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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 November 2007:
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City Room: The Beatle and the M.T.A. Official
Nancy Shevell, an M.T.A. board member who chairs the committee that oversees the Second Avenue subway, is the subject of British press reports about her relationship with Paul McCartney...
New York Times - November 6, 2007
Bats Blog: A Look at the Third Base Market
At long last, the Yankees had their meeting with Scott Boras today. It was outside the bank of elevators at the Hyatt Grand Cypress here at the general managers? meetings in Orlando, Fla. Boras was wearing a USC baseball T-shirt and was sweating after a workout. Yankees GM Brian Cashman, wearing a Trenton Thunder windbreaker, and [...]...
New York Times - November 6, 2007
The Lede Blog: Mercenary Ranks Growing, U.N. Says
A United Nations panel takes a side in the mercenary debate...
New York Times - November 6, 2007
Conservative Authors Sue Publisher
Five authors charged that Regnery Publishing deprives its writers of royalties by selling their books at a steep discount to organizations owned by the same parent company...
New York Times - November 6, 2007
Yahoo Executives Defend Company in China Case
Two top Yahoo officials endured withering criticism from lawmakers who accused them of complicity in the jailing of a Chinese journalist...
New York Times - November 6, 2007
Voters in Mississippi and Kentucky Select New Governors
Meanwhile, five big-city mayors and a slew of ballot initiatives took top billing elsewhere in a quiet Election Day before next year?s presidential vote...
New York Times - November 6, 2007
House Votes to Override Bush?s Veto of Water Projects
If the Senate passes the bill by a similar margin as expected, this will be the first of President Bush?s five vetoes during his two terms to be overridden...
New York Times - November 6, 2007
Corruption Scandal Spreads at Samsung
Prosecutors opened a formal investigation into charges that the chairman of the South Korean conglomerate masterminded a broad scheme of bribery and illegal transactions...
New York Times - November 6, 2007
Yahoo C.E.O. Defends Company in China Case
Two Yahoo officials defended their company?s role in the jailing of a Chinese journalist but ran into withering criticism from lawmakers who accused them of complicity with an oppressive communist regime...
New York Times - November 6, 2007
Citi Names Executive to Repair Mortgage Problems
Richard Stuckey, who helped dismantle Long-Term Capital Management in 1998, will head a group devoted to managing $43 billion of Citi?s ailing mortgage-backed securities...
New York Times - November 6, 2007
Facebook to Turn Users Into Endorsers
Facebook now will give advertisers the ability to create their own profile pages on its system that will let users identify themselves as fans of a product...
New York Times - November 6, 2007
Stocks Rally As Credit Worries Remain
Wall Street closed higher as investors still mindful of widening credit problems nonetheless went in search of bargain stocks...
New York Times - November 6, 2007
Within the Fed, Resistance to Further Rate Cuts
In an blunt interview, the head of the Federal Reserve Bank of Philadelphia said he would not back more rate cuts unless the economy slowed further than current estimates...
New York Times - November 6, 2007
MLB: Schilling stays with Boston
World Series champions Boston sign veteran pitcher Curt Schilling for one more year...
BBC News - November 6, 2007
NFL: Patriots beat Colts
New England Patriots are the only team left unbeaten in NFL following a 24-20 win over Indianapolis Colts...
BBC News - November 6, 2007
Trinidad's ruling party wins poll
The ruling People's National Movement wins Trinidad and Tobago's general election with a comfortable majority...
BBC News - November 6, 2007
Two US states vote for governors
Voters in Kentucky and Mississippi go to the polls to select governors, while five US cities choose new mayors...
BBC News - November 6, 2007
US grounds F-15 jets after crash
The US Air Force orders the grounding of all F-15 fighter jets, after a crash last week in Missouri...
BBC News - November 6, 2007
Sarkozy begins Washington visit
President Sarkozy of France begins his first official US visit, sealing a rapprochement between the two nations...
BBC News - November 6, 2007
Argentine indigenous in protest
Argentine indigenous people complain to the government after more than 20 of them die of hunger...
