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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 April 2005:
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Faithful pay respects to pope
With heads bowed and hands folded in prayer, cardinals, archbishops and diplomatic dignitaries paid their respects today to Pope John Paul II at the Apostolic Palace in Vatican City, while around the world the faithful mourn the pope's death and celebrate his life...
CNN - April 3, 2005
Clergy pay final respects
Cardinals, archbishops and diplomatic dignitaries paid their respects today to Pope John Paul II at the Apostolic Palace after tens of thousands of mourners filled St. Peter's Square for a Mass in his honor...
CNN - April 3, 2005
U.S. Catholics mourn
U.S. Catholics mourned the death of Pope John Paul II on Sunday, but some hoped his passing might bring needed change to an institution marred by scandal and disillusionment...
CNN - April 3, 2005
Pope's Final Hours Described as Serene
Interviews with visitors to the pope's bedside and official Vatican reports paint a portrait of him as tranquil and comfortable in the face of death...
New York Times - April 3, 2005
Next Pope Will Face Urgent Challenges
Many church leaders and analysts worry that even a pontiff with the charisma and capacity of John Paul II will have to resort to a strategy of triage...
New York Times - April 3, 2005
Telecom Italia Is Said to Sell a Phone Stake
Two private equity firms, the Texas Pacific Group and Apax Partners, are expected to acquire Telecom Italia's controlling stake in a Greek phone company for $1.4 billion...
New York Times - April 3, 2005
Cricket: W Indies close on victory
South Africa are 270 runs behind the West Indies after day four of the first Test...
BBC News - April 3, 2005
Police held over Brazil killings
Two Brazilian police officers are arrested over the killing of 30 people in a suburb of Rio de Janeiro...
BBC News - April 3, 2005
Americans mourn loss of John Paul II
Quietly at home, or with heads bowed in church, Americans marked the death of Pope John Paul II, remembering him as a great leader who combined warmth with moral power, a call to care for the poor with an emphasis on liberty...
CNN - April 3, 2005
Clergy, dignitaries pay respects
Cardinals, archbishops and diplomatic dignitaries paid their respects today to Pope John Paul II at the Apostolic Palace after tens of thousands of mourners filled St. Peter's Square for a Mass in his honor. The Vatican announced the pope died of septic shock and cardiocirculatory collapse...
CNN - April 3, 2005
Clergy, dignitaries pay respects
Cardinals, archbishops and diplomatic dignitaries paid their respects today to Pope John Paul II at the Apostolic Palace after tens of thousands of mourners filled St. Peter's Square for a Mass in his honor. The Vatican announced the official cause of death: septic shock and cardiocirculatory collapse...
CNN - April 3, 2005
News Media's Careful Plans Still Left Room for Emotions
The networks interrupted regular programming with the long-expected announcement and briskly delivered assessments of John Paul's legacy and the search for a new pope...
New York Times - April 3, 2005
Pope's body lies in state
John Paul II's body is lying in state at the Vatican's Apostolic Palace today after Mass was celebrated for his soul on the steps of St. Peter's Basilica. Tens of thousands of mourners filled St. Peter's Square to honor the pontiff...
CNN - April 3, 2005
Pope's body lies in state
Dressed in red and white papal robes, the body of Pope John Paul II is lying in state at the Apostolic Palace, as cardinals, archbishops and diplomatic dignitaries pay their respects...
CNN - April 3, 2005
Krakow and Beyond: Prayers, Tributes and Awe
In thousands of churches and millions of homes around the world, the faithful gathered to pray and to remember...
New York Times - April 3, 2005
Reshaping a Church With Vitality and Ambition
Over a 26-year career, Pope John Paul II reshaped the Roman Catholic Church and riveted the attention of admirers and detractors alike...
New York Times - April 3, 2005
Catholics in America: A Restive People
As his papacy ends, Pope John Paul II leaves behind an American church that he energized but that remains restive and divided...
New York Times - April 3, 2005
The New Executive Bonanza: Retirement
At many of America's biggest corporations, it is not uncommon for retired executives who were paid tens or even hundreds of millions of dollars during their tenures to receive $1 million or more in pension benefits every year - for as long as they live...
