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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 Octomber 2007:
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TV Decoder Blog: Advertisers Gear Up for Super Bowl
The 2007-8 season is just getting started for the National Football League, but advertisers are already making plans for the next Super Bowl. Cars.com, owned by a consortium of media companies, said today it intended to start its marketing campaign for 2008 with commercials to appear during Super Bowl XLII, scheduled to be played on Feb. [...]...
New York Times - October 8, 2007
The Quad Blog: State of the Union, Week 6
Scenes from campuses across the country this week: Math Club presidents will begin dating homecoming queens. Al Gore will be invited to speak at College Republican meetings. Tuition will be going down, too, right along with the price of beer, books and North Face jackets. If campus life mirrored the surreal nature of this 2007 [...]...
New York Times - October 8, 2007
The Lede Blog: Breaking Point in Immigration Debate
A clamp down leaves U.S. farmers moving to Mexico and short of workers back home...
New York Times - October 8, 2007
Bits Blog: Google Shares Shoot Past $600
Why are the company's shares still climbing? Analysts have a number of theories...
New York Times - October 8, 2007
Jones Returns 5 Medals From Sydney Games
Marion Jones has given up the five medals she won at the Sydney Olympics, days after admitting she used performance-enhancing drugs...
New York Times - October 8, 2007
Bats Blog: Villone Replaces Injured Clemens
Because Roger Clemens has been replaced on the roster, he is ineligible to be included on the League Championship Series roster, if the Yankees advance that far...
New York Times - October 8, 2007
Dispute Is Cited in Wisconsin Shooting
Some kind of dispute was behind the massacre of six young people by an off-duty sheriff?s deputy, officials said...
New York Times - October 8, 2007
City Room: Bloomberg on Bloomberg and Women
Michael R. Bloomberg?s 1997 autobiography provides insights into the mayor?s attitudes toward women...
New York Times - October 8, 2007
As a Company Leaves Town, Arts Grants Follow
New York?s arts community is bracing itself as one of its top donors, the tobacco giant Altria, prepares to move...
New York Times - October 8, 2007
Developer Is China?s Latest Hot Stock Offering
Shares of SoHo China, a Beijing property developer, soared 15 percent on their first day of trading today in Hong Kong, valuing the company at $6 billion...
New York Times - October 8, 2007
Kazakh Leader Eases Tensions Over Oil Project
President Nursultan A. Nazarbayev indicated today a cooling in the dispute with the Italian-led consortium developing the Kashagan project...
New York Times - October 8, 2007
Stocks Slip as Investors Await Earnings
Wall Street finished mostly lower as investors cashed in some gains from last week?s rally and readied for quarterly corporate earnings reports...
New York Times - October 8, 2007
GlaxoSmithKline Picks Next Chief Executive
Glaxo named Andrew Witty as its new chief executive today, ending a yearlong internal competition for a replacement for Jean-Pierre Garnier, who retires next year...
New York Times - October 8, 2007
Sprint Nextel C.E.O. Resigns
The wireless carrier said that chief executive Gary Forsee is stepping down amid concerns over customer defections and calls for a new leader...
New York Times - October 8, 2007
Vonage Settles Patent Suit With Sprint
The Internet phone company took a step back from the brink today, saying it had settled the patent suit for $80 million...
New York Times - October 8, 2007
Chrysler Confirms Deadline in U.A.W. Talks
The United Automobile Workers union has set an 11 a.m. Wednesday deadline in its bid to reach a new four-year contract with Chrysler, a Chrysler spokeswoman said...
New York Times - October 8, 2007
Killer deputy's motives 'unknown'
Inquiries continue into what made a young US sheriff's deputy kill his ex-girlfriend and five others in Wisconsin...
BBC News - October 8, 2007
Paper Cuts Blog: Paper Cuts: Skimming the Sunday Reviews
A quick hike through the Sunday (and a few non-Sunday) book review sections. David Thewlis in “The Inner Life of Martin Frost.” (Photo: José Maria Branco) The Guardian (U.K.) The British actor David Thewlis has published his first novel, ?The Late Hector Kipling? ? the title character is an artist. Colin Greenland isn?t impressed: Until at least [...]...
