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Returns are in, and Merrimack looks like a winner With a 90-59 record in five years at Merrimack , Ann McInerney has set some high standards. | 1 |
France won't release Arafat's medical records PARIS -- France has no intention of making Yasser Arafat's medical records public and will leave the decision about what to do with them up to his family, the foreign minister said yesterday. | 0 |
Couto stops Danvers Anyone looking for a last-minute retirement gift for Somerset boys' soccer coach Whit Horton should consider picking up a copy of Journey's Greatest Hits so the Blue Raiders can blast quot;Don't Stop Believing quot; during their warmups this weekend. | 1 |
China regrets submarine's intrusion, Japan says BEIJING -- China expressed regret through diplomatic channels yesterday that one of its nuclear-powered submarines intruded into Japanese territorial waters last week for quot;technical reasons, quot; Japanese officials said. | 0 |
Britain targets a smoky tradition LONDON -- Four hundred years after King James I denounced tobacco as quot;loathsome to the eye, hateful to the nose, harmful to the brain, dangerous to the lungs, quot; the British government is taking heed. It announced plans yesterday to ban smoking in most public places, including restaurants and any pub that serves food. | 0 |
Quincy gets its revenge It took a year, but Quincy's volleyball team has bragging rights in the city again. | 1 |
BC High drops Cotter home finale For many coaches, their last home game after 41 years on the job would be an emotionally charged event that becomes bigger than the game. | 1 |
Walpole's victory feels like old times WALTHAM -- Certain programs are expected to compete for championships every year in local high school sports, such as Catholic Memorial in ice hockey and Everett in football. | 1 |
Brockton rules New Bedford Even without their star rusher, the No. 3 Brockton Boxers continued rolling last night, turning in a dominant defensive effort to handle New Bedford, 32-6. | 1 |
HP Fares Well in Much of Asia (Reuters) Reuters - Upbeat earnings from U.S. computer\company Hewlett-Packard drove an index of Asian stocks outside\of Japan toward a 5-year high, but the dollar's weakness\against the yen pressured shares in Japanese exporters. | 2 |
Jim Leyland Still Wants to Manage Again (AP) AP - Jim Leyland still wants to manage again despite being turned down by the Philadelphia Phillies, but has little interest in any job that wouldn't allow him to return regularly to his Pittsburgh home. | 1 |
Singapore cuts 2004 growth forecast after Q3 slowdown (AFP) AFP - Singapore cut its growth forecast for this year to 8.0-8.5 percent from 8.0-9.0 percent following a sharp slowdown in the third quarter and warned of uncertainties ahead for 2005. | 2 |
Retail discord ringing over charity's bells This holiday season's retail conundrum: to silence the bells, or let them ring. As the Salvation Army kicks off its annual red-kettle program today, a growing number of retailers, from Best Buy to Target, are banning Salvation Army bell ringers from their doors -- to avoid having to choose between competing charities and out of concern for customers, they say. | 2 |
SEC details Bleidt's alleged scheme Bradford C. Bleidt, the investment adviser and radio entrepreneur accused of stealing as much as \$20 million from clients over two decades, hid his activities from regulators by keeping two sets of books: one for investors whose funds were put into legitimate accounts, and a secret second set that kept track of money he stole from investors and put in ... | 2 |
Taking care of little guy If hell hath no fury like a woman scorned, then a small-business person scorned by his bank comes in second. | 2 |
Offshoring accelerating Michael Brightman is reminded daily that workers in New Delhi do the same job he does. His Indian counterparts routinely direct AT amp;T customers to him for long-distance billing problems that the New Delhi workers can't answer. | 2 |