New York Times - April 3, 2005
A Bad Year for the Chief (but Not for the Bonus)
IT'S hard to find three chief executives who had a tougher year than Carleton S. Fiorina, Raymond V. Gilmartin and Michael D. Eisner. But you would never guess that from the size of their annual bonuses...
New York Times - April 3, 2005
Listing Perks, but Not as an Endangered Species
PRESSED by shareholder advocates and securities regulators, companies are starting to be more forthcoming about the corporate jets, company cars and other perquisites they give their executives on top of their salaries, bonuses and stock awards. But judging by the latest batch of proxy statements, many companies have not reined in executives' regal lifestyles...
New York Times - April 3, 2005
Pity the Billionaires
THIS year's Forbes list of the world's billionaires is out, and as usual, the news is bad. You didn't make it. Neither did I...
New York Times - April 3, 2005
An Early Advocate of Stock Options Debunks Himself
FIFTEEN years ago, Michael C. Jensen, a professor at the Harvard Business School, wrote a paper with Kevin J. Murphy, then a professor at the University of Rochester, that trumpeted some pretty radical ideas for the time. Compensation systems, they posited, prompted chief executives to add revenue, not to increase profit, pay dividends or otherwise reward long-suffering shareholders. Their suggestion was to make stock options a big component of top management's pay, ensuring that they do well only if shareholders do well...
New York Times - April 3, 2005
The Powers Behind the Home-Video Throne
As DVD profits soar, their producers are climbing up the Hollywood food chain...
New York Times - April 3, 2005
Social Climbers From Korea
Having covered the low end of the American market and made their presence felt in midsize cars and S.U.V.'s, South Korean automakers are moving onto a larger playing field...
New York Times - April 3, 2005
TV Viewers Get Crash Course in Vaticanology and Join Vigil for Pope in St. Peter's Square
News networks kept up an intense but decorous death watch that matched the elegiac mood in Rome, but there were a few frantic stumbles...
New York Times - April 3, 2005
Help Wanted: China Finds Itself With a Labor Shortage
There is a growing shortage of factory workers in two of China's southern provinces at the heart of its export-driven economy...
New York Times - April 3, 2005
Rodney B. Wagner, 74, Dies; Arranged Loan for Mexico
Rodney Belknap Wagner, a retired international banker at what is now J.P. Morgan Chase, handled major debt issues for Saudi Arabia and Mexico...
New York Times - April 3, 2005
Donald Carswell, 75, Executive at NBC, Dies
Donald Carswell spent 36 years with NBC, managing the network's budgets, and was a leader in starting Brooklyn Community Access Television...
New York Times - April 3, 2005
Turning a Follower Into the Next Leader
Moving up the ladder is easier if you have trained someone to take over your old rung...
New York Times - April 3, 2005
A Vision in Print
Richard Robinson, chairman, president and chief of Scholastic Corporation, says the greatest lessons he learned from his father was perseverance and resilience...
New York Times - April 3, 2005
The Incredible Disappearing Airline Worker
The Incredible...
New York Times - April 3, 2005
MasterCard Job? Almost Priceless
Apparently, the chance to run one of the biggest companies in the credit card industry has its price...
New York Times - April 3, 2005
A Softer Take on a Classic Toilet Paper
Scott 1000, Kimberly-Clark's only toilet paper for the last 92 years, has been joined by a softer brethren, Scott Extra Soft...
New York Times - April 3, 2005
New Books, New Goals
Tamara L. Heim has found a new chance to sell books around the world...
New York Times - April 3, 2005
A.I.G.: Whiter Shade of Enron
The American International Group is no Enron. Of that we can be sure. There are, however, some disturbing similarities between the two...
New York Times - April 3, 2005
Drug Makers Race to Cash In on Nation's Fight Against Fat
From pharmaceutical giants to tiny start-ups, the industry is spending billions of dollars developing obesity drugs...
New York Times - April 3, 2005
My Big Fat C.E.O. Paycheck
Chief executives enjoyed a hefty raise last year, and with investors still smarting from the bursting of the tech bubble, the swift rebound in executive pay is touching some nerves...