New York Times - October 8, 2007
Bats Blog: Bats: It?s an Emotional Time of Year in Baseball
Joe Torre?s three-year, $19.2 million contract expires Oct. 31. (Barton Silverman/The New York Times) The Yankees win, and save Joe Torre’s job, and their season. Would such melodrama have done anything to save the Angels? “I don’t think the whole season is a disaster because of what happened in this series,” Angels Manager Mike Scioscia was quoted [...]...
New York Times - October 8, 2007
The Lede Blog: The Lede: Send in the Iraqi Technocrats
Iraqi leaders in Baghdad are beginning to significantly lower their expectations...
New York Times - October 8, 2007
City Room: No Word for ?Wheeze? in Spanish?
The lack of a good Spanish term for "wheezing" can become a stumbling block in asthma research and clinical diagnosis, according to researchers...
New York Times - October 8, 2007
Workers Set Deadline in Chrysler Talks
The United Automobile Workers union has set a Wednesday strike deadline in talks with Chrysler, people with direct knowledge of the negotiations said...
New York Times - October 8, 2007
Death and Havoc Mar Chicago Race
As temperatures soared, hundreds of runners in the Chicago marathon fell ill and at least one died on Sunday...
New York Times - October 8, 2007
Britain to Cut Iraq Force to 2,500
Britain will withdraw nearly half the troops now serving in Iraq beginning next spring, Prime Minister Gordon Brown said today...
New York Times - October 8, 2007
Diner's Journal Blog: Diner?s Journal: The Tire Man Weighs In
The new Michelin ratings for New York City...
New York Times - October 8, 2007
3 Win Nobel in Medicine for Gene Manipulation
Two Americans and a Briton developed a powerful technology that allows the creation of animal models of human disease in mice...
New York Times - October 8, 2007
Looking Ahead
EARNINGS KICKOFF Earnings season kicks off this week with reports from Alcoa (Tuesday), PepsiCo (Thursday) and General Electric (Friday)...
New York Times - October 8, 2007
Stocks Mixed as Investors Await Earnings
Stock prices were narrowly mixed in early trading today after putting up big gains last week and as investors readied for quarterly corporate earnings reports...
New York Times - October 8, 2007
Vonage Settles Patent Suit With Sprint
The Internet phone company took a step back from the brink today, saying it had settled the patent suit for $80 million...
New York Times - October 8, 2007
Chrysler Confirms Deadline in U.A.W. Talks
The United Automobile Workers union has set an 11 a.m. Wednesday deadline in its bid to reach a new four-year contract with Chrysler, a Chrysler spokeswoman said...
New York Times - October 8, 2007
US-Mexico drugs blitz 'success'
Figures released this week suggest that joint US and Mexican efforts against drug trading may be yielding results...
BBC News - October 8, 2007
Argentines launch tomato boycott
Consumer groups in Argentina launch a tomato boycott to protest against high inflation...
BBC News - October 8, 2007
Sheriff's deputy in gun rampage
A young sheriff's deputy kills his ex-girlfriend and five others in the US state of Wisconsin, before being shot himself...
BBC News - October 8, 2007
Nicaragua-Honduras sea limit set
The International Court of Justice rules on a long-running maritime boundary dispute between Honduras and Nicaragua...
BBC News - October 8, 2007
Cuba pays tribute to Che Guevara
The memory of Latin American revolutionary Ernesto Che Guevara is honoured in Cuba 40 years after his death...
BBC News - October 8, 2007
Yankees 8, Indians 4: Yanks Save Season, and Maybe More
With the careers of the aging Yankees ? and their manager ? on the line, the next generation of players took over to trounce Cleveland...
New York Times - October 8, 2007
3 Win Nobel in Medicine for Gene Manipulation
Mario R. Capecchi, Oliver Smithies and Martin J. Evans helped develop a technique to manipulate genes in mice...
