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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 2006:
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Astronauts at work, 220 miles up
Astronauts Piers Sellers and Mike Fossum tested a 50-foot boom attached to the space station's 50-foot robotic arm for the first time on Saturday. Glitches caused delays to the first spacewalk of the Discovery shuttle mission but allowed the men time for a little fun in between tests and repairs. Sellers did a couple of flips and both let out frequent "woo-hoos" as they floated 220 miles above Earth...
CNN - July 8, 2006
Palestinian Prime Minister Calls for a Truce With Israel and New Talks
An Israeli official said there would be no cease-fire until the release of a kidnapped Israeli soldier...
New York Times - July 8, 2006
Ally Told Bush Spying Projects Might Be Illegal
Representative Peter Hoekstra of Michigan warned the administration that it risked losing Republican support...
New York Times - July 8, 2006
N.J. Shutdown Ends After Legislature Approves Budget
Gov. Jon S. Corzine signed an executive order to resolve an acidic budget standoff that had paralyzed the state...
New York Times - July 8, 2006
The Count: For Some Workers, How Much Drug Use Is Acceptable?
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New York Times - July 8, 2006
Letters
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New York Times - July 8, 2006
Glen Renfrew, 77, Former Chief of Reuters, Dies
Glen Renfrew oversaw the company's transition from private ownership to a publicly traded company...
New York Times - July 8, 2006
Fundamentally: Cash May Not Be King, but It's Wielding More Power
Investors have become more bullish on at least one investment of late: cash...
New York Times - July 8, 2006
Career Couch: That's Your Desk. It Used to Be Mine.
Q. Your job is being moved to a region with lower labor costs and your boss has asked you to train your replacement. How should you respond?...
New York Times - July 8, 2006
The Boss: Keeping His Day Job
Mark P. Mays, chief executive of Clear Channel Communications, says that sleep is for rookies...
New York Times - July 8, 2006
Selling: Is It Time to Cash In on That Jewelry Box?
Gold and silver prices are still at levels that are spurring people to cash in unwanted jewelry for its scrap value...
New York Times - July 8, 2006
Suits: Some Ideas on Values From a Value Investor
PLAIN speaking can be a rare commodity in the debate over corporate governance, but...
New York Times - July 8, 2006
Economic View: Why U.S. Companies Shouldn't Whine About Taxes
Can it be true that the United States is harder on big corporations than "old Europe" welfare states? Don't believe it...
New York Times - July 8, 2006
Market Week: A Time to Play Some Defense
A LIGHT week for economic data and corporate earnings announcements leaves time for investors to plot their moves for the summer and beyond. Strategists at a couple of big investment banks recommend tinkering with portfolios to make them more defensive...
New York Times - July 8, 2006
Tensions Over Missile Tests Rattle Investors
North Korea fired test missiles while Wall Street rested on the Fourth of July, rattling stock markets around the world...
New York Times - July 8, 2006
[TS] Gretchen Morgenson: Is 'Total Pay' That Tough to Grasp?
The argument that options and restricted shares should not be considered part of an executive's pay is cute, but not credible...
New York Times - July 8, 2006
Everybody's Business: A City on a Hill, or a Looting Opportunity
Is this America, where far too many of the rich loot their stockholders and kick the employees in the teeth?...
New York Times - July 8, 2006
Spending: For Short Stays, a Home Away From the (Costly) Hotel
Short-stay apartment rentals offer lower cost and a homey feeling to travelers who need a place for a week or less...
New York Times - July 8, 2006
Investing: Drink, Smoke and Gamble, and This Fund Climbs
A mutual fund searches for rewards in the politically incorrect industries...
New York Times - July 8, 2006
Surprising Jump in Tax Revenues Is Curbing Deficit
Tax revenues are climbing twice as fast as the administration predicted, so fast that the budget deficit could actually decline this year...
New York Times - July 8, 2006
Cashing In Its Chips
It is not easy to beat Intel, but that's exactly what Texas Instruments has done. Twice...
New York Times - July 8, 2006
Square Feet: Hotel Revenue Climbs, but So Do Expenses
Amid a strong market, hotel owners gauge the impact of labor and other costs...
New York Times - July 8, 2006
The Goods: Hey, You, Get Into My Cloud
Cloud, an inflatable conference room, can stave off counterproductive boredom in the workplace...
New York Times - July 8, 2006
Root, Root, Root for the Start-Up
A group of venture capitalists expect their start-up - an independent baseball league - to provide them all with a rich payout...
New York Times - July 8, 2006
Shuttle astronauts end spacewalk
Two astronauts from the US space shuttle, Discovery, end the first spacewalk of their mission...
BBC News - July 8, 2006
Mexico genocide charges dropped
A Mexican judge clears former President Luis Echeverria of genocide over the killings of protesters in 1968...