New York Times - April 3, 2005
Out of the Tar Pits, Into the House of Morgan
The revolt by eight retired Morgan Stanley executives which was made public last week may represent the final death rattle of a fading Wall Street era...
New York Times - April 3, 2005
Do Too Many Cooks Spoil the Takeover Deal?
How many leveraged buyout firms does it take to do a deal? Evidently -- as a deal last week showed -- quiet a few...
New York Times - April 3, 2005
Budget Airlines Set Off on a Cross-Country Joy Ride
Low-fare airlines have been gobbling market share throughout the industry, and they are now focusing on the transcontinental market with a vengeance...
New York Times - April 3, 2005
Do Taxes Thwart Growth? Prove It
Despite the widespread notion that taxes harm the economy, no one has actually been able to back that up...
New York Times - April 3, 2005
Opponents of Wal-Mart to Coordinate Efforts
Led by Wal-Mart's longtime opponents in organized labor, a new coalition is planning the first coordinated assault intended to press the company to change its business practices...
New York Times - April 3, 2005
Its Name Is a Mouthful, So Just Call It a Rate Shield
AFTER months of false alerts, longer-term interest rates may finally be moving up in earnest. If the trend continues, fixed-income investors who have not prepared will be taught an ugly lesson: as yields rise, prices fall and the value of a bond portfolio declines...
New York Times - April 3, 2005
Dollar's Rise Doesn't Lift All Boats
THE recent surge in oil prices and interest rates has tripped up more than the American stock market...
New York Times - April 3, 2005
Easier Said Than Done: Getting People to Like You
According to several books coming into the stores this month, likeability may be the easiest way to explain why chief executives earn as much as they do...
New York Times - April 3, 2005
A Few Tools for Do-It-Yourself Bond Trading
These days, the first step in selling municipal bonds is not necessarily to call your broker and get a price, but to head to the Internet...
New York Times - April 3, 2005
Cricket: Windies attack hits home
South Africa limp to 130-6 at stumps on day three of the first Test against the West Indies...
BBC News - April 3, 2005
Basketball: Illinois face Tar Heels
Top two seeds Illinois and North Carolina reach the US men's college basketball final...
BBC News - April 3, 2005
The New Executive Bonanza: Retirement
At many of America's biggest corporations, it is not uncommon for retired executives who were paid tens or even hundreds of millions of dollars during their tenures to receive $1 million or more in pension benefits every year - for as long as they live...
New York Times - April 3, 2005
A Bad Year for the Chief (but Not for the Bonus)
IT'S hard to find three chief executives who had a tougher year than Carleton S. Fiorina, Raymond V. Gilmartin and Michael D. Eisner. But you would never guess that from the size of their annual bonuses...
New York Times - April 3, 2005
Listing Perks, but Not as an Endangered Species
PRESSED by shareholder advocates and securities regulators, companies are starting to be more forthcoming about the corporate jets, company cars and other perquisites they give their executives on top of their salaries, bonuses and stock awards. But judging by the latest batch of proxy statements, many companies have not reined in executives' regal lifestyles...
New York Times - April 3, 2005
Pity the Billionaires
THIS year's Forbes list of the world's billionaires is out, and as usual, the news is bad. You didn't make it. Neither did I...
New York Times - April 3, 2005
An Early Advocate of Stock Options Debunks Himself
FIFTEEN years ago, Michael C. Jensen, a professor at the Harvard Business School, wrote a paper with Kevin J. Murphy, then a professor at the University of Rochester, that trumpeted some pretty radical ideas for the time. Compensation systems, they posited, prompted chief executives to add revenue, not to increase profit, pay dividends or otherwise reward long-suffering shareholders. Their suggestion was to make stock options a big component of top management's pay, ensuring that they do well only if shareholders do well...
New York Times - April 3, 2005
The Powers Behind the Home-Video Throne
As DVD profits soar, their producers are climbing up the Hollywood food chain...
New York Times - April 3, 2005
Social Climbers From Korea
Having covered the low end of the American market and made their presence felt in midsize cars and S.U.V.'s, South Korean automakers are moving onto a larger playing field...