BBC News - November 6, 2007
Paper Cuts Blog: Paper Cuts: Texas Monthly?s Jenna Bush Profile
The estimable Texas Monthly magazine, based in Austin, hasn?t always been kind to the Bush administration ? witness the issue at left, which recently won a 2007 American Society of Magazine Editors award for best cover line. (?If You Don?t Buy This Magazine, Dick Cheney Will Shoot You in the Face.?) Still, when the Bushes [...]...
New York Times - November 6, 2007
City Room: M.T.A. Holds Hearing on Fare Increase
Of the more than 50 people who testified at a hearing in Downtown Brooklyn, not one supported the M.T.A.'s proposal to increase subway and bus fares next year...
New York Times - November 6, 2007
The Lede Blog: Wildfires, the Aftermath
The governor orders a review that sounds more aggressive than wildfires past...
New York Times - November 6, 2007
Well Blog: Rewriting Rap to Empower Teens
A group of high school girls got tired of catcalls from men in the street. So they decided to rap about it...
New York Times - November 6, 2007
Italy Arrests 20 Terror Suspects
MILAN, Italy (AP) -- A Europe-wide sweep disrupted an Islamic cell that was recruiting potential suicide bombers for attacks in Iraq and Afghanistan, Italian police said Tuesday, announcing the arrests of 20 terror suspects...
New York Times - November 6, 2007
Deadly Fires Reveal Flaws in Russia?s Resurgence
Respect for law, safety and public health still lag far behind the Kremlin?s restored sense of self...
New York Times - November 6, 2007
Nomination of Mukasey Sent to Full Senate
The Judiciary Committee?s vote today virtually ensures the confirmation of Michael B. Mukasey as the next attorney general...
New York Times - November 6, 2007
Alibaba Shares Nearly Triple in Debut
Shares of China?s biggest e-commerce company soared in the opening day of trading in Hong Kong, creating one of the world?s wealthiest technology companies...
New York Times - November 6, 2007
IndyMac Mortgage Loss Dwarfs Its Own Forecast
Hurt by mounting loan delinquencies, IndyMac, one of the nation?s largest independent mortgage lenders, posted a quarterly loss more than five times larger than it projected...
New York Times - November 6, 2007
Stocks Fluctuate After Pullback
Stocks continued the erratic pattern of the previous session as investors tussled with renewed concerns about growing credit problems at big financial companies...
New York Times - November 6, 2007
Oil Prices Soar to New High
Oil futures jumped to a new record of $97 a barrel after bombings in Afghanistan and an attack on a Yemeni oil pipeline compounded supply concerns...
New York Times - November 6, 2007
Dubious Fees Hit Borrowers in Foreclosures
Questionable practices among mortgage lenders are coming to light in bankruptcy courts across the nation...
New York Times - November 6, 2007
Republicans plot key Colorado fightback
The GOP is on the defensive after losing a US Senate seat, the governor's mansion and the state legislature...
BBC News - November 6, 2007
Euro climbs to fresh dollar peak
The euro hits fresh highs against the dollar as negative views of US economic prospects take their toll...
BBC News - November 6, 2007
Mattel recalls 155,000 new toys
Mattel recalls 155,000 Mexican-made toys over fears pieces could break off and cause children to choke...
BBC News - November 6, 2007
Mukasey nomination goes forward
A US Senate panel approves Michael Mukasey as attorney general despite his refusal to denounce water-boarding...
BBC News - November 6, 2007
More Readers Trading Newspapers for Web Sites
The circulation declines of American newspapers continued over the spring and summer, according to figures released Monday...
New York Times - November 6, 2007
Cable Channel Nods to Ratings and Leans Left
MSNBC executives acknowledged that they were talking to Rosie O?Donnell about a prime-time show...
New York Times - November 6, 2007
Memo Pad
THE WORST YEAR Domestic airline performance through September of this year ranked as the worst for any comparable period in at least 12 years, the Transportation Department?s Bureau of Transportation Statistics reported yesterday. Through September, 73.18 percent of flights arrived on time this year, compared with 76.14 percent in the same period last year and the 12-year high, 82.82 percent in 2003. The worst 3 of the top 32 major airports through September of this year were all in the New York area: Newark Liberty (59.60 percent on time) LaGuardia (59.85 percent) and Kennedy (60.86 percent). The best three were Salt Lake City (80.31 percent), and Oakland (80.22 percent) and San Diego (78.95 percent) in California...
