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Madonna, Ritchie to begin divorce in London Friday
Southern Ledger - November 20, 2008
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Invasive mussel confirmed in Utahs Electric Lake
Southern Ledger - November 20, 2008
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Microsoft lets Zune music subscribers keep tunes
Southern Ledger - November 20, 2008
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Ben Affleck tours refugee camps in eastern Congo
Southern Ledger - November 20, 2008
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Palestinian leader appeals to Israelis in peace ad
Southern Ledger - November 20, 2008
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Children dying in Haiti, victims of food crisis
Southern Ledger - November 20, 2008
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Ethnic Turk wins political prominence in Germany
Southern Ledger - November 20, 2008
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Salvador archbishop nixes probe of killed Jesuits
Southern Ledger - November 20, 2008
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Warsaw marks borders of former ghetto
Southern Ledger - November 20, 2008
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US News Archive for April 2008:
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E-Commerce Report: Online Fantasy and Real Money in Fishing
A popular online fantasy fishing is really a marketing tool for a boat maker...
New York Times - April 6, 2008
Low-Fare Airline Files for Bankruptcy
Skybus Airlines, a low-fare carrier that started operations less than a year ago, filed for bankruptcy after stopping service...
New York Times - April 6, 2008
Looking Ahead: The Week?s Major Economic Reports
SIGNALS ON THE ECONOMY The main economic news of the week will come on Tuesday with the release of the minutes of the Federal Reserve meeting on March 18...
New York Times - April 6, 2008
Treasury Auctions Set for This Week
The Treasury?s schedule of financing this week included Monday?s regular weekly auction of new three- and six-month bills, and other auctions Tuesday and Thursday...
New York Times - April 6, 2008
A Comprehensive PBS Documentary on the Iraq War Becomes a Big Hit Online
?Bush?s War,? a ?Frontline? documentary produced for the fifth anniversary of the United States? invasion of Iraq, has been viewed online by a record number of viewers...
New York Times - April 6, 2008
Live at the Multiplex: A Movie Ad
A division of Sony Pictures has relied on stunts to help sell its movies, taking the unusual step of asking multiplex employees for help to promote an upcoming horror movie...
New York Times - April 6, 2008
High-Tech Crime Is an Online Bubble That Hasn?t Burst
Electronic crime is maturing, and with its evolution, criminals are adopting conventional approaches like supermarket-style pricing and outsourcing to specialists...
New York Times - April 6, 2008
Where ?Idol?s? Charitable Arm Reaches
Officials at the nine charities that received money from the ?Idol Gives Back? charity last year said they were pleased with the program?s efforts...
New York Times - April 6, 2008
Drilling Down: Limbaugh?s Following Extends to Ads
A study found that Rush Limbaugh?s share of radio listeners was greatest during commercials, beating his share during on-air segments...
New York Times - April 6, 2008
Rifts in Family and Companies Hang Over Redstone?s Legacy
Sumner M. Redstone, the media mogul, has left a trail of tattered relationships with family members and executives, leaving open the question of who will succeed him...
New York Times - April 6, 2008
Yahoo Reveals Some Details of Its New Ad Sales System
Yahoo?s system, still months away from being ready, would help the company and its partners drive sales of graphical and other premium ads...
New York Times - April 6, 2008
Scrabble Tries to Fight a Popular Impostor at Its Own Game
RealNetworks is quietly introducing a version of Scrabble on Facebook, despite pledging to save Scrabulous, the popular, unauthorized online version of the board game...
New York Times - April 6, 2008
Personal Touch of ABC Executive Gets the Scoop
The network landed an interview with Gen. David H. Petraeus, the United States commander in Iraq, through a pitch by David Westin, the president of ABC News...
New York Times - April 6, 2008
DirecTV Deal Will Subsidize ?Friday Night Lights?
Television executives say this model, whereby a subscription television service gets rights to broadcast a show first, could help keep other sentimental favorites on the air...
New York Times - April 6, 2008
The Book Is Real Enough. It?s the Author That?s Fake.
A book written ?by? a character on the soap opera ?All My Children? has become a bestseller...
New York Times - April 6, 2008
Tough Guy in a Mean Business
Sam Zell, the owner of the Tribune Company, faces difficult choices ahead, as his company struggles under $12.8 billion in debt and looks at a very real risk of credit default...
New York Times - April 6, 2008
Amazon Accelerates Its Move to Digital
With the number 1 source of music sales now an online downloading service, Amazon.com looks at the development of its digital offerings with a sense of urgency...
New York Times - April 6, 2008
Campaign Memo: Up Close, Montana Compares Clinton and Obama
In addressing the same audiences, Senators Hillary Rodham Clinton and Barack Obama showed differences, mainly in their tone and style...
New York Times - April 6, 2008
Ruling Party Seeks Recount in Zimbabwe
The opposition and President Robert Mugabe?s party are jockeying for political position as the country waits with consternation for results...