New York Times - October 8, 2007
As a Company Leaves Town, Arts Grants Go With It
New York?s arts community is bracing itself as one of its top donors, the tobacco giant Altria, prepares to move...
New York Times - October 8, 2007
Nerd Chic Arrives on TV
As a new audience raised on broadband comes together, seemingly goofy little enterprises like Boing Boing could end up playing very large for their size...
New York Times - October 8, 2007
Treasury Auctions Set for This Week
The Treasury?s schedule of financing this week included today?s regular weekly auction of new three- and six-month bills and an auction of four-week bills tomorrow...
New York Times - October 8, 2007
Looking Ahead
EARNINGS KICKOFF Earnings season kicks off this week with reports from Alcoa (Tuesday), PepsiCo (Thursday) and General Electric (Friday)...
New York Times - October 8, 2007
New to the Business, an Editor Is Chided on Partiality
Joe Cannon, editor of The Deseret Morning News in Utah, spoke to a secretive Christian networking group last month, saying he was looking for grist for his weekly column. Never mind that the meeting of the Council on National Policy, the group in question, was actually closed to the press, and that he had agreed to keep quiet on what transpired at the event, which included speeches by Vice President Dick Cheney and former Massachusetts Governor Mitt Romney, the presidential candidate...
New York Times - October 8, 2007
Student Editor Keeps His Job, but Is Warned About Ethics
A Colorado State University review board decided to admonish, but not fire, the student newspaper editor who approved a vulgar, four-word editorial about President Bush...
New York Times - October 8, 2007
Single Parents Like Online Dating
Among people who have recently used online dating, single parents are highly overrepresented...
New York Times - October 8, 2007
When Traffic Piles Up, Drivers Sit and Publishers See New Opportunity
Marketers at Random House see Atlanta?s traffic bottlenecks as an opportunity: to pitch audio books as the antidote to road rage...
New York Times - October 8, 2007
?Kid Nation? Slips in Viewers but Gains in Advertisers
Although the audience for ?Kid Nation? has continued to shrink, the CBS reality program has nearly tripled its number of advertisers since the series premiere...
New York Times - October 8, 2007
Acquisitive Craigslist Post Reddens Faces All Around
An exchange that began from a personal ad sent over Craigslist.com evolved into an embarrassing but popular item to send to friends via e-mail...
New York Times - October 8, 2007
Nothing Says ?Buy? Like ?Free Shipping?
L.L. Bean?s free-shipping offer comes with no minimum purchase requirement, in contrast to strings-attached shipping offers used by most online merchants last year...
New York Times - October 8, 2007
Toyota?s Latest Commercial Is Not on TV. Try the Xbox Console.
Like scores of other companies, Toyota is increasingly creating its own content like video games rather than relying simply on advertising during commercial breaks...
New York Times - October 8, 2007
Wall Street Journal to Add to Its Paying Conferences
In a move to make money and spread its brand, The Wall Street Journal plans to expand its conference franchise to several gatherings a year...
New York Times - October 8, 2007
What?s a Pulitzer Worth? Newsday?s Are Auctioned
Newsday?s three Pulitzer gold medals for public service journalism were listed on eBay and sold at a California auction for a combined $15,500...
New York Times - October 8, 2007
Google and I.B.M. Join in ?Cloud Computing? Research
Google and I.B.M. are investing to build large data centers that students can tap into over the Internet to program and research remotely, which is called ?cloud computing.?...
New York Times - October 8, 2007
MSNBC to Acquire a Chattier News Site
Newsvine, which encourages users to write articles and comment on other articles, shows the increasing importance of community features on news Web sites...
New York Times - October 8, 2007
A New Ratings System Stirs Up the Fall TV Season
Overnight television ratings have lost much of their meaning as more people begin to use digital video recorders and commercials get ratings of their own...
New York Times - October 8, 2007
SAP to Buy Maker of Business Software
The move to buy Business Objects underlines the appeal of software that can cull through data to help companies cut costs, spot sales opportunities and outwit rivals...