Middle-class, white-collar jobs leaving, too, not just 'grunt' work Jim Pinder lost his job to India before most people had ever heard of ''offshoring. quot; | 2 |
Latinos turning focus to networking When Ferdinand Alvaro Jr. wanted to start a minority-owned law firm in Boston three years ago, he immediately ran into trouble. The Puerto Rican lawyer and his partners, two black men, made presentations to the cream of Boston's downtown: banks, mutual funds, and other companies throughout the financial district. | 2 |
Just subtract the fear, and add some planning Even with a degree in finance from Bentley College and a year working for a financial planning firm, John Tosti found the prospect of planning for retirement so intimidating that he avoided organizing his savings. | 2 |
Wholesale prices rocket 1.7 increase is the largest in over 14 years Wholesale prices -- catapulted by more expensive energy and food -- soared last month by the largest amount in more than 14 years. | 2 |
\$8.8m Oracle bid nears judgment day Two major PeopleSoft Inc. shareholders yesterday indicated they would split their votes on whether to accept Oracle Corp's \$8.8 billion hostile takeover bid. | 2 |
Flight attendants to hold strike vote The nation's largest flight attendants union said yesterday it would hold strike authorization votes at four major airlines, accusing the industry of using the bankruptcy process to cut workers' pay and other benefits. | 2 |
Spitzer warns of further insurance industry woes Disclosures of bid-rigging within the insurance industry may lead Congress to a ''Pandora's box quot; of unethical conduct, a top investigator told Congress yesterday, just before two more executives pleaded guilty. | 2 |
2.5 auto insurance rate hike reaffirmed The state's highest court affirmed an already approved 2.5 percent average increase in auto insurance premiums for this year, but said the insurance commissioner may have to revise her decision in a way that would ease premiums for certain drivers. The Supreme Judicial Court rejected Attorney General Thomas F. Reilly's challenge of a new formula used by Insurance Commissioner Julianne ... | 2 |
SEC, potential WBIX buyer meet Christopher F. Egan met yesterday afternoon with lawyers at the Securities and Exchange Commission in an effort to keep his planned purchase of radio station WBIX-AM on track. | 2 |
Facing putting the children through college Norfolk County Treasurer Joseph Connolly makes \$89,000 a year. His wife, Elaine, has a hotel job, and they own a home in Weymouth. Connolly also has two part-time jobs, one of them a seat on the Weymouth City Council, another teaching at Curry College. By most standards this family would be considered well off. | 2 |
Specter Closer to Leading Judiciary Panel (AP) AP - Despite protests from anti-abortion activists, Sen. Arlen Specter is moving closer to locking down the spot as next year's Judiciary Committee chairman and shepherd to President Bush's judicial nominees in the Senate. | 0 |
Chirac Says Iraq War Created More Dangerous World LONDON (Reuters) - Last year's U.S.-led invasion of Iraq and ousting of President Saddam Hussein has made the world more dangerous, French President Jacques Chirac said on the eve of a state visit to key U.S. ally Britain. | 0 |
Weak Dollar Seen Pinching Developing Countries Developing countries with substantial reserves in US dollars will lose wealth if the American currency depreciates further, but are unlikely to quickly offload their | 2 |
China Pledges Investments of \$19.7 Bln in Argentina (Update1) China pledged to invest \$19.7 billion in Argentine railroad, energy, telecommunications and housing projects over the next 10 years, an Argentina government official said. | 2 |
2 major PeopleSoft shareholders split on Oracle deal Two of PeopleSoft #39;s (PSFT) largest shareholders indicated Tuesday that they would split on supporting Oracle #39;s (ORCL) \$8.8 billion takeover bid for its business software rival, plunging the deal into uncertainty. | 2 |
