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Madonna, Ritchie granted preliminary divorce
Southern Ledger - November 22, 2008
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Spears makes unexpected appearance in court
Southern Ledger - November 22, 2008
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Shuttle gives space station a mile-high boost
Southern Ledger - November 22, 2008
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Rwanda protocol chief says shell prove innocence
Southern Ledger - November 22, 2008
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Lame-duck US, Israeli leaders to meet a final time
Southern Ledger - November 22, 2008
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Suspected US missile strike kills 5 in Pakistan
Southern Ledger - November 22, 2008
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Nepals Buddha boy returns to jungle to meditate
Southern Ledger - November 22, 2008
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Kanye Wests new album to debut on MySpace Music
Southern Ledger - November 22, 2008
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Hollywood actors guild to seek strike
Southern Ledger - November 22, 2008
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US News Archive for August 2006:
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Mexican Tribunal Rejects Demand for Vote Recount
The decision sets the stage for more protests by thousands of people who have camped out in the capital...
New York Times - August 5, 2006
Letters
At American, Anger Is In...
New York Times - August 5, 2006
Corrections
A chart with an article on July 23 about investing in commodities mislabeled one commodities index and incorrectly compared it with another index. It was the Goldman Sachs Commodity Index Total Return that should have been compared with the Dow Jones-AIG Commodity Index Total Return — not with the Dow Jones-AIG Commodity Index. A corrected chart can be found online at nytimes.com/yourmoney...
New York Times - August 5, 2006
Consumed: Character-Driven
How an art toy adopts its form to the functional portable storage drive...
New York Times - August 5, 2006
Little Movement as Investors Focus on the Fed
The stock market treaded water last week, as investors waited to see whether Federal Reserve policy makers would leave short-term interest rates alone...
New York Times - August 5, 2006
The Boss: Volunteering to Learn
The chief executive of Kronos, Inc., a software company, believes that if you want to volunteer, you’ll make the time to do it...
New York Times - August 5, 2006
Square Feet: A High-Priced Sliver of Hotel Luxury
Time-share resorts shake a dubious past and expand into urban areas...
New York Times - August 5, 2006
Off the Shelf: Attitude Isn’t Everything, but It’s Close
What separates one company’s employees from another’s? A series of books says that once you get past intellectual horsepower and experience, the difference is attitude...
New York Times - August 5, 2006
Suits: ‘Luxpitality,’ It Seems, Is Just Too Expensive
Lifestyles of the rich and famous do not usually include bankruptcy filings — unless you belong to Complete Retreats, a privately held operator of deluxe members-only destination clubs...
New York Times - August 5, 2006
The Count: Lobbying Scandals? They Can’t Slow This Juggernaut
Lobbying Scandals?...
New York Times - August 5, 2006
Fundamentally: What Road to Take When Real Estate Is Not a Sure Bet
Many investors are understandably worried now that the residential real estate market has turned decidedly cold. The question is, should they be?...
New York Times - August 5, 2006
Market Week: Pause Camp May Finally Have Its Day
THE Federal Reserve has raised interest rates 17 times in the last two years, and nearly each move was greeted with speculation that it would be the last. The “pause” camp continues to add members, and on Tuesday they may be proved right at last...
New York Times - August 5, 2006
Economic View: The Rich Spend Just Like You and Me
The wealthy are often thought to be big savers. But what has actually become of their outsized gains in income?...
New York Times - August 5, 2006
Spending: Old McDonald Had a Produce-Buying Co-op
More consumers are going directly to small local farms to buy their produce, a reflection of the growth of the organic food movement...
New York Times - August 5, 2006
Investing: In the Quest for Security, Convertibles Have a Role
Convertible securities can provide a respite from the frantic work of investing in a volatile market...
New York Times - August 5, 2006
[TS] Gretchen Morgenson: McKinnell Fumbled Chance to Lead
Hank McKinnell, former chief executive of Pfizer, could have responded to plummeting shareholder assets by doing something exemplary. But he didn’t...
