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US News Archive for February 2006:
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Al Qaeda plotters in prison break
Interpol issues an urgent global security alert after 23 "dangerous individuals" -- including least 13 "convicted al Qaeda terrorists," one of them a man identified as the mastermind of the attack on the USS Cole in 2000 -- escape from a Yemeni prison...
CNN - February 5, 2006
Gonzales to face grilling on spy program
U.S. Attorney General Alberto Gonzales is poised to defend President Bush's controversial domestic surveillance program Monday when he testifies at a Senate Judiciary Committee hearing on the program, its legality and Bush's power to authorize it...
CNN - February 5, 2006
Specter Says Surveillance Program Violated the Law
Senator Arlen Specter of Pennsylvania said that legal justifications for the domestic program were "strained and unrealistic."...
New York Times - February 5, 2006
Jury Will Decide Life or Death for Moussaoui
Zacarias Moussaoui's trial is the only trial in the United States of a person charged with direct involvement in the Sept. 11 terrorist attacks...
New York Times - February 5, 2006
Live: Super Bowl XL
The Pittsburgh Steelers take on the Seattle Seahawks in Detroit City...
BBC News - February 5, 2006
Costa Ricans vote for president
Voter turnout in Costa Rica's presidential election is said to be low amid disenchantment after recent scandals...
BBC News - February 5, 2006
Danish consulate in Beirut ablaze
Islamic anger over newspaper cartoons depicting the Prophet Mohammed continues to spread internationally, with thousands of protesters rallying while some of their number torch the Danish consulate in Beirut...
CNN - February 5, 2006
Suspect in gay bar attacks dies
An 18-year-old suspected in hatchet attacks and shootings at a Massachusetts gay bar died early Sunday in a Missouri hospital after a gun battle Saturday, police said...
CNN - February 5, 2006
Fisher Has Gone From Air Force to a Force on Defense for the Seahawks
If the military handed out an award for most valuable public affairs officer, Seattle defensive end Bryce Fisher would be a lock...
New York Times - February 5, 2006
Golf: Woods pips Els in play-off
Tiger Woods edges out Ernie Els in a sudden-death play-off to win the Dubai Desert Classic...
BBC News - February 5, 2006
Clooney picks up festival tribute
Triple Oscar nominee George Clooney is awarded the Modern Master Award at the Santa Barbara Film Festival...
BBC News - February 5, 2006
Voting begins in Costa Rica poll
Ballots open in Costa Rica's presidential election with Nobel Prize winner Oscar Arias tipped to regain office...
BBC News - February 5, 2006
Muslim anger at cartoons spreads
Islamic anger over newspaper depictions of the Prophet Mohammed is boiling over into violence around the world, with protesters targeting the embassies of countries where the cartoons were published...
CNN - February 5, 2006
Iran: Nuclear talks still possible
A day after the U.N.'s nuclear watchdog voted to report Iran to the Security Council for possible sanctions related to its nuclear program, Tehran says diplomacy may still resolve its apparent impasse with the International Atomic Energy Agency...
CNN - February 5, 2006
The World: Where the Shadows Have Shadows
On many days in Iraq, it's the shadowy figure in the background that seems to matter most...
New York Times - February 5, 2006
Embassies torched in cartoon fury
Muslim demonstrators in Damascus, Syria, have torched the Norwegian Embassy and the building housing Denmark's embassy, because newspapers in those countries had published what they consider blasphemous depictions of Islam's Prophet Mohammed...
CNN - February 5, 2006
In Darfur, Tiny Steps Toward Policing a Lawless Land
There are assaults and larcenies across Darfur, Sudan, but there is hardly anyone, it seems, seriously trying to solve the crimes...
New York Times - February 5, 2006
The Fickle Cellphone: Lipstick on Your Caller
Web sites that offer to acquire cellphone call records and other personal data have set off alarm bells in recent months...