Price surge gains traction In the back of the DeKalb Farmers Market, a worker heaves 50-pound bags of Thai rice from a truck docked at the warehouse. Through a large door, he throws the sacks, an image of the Earth embossed on each one. | 2 |
Nasa test flight sets new record An unmanned experimental jet has broken a world record for speed, cruising over the Pacific Ocean at just under 7000 miles (11,265km) per hour in a NASA test of cutting-edge quot;scramjet quot; engine technology. | 3 |
Film piracy lawsuits accuse 22 in Colorado Hollywood studios went to Denver federal court Tuesday, filing two lawsuits against 22 unnamed Coloradans suspected of swapping pirated copies of movies over the Internet. | 3 |
Microsoft Rolls Out NetWare Migration Package Microsoft is campaigning for Novell NetWare users, again. This time Microsoft is wooing Netware users with a migration package that contains several incentives ranging from tools, prescriptive | 3 |
Hewitt rallies past Moya Lleyton Hewitt let the first set slip away after an overnight rain delay. He wasn #39;t about to allow the trend to continue. Hewitt came back from a first-set lag to beat Carlos Moya 6-7 (7-5), 6-2, 6-4 in a | 1 |
NFL ROUNDUP: Fight costly for 2 Browns, 1 Steeeler NEW YORK -- Linebacker Joey Porter of the Pittsburgh Steelers and running back William Green of the Cleveland Browns were fined \$10,000 each by the NFL on Tuesday for their fight before Sunday #39;s game. | 1 |
BRIDGE HANDED ENGLAND CHANCE Chelsea defender Wayne Bridge will tonight be handed the chance to stake his claim as the long-term solution to Englands left-sided midfield conundrum. | 1 |
ABC apologizes for sexy #39;MNF #39; intro In a skit with Philadelphia receiver Terrell Owens, quot;Desperate Housewives quot; actress Nicollette Sheridan was shown wearing just a towel in the Eagles #39; locker room. | 1 |
Sonics #39; Defense to Get a Boost with Return of Fortson Allen <b>...</b> PHILADELPHIA - How valuable has Danny Fortson been to the Seattle SuperSonics? He #39;s having an impact on the team even when he #39;s not playing. | 1 |
Washington-bound Expos find the money for Castilla, Guzman For a team without a budget, the Expos made a big early splash in free agency. In their first major moves since announcing their relocation to Washington, the Expos on Tuesday agreed to terms with third baseman | 1 |
US forces fight in Mosul; hostage is believed slain US and Iraqi troops stormed insurgent-held police stations and neighborhoods in Mosul today, launching an offensive to retake parts of this northern Iraqi city where gunmen staged a mass uprising last week in support of fighters in | 0 |
US #39;ignoring dollar worries #39; BRUSSELS: Euro-zone finance ministers yesterday stepped up pressure on the US to show its strong dollar policy was more than just rhetoric even though they feared their calls were falling on deaf ears. | 2 |
Tokyo Edge: Autumn Brings Gamers' Delights Handheld game devices and satellite radio receiver vie for gadget fans' attention with camcorders, big LCD TV, and more. | 3 |
With earnings up 12.7, Wal-Mart shares drop LITTLE ROCK, Ark. - Wal-Mart Stores Inc., the world #39;s largest retailer, reported a 12.7 percent increase in its third-quarter earnings. | 2 |
Wholesale prices jump in October Even with the surge of energy prices, Fed policy-makers said #39;inflation and longer-term inflation expectations remain well-contained. | 2 |
Murdoch wants Malone #39;s word Following a policy of trust-but-verify, Rupert Murdoch said Tuesday that he wants formal assurance that Liberty Media Chairman John Malone won #39;t make a run at his News Corp. | 2 |
Zurich Financial Q3 falls 31 on hurricane impact LONDON (CBS.MW) -- Zurich Financial Services (ZZ:001107539) said Wednesday that third quarter net profits fell 31 percent to \$454 million, hit by the impact of hurricanes. | 2 |
Salvation Army ready to ring in cash Equipped with bells and the familiar red kettles, local Salvation Army volunteers and clients will hit the streets this weekend for the agency #39;s annual kettle campaign. | 2 |
