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Madonna, Ritchie granted preliminary divorce
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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Laura Bush visits Peruvian hospital
Southern Ledger - November 22, 2008
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Blast kills 8 mourners at Pakistani funeral
Southern Ledger - November 22, 2008
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China 19,000 victims identified from May quake
Southern Ledger - November 22, 2008
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Obama keeps low profile in auto rescue talks
Southern Ledger - November 22, 2008
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Tobey Maguire, Jennifer Meyer expecting baby No. 2
Southern Ledger - November 22, 2008
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Spears makes unexpected appearance in court
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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US News Archive for September 2007:
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Thousands Celebrate Pavarotti?s Art and Humanity
Luciano Pavarotti, the Italian tenor, was eulogized on Saturday as a ?great artist? with ?a profound sense of humanity.?...
New York Times - September 8, 2007
A Streetwise Veteran Schooled Young Obama
Class emerged as a subtext during Barack Obama?s failed attempt to unseat an incumbent congressman on the South Side of Chicago...
New York Times - September 8, 2007
Boys Cast Out by Polygamists Find Help
Over the last six years, hundreds of teenage boys have been forced out of a polygamous settlement on the Arizona-Utah border...
New York Times - September 8, 2007
Shadowy Money Trail of a Fugitive Fund-Raiser
At the center of the Norman Hsu mystery is the question of how he evolved from a bankrupt swindler to a wealthy political donor...
New York Times - September 8, 2007
U.S. Open: Djokovic and Federer Roll Into the Men?s Final
Novak Djokovic and Roger Federer will face off for the Open title on Sunday, pitting the up-and-comer against the man trying to win his fourth Open in a row...
New York Times - September 8, 2007
Employment Report Scares the Market
A surprisingly weak jobs report sent the markets reeling and plunged the major stock averages into a deficit for the week...
New York Times - September 8, 2007
Correction: A Tool to Organize Our Many Organizers
The Prototypes column last Sunday, about Scrybe, a personal information management software program, misspelled the surname of a Scrybe user who said he had adopted it because of its interface and because its calendar did a better job of pulling together data than others. He is David Gerbino, not Gerboni...
New York Times - September 8, 2007
Everybody's Business: It?s Time to Take a Deep Breath
The subprime mortgage industry was far from an unmixed good, but it helped some people realize the American dream...
New York Times - September 8, 2007
Economic View: It?s Monetary Policy, Not a Morality Play
Markets rarely fit into simple moral narratives, and while stories of heroes and villains may comfort us, they are not a good guide to understanding financial policy...
New York Times - September 8, 2007
Fresh Starts: Ready for Anything (That?s Their Job)
Emergency management has emerged as a formal career path...
New York Times - September 8, 2007
The Boss: Arriving, Goal by Goal
?If you are going to lead, lead. If you are going to follow, follow. If you are not going to do either, get out of the way.?...
New York Times - September 8, 2007
Preoccupations: The Not-So-Simple Art of the Blood Test
Only a few states require licensing for phlebotomists ? it?s mainly on-the-job training...
New York Times - September 8, 2007
National Perspectives: A Pricing System With Wiggle Room
Variable pricing, in which a house might be put on the market for $510,000 to $565,000, has gained popularity over the last decade...
New York Times - September 8, 2007
Some Labor Pains for First Data Deal
All last week, Wall Street was watching negotiations between Kohlberg Kravis Roberts and a group of big banks to finance the First Data Corporation buyout...
New York Times - September 8, 2007
The Count: Making Sense of Who Buys Tech, and When
Two main factors, attitude and income, help determine whether someone will buy the latest technology or hold back...
New York Times - September 8, 2007
Putting Stock in His Market
Entertaining is what Dylan Ratigan, the fast-talking young host on CNBC, likes to do most...
New York Times - September 8, 2007
Square Feet | Spotlight: Midtown?s Biggest Fans May Be Foreign Buyers
Buoyed by the strong economies and currencies in their own countries, foreign investors now see an opportunity to scoop up coveted Manhattan real estate...
New York Times - September 8, 2007
The Nation: Bernanke, the Fed and 2008
If the Federal Reserve is unable prevent housing sickness from infecting the rest of the economy, will the Democratic and Republican parties make it to the 2008 elections without catching something?...
New York Times - September 8, 2007
Style: The Big Brand Theory
More and more young designers are gambling on the mass market. But is it all risk and no profit?...
New York Times - September 8, 2007
Travel Bug: An Inspector Calls, and Hotels Listen
Hotel ratings are often a maze of confusion, aggravated in recent years by online travel booking sites that often use customers? comments to rate accommodations...
New York Times - September 8, 2007
Slipstream: Are Those Commercials Working? Just Listen
A California start-up aims to use existing technologies to measure the exposure and effectiveness of ads on broadcast media...