New York Times - August 5, 2006
The Goods: Fried Chicken Dinner, On the Fly
The Mashed Potato Bowl, a new item at the restaurant chain KFC, was designed to solve fried chicken’s portability problem...
New York Times - August 5, 2006
Everybody's Business: My Country, Right and Wrong (but Why So Wrong?)
I am attracted to puzzles, but a puzzle that continues to baffle me is the criticism of oil companies for their high profits...
New York Times - August 5, 2006
Wall Street’s Women Face a Fork in the Road
Many executives say that Wall Street must change fundamentally if it wants to hire and keep more women...
New York Times - August 5, 2006
Coffee, and Hope, Grow in Rwanda
Rwanda, recently rent by a famously savage civil war, has found hope in that most colonial of crops: coffee...
New York Times - August 5, 2006
Media Frenzy: For Big Media Players, Bold Moves Are Back
When AOL becomes free, you know playing it safe is passé...
New York Times - August 5, 2006
Career Couch: Also, I’d Like to Thank the Supply Clerk ...
You’re resigning, not collecting an Oscar, so keep those parting words to the point...
New York Times - August 5, 2006
U.S., France agree truce plan
France and the United States agreed Saturday on a draft U.N. Security Council resolution aimed at ending the war between Israel and Hezbollah in Lebanon. The 15-member Security Council will discuss it later Saturday, the U.S. ambassador to the U.N. said...
CNN - August 5, 2006
Phoenix murder map found, court statement says
One of the two suspects in apparently random late-night killings in Phoenix, Arizona, discarded a trash bag in which police found a map showing the locations of the attacks, court documents said...
CNN - August 5, 2006
Baghdad’s Chaos Raises Questions on U.S. Plan
Statistics suggest that as the U.S. has handed over responsibilities to Iraqi forces, violence has increased...
New York Times - August 5, 2006
Feud Erupts Over Chilean Dam Plan
Chile’s government has embraced a plan to build a series of dams in Patagonia, but environmental groups say it would threaten ranching and tourism...
New York Times - August 5, 2006
A Shorter Vacation for Bush
With an eye on political reality, President Bush is spending just 10 nights at his ranch, rather than the whole month of August...
New York Times - August 5, 2006
Art Thefts in Russia May Be Solved
Two suspects have confessed to the theft of 221 pieces of art from a Russian museum six years ago, a news agency report says...
New York Times - August 5, 2006
Washington Deal Maker Details Palm Greasing
A career built on what he calls “transactional lobbying” made Brent R. Wilkes a rich man but also landed him in the middle of a criminal investigation...
New York Times - August 5, 2006
Holding a Gun, Hezbollah Lends a Hand
Hezbollah has provided essential services to Lebanon’s poor Shiites for years, engendering a deep loyalty...
New York Times - August 5, 2006
The New Gender Divide: Facing Middle Age With No Degree, and No Wife
Many American men without college degrees are finding themselves still single as they approach middle age...
New York Times - August 5, 2006
Tour Winner May Lose Title to Failed Test
Floyd Landis, the third American to win the Tour de France, officially failed a drug test during the race...
New York Times - August 5, 2006
U.S. and France Back Plan to End Fighting in Lebanon
The two countries reached agreement on a Security Council resolution to lay out plans for a permanent cease-fire and a long-term political settlement...
New York Times - August 5, 2006
Israeli commandos raid Tyre
Israeli jets, helicopters and naval commandos Saturday attacked targets in the southern Lebanese city of Tyre in an operation aimed at taking out long-range Hezbollah rocket launchers...
CNN - August 5, 2006
'Two monsters' arrested in Phoenix killings
Police said Friday that two men captured at an apartment complex are responsible for a string of random late-night killings that have terrorized residents across this sprawling city for months...
