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Gustav stalls offshore in Haiti after killing 23
Southern Ledger - August 28, 2008
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Indian security forces kill 3 in Kashmir
Southern Ledger - August 28, 2008
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Indian security forces kill 5 in Kashmir
Southern Ledger - August 28, 2008
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Kashmir police and suspected rebels in shootout
Southern Ledger - August 28, 2008
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Swiss exonerate Europes last executed witch
Southern Ledger - August 28, 2008
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Combat flares in 3rd area of Pakistan border belt
Southern Ledger - August 28, 2008
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At least 5 dead in Kashmir battle over hostages
Southern Ledger - August 28, 2008
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9 killed in bomb blast in northwestern Pakistan
Southern Ledger - August 28, 2008
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Garth, Doherty make nice while filming new 90210
Southern Ledger - August 28, 2008
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US News Archive for February 2008:
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The Lede: A Tuesday Left Behind, Pancake Day
Unlike Super Tuesday and Fat Tuesday, this particular holiday is positively under siege...
New York Times - February 5, 2008
The Story Behind a Late-Night Brawl
At its root, the ?feud? between Conan O?Brien and his rivals originated with a political boast...
New York Times - February 5, 2008
American Soldiers Kill 3 Iraqis in Raid
According to the Iraqi police, the casualties were family members living in a tiny one-room house in Tikrit...
New York Times - February 5, 2008
A Less Hectic Schedule Ahead
After Tuesday?s voting, the candidates can look forward to a relatively relaxed schedule of primaries...
New York Times - February 5, 2008
Live Blogging the Republican Races
Big delegate-states could really influence the race on the G.O.P. side...
New York Times - February 5, 2008
Live Blogging the Democratic Races
Democrats say the most important issue facing the country is the economy...
New York Times - February 5, 2008
Obama Wins Georgia in Night?s 1st Prize
Senator Barack Obama of Illinois is projected to easily defeat Senator Hillary Rodham Clinton in Georgia, the first of 21 Democratic Super Tuesday contests...
New York Times - February 5, 2008
Whirlpool Profit Jumps 72%, Lifted by Overseas Sales
The Whirlpool Corporation said its fourth-quarter profit climbed 72 percent, helped by its acquisition of Maytag, an improved product mix and the weak dollar...
New York Times - February 5, 2008
Duke Energy Profit Sinks 30%
The power company said fourth-quarter profit fell to $271 million, hurt by discontinued operations and higher plant maintenance costs...
New York Times - February 5, 2008
Ukraine Joins the W.T.O.
The move, after 15 years of negotiations, is a milestone for the former Soviet state that helps clear the way for an even more valuable free trade agreement with the European Union...
New York Times - February 5, 2008
BP Misses Estimates and Plans More Job Cuts
The British oil giant said it would cut an additional 5,000 jobs by the middle of next year as part of a plan by the chief executive to slim management and make the company more efficient...
New York Times - February 5, 2008
Settlement in Dow Jones Insider Trading Case
David Li, a former Dow Jones board member, has agreed to pay an $8.1 million civil penalty to settle charges of insider trading related to News Corp.?s buyout offer, the S.E.C. said...
New York Times - February 5, 2008
Disney Is Upbeat Despite Economy?s Troubles
Disney posted a quarterly profit far ahead of Wall Street targets on strong results at its theme park, media and consumer products groups, sending shares up 5 percent...
New York Times - February 5, 2008
BHP Billiton Launches Hostile Bid for Rio Tinto
BHP Billiton formally launched a $147.4 billion hostile takeover bid for rival miner Rio Tinto...
New York Times - February 5, 2008
French Trader Says He Won?t Be Made a Scapegoat
In brief remarks to photographers, Jérôme Kerviel said that while he took responsibility for booking billions of euros in fictitious trades, he was ?singled out by Société Générale...
New York Times - February 5, 2008
Colombian drug lord jailed in US
A New York court sentences a leading Colombian drugs trafficker to 30 years in prison...
BBC News - February 5, 2008
Bob Knight?s Greatest Hits
Bob Knight has made many memorable statements during his coaching career...
New York Times - February 5, 2008
Setting the Odds on Yahoo?s Fate
With Yahoo reluctant, Microsoft aggressive and Google determined, the battle over one of the Internet's pioneers has quickly become a full-on brawl. But with so many (theoretical) outcomes, how will the battle play out? The Deal Professor on Monday outlined Yahoo's five stages of grieving. Now, Mark S. Mahaney, a Citigroup analyst, has described five possible [...]...
