Page Two: July - Aug. 2; Meet the Press, Yes, but Not Often
Date: 03 August 2003
Pres Bush holds relatively few formal press conferences not only because of distaste for their potentially messy give and take, but also because there are more palatable alternatives, such as joint news conference with foreign leaders or other figures and very short ad hoc question-and-answer sessions with pool reporters; photos; graph shows number of solo and joint news conferences held by presidents of last half-century (M)
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The Nation: What Privacy?; Everything Else But the Name
Date: 03 August 2003
By Kate Zernike
Kate Zernike
Name of woman who accused basketball star Kobe Bryant of raping her may not appear in newspapers or be spoken by television reporters, but they have revealed virtually everything else about her and her name can easily be learned online; critics say media organizations that report all the juicy details but not the woman's name are splitting hairs and undermining anonymity policies and rape shield laws that are intended, in part, to encourage people who have been raped to come forward without fear of being stigmatized; photo (M)
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Hispanics Back Big Government And Bush, Too
Date: 03 August 2003
By Adam Nagourney and Janet Elder
Adam Nagourney
New York Times/CBS News poll finds that Hispanics view Democratic Party as better able than Republican Party to manage economy, create jobs and improve nation's public school system, but that they also admire Pres Bush and have embraced positions that have typically been identified with Republicans, such as supporting tax cuts and opposing abortion and some gay rights; suggests that both parties face complex challenge in winning support from Hispanics, segment of electorate that is on verge of rivaling African-Americans in numbers; reveals that Hispanics as less than monolithic in their background, culture and political beliefs; graphs (L)
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Blair to Be Called in Inquiry Of Weapons Expert's Death
Date: 02 August 2003
By Warren Hoge
Warren Hoge
Lord Hutton, senior British judge, will take testimony from Prime Min Tony Blair, his top aide Alastair Campbell, Defense Sec Geoff Hoon and BBC chiefs and correspondents on circumstances behind apparent suicide of weapons expert David Kelly; bitter struggle over BBC coverage of Blair's justification of war in Iraq included reporter Andrew Gilligan's naming of Kelly as source of information on government's use of data (M)
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E-Mail Stock Tip Tests Limits of Securities Laws
Date: 03 August 2003
By Adam Liptak
Adam Liptak
SEC lawsuit against Frank Porter Stansberry and Agora Inc, his employer, is first to test whether securities laws can be used against commentary about company in which authors have no financial stake; Stansberry sent e-mail to thousands of newsletter subscribers claiming to have inside information that would send a certain company's stock price up 100 percent and promising to identify company to anyone paying $1,000; information proved to be premature, and shares of company failed to perform as promised; defendants say allowing suit to proceed would expose all forms of communication about investment opportunities to civil liability for publication of any allegedly false statement; SEC says that defendants lied about product they sold and that that lie amounts to securities fraud because it concerns a security; company touted, USEC Inc, is not defendant; graph (M)
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XEROX TO PAY $300 MILLION IN PENSION DISPUTE
Date: 02 August 2003
By Bloomberg News
Bloomberg News
Federal appeals court upholds Oct 2002 US district court ruling that ordered Xerox Corp to pay about $300 million in pension benefits to 25,000 retirees; retirees sued company in 2000 over method it used to determine pension payments (S)
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ANADARKO PLANS ASSET SALES TO FINANCE DRILLING
Date: 02 August 2003
By Bloomberg News
Bloomberg News
Anadarko Petroleum Corp to sell about $100 million in assets by end of year to finance its drilling operations and reduce company debt; will also cut 400 jobs and lower annual costs by $100 million (S)
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G.E. TO POST $150 MILLION GAIN ON EDISON SALE
Date: 02 August 2003
By Bloomberg News
Bloomberg News
General Electric Co to post gain of $150 million on sale of its Japanese life insurance unit to American International Group; GE agreed in June to sell GE Edison Life Insurance and other insurance units to AIG for total of $2.15 billion (S)
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WHEELING-PITTSBURGH STEEL EMERGES FROM CHAPTER 11
Date: 02 August 2003
By Bloomberg News
Bloomberg News
Wheeling-Pittsburgh Steel Corp emerges from Chapter 11 bankruptcy protection; union steelworkers approve five-year contract that includes wage concessions (S)
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COURT BACKS REJECTION OF SOME SCHERING PATENT CLAIMS
Date: 02 August 2003
By Bloomberg News
Bloomberg News
US appeals court upholds New Jersey court ruling that some of Schering-Plough's patent claims on its allergy medication Claritin are invalid; Claritin faces competition from generic rivals now that Schering's original patent has expired; Schering argues for additional patents to keep Claritin protected until 2004 (S)
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