CNN - August 5, 2006
Backup Sample on Landis Is Positive
Floyd Landis, the improbable winner of the Tour de France, officially failed a drug test from the race. In response, his Swiss-based team fired him and he may be stripped of his title...
New York Times - August 5, 2006
In New Jersey, Board Rejects Utilities’ Plan for a Merger
New Jersey regulators rejected the latest proposal from Exelon Corporation and the Public Service Enterprise Group to merge and create the largest utility company in the U.S...
New York Times - August 5, 2006
Ex-Publisher Admits Having Pornography
Robert M. Johnson, a former publisher who has served on New York’s education policy board, pleaded guilty to possessing child pornography on his company computer...
New York Times - August 5, 2006
Corruption: India Finds Ex-Official Guilty in Oil Scandal
A former foreign minister was found guilty of misconduct related to the United Nations oil-for-food program in Iraq, news reports said...
New York Times - August 5, 2006
Merged Steel Concern Chooses Top Executives
The Arcelor-Mittal steel group named its chief executive and chief financial officer...
New York Times - August 5, 2006
Automaker Reaches Settlement in Sexual Harassment Suit
Toyota said it had reached a settlement in a sexual harassment lawsuit filed against a former top executive by another employee...
New York Times - August 5, 2006
U.S. Puts Sanctions on 7 Foreign Companies Dealing With Iran
The companies had provided Iran with materials that could be used to make unconventional weapons or missile systems...
New York Times - August 5, 2006
New Jersey to Let Phone Companies Become Pay Television Providers
A new law sets the stage for head-to-head competition between telephone and cable companies for the state’s 2.5 million cable subscribers...
New York Times - August 5, 2006
Earnings Are Flat at Washington Post
Charges from buyouts at The Washington Post newspaper offset a gain in revenue for The Washington Post Company...
New York Times - August 5, 2006
Home Builder Expects to Miss Earnings Goals
By Reuters...
New York Times - August 5, 2006
Delta Asks Bankruptcy Court to Let It Cancel Pilots’ Pensions
ATLANTA, Aug. 4 (AP) — Delta Air Lines filed a formal request with the bankruptcy court late Friday to terminate its pilots’ pension plan, as President Bush prepared to sign a bill aimed in part at helping airlines protect employee pensions...
New York Times - August 5, 2006
Split Verdict Reached in Trial of Former Energy Traders
HOUSTON, Aug. 4 (AP) — Federal jurors convicted two former energy traders of wire fraud on Friday, but either acquitted them or could not reach a decision on other conspiracy and false reporting counts...
New York Times - August 5, 2006
Emmis Chief Withdraws Offer to Buy Company
Jeffrey H. Smulyan said on Friday that he was ending his bid to acquire the radio and television broadcaster...
New York Times - August 5, 2006
Shares Rise on Jobs Report, but Close Down
By Reuters...
New York Times - August 5, 2006
Drug Makers Take a Fall on Talk of a Generic’s Release
An industry executive predicted that a generic version of Plavix could reach the market as early as this month...
New York Times - August 5, 2006
Music Publishers Sue Owner of Web File-Sharing Program
A coalition of record companies sued the operators of the file-sharing program LimeWire for copyright infringement...
New York Times - August 5, 2006
Another Ex-General Re Official Is Under Investigation by U.S.
Berkshire Hathaway said that another former executive of its reinsurance unit was being investigated by the Justice Department...
New York Times - August 5, 2006
What’s Online: Rivers of Oil Traced to the Sources
A correspondent for The Chicago Tribune managed to trace the origins of the gasoline sold at a station near Chicago...
New York Times - August 5, 2006
What’s Offline: Getting Away on Any Budget
Budget Travel identifies “four friendly cities” where “you can walk everywhere you want to go,” and are consistent with the magazine’s name...
New York Times - August 5, 2006
Five Days: A Concern That Consumers Will Stop Spending
SOARING temperatures across much of the country and escalating violence in the Middle East kept energy prices high, making some economists worry that consumers may stop spending — or that concern about rising prices generally will push up interest rates, which could also slow spending...
