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Madonna, Ritchie to begin divorce in London Friday
Southern Ledger - November 20, 2008
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Invasive mussel confirmed in Utahs Electric Lake
Southern Ledger - November 20, 2008
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Microsoft lets Zune music subscribers keep tunes
Southern Ledger - November 20, 2008
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Ben Affleck tours refugee camps in eastern Congo
Southern Ledger - November 20, 2008
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Palestinian leader appeals to Israelis in peace ad
Southern Ledger - November 20, 2008
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Children dying in Haiti, victims of food crisis
Southern Ledger - November 20, 2008
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Ethnic Turk wins political prominence in Germany
Southern Ledger - November 20, 2008
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Salvador archbishop nixes probe of killed Jesuits
Southern Ledger - November 20, 2008
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Warsaw marks borders of former ghetto
Southern Ledger - November 20, 2008
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US News Archive for September 2005:
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No audience, no stage, no homes
The bassoon player is holed up in Texas. The French horn player, who also plays the garden hose, is stuck in Nashville. Katrina has blown the 68-member Louisiana Philharmonic Orchestra into exile. And no one knows if the beloved ensemble will survive...
CNN - September 9, 2005
FEMA director recalled
Federal Emergency Management Agency chief Michael Brown has been replaced as the man in charge of the Hurricane Katrina federal relief effort...
CNN - September 9, 2005
Allen to head relief efforts
Coast Guard Vice Adm. Thad Allen is replacing Michael Brown, the embattled FEMA director, as the on-site head of hurricane relief operations in the Gulf Coast, Homeland Security Secretary Michael Chertoff announced today...
CNN - September 9, 2005
Announcement Follows Barrage of Criticism; New Chief Is Named
The move was described as a logical step in keeping with Michael D. Brown's overall duties, an explanation that did not reflect the fierce criticism of his performance...
New York Times - September 9, 2005
Initial Search Finds Far Fewer Bodies Than Expected in New Orleans
In the first systematic sweep of city officials found far fewer bodies than expected, suggesting that Hurricane Katrina's death toll may not be the catastrophic 10,000 feared...
New York Times - September 9, 2005
Japan’s Banks Try Something New: Lending
Japan crossed a milestone in its slow economic recovery when the government said lending increased in August for the first time since it started tracking lending...
New York Times - September 9, 2005
Continental Air Projects Big Loss Because of High Fuel Costs
Continental, which has weathered the airline industry's downturn in better shape than many of its rivals, did not give an exact figure for how much it expected to lose this year...
New York Times - September 9, 2005
Katrina sparks mass US aid giving
Americans have given an unprecedented level of aid following Hurricane Katrina, offering jobs and homes as well as donating money...
BBC News - September 9, 2005
Tennis: Pierce into US Open final
France's Mary Pierce beats Elena Dementieva in the first of the US Open semi-finals...
BBC News - September 9, 2005
Most voluntary evacuees gone
Authorities said their sweep of New Orleans for the last voluntary evacuees was nearly complete, with officers ready to carry out the mayor's order to forcibly remove the thousands who remain in their homes...
CNN - September 9, 2005
Officials begin removing holdouts
The sweep of New Orleans for the last voluntary evacuees is nearly complete, authorities say, with officers ready to carry out the mayor's order to forcibly remove the thousands of holdouts. "It's getting to the point where they're delirious," Coast Guard Chief Petty Officer Jason Rule says...
CNN - September 9, 2005
Baghdad airport closed to civilian traffic
Iraqi forces will assume responsibility for airport and aviation security at Baghdad International Airport, a government official says, following its closure to civilian traffic. The shutdown was prompted by a payment dispute with a British contractor who had been providing security services...
CNN - September 9, 2005
Bush to visit disaster region Sunday
President Bush will return to Mississippi and Louisiana on Sunday, the White House said Friday. On Thursday night Bush signed a $51.8 billion emergency spending bill after promising survivors of Hurricane Katrina earlier in the day that the federal government "is going to be with you for the long haul."...
CNN - September 9, 2005
Political Issues Snarled Plans for Military Help After Hurricane
Officials realized that Hurricane Katrina had exposed a critical flaw in the national disaster response plans created after the Sept. 11 attacks...
New York Times - September 9, 2005
Bush Thanks Nations for Storm Recovery Aid
Local police officers began confiscating weapons from civilians in preparation for a forced evacuation of the last holdouts still living in New Orleans...
New York Times - September 9, 2005
From Falluja to the Shores of Louisiana
SLIDELL, La., Sept. 8 - In November, the First Battalion, Eighth Marines, fought the most pitched battle of the Iraq war, attacking insurgents dug into mosques and narrow streets until the city of Falluja was virtually leveled...
New York Times - September 9, 2005
EBay in Skype talks, reports say
Online auction site eBay is rumoured to be in talks to buy internet phone firm Skype for between $2bn - $3bn...
BBC News - September 9, 2005
Armstrong not facing any action
The head of the International Cycling Union says no sanctions will be taken against Lance Armstrong following recent doping allegations...
