Japanese troops in World War II...
CNN - March 3, 2007
After Tornado, an Alabama School Tallies the Grief
Dazed survivors recounted their luck as they toured the perimeter of the painful ruins where eight students died...
New York Times - March 3, 2007
Golf: Allenby and Wi lead Honda
Robert Allenby and Charlie Wi are tied for the halfway lead on five under par at the Honda Classic in Florida...
BBC News - March 3, 2007
U.S. Army chief quits over row
U.S. Secretary of the Army Francis Harvey has quit, becoming the second casualty of the Walter Reed scandal. The resignation came as a memo surfaced indicating officials were aware five months ago of the deteriorating conditions at Walter Reed Army Medical Center in Washington, a key facility treating troops wounded in Iraq and Afghanistan...
CNN - March 3, 2007
On Day After Tornado, a School Tallies the Grief
On Friday, dazed survivors recounted their luck as they toured the perimeter of the painful ruins...
New York Times - March 3, 2007
Warming Trends: Warm Winters Upset Rhythms of Maple Sugar
Warmer-than-usual winters are stoking fears for the survival of New England?s maple forests...
New York Times - March 3, 2007
U.S. Predicting Steady Increase for Emissions
According to a new report, the Bush administration?s climate policy will result in emissions growing 11 percent in 2012 from 2002...
New York Times - March 3, 2007
Novice Art Collectors Find Access Is Priceless
These days, the frenzied pitch of the art market means the new collector needs more than just money...
New York Times - March 3, 2007
Army Secretary Ousted in Furor on Hospital Care
Francis J. Harvey was forced to resign over the handling of revelations that wounded soldiers were receiving shabby and slow treatment at Walter Reed Army Medical Center...
New York Times - March 3, 2007
New Design for Warhead Is Awarded to Livermore
The Bush administration announced the winner of a competition to design the nation?s first new nuclear weapon in nearly two decades...
New York Times - March 3, 2007
Five Days: A Plunge, Mixed Data and Some Mixed Messages
Worries about the global economy rattled stock markets around the world this week, paring billions from the value of investors? holdings...
New York Times - March 3, 2007
Consumer Confidence at a 5-Month Low
Consumer sentiment fell further than previously estimated in February, as concerns over incomes and jobs in a slowing economy weighed on confidence...
New York Times - March 3, 2007
Saturday Interview: Big Profits, Big Worries in Oil Fields
David J. O?Reilly, Chevron?s chairman and chief executive, spoke about the challenges oil companies face, the company?s recent ads and the lack of an energy policy in the U.S...
New York Times - March 3, 2007
What?s Offline: Gold Is Awaiting Its Day
All those people who have been arguing for years that the price of gold is going to increase drastically may finally be correct...
New York Times - March 3, 2007
What?s Online: Sell and Tell (the I.R.S.)
Everyone knows that income earned from online auctions is taxable. But should sites like eBay be responsible for policing their users?...
New York Times - March 3, 2007
Market Values: Finding Safe Picks in a Downturn
The sharpest reversals of fortune in the stock market could be experienced in what have been some of the hottest sectors...
New York Times - March 3, 2007
EMI?s Board Rejects Warner?s $4.1 Billion Bid as Inadequate
EMI said Warner Music?s cash offer was not in the best interest of shareholders and placed too low a value on the company...
New York Times - March 3, 2007
Mixed Verdicts for Merck in Vioxx Cases
A New Jersey jury ruled that Merck failed to provide adequate warning about the risks of its Vioxx painkiller in one of two cases decided...
New York Times - March 3, 2007
U.S. Urges Lenders to Revise Standards on Granting Credit
The proposal by federal regulators comes as subprime mortgages have come under stress and scrutiny...
New York Times - March 3, 2007
Shortcuts: On Charging Batteries, Trusting Children and Washing Fruit
Who out there keeps track of how long a phone is left in its charger?...
New York Times - March 3, 2007
U.S. Is Investigating Trades Made Just Before TXU Deal
Regulators froze more than $5.3 million that they suspect may be profits from insider trading of TXU stock options...
New York Times - March 3, 2007
Stocks & Bonds: Down End to a Very Down Week
Share prices ended the week where they have spent seven of the last nine days: in the red...
New York Times - March 3, 2007
Again, Boeing Is Scrutinized on a Contract
A government decision that said the Air Force should reopen competition on a recent contract is a stunning reversal of fortune for Boeing...
New York Times - March 3, 2007
Off the Charts: When It Comes to House Prices, the Bloom Is Off the Cactus
Home prices are not very far below peak levels in most markets, but continued weakness could change that...
New York Times - March 3, 2007
Social Networking?s Next Phase
More companies are helping large corporate clients create services resembling MySpace or YouTube to bring their customers together online...
New York Times - March 3, 2007
Short History, Long View
Audi has been narrowing the gap with BMW and Mercedes in the high-end market, becoming the world?s fastest-growing luxury carmaker...
New York Times - March 3, 2007
U.S. and Europe in Accord on Air Routes
An ?open skies? agreement would deregulate the trans-Atlantic airline market, and could lower fares...
New York Times - March 3, 2007
Your Money: Web Sites That Tell You How Much You Should Be Paid
Most employees have little ammunition going into a meeting to talk about their pay, but a few Web sites are trying to level the playing field...
New York Times - March 3, 2007
Authorities Investigate Big Lender
Authorities are investigating stock sales and accounting errors at the New Century Financial Corporation, which specializes in subprime lending...
New York Times - March 3, 2007
Oil Company Revives Suit on Avoidance of Royalties
The lawsuit could allow energy companies to avoid as much as $60 billion in royalties to the government over the next two decades...
New York Times - March 3, 2007
U.S. and Brazil Seek to Promote Ethanol in West
President Bush is preparing to finish an agreement with Brazil to promote the production and use of ethanol throughout Latin America and the Caribbean...
New York Times - March 3, 2007
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