BBC News - July 8, 2006
New Jersey casinos to reopen
After a three-day shut-down, casino owners in New Jersey plan to reopen their doors on Saturday after the state Legislature approved a budget agreement...
CNN - July 8, 2006
Astronauts at work, 220 miles high
Astronauts Piers Sellers and Mike Fossum are in the middle of a spacewalk to fix the international space station's rail transporter and test whether a boom can be used to make repairs to the space shuttle. They are due to float 220 miles above the Earth for more than six hours. "Have fun today bouncing on the boom," flight controllers messaged them...
CNN - July 8, 2006
Casinos back in business
High rollers are returning to the tables at Atlantic City casinos Saturday after the resolution of a New Jersey budget crisis. Gov. Jon Corzine signed an executive order allowing state departments and agencies to start reopening Saturday, a spokeswoman said...
CNN - July 8, 2006
Palestinian PM appeals for calm
Palestinian Prime Minister Ismail Haniya on Saturday urged a halt to all military operations and a return to calm following a two-week standoff between Israelis and Palestinians ignited by an Israeli soldier's kidnapping...
CNN - July 8, 2006
News Analysis: In Zeal to Foil Terror Plots, Cases May Be Missing Something Important, Lawyers Say
Lawyers are questioning whether the government is forgetting an element central to any case: the actual intent to commit a crime...
New York Times - July 8, 2006
Shuttle Astronauts Conduct Space Walk
Two astronauts left the International Space Station for repair work more than 200 miles above the earth...
New York Times - July 8, 2006
France's Aging Magician Conjures a Final Trick
A French World Cup victory would cement Zinédine Zidane's position as perhaps soccer's greatest player of the last 20 years...
New York Times - July 8, 2006
New Medicine for AIDS Is One Pill, Once a Day
The pill, which combines three drugs made by two companies, would be a milestone in improving the simplicity of treatment for the disease...
New York Times - July 8, 2006
Investors Lead Home Sale Boom in New Orleans
An extraordinarily large number of houses in the flood-ravaged area are being sold, with sales prices exceeding those before Hurricane Katrina...
New York Times - July 8, 2006
Corzine Ends 8-Day New Jersey Shutdown
Gov. Jon S. Corzine signed an executive order early this morning to resolve an acidic budget standoff that had paralyzed the state...
New York Times - July 8, 2006
The New Gender Divide: At Colleges, Women Are Leaving Men in the Dust
A quarter-century after women became the majority on college campuses, men are trailing women in more than just enrollment...
New York Times - July 8, 2006
Surprising Jump in Tax Revenues Curbs U.S. Deficit
Tax revenues are climbing twice as fast as the administration predicted in February, so fast that the budget deficit could actually decline this year...
New York Times - July 8, 2006
Israel moves into central Gaza
Israeli forces push deeper into Gaza amid conflicting statements regarding the release of an Israeli soldier whose capture last month sparked the current conflict...
CNN - July 8, 2006
Saturday Interview: Big Changes at a Store for Big Sizes
In a nation plagued by obesity, a store called Casual Male Big & Tall would seem to mint money. But the chain's parent company has twice filed for bankruptcy protection. Then David A. Levin, a longtime apparel industry executive, took over in 2002...
New York Times - July 8, 2006
[TS] Off the Charts: An Optimistic Japan Appears Set to Resume Charging Interest
It is widely expected that Japan will raise its main interest rate from the level of zero percent that it has maintained for years...
New York Times - July 8, 2006
What's Offline: Ethanol Is the New Real Estate
POP quiz: What do venture capitalists, Bill Gates and major investment banks have in common?...
New York Times - July 8, 2006
Five Days: Now, Add the North Korean Wild Card to the Mix
IT was a rough week for crystal-ball gazers. Almost as soon as economists forecast that the economy might continue to grow at a relatively healthy pace in the second half, a steady drip of pessimistic news began to dribble out. And then North Korea provocatively test-fired a phalanx of guided missiles despite warnings from the major powers to desist; stocks fell and oil prices rose as tensions grew...
New York Times - July 8, 2006
Short Cuts: Test-Driving the Car-Buying Experience
That dreaded time is upon us. We want to buy a new car...
New York Times - July 8, 2006
Market Values: Microsoft Is Graying but Still Spry
Microsoft is looking distinctly middle aged these days — wealthier than it used to be, but slower, too...
New York Times - July 8, 2006
What's Online: Tail Is Wagging the Internet Dog
Moving the economy, and the culture, "from mass markets to million of niches," Chris Anderson writes, amounts to nothing less than a reordering of society...
New York Times - July 8, 2006
Your Money: The Credit Game Is Getting a Second Scorekeeper
To many consumers the credit score has always been mysterious, and it's about to become even more so...
New York Times - July 8, 2006
Fighting Diseases With Checkbooks
Rich donors can be a fickle but essential source of aid for medical research...