BBC News - September 9, 2005
Warning against Nicaraguan coup
Nicaragua faces isolation if opposition forces depose President Enrique Bolanos, a US diplomat warns...
BBC News - September 9, 2005
Guantanamo fast in second month
Nearly 90 Guantanamo Bay inmates remain on a hunger strike a month after it started, the US says...
BBC News - September 9, 2005
McDonalds, KFC blasts in Karachi
Two nearly simultaneous explosions go off at a McDonald's and a KFC fast-food restaurant in Pakistan's commercial capital of Karachi, authorities say. There are no immediate reports of deaths, but police say two people are wounded...
CNN - September 9, 2005
$51.8b storm aid approved
As evidence grows of a staggering death toll from Hurricane Katrina, the U.S. Congress approves $51.8 billion in emergency spending to pay for recovery efforts -- an amount that sets aside roughly $1.4 billion a day for five weeks...
CNN - September 9, 2005
Fiat and Ford forge car alliance
Italy's Fiat and US giant Ford are to co-operate on producing and developing new small cars, officials confirm...
BBC News - September 9, 2005
NFL: Brady helps Patriots to win
Tom Brady threw for 306 yards and two touchdowns to help New England
to a 30-20 win over the Oakland Raiders in the first game of the NFL season...
BBC News - September 9, 2005
Thompson 'suicide note' published
US magazine Rolling Stone is to publish what it says is author Hunter S Thompson's suicide note...
BBC News - September 9, 2005
War on terror 'causing US deaths'
The US government's focus on the war on terror has diverted funds from healthcare, leading to many deaths, an expert claims...
BBC News - September 9, 2005
Google snaps up internet pioneer
Internet pioneer Vint Cerf is joining search giant Google, boosting its growing arsenal of intellect...
BBC News - September 9, 2005
Telethons to help Katrina victims
Major TV networks in the US are preparing telethons to raise money for the survivors of Hurricane Katrina...
BBC News - September 9, 2005
Beer and hope in New Orleans
Alastair Leithead reports on the bars determined to offer their regulars hope and a taste of normality in a glass...
BBC News - September 9, 2005
Colombia makes new Farc offer
Colombia says it has made a new offer to the Farc rebel group to hold talks about a prisoner exchange...
BBC News - September 9, 2005
FBI: Relief scams proliferate
Internet sites purporting to be charities related to Hurricane Katrina have been popping up faster than the FBI can look at them, and many appear to be fraudulent, the head of the FBI's cyber division said Thursday...
CNN - September 9, 2005
U.S. approves massive aid package
As signs begin to show a staggering death toll, the U.S. Congress has approved $51.8 billion in emergency spending to pay for recovery efforts -- an amount that sets aside roughly $1.4 billion a day for five weeks...
CNN - September 9, 2005
Cost of Recovery Surges, as Do Bids to Join in Effort
White House officials and Congressional budget experts now assume that federal costs for the hurricane will shoot past $100 billion...
New York Times - September 9, 2005
Political Issues Snarled Plans for Troop Aid
One of the most pointed questions about the response to Hurricane Katrina has been why more troops were not available more quickly...
New York Times - September 9, 2005
Storm Leaves Legal System a Shambles
Hurricane Katrina obliterated courts, records and their support network in the New Orleans area...
New York Times - September 9, 2005
Holdouts on Dry Ground Say, 'Why Leave Now?'
Scattered throughout the dry neighborhoods of New Orleans are people who are defying Mayor C. Ray Nagin's orders to leave...
New York Times - September 9, 2005
Police Begin Seizing Guns of Civilians
Local police officers began confiscating weapons from civilians in preparation for a forced evacuation of the last holdouts still living in New Orleans...
New York Times - September 9, 2005
Willing Workers but With the Wrong Job Skills
The one million people who have suddenly lost their jobs because of Hurricane Katrina are skilled in ways that will make it difficult for them to find new jobs...
New York Times - September 9, 2005
Crispin Porter & Bogusky Awarded Sprite Assignment
Crispin Porter & Bogusky...
New York Times - September 9, 2005
Miller's High Life Man Makes Room for the Girl in the Moon
Miller Brewing, eager for a beer brand to relive the high life, is sending in a girl to do what had been a man's job...
New York Times - September 9, 2005
Market Sputters on Concerns About Oil and Economy
By The Associated Press...
New York Times - September 9, 2005
EBay Is Said to Be in Talks to Buy Internet Phone Company
EBay is in negotiations to acquire Skype Technologies, the Internet phone company that has been the object of much merger speculation, for $2 billion to $3 billion...
New York Times - September 9, 2005
The Churn
Deal Makers...
New York Times - September 9, 2005
Tumult in the Energy Markets
For energy commodities traders, Hurricane Katrina has caused a shortage of data to use in making decisions...
New York Times - September 9, 2005
Lessons From Two Wrecked Hedge Funds
SPEND five minutes in hedge fund land, and someone is bound to wax poetic about hedge funds becoming...
New York Times - September 9, 2005
Taubman Family Sells Its Interest in Sotheby's
A. Alfred Taubman, the former chairman of Sotheby's who was convicted of leading a price-fixing scheme, sold his family's controlling interest in the venerable auction house to the company yesterday for stock and $168 million in cash...
