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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 February 2007:
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'Love triangle' astronaut charged
A NASA astronaut accused of trying to kidnap a romantic rival for a space shuttle pilot's affections has been charged with attempted first-degree murder and released from jail after posting $25,000 bail...
CNN - February 6, 2007
Police wounded in Islamabad airport bomb
Police thwarted a suspected suicide attacker at the airport serving Pakistan's capital late Tuesday after a shootout and blast that killed the attacker and wounded three police, officials said...
CNN - February 6, 2007
Astronaut to be charged with attempted murder
NASA astronaut Lisa Marie Nowak will face a charge of attempted first-degree murder, a jail official said, along with attempted kidnapping charges stemming from an alleged romantic triangle with a space shuttle pilot...
CNN - February 6, 2007
Lawmaker: U.S. sent giant pallets of cash into Iraq
The Federal Reserve sent record payouts of more than $4 billion in cash to Baghdad on giant pallets aboard military planes shortly before the United States gave control back to Iraqis, lawmakers said Tuesday...
CNN - February 6, 2007
Giuliani Is Definitely Interested but in No Rush
Why has Rudolph W. Giuliani stopped ever so short of giving a definitive statement on a White House run?...
New York Times - February 6, 2007
Cemetery Offers Refuge After Flood in Indonesia
With more than 220,000 people still homeless, some evacuees congregated on the high ground of a cemetery...
New York Times - February 6, 2007
Koreans Share Their Secret for Chicken With a Crunch
The popular cult of crunchy, spicy, perfectly nongreasy chicken has arrived in Manhattan?s Korean eateries...
New York Times - February 6, 2007
House to Debate Measure Opposing Bush?s Iraq Plan
Frustrated by the political breakdown in the Senate, House Democratic leaders decided to begin debate next week on an Iraq resolution...
New York Times - February 6, 2007
Toyota Reports Record Profits and Sales in 4th Quarter
The Toyota Motor Corporation, on pace to become the world's biggest auto company, reports a 7.3 percent gain...
New York Times - February 6, 2007
A New Boss at NBC, and Even Newer Issues
As the new head of NBC Universal, Jeff Zucker will need to deal with rapid technological and financial changes that are throwing traditional media businesses into upheaval...
New York Times - February 6, 2007
Advertising: Toyota Flexes Muscles in Tundra Commercials
Ads for a new full-size pickup don't mention the auto maker's famous fuel economy or hybrid technology...
New York Times - February 6, 2007
U.S. Military Contractors Seek Deals at Bangalore Air Show
As India and the United States gradually relax policies on military collaboration between the two countries, American companies hope to compete for contracts worth billions of dollars...
New York Times - February 6, 2007
Apple?s Chief Calls for End to Music Copy Protection
Steven P. Jobs says that dropping digital anti-piracy protection would benefit record labels and customers...
New York Times - February 6, 2007
Seven dead in Mexico ambushes
At least seven people are killed in twin attacks on government offices in the Mexican resort of Acapulco...
BBC News - February 6, 2007
Football: Brazil defeated
Simao and Ricardo Carvalho score late on as Portugal beat Brazil at Arsenal's Emirates Stadium...
BBC News - February 6, 2007
US 'to release cockpit footage'
The US believes it can make a cockpit video of the "friendly fire" death of a British soldier available, the UK says...
BBC News - February 6, 2007
Canada probes Afghan 'abuse'
The Canadian military begins an investigation into claims of detainee abuse by its soldiers in Afghanistan...
BBC News - February 6, 2007
Farmer 'planned more murders'
A Canadian pig farmer accused of killing 26 women wanted to kill as many as 75, an undercover officer tells a court...
BBC News - February 6, 2007
Jets banned from Sao Paulo
A Brazilian judge bans three types of jets from Sao Paulo's Congonhas airport because of concerns about the runway...
BBC News - February 6, 2007
Astronaut Charged with Attempted Kidnapping
Lisa Nowak, 43, drove hundreds of miles to confront a rival for the affections of a fellow astronaut, wearing diapers so that she would not have to stop...
New York Times - February 6, 2007
Oil nears $60 on cold US weather
Freezing temperatures across much of the US push oil prices back up sharply to nearly $60 a barrel...
BBC News - February 6, 2007
Disney park 'to open in Bahrain'
A Saudi Arabian billionaire is in talks to open a Disney theme park in Bahrain, a report says...
BBC News - February 6, 2007
US duo in Liverpool takeover deal
American duo George Gillett and Tom Hicks reach an agreement to buy Liverpool...
