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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 January 2006:
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G.O.P. Finds Hope in Spitzer's Hard Edge
Republicans want to target Eliot Spitzer's temper as he looks to become New York's first Democratic governor in 12 years...
New York Times - January 8, 2006
Republican Allies Endorse DeLay's Decision to Step Down
The taint and distraction of Tom DeLay's troubles appear to have become too high a price for Republicans to pay...
New York Times - January 8, 2006
The Unmasking of JT Leroy: In Public, He's a She
It has been one of the most bizarre literary mysteries: Who is the novelist JT Leroy? An answer, at long last, is taking shape...
New York Times - January 8, 2006
Panthers 23, Giants 0: Panthers Shut Out Giants
The Carolina Panthers found enough soft spots in New York's depleted defense to win the National Football League wild-card playoff game...
New York Times - January 8, 2006
NFL: Jacksonville thrashed
Steve Smith scores two touchdowns as Carolina thrash the New York Giants in the first round of the NFL play-offs...
BBC News - January 8, 2006
Boxing: Baldomir seizes title
Carlos Baldomir seizes the WBC welterweight title from Zab Judah on Saturday with a unanimous decision...
BBC News - January 8, 2006
Rise in sales for DaimlerChrysler
DaimlerChrysler reports a 3.8% rise in annual global car sales, as the 2006 Detroit motor show starts...
BBC News - January 8, 2006
Bolivia seeks Chinese investment
Bolivian President-elect Evo Morales, on a visit to Beijing, invites China to invest in Bolivia's energy sector...
BBC News - January 8, 2006
Doctors decide to awaken Sharon
Doctors at Jerusalem's Hadassah Hospital say they will try to bring Israeli Prime Minister Ariel Sharon out of a medically induced coma on Monday. Sharon remains critically ill, but tests show signs of improvement. The work of government continued, but the prime minister's chair was left empty at the weekly Cabinet meeting...
CNN - January 8, 2006
Black Hawk crash kills 12 in Iraq
Twelve U.S. personnel were killed when a UH-60 Black Hawk helicopter crashed in Iraq Sunday, the military said...
CNN - January 8, 2006
Community begins to bury mine victims
A large photograph of Jerry Lee Groves in a mine sat next to his closed casket, along with dozens of flowers carrying notes of sympathy. Paying their respects, a group of emergency workers wore black patches on their uniforms with yellow lettering: "In memory of our fallen Sago miners."...
CNN - January 8, 2006
Ideas & Trends: Right Stuff and Wrong in the Boys Who Dare
Are adolescent adventurers showing only a reckless lack of judgment? Or could they also reflect a healthy imaginative spirit?...
New York Times - January 8, 2006
Is There a Future in Ford's Future?
As the new president for Ford's American operations, Mark Fields is taking on the challenge of fixing a sick company...
New York Times - January 8, 2006
Canada closes Jordan embassy
Canada and Australia follow the UK in closing their embassies in the Jordanian capital, Amman, amid security fears...
BBC News - January 8, 2006
Doctors to bring Sharon from coma
Doctors will begin bringing Israeli Prime Minister Ariel Sharon out of his medically-induced coma on Monday, provided his condition is unchanged until then, the director of Hadassah Hospital said Sunday. A new brain scan performed showed improvement, although Sharon remained in critical but stable condition, said Dr. Shlomo Mor-Yosef...
CNN - January 8, 2006
Doctors to bring Sharon out of coma
Doctors will begin bringing Israeli Prime Minister Ariel Sharon out of his medically-induced coma on Monday, provided his condition is unchanged until then, the director of Hadassah Hospital said Sunday...
CNN - January 8, 2006
Denmark Is Unlikely Front in Islam-West Culture War
Editorial cartoons published in a Danish newspaper have made Denmark a flashpoint in the culture wars between Islam and the West in a post-9/11 world...
New York Times - January 8, 2006
Hospital: Sharon still critical
Israeli Prime Minister Ariel Sharon's condition remains in critical but stable condition, a spokesman at Hadassah Hospital said Sunday...
CNN - January 8, 2006
Doctors plan to bring Sharon out of coma
Doctors treating Israeli Prime Minister Ariel Sharon say they will decide Sunday how to reduce anesthesia so he can slowly wake up from a medically induced coma. Doctors won't know the extent of the damage to his brain until the anesthesia is reduced...
CNN - January 8, 2006
Miner returns to West Virginia
Doctors made "substantial progress" overnight in treating mine explosion survivor Randy McCloy Jr.'s inflamed lung, according to a doctor on his medical team in Pittsburgh...
CNN - January 8, 2006
The New Leipzig School
Under communism, an East German art academy preserved traditions of figurative painting that were vanishing in the West. Today the painters of Leipzig have inherited those traditions -- and become an international art-world sensation...
New York Times - January 8, 2006
All Parts of New Orleans Included in Rebuilding Plan
The city's blueprint for redevelopment will recommend that residents be allowed to rebuild anywhere, no matter how damaged...
New York Times - January 8, 2006
Ventures: Finding Commercial Value in Some New Zip Codes
Competition for property in major markets has investors looking elsewhere...
New York Times - January 8, 2006
Essay: Shower Curtain? Try a Page Turner
Tying a bow around a reminder of ethical behavior...
New York Times - January 8, 2006
Fundamentally: Hitting the Reset Button on Your 401(k)
There is a big difference between staying the course and simply starting and then forgetting your 401(k) indefinitely...