New York Times - September 9, 2005
News Corporation, With IGN in Its Stable, Backs Up Promise to Be Bigger Web Player
The News Corporation has been giving new meaning to the term e-commerce: the company has been on an online buying spree, spending nearly $1.5 billion on three Internet companies...
New York Times - September 9, 2005
VW to Build Hybrid Minivan With Chinese
German carmakers, which have long favored diesel engines, are scrambling to develop hybrid gasoline-electric cars...
New York Times - September 9, 2005
Ford Shuffles Management Ahead of Turnaround Plan
DETROIT, Sept. 8- William Clay Ford Jr., chief executive of the Ford Motor Company, shook up his top management ranks on Thursday as he prepares to embark on the second turnaround plan of his four-year tenure...
New York Times - September 9, 2005
Gasoline Thefts Increasing as Fuel Prices Keep Rising
As fuel prices rise, and the tempers of American drivers with them, so, too, has the number of people who are stealing gasoline...
New York Times - September 9, 2005
Comeback Is Likely for Fish but Maybe Not for Fishermen, Louisiana Officials Fear
BATON ROUGE, La., Sept. 8 - Louisiana officials said Thursday that the commercial and recreational seafood industries along the coastline were devastated by Hurricane Katrina, and they estimated the economic impact could reach $1.6 billion over the next 12 months. And that is not counting the loss of a trademark of bayou culture...
New York Times - September 9, 2005
Wholesale Stockpiles Fell in July
WASHINGTON, Sept. 8 (Reuters) - Stockpiles at wholesalers fell unexpectedly in July and claims for unemployment benefits dropped last week, the government reported Thursday...
New York Times - September 9, 2005
Intel Says Strong Chip Demand Is Causing Supplies to Be Tight
Intel reported that demand for its chips remained strong and that last year's problem of excess inventory had now become one of short supply...
New York Times - September 9, 2005
Sony Takes On Apple IPod by Offering New Walkman
Sony will sell advanced Walkman portable music players this year, aiming to move out of Apple Computer's shadow in a market that Sony created a quarter of a century ago...
New York Times - September 9, 2005
How to Assure the Very Rich Stay That Way
Hurricane Katrina's impact on the poor people of New Orleans made it politically unattractive for the Senate to vote on repealing the estate tax this week...
New York Times - September 9, 2005
Caremark to Settle Whistle-Blower Suit
Caremark Rx, the prescription drug plan manager, agreed yesterday to pay $137.5 million to settle federal lawsuits filed by whistle-blowers that accused a company it acquired in 2003 of improper dealings with pharmaceutical manufacturers...
New York Times - September 9, 2005
Gas Inventories at a 5-Year Low
The nation's gasoline inventories fell last week to their lowest levels in almost five years, quantifying for the first time Hurricane Katrina's effect on energy supplies...
New York Times - September 9, 2005
Delta Completes Sale of Commuter Airline Unit
By Bloomberg News...
New York Times - September 9, 2005
Private Investors to Buy Hertz for $15 Billion
In one of the largest leveraged buyouts in more than a decade, the Ford Motor Company yesterday agreed to sell Hertz, the nation's largest rental car company, to a consortium of private investors for about $15 billion in cash and debt, executives involved in the negotiations said...
New York Times - September 9, 2005
Japan’s Banks Try Something New: Lending
Japan crossed a milestone in its slow economic recovery when the government said lending increased in August for the first time since it started tracking lending...
New York Times - September 9, 2005
New Google 'Evangelist' to Spread Applications
With a billion users, the Internet hardly seems to need an evangelist. Yet "chief Internet evangelist" is the title chosen by Vinton Cerf for his new job at Google...
New York Times - September 9, 2005
Plan by 13 Nations Urges Open Technology Standards
In a report to be presented at the World Bank on Friday, officials from 13 countries will urge nations to adopt open-information technology standards...
New York Times - September 9, 2005
Ruth Built the Steakhouse. Katrina Intervened.
The quick decision by Ruth's Chris Steakhouse to move its headquarters out of New Orleans may foreshadow a painful exodus of other companies...
New York Times - September 9, 2005
F.D.A. Panel Endorses Inhaled Form of Insulin
The first inhaled form of insulin, a product that could reduce or eliminate the daily injections needed by millions of diabetics, moved closer to federal approval Thursday...
New York Times - September 9, 2005
From UBS's Suite of Power to the Sweat of a Hedge Fund
The chief executive of UBS's investment bank has left to be the bank's hedge fund manager, a move that illustrates much about the brave new world of Wall Street...
New York Times - September 9, 2005
Shake-Up at the Top at Sears
Sears Holdings stripped its chief executive, Alan J. Lacy, of his title and said that Edward S. Lampert would be in charge of creative decision making...
New York Times - September 9, 2005
Tennis: Federer reaches last four
Roger Federer beats David Nalbandian to set up a US Open semi-final against Lleyton Hewitt...
BBC News - September 9, 2005
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