BBC News - February 6, 2007
Germany Agonizes Over a Brain Drain
The steady exodus in recent years has become a hot topic in a land already saddled with one of the most rapidly aging and shrinking populations of any Western nation...
New York Times - February 6, 2007
Libby?s Grand Jury Tapes Are Heard in Court
I. Lewis Libby Jr. was heard testifying under oath before a grand jury that he had not discussed the identity of a C.I.A. operative with fellow administration officials...
New York Times - February 6, 2007
Toyota Stays on Track with 7.3 Percent Gain in Quarter
The Toyota Motor Corporation reported company reported net income of 426.7 billion yen, or about $3.7 billion, due in part to strong American sales of its Camry sedan and the remodeled FJ Cruiser sport utility vehicle...
New York Times - February 6, 2007
Blackstone Raises Its Bid for Equity Office
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New York Times - February 6, 2007
Ronaldinho misses out for Brazil
Ronaldinho is out of Brazil's friendly against Portugal at The Emirates because of a calf injury...
BBC News - February 6, 2007
US 'abductor' faces sex charges
A US man accused of kidnapping a young boy and holding him for four years is charged with 69 counts of sexual assault...
BBC News - February 6, 2007
Astronaut in 'love kidnap plot'
A US woman astronaut is charged with trying to kidnap a rival for the affection of a space shuttle pilot...
BBC News - February 6, 2007
UK court 'to see US cockpit video'
A US video said to show a "friendly fire" incident in which a UK soldier was killed can be seen in court, officials say...
BBC News - February 6, 2007
Giuliani Steps Closer to a Run in 2008
Rudolph W. Giuliani declared to the F.E.C. that he would seek the Republican nomination if he runs, campaign officials said...
New York Times - February 6, 2007
Rio De Janeiro Journal: Drawing Lines Across the Sand
In Brazil, some bodies ? and some beaches ? are more equal than others...
New York Times - February 6, 2007
News Analysis: Democrats Face Limits in Changing Bush?s Budget
Political and fiscal constraints will make it hard for Democratic critics of the president?s budget to assert their priorities...
New York Times - February 6, 2007
A New Problem for Farmers: Veterinarians in Short Supply
Veterinarians who care for the animals that provide the United States with food are in increasingly short supply...
New York Times - February 6, 2007
World Business Briefing | Europe: Britain: Home Builder Acquired
Barratt Developments, the biggest home builder in Britain, said it had agreed to buy a smaller competitor, Wilson Bowden, in a deal that values the company at £2.2 billion ($4.3 billion). Barratt will pay 950 pence ($18.68) and issue 1.06 new shares for each share of Wilson Bowden, the company said. The price represents a premium of about 23 percent over Wilson Bowden?s closing price Nov. 23, the last day before the company said it was in talks about a possible offer...
New York Times - February 6, 2007
World Business Briefing | Europe: Britain: Renowned Building Sold
A London office tower known as the Gherkin was bought by IVG Immobilien, a German property company, and Evans Randall Investment Management, a British investment bank, for £600 million ($1.2 billion), a record for a building in the city?s main financial district. The Swiss Reinsurance Company, the tower?s owner, said it would remain the principal tenant in the 41-story building. Swiss Re, which is based in Zurich, will book a profit of £250 million ($500 million) from the sale. The Gherkin was designed by Norman Foster, winner of the Pritzker Prize, and opened in 2004. The tower, formally known as 30 St. Mary Axe, is ?a genuine landmark with excellent long-term letting prospects,? IVG said...
New York Times - February 6, 2007
World Business Briefing | Asia: Japan: Nissan?s Shares Fall on Results
Shares of Nissan, which posted disappointing results and forecast poor results for the full year on Friday, fell 8 percent after several brokers lowered their ratings on the company?s stock. Nissan posted a 23 percent decline in quarterly profit and cut its profit forecast to 460 billion yen ($3.8 billion) from 523 billion yen for the fiscal year ending March 31. The report raised concerns about the company?s near-term growth prospects and UBS Securities, Credit Suisse Securities and Mitsubishi UFJ Securities lowered their ratings on the company. Nissan, based in Tokyo, had been recovering under its chief executive, Carlos Ghosn, until it faltered last year...