New York Times - September 8, 2007
Strategies: What SAT Scores Say About Your Hedge Fund
Hedge funds run by managers who attended colleges with relatively high SAT scores regularly posted higher returns, according to a recent study...
New York Times - September 8, 2007
Spending: When to Hold ?Em, and When to Go to Poker School
Poker camps have become hot commodities, offering amateur players a chance to improve their games with advice from the pros...
New York Times - September 8, 2007
Market Week: Guessing the Size of a Rate Cut
A light economic calendar should provide traders with an ideal opportunity to speculate about how big a cut in interest rates is likely to be...
New York Times - September 8, 2007
Dealbook: The Ranks of the Comfortable Are Still Thinning
Forget about cutting the size of bonuses: let?s start really thinking about the possibility of slashing jobs...
New York Times - September 8, 2007
Investing: In the Green Marathon, Which Stocks Will Be the Winners?
Some of the best prospects may be found among the companies that have made the most of recent fair-weather conditions...
New York Times - September 8, 2007
Re:framing: When Balance Sheets Collide With the New Economy
Today?s knowledge economy is stuck with the equivalent of an abacus for measuring the actual financial value of corporate assets and liabilities...
New York Times - September 8, 2007
Even in a Virtual World, ?Stuff? Matters
As a petri dish for examining what makes many of us tick, Second Life reveals just how deep-seated the drive is to fit in, look good and get ahead...
New York Times - September 8, 2007
Can Michael Dell Refocus His Namesake?
After a year of sluggish growth, financial disappointments and a high-profile safety recall, re-engineering the Dell model will be a daunting challenge...
New York Times - September 8, 2007
US gives stark warning to Eritrea
The US issues Eritrea with its strongest warning yet over its alleged support for terrorism...
BBC News - September 8, 2007
Menem charged with weapons sales
Argentina's former President Carlos Menem is charged with involvement in illegal arms sales during the 1990s...
BBC News - September 8, 2007
North Carolina under tropical storm warning
A tropical storm warning was posted for the North Carolina coast Saturday as Subtropical Storm Gabrielle gathered in the Atlantic, according to the National Hurricane Center. full story...
CNN - September 8, 2007
The Quad Blog: Good Morning From State College
Penn State coach Joe Paterno and Notre Dame coach Charlie Weis after an Irish victory last September. (Michael Conroy/Associated Press) STATE COLLEGE, Pa. — Good morning from State College, which i can assure you was pulsating with energy last night in anticipation of Penn State’s game with Notre Dame at 6 p.m. today. There are probably [...]...
New York Times - September 8, 2007
High C: The Note That Makes Us Weep
One little note, the tenor high C, played no small role in projecting Luciano Pavarotti?s fame around the world...
New York Times - September 8, 2007
F.B.I. Data Mining Went Beyond Targets
In terrorism investigations, the F.B.I. obtained data not only on the person it was targeting but also details on his or her contacts, bureau documents indicate...
New York Times - September 8, 2007
Hagel Will Not Seek Re-Election to His Senate Seat
Senator Chuck Hagel, the Nebraska Republican, will retire at the end of his term and will not run for the White House, aides said...
New York Times - September 8, 2007
Five-Star Wilderness
On a heli-hiking trip in Canada, you can explore remote mountain passages by day and then be whisked back to your luxury lodgings in time for cocktail hour...
New York Times - September 8, 2007
U.S. official: Voice on video is bin Laden
Initial analysis indicates the voice on a recently released videotape is that of Osama bin Laden, a U.S. official told CNN. full story...
CNN - September 8, 2007
Con Edison Is Supported on Bid to Raise Rates
State officials said that the company should be allowed to raise the prices it charges for delivering electricity by what critics believe would be the biggest amount ever...
New York Times - September 8, 2007
Duke Prosecutor Jailed; Students Seek Settlement
As Michael Nifong reported to jail to serve a 24-hour sentence, the three students he accused of rape were negotiating a financial settlement and a series of reforms...
New York Times - September 8, 2007
Fire Chiefs Say Inspection Rule Defies Reality
There are not enough resources to enforce a rule that was violated before a fatal fire at ground zero, officials said...
New York Times - September 8, 2007
Warming Is Seen as Wiping Out Most Polar Bears
Shrinking polar ice caps will cause at least two-thirds of the world?s polar bears to disappear by 2050, government scientists reported on Friday...
New York Times - September 8, 2007
America's Music: Where the Game Is Just a Warm-Up for the Band
Prairie View A&M University?s band offers a vernacular musical form that is not aiming at commercial success...
New York Times - September 8, 2007
Nursing Home Owners Are Acquitted in Deaths
The trial over the drowning of 35 residents was the only prosecution to result from deaths in Hurricane Katrina...
New York Times - September 8, 2007
Romney?s View of Gay Unions Is Seen as Shift
The presidential candidate bristles when he is accused of shifting his views since his 2002 campaign for governor of Massachusetts...
