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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 July 2007:
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Evangelicals See Dilemmas in G.O.P. Field
The calculus for social conservative voters is replete with tradeoffs over who best adheres to their values and who is ultimately electable...
New York Times - July 7, 2007
For Libby, Bush Seemed to Alter His Texas Policy
As governor, President Bush applied a consistent, narrow standard when issuing pardons and commutations...
New York Times - July 7, 2007
For Elderly Investors, Instant Experts Abound
Financial advisers with little training give counsel they are unqualified to offer, advocates for the elderly say...
New York Times - July 7, 2007
Wealthy Stake $25 Million in a War With the Sea
It remains to be seen whether even endless expenditures can hold back the steady erosion of Nantucket island...
New York Times - July 7, 2007
U.S. Aborted Raid on Qaeda Chiefs in Pakistan in ?05
Some top intelligence officials say the U.S. missed a significant opportunity to try to capture senior members of Al Qaeda...
New York Times - July 7, 2007
The Boss: Triumphs of Good Timing
?One thing I?ve really been conscious of is keeping Olympus?s operations as green as possible.?...
New York Times - July 7, 2007
Fresh Starts: Technology?s Untanglers: They Make It Really Work
The work of usability professionals, who bridge the gap between the makers and users of a product, has recently developed into a solid career track...
New York Times - July 7, 2007
Homefront: Where Disabilities Aren?t Allowed to Win
A 72-year-old nonprofit organization in Manhattan runs job training and employment programs for people with disabilities or mental illness...
New York Times - July 7, 2007
[TS] Fair Game: A Board That Knows Two Words: No Sale
It is the kind of takeover bid that shareholders dream of, with a suitor offering a healthy premium. So why is the target?s board dead set against it?...
New York Times - July 7, 2007
Data Bank: Hotel Acquisition Sets the Pace for a Strong Rally
The stock market surged during abbreviated trading last week, propelled by the wave of mergers and acquisitions that has buoyed it for months...
New York Times - July 7, 2007
Suits: Meltdown Didn?t Hurt His Golf Game
The chief executive of a Bear Stearns hedge fund maintained his golf habit through the weeks when his firm was struggling to keep one of its funds afloat...
New York Times - July 7, 2007
The Count: Where Help Is Wanted, Almost Desperately
Idaho, Montana and Hawaii are among the states with the very lowest unemployment in the nation...
New York Times - July 7, 2007
Off The Shelf: In Africa, One Step Forward and Two Back
Although globalization has transformed Asia, decades of assisted development have not produced sustained prosperity in Africa...
New York Times - July 7, 2007
Square Feet | Checking In: For Chelsea, a Morning of New Hotels
In the midst of New York?s hot hotel market, developers are betting that Chelsea is ready to become a lodging destination...
New York Times - July 7, 2007
National Perspectives: Battling to Keep the Country in the Texas Hill Country
With its rolling hills, lakes and rivers, a rural retreat is attracting more and more buyers eager to escape city life...
New York Times - July 7, 2007
The World: In Fear and Scandal, Some Find a New Drum to Beat
There was a time the words ?Made in China? immediately evoked ?shoddy.? Lately, many Americans are thinking ?danger.?...
New York Times - July 7, 2007
The World: Can China Reform Itself?
After food and safety scandals, the country needs to go through its own version of the Progressive Era...
New York Times - July 7, 2007
Fundamentally: Why the Yield Curve Is Pointing to Cash
Now that bond yields are starting to rise and stocks are generating double-digit returns, it is easy to overlook the value of cash as an investment...
New York Times - July 7, 2007
Market Week: Shopping and Not Dropping
Economic growth has been easing, but consumers keep spending with ease ? as long as homes aren?t on their shopping lists...
New York Times - July 7, 2007
Novelties: What Would Betsy Ross Think?
A new crop of sophisticated sewing-embroidery machines for home sewers can create a complicated pattern in moments...
New York Times - July 7, 2007
The Goods: I Shot the Polo Shirt
A Kentucky company offers shirts that are unquestionably distressed, having been blasted with shotguns and pistols...
New York Times - July 7, 2007
Economic View: Haves and Have-Nots of Globalization
While individual Americans debate the merits of globalization, corporate America has already moved overseas, with dramatic financial results...
New York Times - July 7, 2007
Do Business and Islam Mix? Ask Him
Aiming to present a less threatening face of Islam on the global stage, the Aga Khan, one of the world?s wealthiest Muslim investors, preaches the ethical use of wealth...
New York Times - July 7, 2007
Media Frenzy: All Shook Up, Right Down to the Musical Core
News that the Universal Music Group would no longer guarantee Apple access to its coming releases could shake up the digital music business...