New York Times - August 5, 2006
Market Values: Talk Turns to Chances of Recession
The evidence of deceleration is leading some investment advisers to express concern that a recession may lie around the bend...
New York Times - August 5, 2006
Your Money: Let’s Say Your Toilet Backs Up. How Do You Find a Good Plumber?
Local search sites are trying to capture word-of-mouth wisdom, catalog it and disseminate it online...
New York Times - August 5, 2006
Short Cuts: Getting Movies From a Store or a Mailbox (or Just a Box)
Netflix, the oldest and largest online movie rental company, inspires almost cultlike enthusiasm from its supporters...
New York Times - August 5, 2006
Saturday Interview With Bruce R. Chizen: Adobe Reaches Far and Wide
The company’s chief executive spoke about how far-reaching Adobe has become in Americans’ daily lives...
New York Times - August 5, 2006
[TS] Joe Nocera: At A.M.D., a Quiet Doer Gets His Due
Hector de J. Ruiz, a patient listener, grew up poor in Mexico and became chief executive of Advanced Micro Devices...
New York Times - August 5, 2006
Off the Charts: A Slowdown in a Sensitive Sector May Bode Ill for Stocks, or Worse
When the three areas most sensitive to economic changes and interest rates turn in a poor performance, it is a warning...
New York Times - August 5, 2006
Israeli bombs cut off Beirut
After bombing the last land routes into Beirut, and effectively cutting off the Lebanese capital from relief supplies, Israel issues a statement saying the attacks are designed to thwart Syrian attempts to arm Hezbollah...
CNN - August 5, 2006
Israel's bombs cut off Beirut
After bombing the last land routes into Beirut, and effectively cutting off the Lebanese capital from relief supplies, Israel issued a statement saying the attacks were designed to thwart Syrian attempts to arm Hezbollah...
CNN - August 5, 2006
Testing Is Just First Step in Case Against Landis
Floyd Landis is expected to find out at 5 a.m. Eastern time if he officially failed a drug test from the Tour de France...
New York Times - August 5, 2006
Music Review: A Light Mozart Opera Refitted With a Hard Edge
“Così Fan Tutte,” which opened on Thursday, is the first of 22 operatic works from Mozart’s catalogue that will be performed during a staggeringly ambitious summer at the Salzburg Festival...
New York Times - August 5, 2006
Clinton Dodges Political Peril for War Vote
Senator Hillary Rodham Clinton voted for the use of force in Iraq, but she has suffered few serious consequences in her campaign in New York...
New York Times - August 5, 2006
Campaign 2006: Leveled Colorado District Creates an Election Lab
Colorado’s Seventh Congressional District was purposefully drawn to be balanced between the parties...
New York Times - August 5, 2006
Drug Problems Escalate After Hurricane Katrina
The drug trade in New Orleans is flourishing again, after its dealers forged closer ties to major suppliers...
New York Times - August 5, 2006
Toyota’s Profit Soars, Helped by U.S. Sales
Toyota, the second-largest automaker in the world, appeared on pace to pass General Motors as the world’s largest...
New York Times - August 5, 2006
Repairing Some Dents in an Image
Just as Toyota appears poised to become the world’s largest automaker, its image is being sullied by recalls...
New York Times - August 5, 2006
A Pension Overhaul Gives, and Later Takes Away
Under the version of the pension bill just approved by lawmakers, companies appear to get a break in putting money into their pension funds for only a couple of years before the rules start to tighten...
New York Times - August 5, 2006
Shares Drop on News That Apple May Revise Years of Statements
Apple Computer’s shares fell on the news that the company had uncovered further troubles with its handling of stock options...
New York Times - August 5, 2006
Job Growth Slackened Last Month
Unemployment jumped to 4.8 percent and job growth was slow, the strongest evidence yet of a weakening economy...
New York Times - August 5, 2006
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