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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 September 2005:
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E. Coli bacteria 'found in waters'
Many residents are refusing to leave New Orleans despite a mandatory evacuation and warnings from government officials that staying in the flooded city represents a health risk...
CNN - September 6, 2005
Chief justice mourned
His former colleagues, federal officials and members of the public paid their respects to Chief Justice William H. Rehnquist during the first of two days of somber ceremony honoring the nation's 16th chief justice...
CNN - September 6, 2005
Police Vow to Get Remaining Residents Out of New Orleans
As a handful of pumps toiled to drain the water out of New Orleans, the police said they would force the 10,000 or so residents left in the city to leave...
New York Times - September 6, 2005
Bush and Congress Announce Inquiries on Federal Response
The announcements were made as Congress reconvened with predictions that federal spending on relief would be astronomical...
New York Times - September 6, 2005
With Sales Sagging, Volkswagen Gets a New Ad Agency
In a surprise switch of automotive advertising assignments, the troubled car company Volkswagen of America today dismissed its creative agency of more than a decade...
New York Times - September 6, 2005
U.S. Plans More Indictments in KPMG Tax Case
At least 12 more people could be indicted in the government's investigation of questionable tax shelters sold by the accounting firm KPMG...
New York Times - September 6, 2005
Lawmakers Want Government to Hold Down Gas Prices
Even as oil and gasoline prices dipped today, lawmakers and consumers increased their calls for a host of government interventions to punish "profiteers," reduce taxes and institute price caps...
New York Times - September 6, 2005
Asia Adjusting Energy Policies in Move to Curb Demand
The moves to overhaul energy policies by governments across Asia could curb demand and help bring down global gasoline and diesel prices in the months ahead...
New York Times - September 6, 2005
Iraq oil probe urges UN overhaul
The UN needs major reform to prevent corruption, says a report into the Iraq's oil-for-food programme...
BBC News - September 6, 2005
New Orleans braces for the worst
Crews work to drain the putrid floodwaters out of New Orleans as authorities warn of the horrors still submerged in the city...
CNN - September 6, 2005
Hearing to begin Monday
The Senate will begin confirmation hearings Monday for John Roberts to be Supreme Court chief justice, one week after President Bush selected him to replace the late William H. Rehnquist as the 17th leader of the nation's highest court, officials said Tuesday...
CNN - September 6, 2005
'It's going to be awful'
As crews work to drain the foul floodwaters of New Orleans, authorities warn of the horrors still submerged in the city. "It's going to be awful, and it's going to wake the nation up again," the mayor of New Orleans said...
CNN - September 6, 2005
Roberts Hearing Set for Monday; Rehnquist's Casket Lies in Court
Senators on the Judiciary committee will question Judge John G. Roberts Jr. on Tuesday after a day of opening statements...
New York Times - September 6, 2005
Oil and Gasoline Prices Decline but Remain Relatively High
Oil and gasoline prices were down slightly today and appeared to be stabilizing as it became clear that some refineries may be out of service for weeks or months...
New York Times - September 6, 2005
Colombia captive's body returned
Colombian ELN rebels return the body of a kidnapped ex-state governor who died in captivity, says the Red Cross...
BBC News - September 6, 2005
Tennis: Venus ready for Clijsters
Venus Williams and Kim Clijsters meet in the quarter-final stage at the US Open on Tuesday...
BBC News - September 6, 2005
Chavez plan for cheap oil
Venezuela's Hugo Chavez is meeting officials from 13 Caribbean nations to agree terms for supplying them with cheap oil...
BBC News - September 6, 2005
Small signs of progress
Even as rooftop rescues continue and the grim task of collecting the dead begins in earnest, small signs of progress are being seen in flood-ravaged New Orleans...
CNN - September 6, 2005
Levee patched, streets secure
As rooftop rescues continue and the grim task of collecting the dead begins in earnest, small signs of progress are being seen in flood-ravaged New Orleans. Officials say repair crews have patched a ruptured levee and have begun pumping out water...
CNN - September 6, 2005
Candle sparks stage fire; 31 dead
A deadly fire that killed 31 people in an Egyptian theater began when an actor knocked over a candle on a stage set filled with billowing paper, sending panicked actors and audience members surging toward the one exit door...