New York Times - November 6, 2007
Doing Away With Far and Away
I REMEMBER standing in line at the post office in Florence in 1982, waiting with my parents to get into a phone booth to call the United States...
New York Times - November 6, 2007
PepsiCo Is Realigning Units by Geography and Product
PepsiCo Inc. said it was combining operations in the Americas and dividing its food and beverage businesses in the region...
New York Times - November 6, 2007
Ex-Executive of Wal-Mart Drops Suit on Severance
A former advertising executive for Wal-Mart Stores has decided to drop her breach-of-contract lawsuit against the retailer, saying that the lawsuit had become financially draining and more complex than she had expected...
New York Times - November 6, 2007
Chief of Finance Departs H&R Block
H&R Block, the largest United States tax preparer, said yesterday that its chief financial officer, William L. Trubeck, had stepped down, effective immediately...
New York Times - November 6, 2007
Profit at Burger King Rises 23%
Burger King Holdings reported a higher-than-expected profit yesterday, but its stock fell after it said private equity firms that own more than half of its shares plan to reduce their stakes...
New York Times - November 6, 2007
Bradford Kelleher, Creator of Met?s Store, Dies at 87
Mr. Kelleher founded the the Metropolitan Museum of Art?s first full-fledged gift shop and oversaw the creation of countless artful and educational tchotchkes...
New York Times - November 6, 2007
Despite Strike, Prime-Time TV Marches On
Most of the shows affected by the strike are half-hour comedies that are taped in front of a studio audience...
New York Times - November 6, 2007
The Lowly Parking Garage With the Colorful Identity
Since 1998, Martin Nesbitt and Mark Wildman have been trying to turn the typically grubby parking garage into a familiar and popular brand...
New York Times - November 6, 2007
Publication to Cease for House & Garden
The magazine will close after the abrupt departure of its publisher and years of losses for its parent, Condé Nast Publications...
New York Times - November 6, 2007
Shares of Alibaba.com Climb on First Day of Trading
The Chinese web company?s public offering is expected to raise nearly $2 billion in Hong Kong, making its debut offering as large as Google?s 2004 I.P.O. in the United States...
New York Times - November 6, 2007
EADS Warns It Will Take a Hit From Delayed Military Plane
The announcement proved to be a fresh blow to investor confidence in the company, as shares slid nearly 4 percent in Paris trading...
New York Times - November 6, 2007
Sun Reports Modest Profit, but Revenue Disappoints Investors
The company continued to benefit from its corporate restructuring and improved gross margins, but investors were hoping for a bigger start to the fiscal year...
New York Times - November 6, 2007
Shining Light on Diseases Often in the Shadows
A new journal focuses on common ailments that afflict the world?s poor...
New York Times - November 6, 2007
Flying and Blood Clots: A Deadly Risk
Life-threatening blood clots and flying have been linked for more than 50 years, but a new study confirms the risk, particularly for those who take long flights...
New York Times - November 6, 2007
Dell to Acquire Storage Company for $1.4 Billion
The deal comes as the company is attempting to stage a corporate turnaround and reclaim ground lost to more nimble competitors...
New York Times - November 6, 2007
Competitively Priced Electricity Costs More, Studies Show
Retail electricity prices rose more in states adopting competitive pricing than in states where government set rates, raising questions about who benefits from competition...
New York Times - November 6, 2007
Hope After Failure of New Cholesterol Drug
Drugs to raise so-called good cholesterol may still have a future despite the widely publicized failure last year of an experimental cholesterol treatment from Pfizer, researchers said...
New York Times - November 6, 2007
PetroChina Shares Triple in Debut
Super-heated markets in China drove the value of the state oil and gas company above $1 trillion, giving it the highest market capitalization in corporate history...
