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A New York Times reporter who was held by the Taliban for seven months has escaped, the newspaper reported Saturday.
The New York Times company said Monday it was getting $250 million in financing from companies controlled by Mexican billionaire Carlos Slim Helu, with the money to be used to refinance existing debt.
The New York Times said it was getting $250 million in financing from companies controlled by Mexican billionaire Carlos Slim Helu, with the money to be used to refinance existing debt.
The New York Police Department is investigating a suspicious white powder sent to the offices of The New York Times
Crews excavating the World Trade Center site this summer for the foundations of a new skyscraper have uncovered features carved into the bedrock by glaciers about 20,000 years ago, including a 40-foot-deep pothole
The New York Times has rejected an essay that Sen. John McCain wrote defending his Iraq war policy.
For the third time in recent weeks, a man climbed up the side of the 52-story New York Times building in New York early Wednesday.
"Self-confidence is the first requisite to great undertakings," said the famed English poet and writer Samuel Johnson, who likely would have found Big Brown trainer Rick Dutrow an interesting character. Since his horse romped in the Preakness, Dutrow has taken self-confidence to another level, talking big and trash-talking at every corner of the barn. Below, we offer the many guarantees of Dutrow, in his own words:
More than 80 percent of Americans believe the country is headed in the wrong direction, the highest such number since the early 1990s, according to a new survey
Amy Sutherland's essay on how she trained her husband like an animal became an internet phenomenon. She hopes her new book has just as much bounce
A New York Times reporter who was held by the Taliban for seven months has escaped, the newspaper reported Saturday.
The New York Times company said Monday it was getting $250 million in financing from companies controlled by Mexican billionaire Carlos Slim Helu, with the money to be used to refinance existing debt.
The New York Times said it was getting $250 million in financing from companies controlled by Mexican billionaire Carlos Slim Helu, with the money to be used to refinance existing debt.
The New York Police Department is investigating a suspicious white powder sent to the offices of The New York Times
Crews excavating the World Trade Center site this summer for the foundations of a new skyscraper have uncovered features carved into the bedrock by glaciers about 20,000 years ago, including a 40-foot-deep pothole
The New York Times has rejected an essay that Sen. John McCain wrote defending his Iraq war policy.
For the third time in recent weeks, a man climbed up the side of the 52-story New York Times building in New York early Wednesday.
"Self-confidence is the first requisite to great undertakings," said the famed English poet and writer Samuel Johnson, who likely would have found Big Brown trainer Rick Dutrow an interesting character. Since his horse romped in the Preakness, Dutrow has taken self-confidence to another level, talking big and trash-talking at every corner of the barn. Below, we offer the many guarantees of Dutrow, in his own words:
More than 80 percent of Americans believe the country is headed in the wrong direction, the highest such number since the early 1990s, according to a new survey
Amy Sutherland's essay on how she trained her husband like an animal became an internet phenomenon. She hopes her new book has just as much bounce
Republican presidential front-runner John McCain on Thursday denied a report in The New York Times that he had a close relationship with a female lobbyist.
Arthur Sulzberger, Jr., chairman of the New York Times Co., has had his hands full lately. Last year, he warded off a campaign by a Morgan Stanley fund manager to abolish the newspaper publisher's two-tiered shareholder structure. Then on January 27, a new group of dissident investors informed him that they, too, were mounting an effort to shake things up at the company.
The nation's three biggest banks have agreed on the structure of a backup fund of at least $75 billion in an effort to help stabilize the credit markets, according to a person involved in the discussions, The New York Times reported Saturday.
Environmental saviors can turn up in the most unexpected places. For the answer to our global waste management crisis, we need only look as far as our back gardens, for example.
Last week could hardly have been grimmer for the newspaper industry. First off, Gannett and McClatchy - the two biggest newspapers publishers in the U.S., respectively - reported diminished revenues and profits. Meanwhile, following the lead of Belo, publisher of the Dallas Morning News, Scripps announced it was splitting its growing television and interactive businesses off from the company's newspaper business so that investors could get excited about the company's slumping stock price.
Tax-writing committees in Congress are weighing a curtailment of a little-known tax break that helps private equity firms and hedge funds cut their tax bills, according to a newspaper report published Thursday.
I've been, over the years, because of our reporting on controversial issues and my strongly held beliefs on those issues, attacked, and usually pretty vigorously, by both the left wing and the right wing of this nation's media, both mainstream and otherwise, and of course the politicians that form the extremes of our political spectrum.
Here are some of the companies whose shares were active in late trading on Tuesday:
Stocks appear to be looking for direction early Monday ahead of a busy week full of economic and earnings reports.
Continuing the debate on the economic ramifications of climate change, The New York Times says the world's leading producer of greenhouse gases, the United States, is doing "scandalously little."
Media companies are notorious for their copycat ways.
Here are some stocks that were moving in late trading Monday:
The steamy summer Friday morning when I visit Martin Nisenholtz comes at the end of a bleak week of news for his employer, the New York Times Co. A few days earlier, it announced that it's planning...