New York Times - July 8, 2006
Latino Funds Help Family Businesses With Posterity in Mind
Ethnic generational investment is a growing field, attracting those eager to tap into the 2.7 million companies owned by Latino American families...
New York Times - July 8, 2006
US woman denies Tongan killings
A California teenager pleads not guilty to killing two members of the Tongan royal family in a car crash...
BBC News - July 8, 2006
Israel moves into central Gaza
Israeli forces have pushed deeper into Gaza amid conflicting statements regarding the release of an Israeli soldier whose kidnapping last month sparked the current conflict...
CNN - July 8, 2006
Rival claims over Israeli prisoner deal
The Israeli military moved deeper into Gaza on Friday, extending its bid to find a kidnapped Israeli soldier and disrupt Palestinian rocket attacks on Israel. Palestinian Prime Minister Mahmoud Abbas says Israel is willing to release prisoners once the soldier is freed -- a claim denied by Israel's Interior Minister...
CNN - July 8, 2006
Here's Proof That New Yorkers Like to Complain
Thousands of complaints to the mayor have been unearthed in New York City going back to the 1700's...
New York Times - July 8, 2006
Ukraine's Coalition Unravels in a New Setback
President Viktor A. Yushchenko's coalition collapsed in acrimony just two weeks after it was formed...
New York Times - July 8, 2006
3 Held Overseas in Plan to Bomb New York Target
Law enforcement authorities said the plan presented a genuine threat even though it was in its earliest stages and no attack was imminent...
New York Times - July 8, 2006
An Internet Lifeline for Troops in Iraq and Loved Ones at Home
For this generation of soldiers, the Internet has softened the blow of long separations that can make strangers out of husbands and wives...
New York Times - July 8, 2006
That's What Friends in High Places Are For
Senator Orrin G. Hatch and others intervened obtain the release of music producer Dallas Austin from a Dubai jail...
New York Times - July 8, 2006
Roche Wins Ruling on an Anemia Drug
Roche can continue to import an experimental anemia drug involved in a patent fight between Roche and a rival, Amgen...
New York Times - July 8, 2006
Lewis Glucksman, Veteran of a Wall St. Battle, Dies at 80
Lewis L. Glucksman engaged in a fierce battle for control of Lehman Brothers Kuhn Loeb in 1983...
New York Times - July 8, 2006
Luis Barragan, 34, Executive Who Updated 1-800-Mattress, Dies
Luis Barragan was responsible for day-to-day operations at 1-800-Mattress, which has annual sales of $170 million...
New York Times - July 8, 2006
Impersonator Obtained Shareholder Data
Automatic Data Processing said it gave out lists of shareholders in various companies to an "unauthorized party."...
New York Times - July 8, 2006
Johnson & Johnson Told to Pay Damages in Pain-Patch Death
Johnson & Johnson must pay $772,500 to the family of a Texas woman who died after a patch intended to release pain-killing drugs leaked...
New York Times - July 8, 2006
U.S. Expected to Issue Stock Option Rules
A member of the Securities and Exchange Commission said that he expected the agency to issue new rules by the end of July...
New York Times - July 8, 2006
Judge Looks Into Modifying Terms of 2 Phone Mergers
A federal district judge in Washington is considering the imposition of major modifications to the two largest telephone mergers in history...
New York Times - July 8, 2006
Tribune Co. to Pare Its Foreign Bureaus
The Tribune Company plans to cut several foreign correspondent positions at two of its daily newspapers and reorganize its overseas coverage...
New York Times - July 8, 2006
RadioShack Names a Chief, and Its Shares Go Up 23%
Julian C. Day had been chief executive of Kmart and a director of the Sears Holdings Corporation...
New York Times - July 8, 2006
G.M. Backs Alliance Talks With 2 Rivals
The board of General Motors directed its chief executive, Rick Wagoner, to begin "exploratory talks" with Renault and Nissan on a possible three-way alliance...
New York Times - July 8, 2006
Jobs Data Indicates Economy Is Slowing
Job growth last month was tepid while the unemployment rate was unchanged at 4.6 percent...
New York Times - July 8, 2006
Verizon Plans to Spin Off Yellow Pages Unit
The company said in a regulatory filing that it was preparing to spin off its Verizon Directories division...
New York Times - July 8, 2006
Kremlin Curtails U.S.-Financed Radio Broadcasts to Russians
The suppression of the Western-financed news has been indirect but highly effective, officials said...
New York Times - July 8, 2006
Mittal Announces Plan for Steel Plant in India
Mittal Steel will invest as much as $9 billion in a steel plant in an impoverished eastern area of the country...
New York Times - July 8, 2006
No deal at smalls arms talks
A UN conference on tackling the illegal trade in small arms ends without consensus on future action...
BBC News - July 8, 2006
Enron three's UK call rejected
The Attorney General rejects calls for three former NatWest bankers wanted over the Enron scandal to be tried in the UK...
BBC News - July 8, 2006
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