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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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Mourners file past pope's body
A steady flow of people today began filing past the body of Pope John Paul II, lying in state at St. Peter's Basilica. Some crossed themselves as they walked alongside a red, waist-high barrier set up about 10 feet from the body. Outside, tens of thousands are lining up for their chance to view the body...
CNN - April 4, 2005
First Medal of Honor from Iraq war
Outnumbered and exposed, Army Sgt. 1st Class Paul Ray Smith stayed at his machine gun, beating back an advancing Iraqi force until a bullet took his life. Exactly two years after his death, Smith's 11-year-old son, David, accepted the Medal of Honor, the nation's highest award for valor, on his behalf from President Bush...
CNN - April 4, 2005
In China, a Divided Church Cautiously Honors Pope's Memory
More than 300 parishioners filled a cathedral in Beijing in a Mass held by the Communist Party's state-controlled Catholic church...
New York Times - April 4, 2005
Accommodations Improve for Arriving Cardinals
The cardinals arriving to elect John Paul II's successor would need a place to stay, so the pope built them a $20 million hotel...
New York Times - April 4, 2005
G.M. Chief Takes Over North American Auto Operations
The chairman and chief executive of General Motors, Rick Wagoner, assumed direct oversight of the company's North American operations today...
New York Times - April 4, 2005
Pulitzer Prizes Announced
The Los Angeles Times won two Pulitzer Prizes, including the public service award. In the Pulitzers awarded for the arts, John Patrick Shanley's "Doubt" won the drama prize...
New York Times - April 4, 2005
Morgan Stanley to Divest Discover Card Division
Morgan Stanley has approved a plan to spin off its Discover Card credit division, leading to increased speculation that the entire company could be on the block...
New York Times - April 4, 2005
Cricket: W Indies Test in final day
Jacques Kallis scores a record-equalling century as South Africa draw the first Test against West Indies...
BBC News - April 4, 2005
Flooding spurs evacuations
Flooding forced hundreds of people from their homes Monday in New Jersey and Pennsylvania and closed the New Jersey Statehouse and several nearby state office buildings. Flooding also forced the closure of schools and roads in eastern New York state, where two people were missing...
CNN - April 4, 2005
Pope's body moved to St. Peter's
The body of Pope John Paul II has been moved to St. Peter's Basilica for public viewing. Tens of thousands of mourners cried and applauded as his body was carried through St. Peter's Square. The Vatican has announced the pope's funeral will be Friday at 10 a.m. (4 a.m. ET) and he will be buried in the crypt below the basilica...
CNN - April 4, 2005
Pope's body moved to Basilica
The body of Pope John Paul II has been moved to St. Peter's Basilica for public viewing until his funeral Friday at 10 a.m. (0800 GMT). Tens of thousands of mourners broke into applause as his body was carried through the square. The pope will be buried in the Basilica's crypt...
CNN - April 4, 2005
Next Pope Faces Concerns Over Poverty, Islam and Technology
The challenges are urgent, and many worry that even a pope with the charisma of John Paul II will need a strategy of triage...
New York Times - April 4, 2005
ChevronTexaco to Buy Unocal in Deal Valued at $16.4 Billion
The deal gives ChevronTexaco a valuable portfolio of discovered and underdeveloped deepwater oil assets, specifically in Asia...
New York Times - April 4, 2005
US oil giants agree $18bn merger
US oil group ChevronTexaco boosts its oil and natural gas reserves as it buys exploration firm Unocal...
BBC News - April 4, 2005
GM boss takes charge of division
The chief executive of General Motors takes charge of daily operations at the firm's struggling North American division...
BBC News - April 4, 2005
Pope's funeral set for Friday
The funeral of Pope John Paul II will be held at 10 a.m. (0800 GMT) Friday, Vatican sources tell CNN. The officials also say the pope will be buried in St. Peter's Basilica. There had been speculation the Polish-born pontiff might have wanted to be laid to rest in his homeland...
CNN - April 4, 2005
Pope's funeral set for Friday
Pope John Paul II's funeral will be held Friday at 10 a.m. (4 a.m. ET), the Vatican has announced. Vatican officials also say the pope will be buried in St. Peter's Basilica. There had been speculation the Polish-born pope might have wanted to be laid to rest in his homeland...
CNN - April 4, 2005
'Atmosphere of fear' at US bank
Eight former executives of Wall Street bank Morgan Stanley say there is an atmosphere of "intimidation and fear" at the company...
BBC News - April 4, 2005
Baseball: Yankees rout Boston
The Yankees beat the Red Sox 9-2 as the new MLB season gets under way...
BBC News - April 4, 2005
Cuba has 'surprise' Pope mourning
Cuba causes some surprise by holding three days of national mourning to mark the Pope's death...
BBC News - April 4, 2005
Pope to lie in state at St. Peter's
Pope John Paul II's body will be moved Monday to the Sala Bologna at St. Peter's Basilica, where the pontiff will lie in state until his funeral. Italian authorities said they expect two million people to visit the Vatican in the coming days...
CNN - April 4, 2005
New Pope Could Influence Political Life in America
The death of Pope John Paul II came at a time when leaders of the Roman Catholic Church have become increasingly assertive in American political life...
New York Times - April 4, 2005
Reflections of Those, and on Those, Who Met Him
Commentators, reporters, priests, archbishops and cardinals alike reveled in the chance to share their papal memories on television...
New York Times - April 4, 2005
Immigrants in Rome Tell of Close Bond
Rome's teeming Catholic immigrant community bid an intensely personal goodbye to a charismatic man who many said had transformed their lives...
New York Times - April 4, 2005
Pope's Visitors Saw Serenity in Final Hours
Interviews with visitors to the pope's bedside and official Vatican reports portray him as tranquil and comfortable in the face of death...