New York Times - April 6, 2008
Olympic Torch Draws Protests and Clashes in London
Protesters objecting to China?s human rights record clashed with the British police as the Olympic torch was carried through London...
New York Times - April 6, 2008
New Jersey G.O.P. Fails to Lure Senate Candidate
John F. Crowley, a biotechnology executive from Princeton, N.J., announced that he would not enter the New Jersey Republican primary for United States Senate...
New York Times - April 6, 2008
Iraqi Forces Clash With Militia in Baghdad
Intense fighting broke out in Sadr City as American and Iraqi troops moved to push out Shiite fighters...
New York Times - April 6, 2008
Bush and Putin, at Last Meeting, Agree to Disagree
Meeting for the last time as presidents, Vladimir V. Putin and President Bush again failed to come to agreement on American missile defenses in Europe...
New York Times - April 6, 2008
Chief Strategist of Clinton Campaign Steps Down
Mark Penn has agreed to step aside as chief strategist of Senator Hillary Rodham Clinton?s campaign in the wake of revelations that he lobbied on behalf of a trade treaty with Colombia...
New York Times - April 6, 2008
The World: Imagining a Future for Zimbabwe
Whenever President Robert Mugabe does leave, his legacy will be a lot of damage to fix...
New York Times - April 6, 2008
Single Mothers in China Forge a Difficult Path
China?s single mothers are often marked as social outcasts in a country that still strictly controls population growth and limits the rights of their children...
New York Times - April 6, 2008
Golf: Azinger reopens Faldo row
US Ryder Cup captain Paul Azinger launches an attack on European skipper Nick Faldo...
BBC News - April 6, 2008
French demand Betancourt release
Marches are held in France to call for the release of French-Colombian Farc hostage Ingrid Betancourt...
BBC News - April 6, 2008
Microsoft gives Yahoo deadline
Microsoft gives Yahoo a three-week deadline to respond to its offer to buy out the internet company...
BBC News - April 6, 2008
Suicide Blast Kills Sri Lankan Minister and 11 Others
A suspected Tamil Tiger suicide bomber killed Sri Lanka's highways minister and at least 11 others on Sunday in a powerful blast near the capital, the government said...
New York Times - April 6, 2008
Bush and Putin Remain Apart on Missile Defense
President Bush and President Vladimir V. Putin of Russia declared that their two countries would seek to cooperate on on a variety of other security and economic issues...
New York Times - April 6, 2008
Tennis: Serena in fifth Miami win
Defending champion Serena Williams beats Jelena Jankovic to win the Sony Ericsson Open for the fifth time...
BBC News - April 6, 2008
Colombia informant paid $2.7m
Colombia pays $2.7m to an informant who helped in a raid on a Farc base in neighbouring Ecuador...
BBC News - April 6, 2008
Hollywood star Charlton Heston dies
Charlton Heston, who won a best actor Oscar for his performance in the Hollywood epic Ben-Hur, dies aged 84...
BBC News - April 6, 2008
Square Feet | Blueprints: Audubon?s New Home Brings the Outdoors In
The New York headquarters of the Audubon includes energy-saving and recycled products intended to have the least impact on habitats the society seeks to protect...
New York Times - April 6, 2008
Square Feet: How ?Green? Can a Huge House Be?
Windermere on the Lake promises to be very lavish and, believe it or not, very green ? as in energy-saving and preservation minded...
New York Times - April 6, 2008
A Strong Start to the Second Quarter
The stock market rose last week in its biggest weekly gain in two months...
New York Times - April 6, 2008
Fair Game: A Road Not Taken by Lenders
While borrowers may have misrepresented their incomes, lenders had the tools to identify these fibs before making the loans...
New York Times - April 6, 2008
Preoccupations: Women, Repeat This: Don?t Ask, Don?t Get
Time and again, I saw women accept the status quo, take what they were offered and wait for someone else to decide what they deserved...
New York Times - April 6, 2008
Career Couch: Your True Calling Could Suit a Nonprofit
It?s important to analyze why you are drawn to nonprofit work as a career, rather than as a volunteer...
New York Times - April 6, 2008
The Boss: Meditations on a Cure
It?s tricky to build an organization that is sympathetic to customers and also make a profit. But if you do a good job for people, they are willing to pay...
New York Times - April 6, 2008
Ideas & Trends: How to Turn a Herd on Wall St.
Experts see psychological factors in making bulls out of a lot of sheepish bears...
New York Times - April 6, 2008
Off the Shelf: So What if $1 Million Isn?t What It Used to Be?
One million dollars is a nice round number to aim for as you plan for retirement, and is the focus of two new books...
New York Times - April 6, 2008
Off the Shelf: When the Splurge Takes Its Toll
On the way up, financial toxic waste was sold as ?a new paradigm.? Now, on the long way down, the response is ?Help, the sky is falling!?...
New York Times - April 6, 2008
In the Boardroom, Every Back Gets Scratched
According to the Congressional Research Service, average pay for chief executives stood at 179 times average worker pay in 2005, up from a multiple of 90 in 1994...