New York Times - January 8, 2006
Investing: Fund Managers Hope for a Bit of the Buffett Effect
Among portfolio managers, discussing what sort of valuation Warren E. Buffett's Berkshire Hathaway should get has become a great parlor game...
New York Times - January 8, 2006
Dealbook: Sometimes, Two Is Less Than One
A recent study shows that the average company's shares fell 6 percent between the announcement of a split and time it occurred...
New York Times - January 8, 2006
Off the Shelf: Barrynomics, or a Road to Funny Money
"Dave Barry's Money Secrets" won't make you richer, but it is a lot more fun than comparing mutual funds...
New York Times - January 8, 2006
Ideas & Trends: Is Google a Good Candidate for Rational Exuberance?
Bold new forecasts for Google's stock price raise the question of whether analysts and investors have once again become irrationally gaga over the Internet...
New York Times - January 8, 2006
Suits: Still Living Large Down on the Farm
Having to pay $1.5 million in fines for failing to disclose $3 million in overseas vacations, Oriental rugs, clothing and other perquisites lavished on its former senior chairman, Donald J. Tyson, did not quash Tyson Foods' generosity last year...
New York Times - January 8, 2006
Letters
A Quieter Call to Action?...
New York Times - January 8, 2006
Markets Welcome New Year With Big Gains
The stock market began the New Year with a weeklong rally that left the major stock indexes at their highest levels since 2001...
New York Times - January 8, 2006
Warning: Beware of Warnings About Real Estate
The question re-emerges: Can the highflying real estate sector continue its ascent?...
New York Times - January 8, 2006
In Bonds, It's Hard to Tell the Short Term From the Long
Although rates rose over all, they didn't rise evenly: short-term rates climbed more than long-term ones did...
New York Times - January 8, 2006
Looking Ahead Means Looking Abroad
American investors poured more new money into foreign stock funds in 2005 than in the previous four years combined...
New York Times - January 8, 2006
Strategies: A Fund vs. Its Former Self
A new study suggests a selection method for mutual funds that is so easy and direct that investors can only wonder why it hasn't received more attention...
New York Times - January 8, 2006
From Mutual to Hedge Funds, and Back Again
After a period of uninspiring performance for hedge funds, some managers are throwing in the towel and taking jobs with prominent firms...
New York Times - January 8, 2006
Digging for Gold? A Little Bit Can Go a Long Way
With the price of bullion rising, mutual fund investors have been bitten by the gold bug...
New York Times - January 8, 2006
For Bargains, Try Spinning the Globe
After a strong year, fund managers disagree on which foreign markets will continue to do well...
New York Times - January 8, 2006
Refraining: Here Comes the Baby, and an Itch to Overbuy
Often, the requirements in baby gear are more modest than the expectations...
New York Times - January 8, 2006
How Long a Streak for Latin America?
Latin American funds have experienced three years of sizzling returns, but also much volatility...
New York Times - January 8, 2006
Off the Shelf: How to Invest, Times Three
Publishers have placed new emphasis on personal finance books that make saving and investing not only simpler but also intriguing...
New York Times - January 8, 2006
Market Week: Replacing Tea Leaves With Data
Wall Street may pay even closer attention to economic numbers this year compared to last...
New York Times - January 8, 2006
Career Couch: Bought, and Waiting for the Ax to Fall
Acquisitions can be stressful, especially for employees of the smaller fish...
New York Times - January 8, 2006
The Goods: A Measure of Protection for Skiers
The Speed Probe 300 can be assembled faster than any similar avalanche probe on the market, its inventors say...
New York Times - January 8, 2006
The Boss: From Prosecutor to C.E.O.
WHEN I was a prosecutor for the Southern District of New York, my very first trial involved a man accused of bringing a knife into a veterans' hospital. This guy decided to represent himself. He was a veteran and he was mad about something. Even though I was prosecuting him, I tried to be straight with the guy. I gave him all the statutes and underlined parts that applied to him and gave him a sense of what the case against him was. I told him, "Here's what I have to show, so you have to show this and that."...
New York Times - January 8, 2006
Hardly a Backwater When It Comes to Profit
Deals can be found in closed-end investment funds, if you search...
New York Times - January 8, 2006
The Count: Boomers Hit 60, Supporting Both Young and Old
The first of the baby boomers has turned 60...
New York Times - January 8, 2006
Is There a Future in Ford's Future?
As the new president for Ford's American operations, Mark Fields is taking on the challenge of fixing a sick company...
New York Times - January 8, 2006
Call It the Deal of a Lifetime
Michael J. Kopper could escape prison time because of the crucial role he has played in helping the government build its case against Enron...
New York Times - January 8, 2006
Economic View: The World Isn't Flat, but Its Yield Curve May Be
Inverted yield curves have generally been viewed as the black cats of the economy, heralding slowdowns at best and recessions at worst...
New York Times - January 8, 2006
Media Frenzy: Linking a Device to a Gadget That's Wired to a Gizmo
If a company wants its products to be among the 25 consumer electronics products in the average American home, it is going to have to hustle...
New York Times - January 8, 2006
Fast-Growing Stocks Led to Rich Returns
Fast-growing companies bolstered the returns of some top-performing stock mutual funds in the fourth quarter of 2005...
New York Times - January 8, 2006
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