New York Times - July 7, 2007
Slipstream: An Age-Defying Quest (Red Wine Included)
A pharmaceutical company wants to create a pill that treats the most feared and debilitating diseases with no side effects except an increase in life span...
New York Times - July 7, 2007
The Kremlin Flexes, and a Tycoon Reels
The end of a partnership in the world?s largest nickel producer illuminates how the Kremlin and ambitious Russian businessmen do business together...
New York Times - July 7, 2007
Argentine minister in cash probe
Argentina's economy minister admits storing thousands of dollars in her office bathroom, amid a judicial inquiry...
BBC News - July 7, 2007
Pope Eases Curbs on Celebrating the Latin Mass
VATICAN CITY, July 7 (AP) ? Pope Benedict XVI removed restrictions on Saturday on celebrating the old form of the Latin Mass in a concession to traditional Catholics, but he emphasized that he was in no way rolling back the changes of the Second Vatican Council...
New York Times - July 7, 2007
Tribal Chief Says NATO Airstrike Kills 108 Afghan Civilians
KABUL, Afghanistan, July 7 ? Amid a continuing flurry of reports about civilian casualties in Afghanistan, the leader of a tribal council in Farah Province on Saturday said that 108 noncombatants were killed on Friday in a NATO airstrike...
New York Times - July 7, 2007
Temperature Records Fall Across the West
A high-pressure system brought highs of over 110 to parts of the Southwest, leading to hundreds of fires...
New York Times - July 7, 2007
Summer Rituals | Endangered Bonackers: Fishing Fades Where All That Glitters Is Sea
Government restrictions, imported fish and summer residents threaten a tradition in the Hamptons...
New York Times - July 7, 2007
For Venus Williams, From No. 23 to a Title
Having entered Wimbledon as the 23rd seed after a couple of injury-plagued seasons, Venus Williams became the lowest seed to win the women?s title...
New York Times - July 7, 2007
British Identify Two ?Principal Protagonists? in Thwarted Attacks
The two principal suspects are almost certainly the two men arrested after crashing their Jeep into the Glasgow airport...
New York Times - July 7, 2007
Bombers Kill Dozens North of Baghdad
In the worst blast, a truck loaded with explosives demolished dozens of houses and shops in a village of poor Shiite Turkmen...
New York Times - July 7, 2007
Sensing a Shift, Reid Will Press for an Iraq Exit
Senator Harry Reid and the Democrats are increasingly confident they can assemble majority opposition to administration policies...
New York Times - July 7, 2007
Youth Groups Created by Kremlin Serve Putin?s Cause
A youth movement seeks the ideological cultivation, some say indoctrination, of the first generation to come of age in post-Soviet Russia...
New York Times - July 7, 2007
Faith Intertwines With Political Life for Clinton
Senator Hillary Rodham Clinton has increasingly been alluding to her spiritual life, but she has come under attack for it...
New York Times - July 7, 2007
Summer Rituals | Endangered Bonackers: Where All That Glitters Is Sea, Fishing Life Fades
In the Hamptons, government restrictions, imported fish and the influx of summer residents threaten a tradition...
New York Times - July 7, 2007
Heat Breaks Temperature Records in the West
A high-pressure system brought temperatures of over 110 to parts of the Southwest, leading to hundreds of wildfires...
New York Times - July 7, 2007
Rain Aside, It?s Clear Skies
Wimbledon is no longer a pigeon?s paradise thanks to Wayne Davis and his flock of Peregrine falcons...
New York Times - July 7, 2007
For Clinton, Faith Intertwines With Political Life
Hillary Rodham Clinton has increasingly been alluding to her spiritual life, but she has come under attack for it...
New York Times - July 7, 2007
Challenge to Secret Wiretaps Is Dismissed
A federal appeals court panel ruled that a lawsuit?s plaintiffs could not show injury from a National Security Agency program...
New York Times - July 7, 2007
Five Years, Two Owners and a Town Still in Limbo
The 29 residents of Bridgeville are sour on the idea of selling their town on eBay...
New York Times - July 7, 2007
Lois Wyse, Ad Wordsmith and Prolific Author, Dies at 80
Ms. Wyse authored more than 65 books and coined the slogan, ?With a name like Smucker?s, it has to be good.?...
New York Times - July 7, 2007
Today in Business
ALCOA QUESTIONED ON ALCAN BID Alcoa said that United States antitrust regulators had asked for more information about its $27.8 billion hostile takeover bid for a Canadian competitor, Alcan. Alcoa said it would comply with the request from the Department of Justice ?as soon as possible,? without saying what details it would provide. Alcoa reiterated that it intended to complete the takeover this year. The offer expires Tuesday and can be extended. Alcan has urged shareholders to reject Alcoa?s bid, saying it is too low. (BLOOMBERG NEWS)...