New York Times - April 4, 2005
Sale in Publishing Services
Perseus Books Group, one of the largest independent publishers of general-interest books, is expected to announce today that it is acquiring Client Distribution Services, one of the industry's biggest providers of sales, distribution and back-office services to small publishers...
New York Times - April 4, 2005
Starr Weighs A Separation From A.I.G.
The Starr International Company, C.V. Starr and the American International Group - may be breaking up after 35 years of interlocking...
New York Times - April 4, 2005
Energy and Acclaim, but No Profit Yet at New York Magazine
Under Bruce Wasserstein and Adam Moss, New York magazine is getting critical attention and creating buzz but newsstand sales are uneven...
New York Times - April 4, 2005
Trouble for Online Vendors of Cigarettes
Now that credit card companies won't handle online tobacco sales, many merchants are calling it quits...
New York Times - April 4, 2005
Boutique Agencies Win Big Clients
Giant marketers like Mars, Anheuser-Busch, Coca-Cola and Unilever are increasingly bypassing their giant agencies to award assignments to smaller, presumably nimbler, independent shops...
New York Times - April 4, 2005
Stock Offerings This Week
The following equity and convertible debt offerings are expected this week:...
New York Times - April 4, 2005
Treasury Bills Set for This Week
The Treasury's schedule of financing this week includes today's regular weekly auction of new three- and six-month bills and an auction of four-week bills tomorrow...
New York Times - April 4, 2005
Economic Calendar
Today...
New York Times - April 4, 2005
Sugartown Is Awarded Grey Goose Account
Sugartown Is Awarded...
New York Times - April 4, 2005
Guenter Reimann, Economic Publisher, Is Dead at 100
Guenter Reimann, a Marxist economist early in his career who eventually published one of the most expensive and influential newsletters on international capitalism and monetary exchange, died on Feb. 5 in Valley Stream, N.Y...
New York Times - April 4, 2005
U.S. Blocks Use of Mapping System in China
The Australian mining company BHP Billiton said the United States Defense Department was blocking it from using an advanced mapping technology to search for mineral deposits in China...
New York Times - April 4, 2005
A Cross-Promotion Takes Newsweek Further Down-Market Than You'd Imagine
What about In Touch and Newsweek makes them appropriate partners for cross-promotion?...
New York Times - April 4, 2005
A Lucrative Brand of Tutoring Grows Unchecked
The federally financed tutoring industry has doubled in size in each of the last two years, with the potential to become a $2 billion-a-year enterprise...
New York Times - April 4, 2005
Politics, Yes, but No Fistfights for Jerry Springer on Radio
Jerry Springer’s three-hour morning program began running on Air America Radio, the liberal political network...
New York Times - April 4, 2005
Increasingly, the Bells See Their Future on a Screen
In the coming months, the Bell telephone companies, including SBC and Verizon, will start selling television programming in their most recent effort to crack a market in which they have had almost no presence...
New York Times - April 4, 2005
Talking Loudly to the TV Set, and Maybe Getting a Response
At least two companies are developing speech-recognition products that will let viewers change channels with voice prompts...
New York Times - April 4, 2005
Stream of Chinese Textile Imports Is Becoming a Flood
Imports of Chinese apparel soared in the first quarter, offering further evidence that the world’s clothing industry is being altered by the the abolition of global quotas...
New York Times - April 4, 2005
Splenda, the Artificial Sweetener, Adds a Brown Sugar Blend
The manufacturer of Splenda, the brand name for the chemical sweetener sucralose, is releasing a version that can be used as a replacement for brown sugar...
New York Times - April 4, 2005
Unocal Intensifies Talks With 2 Possible Bidders
Unocal, one of the largest independent oil companies, was talking intensely with three potential bidders, in a deal that could be worth about $17.4 billion...
New York Times - April 4, 2005
Judge Rules Against I.R.S. in Shelter Case
A judge has ruled against the Internal Revenue Service in its effort to prove that the BDO Seidman accounting firm sold and marketed questionable tax shelters in recent years...
New York Times - April 4, 2005
Giving by Foundations Hits Record $32.4 Billion in '04
Giving by foundations reversed two years of declines thanks to gains in asset values and a continued stream of gifts from philanthropists...
New York Times - April 4, 2005
Digeo Chooses Samsung to Make Set-Top Boxes
Digeo, a company that designs software for set-top boxes used with cable television systems, is set to announce that it has selected Samsung, the Korean electronics giant, to make its next generation of boxes...
New York Times - April 4, 2005
Hitachi Achieves Storage Record for Disk Drives
Hitachi Global Storage Technologies plans to announcea record for storage density on a disk drive, attained by a novel approach...
New York Times - April 4, 2005
Seeking U.S. Turf for a Free-Speech Fight
London has become something of a magnet for libel litigants looking for a plaintiff-friendly jurisdiction. Now one defendant is taking an uncommon approach to fighting back...
New York Times - April 4, 2005
How a Titan of Insurance Ran Afoul of the Government
Maurice R. Greenberg, the legendary insurance mogul, is considered by some to be an imperial chief executive who failed to grasp an era of corporate reform...
New York Times - April 4, 2005
At CBS News, Some Temporary Changes May Stick
Bob Schieffer, the interim anchor of the "CBS Evening News" since March 10, is now openly campaigning for the job...
New York Times - April 4, 2005
Some Colleges Falling Short in Security Of Computers
Universities are struggling to keep their databases and records private...
New York Times - April 4, 2005
MLB: Sanchez gets first drugs ban
Tampa Bay's Alex Sanchez is the first player to be banned under new MLB anti-doping rules...
BBC News - April 4, 2005
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