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Date: 05 April 2008
By Bloomberg News
Bloomberg News
The News Corporation’s appeal of $91,000 in indecency fines for a 2003 broadcast featuring strippers at bachelor and bachelorette parties has been rejected by the Federal Communications Commission on technical grounds.
Date: 05 April 2008
By Bloomberg News
Bloomberg News
Vacancies at community and neighborhood shopping centers in the United States rose in the first quarter to the highest level in more than a decade.
Date: 05 April 2008
By Bloomberg News
Bloomberg News
Home Depot, the home improvement retailer, may cut as many as 1,000 jobs as it reduces human-resources departments in stores by half to shift more workers to the sales floor.
Date: 05 April 2008
By Bloomberg News
Bloomberg News
The California State Teachers’ Retirement System has withheld votes for eight Morgan Stanley directors, including its chief executive, because of poor company performance.
Date: 05 April 2008
By Bloomberg News
Bloomberg News
The State Department renewed a contract for one year with Blackwater to guard American diplomats in Baghdad.
Date: 05 April 2008
By Bloomberg News
Bloomberg News
A State Department official in charge of passport services is stepping down two weeks after the agency said files of the three presidential candidates had been improperly accessed. A department spokesman said Ann Barrett, the deputy assistant secretary of state for passport services, was stepping down and being replaced by Lawrence Baer, a senior management official. Ms. Barrett will leave the post effective April 7 but will remain employed in the department’s consular affairs bureau. The department is investigating the improper breach of confidential passport files of Senators Barack Obama, Hillary Rodham Clinton and John McCain.
Date: 06 April 2008
By Adam Nossiter
Adam Nossiter
An inquiry into corruption in Alabama’s two-year college system has state legislators on edge.
Date: 06 April 2008
By Helene Cooper
Helene Cooper
Her idyllic childhood was shattered by a violent civil war. Her return from exile revealed what she had, and had not, left behind.
Date: 06 April 2008
By Clark Hoyt
Clark Hoyt
As long as I know the new index in The Times is not crowding out news, I am content to turn past it to find what I want to read.
Date: 06 April 2008
By Laugh Lines
Laugh Lines
The Times offers this cheery news for a spring Sunday: