Posted on 08 February 2010
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Francesca Di Meglio
For two years, MBAs have suffered mightily, as the credit crisis, recession, and bursting of the housing bubble have wreaked havoc on the job market. One by one, starting with investment banking, whole industries have erected “MBAs Need Not Apply” signs. One big exception is health care.
With the prospect of health-care reform on [...]
08 February 2010
HARRISBURG, Pa.—U.S. Rep. John Murtha, an influential critic of the Iraq War whose congressional career was shadowed by ethics questions, died Monday. He was 77. View Full Image Getty Images Rep. John Murtha in 2007 View Full Image Rep. John Murtha in 2007 The Pennsylvania Democrat had been suffering complications from gallbladder surgery. He died at Virginia [...]
08 February 2010
Getty Images New Orleans Saints fans watch the Super Bowl broadcast at a bar on Sunday. New Orleans Saints fans watch the Super Bowl broadcast at a bar on Sunday. A record 106.5 million Americans watched the New Orleans Saints beat the Indianapolis Colts in Sunday’s Super Bowl game on CBS, setting a new high for any U.S. [...]
08 February 2010
WASHINGTON Shon R. Hopwood was not a particularly sophisticated bank robber. “We would walk into a bank with firearms, tell people to get down, take the money and run,” he said the other day, recalling five robberies in rural Nebraska in 1997 and 1998 that yielded some $200,000 and more than a decade in federal prison. Mr. [...]
08 February 2010
LOS ANGELES Nearly eight months after Michael Jackson died suddenly, his personal physician was charged Monday with involuntary manslaughter for providing him with a powerful anesthetic that was ruled a major factor in his death. The filing of the charges capped an investigation that revealed Mr. Jackson’s heavy reliance on narcotics, including propofol, an [...]
08 February 2010
Just as they begin to dig out from an epic snowstorm on Friday and Saturday, road crews and utility workers across the mid-Atlantic states may be facing a Sisyphean struggle: They are likely to be digging out all over again after another heavy snowfall forecast to start Tuesday afternoon. The news on Monday was mostly upbeat, [...]
08 February 2010
WASHINGTON There was no big speech or fancy ceremony when President Obama observed the Rev. Dr. Martin Luther King Jr.’s birthday last month. Instead, for his first King holiday as president, Mr. Obama quietly installed a rare signed copy of the Emancipation Proclamation in the Oval Office and invited a small group of African-American [...]
08 February 2010
Ever since Apollo astronauts flew to the Moon four decades ago, expert task forces and political leaders have, from time to time, pondered what to do next in human spaceflight. They came up with new directions and new visions, set new goals. Some of their hopes rested on machines that never made it to a [...]
08 February 2010
Ahead of the rainy season there are huge concerns over shelter, sanitation and human rights. The US has a responsibility to help Last month actors and human rights advocates Danny Glover and Harry Belafonte, along with the Reverend Jesse Jackson sent a letter to Congress and the Obama administration calling attention to “serious mistakes that have [...]
08 February 2010
Houston cardiologist Conrad Murray would face up to four years in prison if convicted Michael Jackson’s doctor has tonight been charged with involuntary manslaughter over the pop singer’s death. Dr Conrad Murray, a Houston cardiologist, was with Jackson when the star died on 25 June last year. He faces up to four years in prison if convicted. Murray’s [...]
08 February 2010
KIEV, Ukraine—Opposition leader Viktor Yanukovych held a narrow lead in Ukraine’s presidential election, but his opponent, Prime Minister Yulia Tymoshenko, refused to concede defeat. The standoff raises the prospect that the presidential vote might spill into the streets and the nation’s courts—as it did in 2004, when massive protests over alleged fraud overturned Mr. Yanukovych’s tainted [...]
08 February 2010
Watched by millions, the Super Bowl’s commercial breaks were filled with explicit mockery and derision of women In between the beer and auto adverts during last night’s Super Bowl, CBS television spared 30 seconds to address its female audience, with New York Jets’ quarterback Mark Sanchez urging female viewers to learn more about the symptoms of [...]
08 February 2010
Manhattan apartment of Ponzi scheme fraudster bought by Alfred Kahn, entrepreneur behind Cabbage Patch dolls and Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles A toy marketing tycoon credited with popularising Cabbage Patch Kids has reportedly snapped up Bernard Madoff’s flat in Manhattan, as federal authorities sell off the notorious Wall Street fraudster’s assets. Alfred Kahn, chief executive of 4Kids [...]