New York Times - April 6, 2008
Say on Pay: A Whisper or a Shout for Shareholders?
Two years ago, Boston Common Asset Management asked Aflac to give investors a chance to weigh in on top management?s compensation...
New York Times - April 6, 2008
Digital Domain: Online Commercials: Now That?s a Hard Sell
The television industry is moving online and mounting its most ambitious attempt to date to restore mandatory viewing of commercials...
New York Times - April 6, 2008
Strategies: Picking the Forest or the Trees
The ability to find top-performing industries is a crucial factor in determining mutual funds that are likely to perform best in the future...
New York Times - April 6, 2008
Postal Service Again Vexes Penny Pinchers
A penny shouldn?t matter that much. But when the price of a first-class postage stamp goes up that much, as it will on May 12, it is common to feel a gust of outrage...
New York Times - April 6, 2008
Travel Bug: Open Skies, Better Deals (for Now)
The first phase of the open-skies agreement took effect a week ago, and its initial effect seems to be simple: cheaper fares...
New York Times - April 6, 2008
Metrics: In the Shadow of Foreclosures
In the subprime mortgage squeeze, some regions are feeling the pain more acutely than others...
New York Times - April 6, 2008
Economic View: The Fed Gets a New Job Description
The Treasury?s plan to overhaul the financial system includes the proposal to transform the Fed into a ?market stability regulator.?...
New York Times - April 6, 2008
Unboxed: Let Computers Compute. It?s the Age of the Right Brain.
Now that we?re hip-deep in what has been called both the ?Creative Economy? and the ?Conceptual Age,? no one can afford to ignore the right hemisphere of the brain...
New York Times - April 6, 2008
The Mortgage Bust Goes Global
The consequences of millions of foreclosures across the U.S. are also being felt far overseas...
New York Times - April 6, 2008
Life and Death at the Opening Bell
When leaders of a health care business and a coffin maker rang the opening bell at the NYSE last week, traders may have wondered if it was an April Fool?s prank...
New York Times - April 6, 2008
Microsoft Sets Deadline for Yahoo to Make Deal
If a merger deal is not completed in the next three weeks, Microsoft warned, it will make its offer directly to Yahoo shareholders...
New York Times - April 6, 2008
Executive Pay: A Special Report: A Brighter Spotlight, Yet the Pay Rises
This was supposed to be the year of shareholder victory on the executive compensation front, but true links between pay and performance remain scarce...
New York Times - April 6, 2008
Kansas 84, North Carolina 66: Kansas Pulls Away Twice Before Advancing to Final
In a surprising showdown with unusual ebb and flow, Kansas defeated North Carolina. The Jayhawks will play the title game Monday night against Memphis...
New York Times - April 6, 2008
Memphis 78, U.C.L.A. 63: Moving Fast and Flying High, Memphis Races Into Title Game
In Memphis?s drive to win its first national title in basketball, point guard Derrick Rose was in the driver?s seat, finishing with 25 points against U.C.L.A...
New York Times - April 6, 2008
Rival Resists Zimbabwe Runoff, Saying He Won
According to news reports, President Robert Mugabe?s party, referring to ?errors? in the tally, had asked for a recount in the election...
New York Times - April 6, 2008
Congressional Memo: Tricky Task of Offering Aid to Homeowners
Policy makers want any rescue effort to be flexible enough that if prices rebound, the government can recoup its costs...
New York Times - April 6, 2008
In Web World of 24/7 Stress, Writers Blog Till They Drop
Some professional bloggers complain of physical and emotional strain created by an Internet economy that demands a constant stream of news and comment...
New York Times - April 6, 2008
Additional Children Removed at Polygamist Ranch in Texas
A total of 137 children have so far been removed from the compound, as a confrontation appeared to be developing over law enforcement access to parts of the facility...
New York Times - April 6, 2008
Sri Lankan Official and 11 Others Killed in Bombing
A suicide bomber attacked the opening ceremony of a marathon outside Sri Lanka?s capital, killing a government minister and 11 other people, authorities said...
New York Times - April 6, 2008
Army Worried by Rising Stress of Return Tours to Iraq
Army leaders are expressing increased alarm about the mental health of soldiers who would be sent on multiple deployments to Iraq under current plans...
New York Times - April 6, 2008
McCain Is Vocal on War, but Silent on Son?s Service
Senator John McCain has staked his candidacy on the promise that U.S. troops can stabilize Iraq. What he almost never says is that one of them is his own son...
New York Times - April 6, 2008
Drug Makers Near an Old Goal: A Legal Shield
The Supreme Court appears to be on the verge of endorsing a doctrine that the F.D.A. should not be second-guessed by courts...
New York Times - April 6, 2008
Charlton Heston, Epic Film Star and N.R.A. Leader, Dies at 83
Mr. Heston appeared in some 100 films in his 60-year acting career, but he is remembered chiefly for his monumental, jut-jawed portrayals of Moses, Ben-Hur and Michelangelo...
New York Times - April 6, 2008
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