New York Times - September 8, 2007
What?s Offline: In Favor of Disruption
Spotting the next disruptive technology, understanding the future and expecting less from insurance...
New York Times - September 8, 2007
Beazer Reports Default Notices
The home builder Beazer Homes USA said yesterday that it had received default notices related to senior notes from U.S. Bank, the trustee for the notes, sending Beazer shares down sharply...
New York Times - September 8, 2007
What?s Online: Keeping Piracy in Perspective
Questions about whether the movie industry is too concerned about piracy, companies profiting from the Iraq war and more...
New York Times - September 8, 2007
Congress Passes Overhaul of Student Aid Programs
The bill approved Friday by the House and Senate would sharply cut subsidies to lenders and increase grants to needy students...
New York Times - September 8, 2007
Strategy Is Shifted at Motorola
Motorola executives said Friday that they would introduce a series of innovative new cellphones, rather than a ?one-hit wonder? like the Razr...
New York Times - September 8, 2007
Former Chief of Enron Files Appeal
Jeffrey K. Skilling, the former Enron chief executive who was found guilty of leading a fraud that destroyed the company, asked a federal appeals court on Friday to overturn his conviction...
New York Times - September 8, 2007
Boise Cascade Sells Unit to a Private Equity Firm
Boise Cascade said Friday that it would sell its paper, packaging and newsprint division for about $1.63 billion to a company formed in February by private equity investors...
New York Times - September 8, 2007
Federal Appeals Court Blocks Teva from Selling Its Version of Famvir
Teva Pharmaceutical Industries said Friday that a federal appeals court had issued an order temporarily enjoining it from further sales of its famciclovir tablets, a generic version of the antiviral medication Famvir...
New York Times - September 8, 2007
[TS] About New York: Fighting an Outbreak of Mortgages Too Good to Be True
Brooklyn?s Foreclosure Prevention Project has been so inundated with calls from those in trouble with mortgage bills that it had to stop taking them...
New York Times - September 8, 2007
Saturday Interview: A Drug Maker?s Views of What Ails Health Care
Daniel L. Vasella, chief executive of Novartis, discusses the challenges facing the health care system...
New York Times - September 8, 2007
Basic Instincts: Breadwinner and Mother: Adjust to It
One breadwinner mother finds that the role requires a steeper learning curve and a stronger stomach than expected...
New York Times - September 8, 2007
Investment Firm Aims to Shake Up HSBC
Knight Vinke Asset Management, which has a track record of initiating change at large companies, has found its latest target in Europe?s biggest bank...
New York Times - September 8, 2007
Doctor Who Leaked Documents Will Pay $100,000 to Lilly
Dr. David S. Egilman agreed on Friday to settle a legal dispute with Eli Lilly over documents he leaked about Lilly?s antipsychotic drug Zyprexa...
New York Times - September 8, 2007
Chrysler Chief Sees Link of Housing to Car Sales
Robert L. Nardelli said the problems were causing sales of cars and trucks to decline and would affect the automaker?s planning for the coming years...
New York Times - September 8, 2007
House Passes Bill to Curb Suits by Patent Owners
The legislation, supported by technology and financial services companies, would make patents harder to obtain and easier to challenge...
New York Times - September 8, 2007
Off The Charts: Not the Decade to Go Shopping With a Wallet Full of Stocks
So far this decade, the inflation adjusted total return of the S.&P. 500 is worse than the 1930s, during the Great Depression...
New York Times - September 8, 2007
Wyeth Loses Bout in Fight on a Generic
A federal judge on Friday cleared the way for a copycat version of the popular heartburn drug Protonix...
New York Times - September 8, 2007
Executive Pursuits: Double-Clutching 150 Horses Past the Checkered Flag
Learning to drive an open-wheel Formula Dodge offers many rewards, and some risks as well...
New York Times - September 8, 2007
Countrywide Plans to Cut Staff Deeply
Countrywide, the nation?s largest mortgage lenders, said Friday that it would lay off up to 20 percent of its workforce over the next three months...
New York Times - September 8, 2007
Northern Overexposure
With Canada saturated, the doughnut chain Tim Hortons is looking to the U.S. for growth, despite past difficulties faced by other Canadian retailers...
New York Times - September 8, 2007
Stocks Tumble as Job Report Leads Investors to Shift to Bonds
Investors sought safety in government debt and gold as the latest job report raised fears that corporate profits will weaken...
New York Times - September 8, 2007
Bad News Puts Political Glare Onto Economy
The Federal Reserve could feel more political pressure to cut interest rates than it has since the early 1990s...
New York Times - September 8, 2007
Unexpected Loss of Jobs Raises Risk of Recession
A Labor Department report showed that the economy lost 4,000 jobs in August, the first drop in 4 years, suggesting that turmoil in the financial markets could be spreading...
New York Times - September 8, 2007
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