New York Times - February 5, 2008
Satellite-Spotting and Kitchen Algebra
When a kid flunking algebra finds a motive in the sky to get his math game on, a hobby and a career path are born...
New York Times - February 5, 2008
What $499 Buys From Apple (for Now)
Apple added two new products to its line both at $499. This sets the stage for the price cuts later this year...
New York Times - February 5, 2008
Clemens Answers Panel?s Questions
Roger Clemens arrived on Capitol Hill to give a sworn deposition that he hopes will help restore his reputation as the most decorated pitcher in baseball history...
New York Times - February 5, 2008
Hamas Claims Responsibility for Blast
The claim of responsibility in the lethal attack at a shopping center signaled a possible end to a self-imposed moratorium on such attacks by the Islamic group...
New York Times - February 5, 2008
Chad Rebellion Appears to Falter
France declared it would intervene to protect the Chadian government if called upon and a Darfur rebel group said it had sent troops to help bolster the president...
New York Times - February 5, 2008
Intelligence Chief Cites Qaeda Threat to U.S.
The top American intelligence official said that Al Qaeda is improving its ability to attack within the United States...
New York Times - February 5, 2008
U.S. Soldiers Kill 3 Iraqis in Raid
The American military said that American troops killed at least two men and a woman, and wounded a child during a raid in Tikrit in northern Iraq...
New York Times - February 5, 2008
States Prepare for Tests of Changes to Voting System
Isolated problems were already cropping up as polls opened, and election officials were bracing for a long, exhausting night...
New York Times - February 5, 2008
Fans Throng Lower Manhattan for Giants Parade
Football fans lined Broadway to watch New York City?s first ticker-tape parade since 2000...
New York Times - February 5, 2008
Voting Begins in a Grab for Delegates, and an Edge
A total of 3,156 delegates will be allocated under arcane rules on what could be the most significant day yet in the 2008 campaign...
New York Times - February 5, 2008
Avon Profit Falls on Restructuring Costs
Fourth-quarter earnings dropped 30 percent to $128.9 million on restructuring and other charges, but the results still beat analysts? estimates...
New York Times - February 5, 2008
GMAC Financial Swings to Loss
The company?s residential lending division, Residential Capital, lost $921 million during the quarter because of continued deterioration in the housing market...
New York Times - February 5, 2008
Whirlpool Profit Beats Expectations
Quarterly profit rose 72 percent as strong international sales and savings from the Maytag acquisition offset a drop in U.S. demand at the appliance maker...
New York Times - February 5, 2008
Tyco Quarterly Profit Beats Expectations
The manufacturer said earnings fell 54 percent from a year-ago period which included its former health-care and electronics units. Adjusted profit topped Wall Street expectations by a wide margin...
New York Times - February 5, 2008
NYSE-Euronext Profit Up on Volume Surge
Fourth-quarter profit more than tripled as more companies listed on the exchange, the company said...
New York Times - February 5, 2008
In Brazil, Anger Over European Ban of Beef Imports
The E.U.?s decision to ban Brazilian beef imports is ?unjustifiable and arbitrary? and could result in shortages and higher prices for European consumers, officials and agricultural specialists say...
New York Times - February 5, 2008
Boston Scientific Posts Loss, but Sales Beat Expectations
With a lift from the falling dollar and better-than-expected sales in several divisions, the company has delivered a pleasant earnings surprise to its long-suffering shareholders...
New York Times - February 5, 2008
Markets Fall Sharply on Weak Business Survey
A service-sector report gave another signal that the United States may be in the early stages of a recession...
New York Times - February 5, 2008
Toyota Profit Increases 7.5 %
As it tries to overtake General Motors as the leading global automaker by sales, Toyota?s strategy of shifting its focus to emerging markets from the United States appears to be paying off...
New York Times - February 5, 2008
Sub-prime crisis hurts US lender
The crisis in the US sub-prime mortgage market leads to losses at US consumer finance firm GMAC...
BBC News - February 5, 2008
US service sector in sharp fall
The US service sector contracted in January for the first time in almost five years, a survey shows...
BBC News - February 5, 2008
Thousands Flee Fighting in Chad?s Capital
The U.N. is worried that instability in Ndjamena could threaten major relief efforts elsewhere in the country...