NASA completes test flight of super-fast jet NASA on Tuesday successfully conducted the final and fastest test flight of an unmanned experimental jet, at a record nearly 10 times the speed of sound, or 11,260 km per hour, it is reported. | 3 |
Movie industry sues file swappers Taking a page from the music industry #39;s playbook, the movie industry filed lawsuits in St. Louis and elsewhere Tuesday as part of a national campaign to crack down on piracy online. | 3 |
Microsoft targets older people for web via TV Seattle, November 17: For people trying to get their aging parents on the web so they can read e-mail and get digital photos of the family, Microsoft Corp has a message: Don #39;t give up. | 3 |
Microsoft Retaliates By Poaching Novell #39;s Customers After Novell slapped a lawsuit on Microsoft, blaming it for the death of its office productivity suite WordPerfect, the Redmond giant seems furious. | 3 |
Hewitt rallies to beat Moya; Roddick wins without best serve Lleyton Hewitt knows how it feels to be No. 1 in the world. Anything less is no big deal to him. Hewitt rallied to beat Carlos Moya 6-7 (5), 6-2, 6-4 in a first-round match at the ATP Masters Cup Championships | 1 |
PO Little League The PO Little League will hold an election of officers meeting at 7 pm Thursday at the YMCA. All officers, coaches, volunteers and interested parents are urged to attend. | 1 |
CHELSEA DUO TO START AGAINST SPAIN Chelsea defender Wayne Bridge will be handed the chance to stake his claim as the long-term solution to England #39;s left-sided midfield conundrum. | 1 |
MVP Guerrero best in country, AL With three of the top four contenders for the American League #39;s Most Valuable Player award from his country, Dominican Republic president Leonel Fernandez felt it was safe to host a celebration | 1 |
Let Bob do his job: agent CHICAGO -- Be prepared for the worst. That could be the message NHL Players Association executive director Bob Goodenow conveys to player agents at a meeting today. | 1 |
Aid worker who cared for Iraqis is believed slain BAGHDAD, Iraq -- Margaret Hassan spent a large part of her 59 years helping needy Iraqis. On Tuesday, her friends and family said they believed her captors had executed her, unjustly ending her life in the land she had adopted as her home. | 0 |
Tokyo Edge: Autumn Brings Gamers' Delights (PC World) PC World - Handheld game devices and satellite radio receiver vie for gadget fans' attention with camcorders, big LCD TV, and more. | 3 |
NASA Jet Sets Record for Speed A tiny pilotless NASA jet soared above the Pacific Ocean on Tuesday at nearly 10 times the speed of sound, almost 7,000 miles an hour, thanks to a radical new engine technology. | 3 |
China, Argentina to establish strategic partnership China and Argentina have decided to establish and develop a quot;strategic partnership, quot; Chinese President Hu Jintao and his Argentine counterpart Nestor Kirchner said Tuesday in Buenos Aires. | 2 |
Microsoft CEO meets Indian prime minister Microsoft chief Steve Ballmer brought his campaign to retain his company #39;s dominance in the Indian software market to the country #39;s leadership yesterday. | 2 |
PPI takes 1.7 jump Soaring energy costs and a surge in food prices contributed to a surprising 1.7 percent rise in US producer prices in October, the Labor Department reported Tuesday -- the biggest gain in almost 15 years. | 2 |
Fox not fazed by CNBC Rupert Murdoch said yesterday he expects to launch his new Fox business channel next summer and that it will be easy to compete against CNBC. | 2 |
Spitzer warns of further insurance industry woes Disclosures of bid-rigging within the insurance industry may lead Congress to a #39; #39;Pandora #39;s box quot; of unethical conduct, a top investigator told Congress | 2 |
X-43 hits 6,600 mph over Pacific Ocean NASA #39;s X-43 unmanned aircraft hit a record 6,600 mph Tuesday in the program #39;s final test flight, providing researchers with data for use on future ultra-high-speed aircraft and spacecraft. | 3 |
MPAA files Internet suits The Motion Picture Association of America on Tuesday filed its first wave of lawsuits against people it alleges have traded illegally copied movies online, a practice the MPAA says represents | 3 |
Kyoto protocol doesn #39;t have to be out of our reach Charles F. Wurster is professor emeritus of environmental sciences at Stony Brook University and is a member of the board of Environmental Defense, a nonprofit organization. | 3 |
Grid project puts unused PCs to work IBM and several of the world #39;s leading scientific and philanthropic groups this week launched a project that would put millions of PCs to work on research problems ranging from Alzheimer #39;s to disaster forecasting. | 3 |
Microsoft Cracks Down on Xbox Changes Game Stop employee Lisa Hargreaves pulls out a stack of games for waiting customers at the University Mall in Davis Calif., at the stroke of midnight Nov. 9, 2004, as fans lined up to get first crack at the \$50 sequel from Microsoft Corp. | 3 |
Notebook: Guerrero earns MVP Vladimir Guerrero had such a powerful presence during the final week of the season that voting for the American League Most Valuable Player Award wasn #39;t close. | 1 |
ABC apologizes for racy TO intro A naked Nicollette Sheridan, playing a character who specializes in sleeping around the neighborhood, jumps into the arms of the Eagles #39; Terrell Owens, the most infamous superstar in the NFL. | 1 |
Sonics #39; win streak at 7 with 103-95 win over Sixers PHILADELPHIA - The difference between the two halves of the NBA used to be as distinct as red states and blue states. Teams residing on the left side of the country preferred an up-tempo game, while everyone else plodded through half-court sets. | 1 |
France #39;s Chirac says UK won nothing from Bush support LONDON: French President Jacques Chirac said in a newspaper interview yesterday that Britain has gained nothing from its support for the United States-led invasion of Iraq. | 0 |
Flight Attendants #39; Union Calls For Strike HONOLULU -- The country #39;s largest flight attendants union is calling for a national strike against four airlines now in bankruptcy. | 2 |
Greece #39;s Alogoskoufis Says US, Japan Needed to Buoy Dollar Greek Finance Minister George Alogoskoufis said Europe alone can #39;t halt the euro #39;s rise and the US and Japan would have to pitch in to buy dollars to end the decline of the American currency. | 2 |
Vodafone doubles interim dividend, extends buy-back Vodafone Group doubled its interim dividend to 1.91p, the top end of forecasts, and extended a full-year share buy-back programme after strong underlying results. | 2 |
Amex sues Visa, MasterCard NEW YORK: American Express on Monday sued credit card associations Visa and MasterCard and eight banks for damages from what it called anti-competitive practices that prevented 20,000 US banks from using its credit card products. | 2 |
Hewlett-Packard Shares Jump After Sales of Servers Rebound Hewlett-Packard Co. shares jumped as much as 9 percent in Europe after the computer maker said fourth- quarter profit beat its forecast and Chief Executive Carly Fiorina said she #39;s fixed | 2 |
Rupe tries roadblock Rupert Murdoch wants to put up another gate to keep media mogul John Malone from buying a bigger stake in his kingdom. One week after adopting a poison pill to protect his News Corp. | 2 |
Two top shareholders take opposing positions LOS ANGELES (CBS.MW) -- As the deadline for what Oracle Corp. has called its quot;best and final quot; offer for PeopleSoft Inc. looms, two of the unwilling takeover target #39;s top shareholders were split Tuesday on whether to back the \$9.2 billion bid. | 2 |
NASA quot;scramjet quot; breaks speed record A tiny unmanned NASA quot;scramjet quot; soared above the Pacific Ocean yesterday at nearly 10 times the speed of sound, or almost 7,000 mph, in a record-breaking demonstration of a radical new engine technology. | 3 |
Film Trade Group Files Anti-Piracy Suits LOS ANGELES Nov 17, 2004 - Following the lead of record companies who curtailed rampant Internet piracy by targeting even small-time file swappers, Hollywood studios have launched a first wave of lawsuits against people who allegedly downloaded recent | 3 |