New York Times - April 3, 2005
TV Viewers Get Crash Course in Vaticanology and Join Vigil for Pope in St. Peter's Square
News networks kept up an intense but decorous death watch that matched the elegiac mood in Rome, but there were a few frantic stumbles...
New York Times - April 3, 2005
Easier Said Than Done: Getting People to Like You
According to several books coming into the stores this month, likeability may be the easiest way to explain why chief executives earn as much as they do...
New York Times - April 3, 2005
A Few Tools for Do-It-Yourself Bond Trading
These days, the first step in selling municipal bonds is not necessarily to call your broker and get a price, but to head to the Internet...
New York Times - April 3, 2005
Rodney B. Wagner, 74; Arranged Loan for Mexico
Rodney Belknap Wagner, a retired international banker at what is now J.P. Morgan Chase & Company who handled major debt issues for Saudi Arabia and Mexico and had a second career in philanthropy, died on March 24 in Sarasota, where he had a winter residence. He was 74 and lived in Colebrook, Conn...
New York Times - April 3, 2005
Donald Carswell, 75, Executive at NBC
Donald Carswell, an executive at NBC television and a community leader, died on March 25 at the Brooklyn Hospital Center, where he served as vice chairman. He was 75...
New York Times - April 3, 2005
Turning a Follower Into the Next Leader
Moving up the ladder is easier if you have trained someone to take over your old rung...
New York Times - April 3, 2005
A Vision in Print
Richard Robinson, chairman, president and chief of Scholastic Corporation, says the greatest lessons he learned from his father was perseverance and resilience...
New York Times - April 3, 2005
The Incredible Disappearing Airline Worker
The Incredible...
New York Times - April 3, 2005
MasterCard Job? Almost Priceless
Apparently, the chance to run one of the biggest companies in the credit card industry has its price...
New York Times - April 3, 2005
A Softer Take on a Classic Toilet Paper
Scott 1000, Kimberly-Clark's only toilet paper for the last 92 years, has been joined by a softer brethren, Scott Extra Soft...
New York Times - April 3, 2005
New Books, New Goals
Tamara L. Heim has found a new chance to sell books around the world...
New York Times - April 3, 2005
A.I.G.: Whiter Shade of Enron
The American International Group is no Enron. Of that we can be sure. There are, however, some disturbing similarities between the two...
New York Times - April 3, 2005
My Big Fat C.E.O. Paycheck
Chief executives enjoyed a hefty raise last year, and with investors still smarting from the bursting of the tech bubble, the swift rebound in executive pay is touching some nerves...
New York Times - April 3, 2005
Out of the Tar Pits, Into the House of Morgan
The revolt by eight retired Morgan Stanley executives which was made public last week may represent the final death rattle of a fading Wall Street era...
New York Times - April 3, 2005
Do Too Many Cooks Spoil the Takeover Deal?
How many leveraged buyout firms does it take to do a deal? Evidently -- as a deal last week showed -- quiet a few...
New York Times - April 3, 2005
Budget Airlines Set Off on a Cross-Country Joy Ride
Low-fare airlines have been gobbling market share throughout the industry, and they are now focusing on the transcontinental market with a vengeance...
New York Times - April 3, 2005
Do Taxes Thwart Growth? Prove It
Despite the widespread notion that taxes harm the economy, no one has actually been able to back that up...
New York Times - April 3, 2005
Opponents of Wal-Mart to Coordinate Efforts
Led by Wal-Mart's longtime opponents in organized labor, a new coalition is planning the first coordinated assault intended to press the company to change its business practices...
New York Times - April 3, 2005
Its Name Is a Mouthful, So Just Call It a Rate Shield
AFTER months of false alerts, longer-term interest rates may finally be moving up in earnest. If the trend continues, fixed-income investors who have not prepared will be taught an ugly lesson: as yields rise, prices fall and the value of a bond portfolio declines...
New York Times - April 3, 2005
Dollar's Rise Doesn't Lift All Boats
THE recent surge in oil prices and interest rates has tripped up more than the American stock market...
New York Times - April 3, 2005
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