New York Times - October 8, 2007
Don?t Open This Cookie (Disastrous Day Inside)
Fortune cookies made by Wonton Food in Queens are now serving up some surprisingly downbeat advice...
New York Times - October 8, 2007
The Battle for the Consumer Online
U.S. News & World Report, a master of surveys, is seeking a new role as a definitive source of information and ratings on a range of expensive consumer products...
New York Times - October 8, 2007
Workers Set Deadline in Chrysler Talks
The United Automobile Workers union has set a Wednesday strike deadline in talks with Chrysler, people with direct knowledge of the negotiations said...
New York Times - October 8, 2007
When Reality TV Gets Too Real
Networks and producers have increasingly pushed the boundaries of television voyeurism as they seek new ratings hits, but at times this has proved problematic...
New York Times - October 8, 2007
For Google, Advertising and Phones Go Together
Google, which seeks to extend its dominance of online advertising to the mobile Internet, is expected to unveil the fruit of its secret mobile phone project later this year...
New York Times - October 8, 2007
Grants for the Arts Leave Town With Corporation
New York?s arts community is bracing itself as one of its top donors, the tobacco giant Altria, prepares to move its headquarters out of New York as part of a reorganization...
New York Times - October 8, 2007
Dangerous Sealer Stayed on Shelves After Recall
The case of Stand ?n Seal is a powerful illustration of the Consumer Product Safety Commission?s failure to fully live up to its mission...
New York Times - October 8, 2007
Gunman Kills Six in Wisconsin Town
An off-duty sheriff?s deputy went on a shooting rampage at a home early Sunday in northern Wisconsin, killing six people and injuring a seventh before the authorities fatally shot him, officials said...
New York Times - October 8, 2007
In Media?s Eye, Young Mayor Says He?s Learning
Luke Ravenstahl, the 27-year-old mayor of Pittsburgh, enjoys strong public support despite recent controversies and intense media questioning...
New York Times - October 8, 2007
Death, Havoc and Heat Mar Chicago Race
As temperatures soared, hundreds of runners in the Chicago marathon fell ill and at least one died on Sunday...
New York Times - October 8, 2007
Sidebar: Going to Court, but Not in Time to Live
A death row inmate can persuade the Supreme Court that his case should be reviewed while failing to convince it to make sure he stays alive in the meantime...
New York Times - October 8, 2007
U.S. Calls Iranian Official Part of Elite Force
The accusation that Iran?s ambassador to Iraq is an undisclosed member of Iran?s Revolutionary Guard came as the arrest of three suspected Iranian agents was announced...
New York Times - October 8, 2007
Workers Set Deadline for Chrysler Talks
The United Automobile Workers union has set a Wednesday strike deadline in talks with Chrysler, people with direct knowledge of the negotiations said...
New York Times - October 8, 2007
Dreaming Big About Acting Big
Nearly 100 people turned up at an open casting call for ?Notorious,? a biopic of the rapper Christopher G. Wallace, better known as Biggie Smalls or Notorious B.I.G...
New York Times - October 8, 2007
The DNA Age: Seeking Columbus?s Origins, With a Swab
DNA analysis may help solve a long-running dispute between those who would claim alternative bragging rights to Christopher Columbus...
New York Times - October 8, 2007
The Media Equation: Nerd Chic Arrives on TV
As a new audience raised on broadband comes together, seemingly goofy little enterprises like Boing Boing could end up playing very large for their size...
New York Times - October 8, 2007
Treasury Auctions Set for This Week
The Treasury?s schedule of financing this week included today?s regular weekly auction of new three- and six-month bills and an auction of four-week bills tomorrow...
New York Times - October 8, 2007
New to the Business, an Editor Is Chided on Partiality
Joe Cannon, editor of The Deseret Morning News in Utah, spoke to a secretive Christian networking group last month, saying he was looking for grist for his weekly column. Never mind that the meeting of the Council on National Policy, the group in question, was actually closed to the press, and that he had agreed to keep quiet on what transpired at the event, which included speeches by Vice President Dick Cheney and former Massachusetts Governor Mitt Romney, the presidential candidate...