New York Times - February 5, 2008
Bush?s Final Budget Hints at Tough Choices Ahead
President Bush?s $3 trillion budget has little chance of surviving in a Democratic Congress. But the problems it lays out will survive and grow...
New York Times - February 5, 2008
BP Reports 53 Percent Rise in 4th-Quarter Profit
Oil giant BP reported a 53 percent rise in fourth-quarter net profit as oil prices surged, but full-year profits fell due to refining outages and rising costs...
New York Times - February 5, 2008
Toyota Profit Rises 7.5 Percent on Year
Toyota?s profit for the October-December quarter rose 7.5 percent from the previous year as booming sales in China, Africa and South America offset declining U.S. sales and a stronger yen...
New York Times - February 5, 2008
Super Bowl nets 97.5m viewers
American football's Super Bowl is watched by 97.5m viewers, making it the second most-viewed show in US TV history...
BBC News - February 5, 2008
US judge reinstates sonar curbs
A US judge reimposes curbs on sonar which aim to protect whales, overturning a waiver by President Bush...
BBC News - February 5, 2008
Last Iwo Jima flag veteran dies
A veteran believed to be the last survivor of a group who raised the US flag on Japan's Iwo Jima island dies...
BBC News - February 5, 2008
Bolshoi Director May Take Job at City Ballet
Alexei Ratmansky, the artistic director of the Bolshoi Ballet, has confirmed that he is leaving the Bolshoi and is in negotiations with New York City Ballet to become its resident choreographer...
New York Times - February 5, 2008
Suicide Attack in Israel Kills One
A suicide bomber killed at least one Israeli, while a second bomber failed to detonate his explosive belt...
New York Times - February 5, 2008
Thousands Are Reported to Flee Chad?s Capital
As shelling and small arms fire erupted in Ndjamena, residents were crossing into neighboring Cameroon...
New York Times - February 5, 2008
Bush Seeks Budget of $3.1 Trillion
President Bush?s $3.1 trillion budget would increase military spending and curb the growth of Medicare and Medicaid but raise the federal deficit by nearly $250 billion...
New York Times - February 5, 2008
For the Giants, a Moment to Believe In
It was not until David Tyree?s fourth-quarter catch that hope was spun into belief for the underdog Giants...
New York Times - February 5, 2008
Satellite Spotters Glimpse Secrets, and Tell Them
Hobbyists uncover some of the deepest of the government?s secrets and share them on the Internet...
New York Times - February 5, 2008
Bob Knight Resigns as Coach of Texas Tech
There was no hint that such a change was coming. He will be replaced by his son, Pat, a Red Raiders assistant...
New York Times - February 5, 2008
Time Runs Out for an Afghan Held by the U.S.
The fate of the first detainee to die of natural causes at the U.S. prison in Guantánamo Bay, Cuba, reveals the problem of military tribunals, Afghans say...
New York Times - February 5, 2008
Candidates Blitz States as Big Day Looms
Candidates made their final pushes with rallies and commercials in states from coast to coast...
New York Times - February 5, 2008
As 24 States Vote, a Grab for Delegates, and an Edge
There will be plenty of trends to track in Tuesday?s free-for-all, as 43 contests in 24 states allocate 3,156 delegates on what could be the most significant day of the race to date...
New York Times - February 5, 2008
Florida Insurers Defend Increases in Home Rates
Facing accusations of price gouging, insurance company executives said that they had been forced to raise rates to offset losses and prepare for the possibility of more frequent hurricanes in the future...
New York Times - February 5, 2008
The Art of Giving a Bear Hug
In a letter outlining Microsoft?s hopes to Yahoo C.E.O. Jerry Yang, Microsoft C.E.O. Steven Ballmer followed a storied tradition on Wall Street: the bear hug letter...
New York Times - February 5, 2008
Profit Up Modestly at News Corp.
The company, which closed a $5.6 billion deal to buy Dow Jones & Company in December, said quarterly profit increased to $832 million, or 27 cents a share...
New York Times - February 5, 2008
2 Fast-Food Concerns Report Earnings; Shares Drop
The hamburger chain Wendy?s International said that fourth-quarter earnings more than quadrupled from a year ago, but it fell short of Wall Street expectations...
New York Times - February 5, 2008
Humana Posts 57% Higher Profit
The strong quarter capped a record-breaking 2007 for Humana in membership, revenue and profit, eclipsing previous highs set in 2006...
New York Times - February 5, 2008
Boston Scientific Posts Loss, but Sales Beat Expectations
Boston Scientific delivered a pleasant earnings surprise to its long-suffering shareholders...