New York Times - November 6, 2007
Led by Troubled Banks, Shares Slide
Shares of financial companies stumbled Monday in the aftermath of the shake-up at Citigroup, sending the stock markets down and leaving investors on edge...
New York Times - November 6, 2007
Before the Court: Are Munis Like Milk, or Garbage?
A case with the potential to unsettle the municipal bond market produced a lively Supreme Court argument on Monday...
New York Times - November 6, 2007
Ford Warns of New Steps if Sales Decline
Even as Ford?s hourly workers prepare to vote on their new contract, the automaker said it may have to adjust its corporate restructuring plan if industry sales continue to slide...
New York Times - November 6, 2007
IAC/InterActive to Split Into 5 Companies
The move is aimed at bolstering Barry Diller?s company?s lagging share price and simplify its convoluted corporate structure, among other things...
New York Times - November 6, 2007
Bond Buyers Are Losing Confidence
Investors and analysts say the large write-downs of mortgage securities by Citigroup and Merrill Lynch have unnerved the debt markets...
New York Times - November 6, 2007
White House to Offer Own Plan on Product Safety
The Bush administration will propose on Tuesday to expand the authority of the federal drug and consumer product safety agencies to inspect and certify imports...
New York Times - November 6, 2007
No More Bench Strength
For years, the idea of grooming a successor was a job requirement of a chief executive and a priority for a company?s board. But that is no longer the case...
New York Times - November 6, 2007
Screenwriters on Strike Over Stake in New Media
Hollywood writers took to the sidewalks, if not quite the streets, on Monday, as last-ditch bargaining failed to avert the first industrywide strike in more than 19 years...
New York Times - November 6, 2007
At Time Warner, Successor to Parsons Emerges
After months of speculation, Time Warner said that Jeffrey L. Bewkes, the chief operating officer, will succeed Richard D. Parsons as chief executive at the end of the year...
New York Times - November 6, 2007
Google Enters the Wireless World
Google said Monday that it is leading a broad industry effort to develop new software technologies aimed at turning cellphones into powerful mobile computers...
New York Times - November 6, 2007
Heart Surgery Drug Pulled From Market
Pressured by regulators, Bayer AG said it will withdraw the controversial heart surgery drug Trasylol after a Canadian study suggested that it increased death rates...
New York Times - November 6, 2007
Borrowers Face Dubious Charges in Foreclosures
As record numbers of homeowners default on their mortgages, questionable practices among lenders are coming to light in bankruptcy courts across the nation...
New York Times - November 6, 2007
Waning Support Led to Ouster of Citigroup Chief
The end game of Charles O. Prince III?s career at Citigroup probably began with a flight to Saudi Arabia last week by the firm?s former chairman, Sanford I. Weill...
New York Times - November 6, 2007
US pressure over PKK bears fruit
The BBC's Paul Reynolds says the release by the PKK of captured Turkish soldiers is a good prelude to talks on Monday between President Bush and Turkish Prime Minister Erdogan...
BBC News - November 6, 2007
Foreclosure wave sweeps America
Millions face eviction in the United States as the devastating consequences of the sub-prime lending boom become clear...
BBC News - November 6, 2007
Chinese province 'may sue Mattel'
A Chinese province may sue Mattel for harming its reputation in the recent recall of toys, state press said...
BBC News - November 6, 2007
New Time Warner boss to take over
Jeffrey Bewkes will take the helm of US media giant Time Warner in January, replacing current boss Richard Parsons...
BBC News - November 6, 2007
Brain operation for country star
Country music singer Rosanne Cash announces she is to undergo brain surgery for a "rare benign condition"...
BBC News - November 6, 2007
Author Lee receives top US honour
Author Harper Lee is presented with America's highest civilian honour by President George W Bush...
BBC News - November 6, 2007
Talk shows hit by writers' strike
US TV's two top late-night talk shows become the first casualties of the writers' strike...
BBC News - November 6, 2007
The Caucus: Guy Fawkes Day Helps Raise Millions for Paul
Supporters of the long-shot Republican primary campaign of Ron Paul may remember Guy Fawkes as a wildly successful fund-raising gimmick...