New York Times - February 5, 2006
Sweden and U.S. Agree About the Oil Dependency Problem, but for Different Reasons
Like President Bush, Goran Persson, president of Sweden, is worried about his country's dependence on vulnerable foreign oil supplies...
New York Times - February 5, 2006
Career Couch: The Separation of Church and Job
At work, many forms of religious expression are protected. But there are limits as well...
New York Times - February 5, 2006
Market Week: A Chance to Tune Out the Numbers
WALL STREET will have the luxury this week of deliberating over events of the recent past. There will be little in the way of new economic reports or corporate earnings announcements to react to...
New York Times - February 5, 2006
The Boss: Doing It Right Matters
Ruth J. Simmons is the president of Brown University...
New York Times - February 5, 2006
[TS] Rising Prices Lift All Bonuses
With oil prices up, energy executives can sit back and watch their pay grow...
New York Times - February 5, 2006
Investing: Have Commodities Become the New Tech Stocks?
If investors in the late 1990's took a bold leap into the future with technology stocks, they are now embracing age-old economic mainstays like copper, lumber, oil and gold...
New York Times - February 5, 2006
The World: Adding Newsprint to the Fire
A fracas over a dozen Danish cartoons grew out of a war of polemics between Europe's anti-immigrant nationalists and the fundamentalist Muslims among its immigrants...
New York Times - February 5, 2006
In Modern Rarity, Workers Form Union at Small Chain
The union hopes to use the same combination of community support and boycott threats to unionize other small retail chains in New York...
New York Times - February 5, 2006
On the Contrary: Where Lender Meets Borrower, Directly
ABOUT 10 years ago, a man named J. Richard Fredericks, who focused on commercial banking during a career in the securities business, made an interesting observation...
New York Times - February 5, 2006
Ventures: A Real Estate Investment Moves to the Mainstream
WALL STREET has embraced real estate investment trusts as an asset family that adds diversification to portfolios, but some financial advisers still regard so-called private, or unlisted, REIT's as a kind of black sheep...
New York Times - February 5, 2006
Suits: The Show's 'Uneven,' but Not the Party
Two NBC mainstays — NBC Universal's chairman, Bob Wright, and the cast and creative team of...
New York Times - February 5, 2006
What If Exxon Mobil Went on a Little Shopping Spree?
What if Exxon Mobil...
New York Times - February 5, 2006
The Goods: For Skiers, Fashion Follows Function
In a sport where a few hundredths of a second can separate gold from also-ran, aerodynamic clothing can make a real difference...
New York Times - February 5, 2006
Spending: DNA Kits Aim to Link You to the Here and Then
DNA testing has added a new twist that has people paying hundreds if not thousands of dollars to look at genetic information in order to uncover details about their heritage...
New York Times - February 5, 2006
Media Frenzy: I Cannot Tell a Lie (From an Amplification)
A disturbing question lurks behind the James Frey literary scandal: Does authenticity still matter?...
New York Times - February 5, 2006
Economic View: Why Let the I.R.S. See What the S.E.C. Doesn't?
Economists have long understood that profits reported to the I.R.S. may be a more reliable guide than those reported to the S.E.C. and scrutinized on Wall Street...
New York Times - February 5, 2006
Fundamentally: Ignore the Ups and Downs at Your Peril
There are dangers when volatility is picking up from extremely low levels, as it is now...
New York Times - February 5, 2006
Off the Shelf: What Sets Leaders Apart From the Pack
LEADERSHIP is scary...
New York Times - February 5, 2006
A Bold Plan to Go Where Men Have Gone Before
Elon Musk, who made his millions by building and selling PayPal, aims to build and launch rockets to take people and other payloads into orbit...
New York Times - February 5, 2006
Carmakers' Big Idea: Think Small
Automakers have a new strategy that involves small cars, but also smaller work forces and heavily edited lineups of vehicles...
New York Times - February 5, 2006
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