The Bush administration on Monday stepped up its criticism of newspapers that disclosed the existence of an effort to collect bank records of suspected terrorists, singling out The New York Times in particular.
The Gray Lady needs to get hitched soon, or else she might wind up an old maid.
Senate Republicans have withdrawn a tax provision in their energy legislation that would have generated billions of dollars by changing the way businesses treat inventories for tax purposes, according to a report in The New York Times.
The New York Times, tipping its hat to the digital age, is vastly consolidating the stock listings printed in the newspaper and will instead direct readers online to retrieve their financial information.
The difficulty of maintaining a work-life balance may be affecting the participation rates of women in the workforce, according to a report published Thursday.
Home foreclosures are rising, especially for minority homeowners, according to a published report.
Zhao Yan, a Chinese journalist who worked for the New York Times as a researcher, has been indicted on charges of fraud and illegally releasing state secrets, one of his lawyers said.
Stocks looked to pull back Wednesday from the post-Federal Reserve decision rally, as investors look ahead to the latest inflation reading.
The Federal Reserve Bank of New York has called a meeting with certain Wall Street firms to discuss the credit derivatives markets, The New York Times reported.
Tuna producers are taking a page from the playbook of the milk and meat industries and preparing an advertising campaign aimed at promoting their product to consumers, according to a published report.
Flight departure delays are at their worst level since 2000, according to a published report.
Each May new camcorders appear on the shelves of electronics stores everywhere.
Statement from Arthur Sulzberger Jr., chairman of The New York Times Company and publisher of The New York Times:
A federal judge ordered New York Times reporter Judith Miller jailed for contempt of court Wednesday for refusing to testify to a grand jury investigating the leak of a CIA operative's name. She was taken into custody immediately.
Hopes of an accord on debt relief for poor African nations were raised Friday with reports of an agreement between the United States and Britain on writing off $16.7 billion owed by 18 countries.
The New York Times is set to start charging readers for some of its online content that had previously been available for free.
I read in The New York Times the other day that sponsors are placing references to their products in Broadway shows. As you know, Broadway is the home of one of our most important art forms--shows ...
Stocks looked to get off to a rocky start Tuesday as higher oil prices and continued concerns about rising interest rates appeared to worry investors.
The White House dismissed as a "non-story" a report in The New York Times on Thursday that said the Bush administration tried to weaken restrictions governing "extreme interrogation" techniques.
This week, Tom Brokaw leaves NBC's anchor desk. In March, it'll be Dan Rather's turn to depart at CBS.
Dozens of arrests of people charged with crimes related to junk e-mail, identity theft and other online scams will be announced Thursday, according to a published report.
Check out the links below to hot political stories around the country this morning.
Do you crave a tranquil pond surrounded by cascading plants and moss-covered rocks? A flagstone patio with a built-in stainless-steel gas grill and a custom bar? Or do you want both?
Al Neuharth's first eureka moment coincided with his birth--in Eureka, S.D., in 1924--and he's had newsprint in his blood from the beginning. As a boy he delivered copies of the local Alpena Journa...
When Alan Greenspan told Senators in early March that "the recent evidence increasingly suggests that an economic expansion is already well under way," it wasn't exactly news to economic forecaster...
THE HEADLINES Feds Scrutinize Dot-Com Books
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The dark days are here again, and so the need for euphemism is once more upon us. You have noticed it. In good times people speak plainly. There is no looming shadow with sharp little teeth beneath...
Sometimes fashion reviewers can damn a designer's shares to the discount bin. Gucci stock was as unsightly as its spring 2001 collection after the New York Times panned its show. But it would be a ...
Maybe I was just naive.
Before announcing key promotions, a top manager at a mid-sized technology firm decided to run a loyalty check on his subordinates. He persuaded a buddy in IT to forge an e-mail to look like a perso...
Is financial anxiety on the rise, or does it just seem that way? A search for headline mentions of hope and fear in recent business-related stories in the Wall Street Journal, New York Times and Wa...
A former climbing guide, Matt Hyde, 37, is vice president of online sales for REI, the outdoor gear and clothing store based in Seattle. Hyde runs the Internet leader in outdoor gear, rei.com, as w...
Local newspapers don't have it easy. Readership is down, and costs are climbing. So what's a publisher to do? Some have arrived at an improbable solution--deliver the New York Times to their custom...
Do not adjust your set. The issue of FORTUNE you hold in your hand is indeed quite different from any you have seen before--in typography, color palette, organization, even size.
-- Henry Kissinger, 71, ex-Secretary of State, speaking to the Economic Club of New York, on political prospects in the former Soviet Union: "In 500 years, no Russian leader has ever left office vo...
Dear Oddsgiver: I am one of the millions of newspaper readers who thought of you whilst reading about the latest constitutional imbroglio before the American judiciary. The issue is whether the Cli...