New York Times - November 6, 2007
Well Blog: Curing Insomnia Without the Pills
Behavioral strategies for better sleep are deceptively simple and can make a real difference...
New York Times - November 6, 2007
50 New York Schools Fail Under Rating System
The schools that failed in a blunt new rating system were so dismal that their 29,000 students would be allowed to transfer elsewhere, said Mayor Michael R. Bloomberg...
New York Times - November 6, 2007
Critics Cite Red Tape in Rebuilding of Louisiana
Local officials say the federal process used to pay for repairs to schools, sewers and police stations seems to value perfect paperwork over speedy resolutions...
New York Times - November 6, 2007
A History of Neglect: City Slow to Act as Hope for Foster Children Fails
Miracle Makers, a foster care agency, consumed more than $350 million in public funds over two decades as it wasted money and failed to provide services...
New York Times - November 6, 2007
In Iowa Field, Edwards Sees Only Senator Clinton
John Edwards is trying to recast the Democratic race, asserting that only he can assure a victory in November...
New York Times - November 6, 2007
Memo Pad
THE WORST YEAR Domestic airline performance through September of this year ranked as the worst for any comparable period in at least 12 years, the Transportation Department?s Bureau of Transportation Statistics reported yesterday. Through September, 73.18 percent of flights arrived on time this year, compared with 76.14 percent in the same period last year and the 12-year high, 82.82 percent in 2003. The worst 3 of the top 32 major airports through September of this year were all in the New York area: Newark Liberty (59.60 percent on time) LaGuardia (59.85 percent) and Kennedy (60.86 percent). The best three were Salt Lake City (80.31 percent), and Oakland (80.22 percent) and San Diego (78.95 percent) in California...
New York Times - November 6, 2007
Ex-Executive of Wal-Mart Drops Suit on Severance
A former advertising executive for Wal-Mart Stores has decided to drop her breach-of-contract lawsuit against the retailer, saying that the lawsuit had become financially draining and more complex than she had expected...
New York Times - November 6, 2007
Frequent Flier: Doing Away With Far and Away
I REMEMBER standing in line at the post office in Florence in 1982, waiting with my parents to get into a phone booth to call the United States...
New York Times - November 6, 2007
Profit at Burger King Rises 23%
Burger King Holdings reported a higher-than-expected profit yesterday, but its stock fell after it said private equity firms that own more than half of its shares plan to reduce their stakes...
New York Times - November 6, 2007
PepsiCo Is Realigning Units by Geography and Product
PepsiCo Inc. said it was combining operations in the Americas and dividing its food and beverage businesses in the region...
New York Times - November 6, 2007
Despite Strike, Prime-Time TV Marches On
Most of the shows affected by the strike are half-hour comedies that are taped in front of a studio audience...
New York Times - November 6, 2007
Chief of Finance Departs H&R Block
H&R Block, the largest United States tax preparer, said yesterday that its chief financial officer, William L. Trubeck, had stepped down, effective immediately...
New York Times - November 6, 2007
Advertising: More Readers Trading Newspapers for Web Sites
The circulation declines of American newspapers continued over the spring and summer, according to figures released Monday...
New York Times - November 6, 2007
Shares of Alibaba.com Climb on First Day of Trading
The Web company, which counts Cisco Systems and Yahoo as shareholders, rose to 33 Hong Kong dollars from the offer price of 13.50 Hong Kong dollars in morning trading...
New York Times - November 6, 2007
Bradford Kelleher, Creator of Met?s Store, Dies at 87
Mr. Kelleher founded the the Metropolitan Museum of Art?s first full-fledged gift shop and oversaw the creation of countless artful and educational tchotchkes...
New York Times - November 6, 2007
Cable Channel Nods to Ratings and Leans Left
Lest there be any doubt that the MSNBC believes there is ratings gold in shows that criticize the administration, executives have acknowledged that they were talking to Rosie O?Donnell about a prime-time show...
New York Times - November 6, 2007
The Lowly Parking Garage With the Colorful Identity
Since 1998, Martin Nesbitt and Mark Wildman have been trying to turn the typically grubby parking garage into a familiar and popular brand...