CNN - September 6, 2005
A Hospital Takes in the Tiniest of Survivors
BATON ROUGE, La., Sept. 5 - Jazmyn Anderson yawned and flexed her tiny, rail-thin arms. Weighing 1 pound 41/2 ounces, she is one of the tiniest and frailest of Hurricane Katrina's survivors, airlifted here to Woman's Hospital of Baton Rouge last week from a New Orleans hospital as part of a chaotic evacuation of newborns...
New York Times - September 6, 2005
Refineries return after Katrina
US oil refineries are trickling back on-stream after the onslaught of Hurricane Katrina, but some could remain offline for months...
BBC News - September 6, 2005
Violence rages in Iraq hotspots
Violence in several Iraqi hotspots Monday claimed more coalition and insurgent deaths in pitched battles and ambushes up and down the war-torn country. The violence took place as Iraq continued planning for next month's constitutional referendum...
CNN - September 6, 2005
Repairs crew fix levee
Repair crews have patched the ruptured levee along the 17th Street Canal and have begun pumping water from New Orleans, the U.S. Army Corps of Engineers said Monday...
CNN - September 6, 2005
Bush Makes Return Visit; Two Levees Secured
President Bush returned to the Gulf Coast, and Army engineers resealed two levees that had been breached and cautiously began pumping water out of New Orleans...
New York Times - September 6, 2005
A Court Choice Well Schooled in Chief Justice Job's Pitfalls
As a Supreme Court law clerk to William H. Rehnquist decades ago, John G. Roberts Jr. learned how not to be chief justice...
New York Times - September 6, 2005
In Small Town, Huge Morgue Takes Shape
Refrigerated trucks began the task of bringing what is expected to be thousands of bodies to the temporary mortuary set up in Saint Gabriel, La...
New York Times - September 6, 2005
Double Trap for Foreign Workers
For many noncitizens trapped by the storm, the anxiety is especially acute because they worry that they will jeopardize their legal status if they try to leave...
New York Times - September 6, 2005
Residents of a Parish Encountering Lost Dreams
Residents of Jefferson Parish took slow steps toward recovery as they returned home for the first time since Hurricane Katrina hit...
New York Times - September 6, 2005
UBS Sells 3 Private Banks to Another Unit to a Rival
Switzerland's largest bank announced that it had sold its three private banks and its asset management unit to Julius Baer for $4.6 billion...
New York Times - September 6, 2005
Europe and China in Accord Over End to a Textile Dispute
China and the European Union agreed on Monday to end their dispute over Chinese-made clothes marooned on European docks, as both sides sought to stress broader cooperation...
New York Times - September 6, 2005
Storm Puts BellSouth's Adaptability to the Test
BellSouth needs to solve a complex puzzle before it can fully restore phone service to the 1.1 million people in the Gulf Coast region who are without it...
New York Times - September 6, 2005
KFC Spends Big to Market Chicken Dipped in Sauce
The KFC Corporation is looking to set itself apart from burger-chain rivals encroaching on its turf with a major marketing campaign - its biggest ever...
New York Times - September 6, 2005
Stocks Are Broadly Higher in Markets Abroad
Stocks rose broadly in European markets on Monday, as crude oil fell to the lowest level since Hurricane Katrina struck the U.S. Gulf Coast...
New York Times - September 6, 2005
The Fall Travel Forecast: Bad to Maybe Worse
With airlines on the brink of bankruptcy, surging car rental and hotel prices, plus lingering terrorism fears, the fall of 2005 could make the fall of 2001 seem benign by comparison...
New York Times - September 6, 2005
Business Aviation Show Moved
BUSINESS AVIATION SHOW MOVED The National Business Aviation Association's annual convention and trade show, which had been scheduled for New Orleans for mid-November, has been relocated to Orlando, Fla., for Nov. 9-13. Last year, the corporate aviation trade show, held in Las Vegas, drew more than 31,000 participants, a record. Orlando was able to accommodate the relocated convention on short notice at the Orange County Convention Center; corporate aircraft will be displayed at nearby Orlando Executive Airport...