08 February 2010
US president to hold televised joint meeting with Democrats and Republicans aimed at finding common ground Barack Obama will make a fresh push this month to get his troubled health reform package through Congress by holding a meeting with both Democrats and Republicans aimed at finding common ground. The half-day of discussion, to be held at Blair [...]
08 February 2010
Individually ridiculed as devoid of substance, together Sarah Palin and the Tea Party could be a powerful Republican force Sarah Palin may not know that Africa is a continent, but if there is knowledge that she is not lacking, it’s a canny ability to spot, and seize, any opportunity that will propel her into the spotlight. Palin’s [...]
08 February 2010
WASHINGTON—Federal Reserve Chairman Ben Bernanke will begin this week to lay out a blueprint for a credit tightening, to be followed once the Fed decides the economy has recovered sufficiently. The centerpiece will be a new tool Congress gave the central bank in October 2008: an interest rate the Fed pays banks on money they leave [...]
08 February 2010
KIEV, Ukraine—Opposition leader Viktor Yanukovych held a narrow lead in Ukraine’s presidential election, but his opponent, Prime Minister Yulia Tymoshenko, refused to concede defeat. The standoff raises the prospect that the presidential vote might spill into the streets and the nation’s courts—as it did in 2004, when massive protests over alleged fraud overturned Mr. Yanukovych’s tainted [...]
Entertainment
Posted on 08 February 2010
Is there any hope for a novel that begins as “The Postmistress” does?” In the fall of 1940 a 40-year-old spinster named Iris James goes to visit a Boston doctor. She wants a written document attesting that she is, as the book says, “intact.” The lucky recipient of the letter will be [...]
Health
Posted on 08 February 2010
Andrew Witty is not quite as young or as buff as Anderson Cooper, but he does do interviews in shirtsleeves from the slums of Nairobi and rural hospitals in Uganda.
LEADER Andrew Witty, named GlaxoSmithKline’s chief executive in 2008.
What makes that unusual is that Mr. Witty is not a roving CNN anchor, but the [...]
Opinion and Editorial
Posted on 07 February 2010
After a month of wrangling, Argentine President Cristina Kirchner succeeded in sacking central bank President Martin Redrado last week. In his place she named Mercedes Marcó del Pont, a Yale-trained economist who has expressed the view that central bank autonomy ought to be limited.
The opposition howled at the news. Felipe Sola, former governor of Provincia [...]
Politics
Posted on 08 February 2010
This is to be a week of testing on Iran: testing of the Iranian government, of the international will to oppose that government and of the delicate balancing act that is American policy.
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Iranian President Mahmoud Ahmadinejad speaking Monday about the Islamic revolution
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Iranian President Mahmoud Ahmadinejad [...]
Science
Posted on 08 February 2010
THE CHAMP The America’s Cup defender Alinghi 5, a catamaran with five hulls and a mast almost 200 feet tall, practicing last month in Valencia.
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VALENCIA, Spain USA-17, the challenger for the America’s Cup, and Alinghi 5, the defender, may be stripped-down, lean racing machines, built purely for speed. But both are fully [...]
Sports
Posted on 08 February 2010
Saints quarterback Drew Brees with his son, Baylen, after Brees passed for 288 yards and 2 touchdowns.
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MIAMI GARDENS, Fla. This was the moment Drew Brees had longed for, the reason he came back from a shoulder injury so severe that doctors initially said it could not be repaired. This was for all [...]
Technology
Posted on 08 February 2010
HONG KONG Police in central China have arrested three people and seized money and equipment worth hundreds of thousands of dollars in a crackdown on the country’s biggest commercial operation to train computer hackers, state media reported over the past two days.
But Western specialists in cybersecurity were skeptical that the arrests signified any [...]
US National
Posted on 08 February 2010
U.S. stock futures followed European markets lower Monday as early optimism gave way to continuing concern over the health of euro-zone economies.
Less than two hours before the start of trading, Dow Jones Industrial Average futures were 20 points lower at 9921. The S&P 500 futures edged 1.1 points higher to 1060.9 and Nasdaq 100 futures [...]