The latest cant phrase in American politics is ''tough love,'' and in this item we aim to elaborate its roots and deeper meaning. Warning: The item could be ''tough going.'' Tough love's emergence ...
In which this department presents its third annual salute to the dog days, a feature incorporating the dozen most unsurprising headlines of the past 12 months. As in the past, we have dismissively ...
Some do it to be heroes. Some do it for the rush. And some, psychologists . . . say, do it simply to relieve the tedium . . . The arrests last week of four volunteer firefighters on charges of sett...
Again saluting the dog days, Keeping Up presents its second annual canine- bites-person awards, given this time for the dozen most boring headlines sighted since last August. Main qualification for...
Memorializing the dog days, we hereby inaugurate Keeping Up's first annual list of the ten least surprising recent headlines -- every one a guaranteed nonastonisher.
City officials said Mayor David N. Dinkins had given his blessing to an experiment to test six self-cleaning . . . toilet kiosks on sidewalks around the city . . . In an effort to satisfy advocates...
How long can it take New York City to install five streetside public toilet kiosks a coalition of . . . groups effusively praises as an inexpensive solution to an acute toilet shortage? Maybe forev...
-- The number of black students enrolled in college is at a record high -- 1.13 million students, as the New York Times recently reported rather naively on Page One as a sign of progress. Unfortuna...
Dramatic, silly, outrageous . . . gestures are becoming increasingly common in American business. And those gestures . . . are winning praise from . . . consultants. ''This is a very positive trend...
The Kirov Ballet's . . . program ((includes)) a new ballet that will tell you where the Kirov men are. This week, 32 of them will be running up an aisle of the Metropolitan Opera House and yelling ...
You need not be a weatherperson to know whence the breezes blow, and you do not have to be a neoconservative in order to feel morose these days. But it helps. As the Bush Administration celebrates ...
Productivity Plus . . . is a handy ((software)) program that can . . . improve both the speed and accuracy of anyone who does a lot of typing. With PRD+ in memory, you type an abbreviation, ''ASAP,...
A late entry in the contest for least surprising headline of the year was the page 1 banner across three columns in the New York Times of December 29. Nonastounding development: MANY STUDENTS FAIL ...
We keep an eye out for such locutions, yet had not previously tripped over the word ''speciesism.'' But there it was a few weeks ago in the New Republic, whose correspondent was reporting on effort...
READERS of the Washington Post got what looked like bad tidings over their morning coffee last May 30. They could hardly miss the four-column headline atop the business section that said, LEADING I...
It is time to groan again about the steady politicization of science in the U.S. Our groan for this fortnight is about the great dinosaur debate, a subject that comes up endlessly in the science pr...
Nexis, as ever our guide to the prevalence of loaded phrases, reports 210 sightings of ''militarization of space'' (hereafter MOS) since 1986. Having now sampled the sightings quite extensively, we...
Continental Airlines struck a blow at the concept of first-class service yesterday, announcing that passengers who belong to its frequent-flier program and pay the full coach fare could get first-c...
The socially involved choreography of the 1930s was very much a thing of the past by the early 1960s, when . . . abstract formalism came into fashion. This week's varied dance offerings suggest the...
New York City jail administrators and the board that oversees them are sharply divided over whether the city will be able to handle the influx of prisoners expected this fall . . . ''You're going t...
Holding that the State Constitution provides broader protection for freedom of expression than the United States Constitution, the New York Court of Appeals ruled unanimously yesterday that an adul...
Herewith the second annual Keeping Up nominations for the Ten Most Depressing Events of the Year. A funny thing about the entries below is that, although selected for their ineffable depressingness...
; A bill barring New York City landlords . . . from turning away people because of their occupations was approved yesterday by a City Council committee . . . The bill . . . would amend the city's h...
Historians will record, or better yet forget, that every one of the following happenings happened in 1986, during the tenure of an administration said to be quite conservative: The Attorney General...
''The amount of debt is almost academic. Would you rather fall off the Empire State Building or the World Trade Center?'' -- ROBERT JOEDICKE of Shearson Lehman Bros., commenting on the $4.5 billion...
The Transit Authority will study the possibility of eliminating sections of 11 subway lines because of low ridership . . . The subway segments . . . are primarily in low-income neighborhoods of the...
In which the present writer, overriding negative feedback from his own informal readership surveys, goes right on clothing editorial comments in the ill-fitting habiliments of innocent questions: )...
In which Kindly Dr. Keeping Up testifies yet again on the menace of editorial writers unable to grasp the rudiments of economic logic, as latterly exemplified by their attacks on airline frequent-f...
ITHACA, New York -- Every fall, one in six undergraduate students at Cornell University takes Psychology 101. The introductory psychology class, taught by Professor James Maas, fills the university...
We confess to a certain embarrassment about the amount of space devoted in these valuable pages to arguing with New York Times editorials, which numerous important people are suspected of not even ...
The senior Keeping Up correspondent on the social issues desk looked up from a New York Times editorial the other day and barked a command. ''Instantly procure the unabridged file of Times editoria...
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