New York Times - February 6, 2007
I.B.M. Details Its Chief Executive?s Pay
SAN FRANCISCO, Feb. 5 (Reuters) ? International Business Machines, whose stock rose 18 percent last year as it expanded in software, said on Monday that its chief executive, Samuel J. Palmisano, would be paid a $1.8 million salary in 2007 and stands to receive $5 million in incentive pay, the same as last year...
New York Times - February 6, 2007
Citing Slow Tourist Travel, Japan Airlines Reports Loss in Quarter
Japan Airlines reported a net loss of 10.8 billion yen in the latest quarter, partly because of soaring oil prices and a drop in ski travel...
New York Times - February 6, 2007
World Business Briefing | Americas: Consolidation in the Timber Industry
Brookfield Asset Management of Toronto said it would buy Longview Fibre, a specialty paper and packaging company, for $1.6 billion. Longview has a pulp and paper mill in Longview, Wash., and 15 corrugated-container plants, but its chief asset for Brookfield appears to be its 588,000 acres of woodlands in Washington and Oregon. They will join other timberlands owned by Brookfield, including 635,000 acres in British Columbia it bought from Weyerhaeuser in 2005. As part of the Longview deal, Brookfield will also assume about $550,000 in debt. Longview put itself up for sale in 2006 after rejecting a $1.33 billion bid from two private equity firms...
New York Times - February 6, 2007
Deals Galore, but Caution Rules Investors
Wall Street closed mixed yesterday as lingering concerns about the economy offset better-than-expected sales from Wal-Mart Stores and a flurry of acquisition activity...
New York Times - February 6, 2007
Former Westar Chief Given Two-Year Sentence for Bank Fraud
TOPEKA, Kan., Feb. 5 (AP) ? A federal judge on Monday sentenced the former chief executive of Westar Energy, David C. Wittig, to 24 months in prison for bank fraud, cutting his sentence by more than half...
New York Times - February 6, 2007
Forecast Is Cut by UnitedHealth
The UnitedHealth Group cut its 2007 revenue forecast yesterday after determining that membership in its full-service Medicare plans for older patients would probably decline ?modestly? this year...
New York Times - February 6, 2007
Chevron Will Split Chief and Chairman Jobs
Chevron Will Split Chief and Chairman Jobs...
New York Times - February 6, 2007
F.T.C. Reaffirms Rambus Antitrust Ruling
The Federal Trade Commission made final its ruling that the memory chip designer violated antitrust laws, imposing limits on the royalties the company can charge...
New York Times - February 6, 2007
Medicare Will Not Cover Nerve Device in Depression
Regulators who oversee Medicare said that they did not think it was reasonable to begin covering the implanted electrical stimulator to treat severe depression in patients who had failed with other therapies...
New York Times - February 6, 2007
State Examines Tea Drink Claim
HARTFORD, Feb. 5 (AP) ? The Connecticut attorney general, Richard Blumenthal, said on Monday that his office was investigating claims by Coca-Cola and Nestlé that a new drink can burn calories, saying it may amount to ?voodoo nutrition.?...
New York Times - February 6, 2007
Two Executives Are Leaving Janus Capital
Two Executives Are Leaving Janus Capital...
New York Times - February 6, 2007
Chief of PepsiCo to Get Chairman?s Post
PepsiCo said that its board had elected its chief executive, Indra K. Nooyi, to succeed Steven S. Reinemund as chairman when he retires in May...
New York Times - February 6, 2007
Fidelity to Pay Fine for Failure to Supervise Gifts to Traders
Fidelity Investments will pay $3.75 million in fines for supervisory failures, including allowing traders to accept gifts like Super Bowl tickets and chartered flights, NASD, the brokerage industry?s main regulator, said yesterday...
New York Times - February 6, 2007
Humana Profit More Than Doubles, Aided by Medicare Gains
Humana, the health insurer, said yesterday that profit more than doubled as enrollment increased in the company?s Medicare plans for older Americans...
New York Times - February 6, 2007
Nasdaq to Increase Fees to Listed Companies and Add Services
The Nasdaq Stock Market has won regulatory approval to increase fees and offer more services to the 3,200 companies listed on it...
New York Times - February 6, 2007
Simon Property Revisits a Deal It Abandoned
Simon Property Group, the nation?s largest mall operator, had always seemed like a logical buyer for its troubled rival, the Mills Corporation, and its portfolio of discount shopping and entertainment centers and traditional malls...
New York Times - February 6, 2007
Banks Appeal Ruling Allowing Enron Investors to Sue as Class
NEW ORLEANS, Feb. 5 (Bloomberg News) ? Two investment banks, Merrill Lynch and Credit Suisse, asked a federal appeals court yesterday to end a class-action lawsuit by Enron investors seeking $40 billion that they lost when the energy trader collapsed in 2001...
New York Times - February 6, 2007
Jail Record Near for Videographer Who Resisted Grand Jury
Josh Wolf, who refused to cooperate with a grand jury investigation, will become the longest incarcerated journalist in modern American history on Tuesday...
New York Times - February 6, 2007
Hospital Chain Accepts Buyout by a Partnership for $4.7 Billion
Triad Hospitals, under pressure from its biggest stockholder to raise its share price, agreed yesterday to be acquired by CCMP Capital Advisors and a Goldman Sachs unit for $4.7 billion...
New York Times - February 6, 2007
Settlement in Terror Scare Is $2 Million
The Turner Broadcasting System and a Manhattan marketing agency will pay $2 million in restitution and other costs for a Cartoon Network advertising campaign that set off fears of terrorism...
New York Times - February 6, 2007
Expansion in Services Sector Set Strong Pace in January
Weakness in manufacturing, especially the auto industry, may be damping economic prospects, but the bigger services sector appears to be more than making up for it...
New York Times - February 6, 2007
Frequent Flier: Yes, That?s a Head in My Baggage. Is There Some Sort of Problem?
If there?s a head in your luggage, you might want to allow yourself a few extra minutes at the security checkpoint...
New York Times - February 6, 2007
Microsoft Spurns Appeal to Intervene in Russian Piracy Case
Microsoft rebuffed a public appeal by Mikhail Gorbachev for its chairman, Bill Gates, to intervene on behalf of a Russian school principal charged with software piracy...
New York Times - February 6, 2007
Criminal Case Likely to Put All of Yukos in State Hands
New criminal charges against former leaders of the Yukos oil company are likely to strengthen the Kremlin?s control over the industry...
New York Times - February 6, 2007
New Charges in Russia Against Oil Executives
The new charges against Mikhail B. Khodorkovsky and one of his business partners include embezzlement and money laundering...
New York Times - February 6, 2007
Immigrant Entrepreneurs Shape a New Economy
Opportunity beckons as never before, as immigrants expand the tastes of mainstream America...
New York Times - February 6, 2007
Icahn Offers to Acquire Rest of Auto Parts Company
Carl C. Icahn. who recently spent $200 million to increase his stake in Lear to nearly 16 percent, has offered to acquire the entire company...
New York Times - February 6, 2007
Advertising: Thanks to the Web, the Scorekeeping on the Super Bowl Has Just Begun
Years ago, Super Bowl spots disappeared after the one or two times they were shown during the broadcast. Today, they have afterlives because of Web sites, blogs and video clips...
New York Times - February 6, 2007
Home Depot Proxy Fight Is Settled
The Home Depot has reached agreement with a shareholder group that had threatened a proxy fight over the company?s strategy...
New York Times - February 6, 2007
India Is Reveling in Being the Buyer
With the value of overseas bids by Indian companies soaring, some in India are growing intoxicated by the fantasy that it may one day own the world...
New York Times - February 6, 2007
When a Visa Becomes a Headache
Travelers from emerging economies like India, China and Latin America are required to have visas to come to the U.S., and many complain that the process deters them from traveling here...
New York Times - February 6, 2007
On the Road: Virtual Hostages on a Plane
The travails of passengers on a stranded flight showed how strained the system is at times when unpredictable factors like bad weather bring extra stress...
New York Times - February 6, 2007
S.E.C. Is Looking at Stock Trading
An investigation has begun into whether Wall Street bank employees are leaking information about big trades to favored clients...
New York Times - February 6, 2007
Wal-Mart and Studios in Film Deal
Wal-Mart will introduce a partnership with all of the six major Hollywood studios ? to sell digital movies and television shows on its Web site...
New York Times - February 6, 2007
After Long Dispute, Two Apples Work It Out
Apple Inc., the maker of the iPod, and Apple Corps, the guardian of the Beatles? music interests, have settled their trademark fight over their shared name...
New York Times - February 6, 2007
A New Boss at NBC, and Even Newer Issues
When Jeff Zucker is named the new head of NBC Universal, he will have completed a spectacular ascent from part-time sports researcher to corporate C.E.O...
New York Times - February 6, 2007
US 'friendly fire' video unearthed
A video said to show US planes firing on UK soldiers in Iraq is obtained by a British newspaper...
BBC News - February 6, 2007
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