New York Times - July 7, 2007
BP Freezes Payout to Two Ex-Executives Till Suit Ends
The oil company BP agreed to freeze millions of dollars in payments to its former chief executive, John Browne, and its departing global refining chief, John Manzoni...
New York Times - July 7, 2007
Omega Fund to Settle U.S. Bribery Inquiry
Omega Advisers, the $6 billion hedge fund, will pay $500,000 to resolve an investigation into its investment of more than $100 million in Azerbaijan...
New York Times - July 7, 2007
Market Values: Some Experts at Timing Go for Cash
The Blackstone Group seems to have picked the right property to sell ? itself ? at the ideal time...
New York Times - July 7, 2007
Chicago Mercantile Raises Offer, Again
The parent of the Chicago Mercantile Exchange has raised its offer to buy the Chicago Board of Trade for the third time...
New York Times - July 7, 2007
What's Online: What?s Lacking in ?Sicko?
The argument that the cure to the nation?s health care problems is a single-payer system is worth consideration, but filmmaker Michael Moore left out the trade-offs...
New York Times - July 7, 2007
What?s Offline: Look for the Overlooked Stocks
Stocks receiving coverage by analysts for the first time tend to jump significantly, so the obvious question is, Where will Wall Street turn its attention next?...
New York Times - July 7, 2007
Saturday Interview: Tupperware Freshens Up the Party
The Tupperware Brands Corporation has been on a mission to update its Betty Crocker image...
New York Times - July 7, 2007
PricewaterhouseCoopers to Pay Tyco Investors $225 Million
PricewaterhouseCoopers, which audited Tyco International when it was run by executives who later went to prison, has agreed to pay $225 million to settle claims...
New York Times - July 7, 2007
Off The Charts: A Rush to Supply Cash to Lend to Poor Corporate Credit Risks
There has been a leveraged-buyout boom, in part because of financial alchemy that allows those who put up the cash to think they have investment-grade investments...
New York Times - July 7, 2007
Five Days: Standing Ground in a Dispute With Apple Over Music
UNIVERSAL Music confronted Apple. Hilton struck a buyout deal, and Microsoft announced a huge repair bill for Xbox 360...
New York Times - July 7, 2007
Connecticut Governor Vetoes Bill to Shift State?s Accounting
Gov. M. Jodi Rell has vetoed a bill that would have given the state comptroller the authority to prescribe special accounting rules for the state...
New York Times - July 7, 2007
Stocks & Bonds: Shares Up as Investors Like Jobs Data
Wall Street ended the first week of the third quarter with a respectable gain, shaking off early losses as investors found signs of strength in the June employment report...
New York Times - July 7, 2007
[TS] Talking Business: Giving Nepotism a Good Name
While corporate America?s family sagas are often mired in public drama, Comcast?s smooth father-to-son handoff offers a different model...
New York Times - July 7, 2007
Why Is Asking for Help So Difficult?
The book ?MayDay! Asking for Help in Times of Need? says learning to ask for help is not just good for altruistic reasons; it makes business sense...
New York Times - July 7, 2007
UBS Not Willing to Talk About Departure of Chief
UBS, based in Zurich, refused to explain the reason for the sudden departure of Peter A. Wuffli, its chief executive...
New York Times - July 7, 2007
EADS Pact Said to Back German Executive
In a setback for French president Nicolas Sarkozy, the company?s main private shareholders agreed to give DaimlerChrysler the right to name the chief executive...
New York Times - July 7, 2007
Your Money: Baby-Sitting Co-ops: Turnabout in Child?s Play
An increasing number of parents are turning to baby-sitting co-operatives for free and reliable child care...
New York Times - July 7, 2007
U.A.W. Pact With Dana Signals Softer Stance
The United Automobile Workers union has cracked open the door a little wider to the kind of deal on retiree health benefits that Detroit auto companies would like to see...
New York Times - July 7, 2007
Jobs Report Finds Growth Still Moderate
The job market looked much like the economy as a whole last month: subdued but strong enough...
New York Times - July 7, 2007
China Steps Up Its Safety Efforts
China sentenced a former top drug safety official to death and disclosed an investigation into cellphone batteries after one reportedly exploded, killing a man...
New York Times - July 7, 2007
Heart Therapy Strains Efforts to Limit Costs
The nation?s most common cardiac malfunction, once thought harmless, is now treated with costly procedures...
New York Times - July 7, 2007
In Small Packages, Fewer Calories and More Profit
In three years, sales of 100-calorie snack packs have passed the $20- million-a-year mark, as consumers don?t seem to mind paying more for less...
New York Times - July 7, 2007
Colombia re-arrests ex-spy chief
The former head of Colombia's intelligence service is re-arrested over suspected links to death squads...
BBC News - July 7, 2007
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