New York Times - October 8, 2007
Student Editor Keeps His Job, but Is Warned About Ethics
A Colorado State University review board decided to admonish, but not fire, the student newspaper editor who approved a vulgar, four-word editorial about President Bush...
New York Times - October 8, 2007
Single Parents Like Online Dating
Among people who have recently used online dating, single parents are highly overrepresented...
New York Times - October 8, 2007
When Traffic Piles Up, Drivers Sit and Publishers See New Opportunity
Marketers at Random House see Atlanta?s traffic bottlenecks as an opportunity: to pitch audio books as the antidote to road rage...
New York Times - October 8, 2007
?Kid Nation? Slips in Viewers but Gains in Advertisers
Although the audience for ?Kid Nation? has continued to shrink, the CBS reality program has nearly tripled its number of advertisers since the series premiere...
New York Times - October 8, 2007
Acquisitive Craigslist Post Reddens Faces All Around
An exchange that began from a personal ad sent over Craigslist.com evolved into an embarrassing but popular item to send to friends via email...
New York Times - October 8, 2007
E-Commerce Report: Nothing Says ?Buy? Like ?Free Shipping?
L.L. Bean?s free-shipping offer comes with no minimum purchase requirement, in contrast to strings-attached shipping offers used by most online merchants last year...
New York Times - October 8, 2007
Advertising: Toyota?s Latest Commercial Is Not on TV. Try the Xbox Console.
Like scores of other companies, Toyota is increasingly creating its own content like video games rather than relying simply on advertising during commercial breaks...
New York Times - October 8, 2007
Wall Street Journal to Add to Its Paying Conferences
In a move to make money and spread its brand, the Wall Street Journal plans to expand its conference franchise to several gatherings a year...
New York Times - October 8, 2007
What?s a Pulitzer Worth? Newsday?s Are Auctioned
Newsday?s three Pulitzer gold medals for public service journalism were listed on eBay and sold at a California auction for a combined $15,500...
New York Times - October 8, 2007
Google and I.B.M. Join in ?Cloud Computing? Research
Google and I.B.M. are investing to build large data centers that students can tap into over the Internet to program and research remotely, which is called ?cloud computing.?...
New York Times - October 8, 2007
MSNBC to Acquire a Chattier News Site
Newsvine, which encourages users to write articles and comment on other articles, shows the increasing importance of community features on news Web sites...
New York Times - October 8, 2007
A New Ratings System Stirs Up the Fall TV Season
Overnight television ratings have lost much of their meaning as more people begin to use digital video recorders and commercials get ratings of their own...
New York Times - October 8, 2007
SAP to Buy Maker of Business Software
The move to buy Business Objects underlines the appeal of software that can cull through data to help companies cut costs, spot sales opportunities and outwit rivals...
New York Times - October 8, 2007
The Battle for the Consumer Online
U.S. News & World Report, a master of surveys, is seeking a new role as a definitive source of information and ratings on a range of expensive consumer products...
New York Times - October 8, 2007
Don?t Open This Cookie (Disastrous Day Inside)
Fortune cookies made by Wonton Food in Queens are now serving up some surprisingly downbeat advice...
New York Times - October 8, 2007
When Reality TV Gets Too Real
Networks and producers have increasingly pushed the boundaries of television voyeurism as they seek new ratings hits, but at times, this has proved problematic...
New York Times - October 8, 2007
For Google, Advertising and Phones Go Together
Google, which seeks to extend its dominance of online advertising to the mobile Internet, is expected to unveil the fruit of its secret mobile phone project later this year...
New York Times - October 8, 2007
The Testing Lab: Dangerous Sealer Stayed on Shelves After Recall
The case of Stand ?n Seal is a powerful illustration of the Consumer Product Safety Commission?s failure to fully live up to its mission...
New York Times - October 8, 2007
Grants for the Arts Leave Town With Corporation
New York?s arts community is bracing itself as one of its top donors, the tobacco giant Altria, prepares to move its headquarters out of New York as part of a reorganization...
New York Times - October 8, 2007
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