New York Times - February 5, 2008
Cost of Materials Hurts Clorox Earnings
The Clorox Company, the consumer products maker, posted a lower quarterly profit on Monday, hurt by rising costs for raw materials but helped by a lower tax rate...
New York Times - February 5, 2008
Sun-Times Media Weighs Selling Itself
The Sun-Times Media Group Inc., the parent company of The Chicago Sun-Times, said Monday that it was considering a sale of the company and its assets...
New York Times - February 5, 2008
A.D.M. Reports 7% Increase in Profit
Oilseed-processing and rising demand for feed grains offset declining margins in the food-processing company?s ethanol business...
New York Times - February 5, 2008
British Airways Is Stoking the Business-Class Rivalry
Trans-Atlantic business-class fares are about to become even more complicated as competition grows and demand holds up...
New York Times - February 5, 2008
Judge Allows Unusual Auction for MAXjet Airways
A bankruptcy judge has authorized the all-business-class airline to auction itself under conditions that have raised the concerns of the federal official monitoring the case...
New York Times - February 5, 2008
Subpoenas Issued to Prodisc Makers
The New Jersey attorney general?s office issued subpoenas Monday to two companies involved in the development of the Prodisc, an artificial spinal disk for the lower back...
New York Times - February 5, 2008
With Hockey Market Stagnant, Nike Seeks to Sell Equipment Unit
Thirteen years after acquiring Bauer, and making bold promises that it would transform the business of hockey, Nike has put its Nike Bauer unit up for sale...
New York Times - February 5, 2008
Amgen Sells Drug Rights and Unit in Japan
Biotechnology giant Amgen is selling the Japanese rights to some drugs to Takeda Pharmaceutical of Japan in a deal that might bring Amgen more than $1 billion...
New York Times - February 5, 2008
BHP Weighs Options in Rio Tinto Bid
A move by China in a possible mining deal could sharply increase the price of what would be one of the biggest mergers in corporate history...
New York Times - February 5, 2008
Cut Undersea Cables Raise Questions of Safety
Most telecommunications specialists and cable operators say that sabotage seems unlikely, but no one knows specifically how the cables were damaged or if the incidents were related...
New York Times - February 5, 2008
Suitor Ends Bid for Northern Rock
Olivant Advisers dropped its bid for troubled British mortgage lender Northern Rock, saying its offer would not satisfy both the government and its own interests...
New York Times - February 5, 2008
Demand Up at Factories in December
Orders placed with factories rose 2.3 percent in December, an increase from the 1.7 percent gain in November and the biggest rise since July...
New York Times - February 5, 2008
Market Retreats After Last Week?s Leap
Wall Street retrenched Monday, closing substantially lower as investors cashed in profits from the market?s best week in nearly five years...
New York Times - February 5, 2008
Study Suggests That, Unlike in the ?70s, Energy Lessons Will Last
This time, the market faces a new factor, climate change...
New York Times - February 5, 2008
For Marketing, the Most Valuable Player Might Be YouTube
The Internet, digital video recorders, mobile devices and other technologies are giving a strong postgame presence to the annual roster of Super Bowl commercials...
New York Times - February 5, 2008
Utilities Turn From Coal to Gas, Raising Risk of Price Increase
Some experts fear that a boom in gas demand for electricity generation will send prices even higher...
New York Times - February 5, 2008
Former Banker Convicted of Insider Trading
A former Credit Suisse banker accused of leaking confidential information about several major deals was convicted in Federal District Court in Manhattan...
New York Times - February 5, 2008
Google and Microsoft Take Up Battle Stations
With Microsoft bidding nearly $45 billion to buy Yahoo, Google has begun to lay the groundwork to try to delay, and possibly derail, any deal...
New York Times - February 5, 2008
Europe?s Central Banker Engineers His Economics
Jean-Claude Trichet, president of the European Central Bank, is standing resolute about inflation, but he is watching the American economy closely...
New York Times - February 5, 2008
A Trader?s Secrets, a Bank?s Missteps
Société Générale encouraged a culture of risk, enabling rogue trader Jérôme Kerviel?s activities to go undetected, according to bank officials...
New York Times - February 5, 2008
Economy Fitful, Americans Start to Pay as They Go
Some analysts see consumers? shift toward thrift as a cultural inflection point, one with huge implications for an economy driven largely by consumer spending...
New York Times - February 5, 2008
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