New York Times - September 6, 2005
Her Hometown Destroyed, a Traveler Turns to a Blog
A seasoned business traveler from New Orleans hopes to be able to return home soon...
New York Times - September 6, 2005
Citigroup to Sell Bonds to Raise Money in Japan
Citigroup said that it planned to sell $2.1 billion of "samurai bonds" to Japanese investors, the largest effort by a foreign company to raise capital in Japan...
New York Times - September 6, 2005
Chiron Rebuffs Bid by Novartis, Arousing Talk of a Higher Offer
Chiron, a biotechnology company hobbled by problems producing flu vaccine, has rejected as inadequate a takeover offer made by its largest shareholder, Novartis...
New York Times - September 6, 2005
Thrown Off Schedule
Although most business travelers insist that Hurricane Katrina has not induced them to call off trips to hurricane-prone regions, they confess to having second thoughts about subsequent visits...
New York Times - September 6, 2005
Fidelity to Split U.K. Mutual Fund
Fidelity International said Monday that it would split its British Fidelity Special Situations Fund into two separate funds in the first half of 2006...
New York Times - September 6, 2005
Utility Crews Help Turn Lights Back On in Parts of the Gulf Region
JACKSON, Miss., Sept. 5 - Randall W. Helmick, the man whose job it is to get the lights back on in New Orleans and many other parts of Louisiana and southern Mississippi, had finally reached his limit...
New York Times - September 6, 2005
Hedge Fund Managers Tried to Get Into Movie Business
As state and federal authorities pore through documents for Bayou Management, the hedge fund sued by the United States government last week for defrauding investors of at least $300 million, a separate trail indicates that its top managers, operating out of the Bayou offices, were trying to get into the movie business...
New York Times - September 6, 2005
Accounts
Accounts...
New York Times - September 6, 2005
Filling a Desperate Need for Shelter Begins With Cruise Ships and Proposals
Phase 1 of the government's plan to provide desperately needed transitional housing for tens of thousands of hurricane evacuees is scheduled to begin this morning, when homeless elderly people from various Texas locations board 30 buses destined for two Carnival cruise ships in Galveston, Tex...
New York Times - September 6, 2005
Crawfish Étouffée Goes Into Exile
The people who ran many of the best-known restaurants in the U.S. are struggling to find out what is left of the New Orleans restaurant scene in the aftermath of Hurricane Katrina...
New York Times - September 6, 2005
Rhythms of Commerce Still Pulse
Like the hundreds of thousands of refugees who have scattered to temporary homes throughout the South, businesses are also part of the diaspora...
New York Times - September 6, 2005
Volkswagen Will Cut Jobs in Germany
Europe's largest carmaker did not disclose how many jobs would be affected, though analysts and news reports put the figure at 10,000...
New York Times - September 6, 2005
It Won't Be Cheap, but Gas Is to Be Had
Most travelers managed to avoid serious gasoline supply disruptions over the holiday weekend, but analysts warned that fuel prices were likely to remain high...
New York Times - September 6, 2005
When Auditors Go Astray, What Director Dares Say So?
The deferred prosecution of KPMG highlights the current reality that the private enterprise system needs at least four major accounting firms...
New York Times - September 6, 2005
Germany Restricts Some Foreign Sales
Germany said that it would extend controls on the sale to foreign investors of companies that make military equipment, which could block the sale of DaimlerChrysler's diesel unit...
New York Times - September 6, 2005
Carnival Forecasts Profit Cut From Katrina
MIAMI, Sept. 5 (AP) - Carnival said Monday that cruise cancellations, the chartering of three ships for Hurricane Katrina relief efforts and other costs related to the catastrophic storm should cut earnings by a penny, to 3 cents a share, with most of the impact in the fourth quarter...
New York Times - September 6, 2005
Australian Court Rules Kazaa Has Violated Copyrights
An Australian court ruled on Monday that the file-sharing network Kazaa violated music copyrights and ordered the company to modify its software to help prevent it...
New York Times - September 6, 2005
Houston Finds Business Boon After Katrina
Perhaps no city in the U.S. is in a better spot than Houston to turn Katrina's tragedy into opportunity. And businesses there are already scrambling to profit...
New York Times - September 6, 2005
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