New York Times - November 6, 2007
Publication to Cease For House & Garden
The magazine will close after the abrupt departure of its publisher and years of losses for its parent, Condé Nast Publications...
New York Times - November 6, 2007
Shining Light on Diseases Often in the Shadows
A new journal focuses on common ailments that afflict the world?s poor...
New York Times - November 6, 2007
Sun Reports Modest Profit, but Revenue Disappoints Investors
The company continued to benefit from its corporate restructuring and improved gross margins, but investors were hoping for a bigger start to the fiscal year...
New York Times - November 6, 2007
EADS Warns It Will Take a Hit From Delayed Military Plane
The announcement proved to be a fresh blow to investor confidence in the company, as shares slid nearly 4 percent in Paris trading...
New York Times - November 6, 2007
Flying and Blood Clots: A Deadly Risk
Life-threatening blood clots and flying have been linked for more than 50 years, but a new study confirms the risk, particularly for those who take long flights...
New York Times - November 6, 2007
Before the Court: Are Munis Like Milk, or Garbage?
A case with the potential to unsettle the municipal bond market produced a lively Supreme Court argument on Monday...
New York Times - November 6, 2007
Hope After Failure of New Cholesterol Drug
Drugs to raise so-called good cholesterol may still have a future despite the widely publicized failure last year of an experimental cholesterol treatment from Pfizer, researchers said...
New York Times - November 6, 2007
Led by Troubled Banks, Shares Slide
Shares of financial companies stumbled Monday in the aftermath of the shake-up at Citigroup, sending the stock markets down and leaving investors on edge...
New York Times - November 6, 2007
IAC/InterActive to Split Into 5 Companies
The move is aimed at bolstering Barry Diller?s company?s lagging share price and simplify its convoluted corporate structure, among other things...
New York Times - November 6, 2007
Ford Warns of New Steps if Sales Decline
Even as Ford?s hourly workers prepare to vote on their new contract, the automaker said it may have to adjust its corporate restructuring plan if industry sales continue to slide...
New York Times - November 6, 2007
Bond Buyers Are Losing Confidence
Investors and analysts say the large write-downs of mortgage securities by Citigroup and Merrill Lynch have unnerved the debt markets...
New York Times - November 6, 2007
No More Bench Strength
For years, the idea of grooming a successor was a job requirement of a chief executive and a priority for a company?s board. But that is no longer the case...
New York Times - November 6, 2007
White House to Offer Own Plan on Product Safety
The Bush administration will propose on Tuesday to expand the authority of the federal drug and consumer product safety agencies to inspect and certify imports...
New York Times - November 6, 2007
Screenwriters on Strike Over Stake in New Media
Hollywood writers took to the sidewalks, if not quite the streets, on Monday, as last-ditch bargaining failed to avert the first industrywide strike in more than 19 years...
New York Times - November 6, 2007
Heart Surgery Drug Pulled From Market
Pressured by regulators, Bayer AG said it will withdraw the controversial heart surgery drug Trasylol after a Canadian study suggested that it increased death rates...
New York Times - November 6, 2007
At Time Warner, Successor to Parsons Emerges
After months of speculation, Time Warner said that Jeffrey L. Bewkes, the chief operating officer, will succeed Richard D. Parsons as chief executive at the end of the year...
New York Times - November 6, 2007
Waning Support Led to Ouster of Citigroup Chief
The end game of Charles O. Prince III ?s career at Citigroup probably began with a flight to Saudi Arabia last week by the firm?s former chairman, Sanford I. Weill...
New York Times - November 6, 2007
Google Enters the Wireless World
Google said Monday that it is leading a broad industry effort to develop new software technologies aimed at turning cellphones into powerful mobile computers...
New York Times - November 6, 2007
Borrowers Face Dubious Charges in Foreclosures
As record numbers of homeowners default on their mortgages, questionable practices among lenders are coming to light in bankruptcy courts across the nation...
New York Times - November 6, 2007
Mudslide adds to Mexico flood woe
A mudslide strikes a village in flood-hit southern Mexico leaving at least 16 people missing feared dead...
BBC News - November 6, 2007
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