Europe goes to the Moon Europe #39;s first mission to the Moon is about to start. The unmanned, solar energy driven SMART-1 spacecraft has entered the orbit around the Moon. | 3 |
Computers worldwide will power big project on proteins If the Human Genome Project gave biologists the equivalent of a parts list for a car, then the latest biology mega-project will be like the instructions that show how the parts combine to make an operating fuel injector. | 3 |
Vole stole my Yoga idea AN ACADEMY Award winning screenwriter has sued the mighty Microsoft saying it stole his idea for a virtual yoga studio when it issued quot;Yourself! | 3 |
Microsoft Unveils Its New Search Engine -- at Last! After months of speculation and two quot;preview quot; releases, Microsoft unwraps its new MSN search engine, the first major competitor to join Web search major leagues in nearly a year. | 3 |
Microsoft Uses Halo 2 to Catch Xbox Pirates With Halo 2 racking up record sales and eager fans rushing to Microsoft #39;s Xbox Live online gaming service to compete with other gamers from around the world, it should be an exciting time for Xbox enthusiasts. | 3 |
Nash enjoys emotional return to Dallas; Garnett gets best of Shaq Back in Dallas, Steve Nash deftly ran the Phoenix offense and set up his new teammates with one smooth pass after another. Kevin Garnett kept the ball in his own hands, outclassing Shaquille O #39;Neal all night. | 1 |
Cahill: Victory Should Have Been Ours Tim Cahill revealed he thought Australia deserved to win tonights international match with Norway at Craven Cottage. Norway took the lead through Steffen Iversen shortly before half-time, before Tim Cahill | 1 |
Basketball: Canada #39;s Nash makes triumphant NBA return to Dallas DALLAS, United States : Steve Nash reminded the Dallas Mavericks how impressive a National Basketball Association player he can be, scoring 17 points and adding 18 assists to lead Phoenix in a 107-101 triumph here. | 1 |
Tim and world are one Maybe coach Lenny Wilkens should make copies of the game tape of the Knicks #39; 99-81 loss last night at SBC Center and distribute them to his players as required viewing. | 1 |
SIGNS OF STARDOM The colossal sign that is draped around one end of the American Airlines Arena is a rather imposing spectacle, to say the least. Theres little doubt that Dwyane Wade has achieved star status in south Florida. | 1 |
Eli takes giant step to starter When Archie Manning heard his 23-year-old son would be starting against the Atlanta Falcons on Sunday, he remembered what his other quarterback son told him after his first NFL start. | 1 |
Mosul Forces Secure 75 Percent of Police Stations, US Says US and Iraqi forces secured more than three quarters of Mosul #39;s police stations as calm prevailed following last week #39;s flare up in violence that saw insurgents raid police buildings in the city, the US military said. | 0 |
Palestinian groups position candidates for election GAZA CITY, Gaza Strip -- Militant groups behind many suicide bombings dismissed a call from interim Palestinian leader Mahmoud Abbas on Tuesday to halt attacks in the days leading up to a Jan. 9 election to replace Yasser Arafat. | 0 |
Colin Powell to travel to Middle East on Nov 21-22 Washington, Nov 17 (PTI) US Secretary of State Colin Powell, facing his last weeks on the job, will travel to the Middle East as scheduled to accelerate prospects for peacemaking, the State Department has said. | 0 |
Sharon mulls coordinating plan with new Palestinian leadership Jerusalem: Israeli Prime Minister Ariel Sharon has said he would be willing to consider coordinating his unilateral plan to withdraw from the Gaza Strip with the Palestinians if the new leadership shows willingness to fight quot;terror quot;. | 0 |
UNH squelches Merrimack Junior defenseman Jacob Micflikier scored a pair of goals and Preston Callander had three assists as the University of New Hampshire men's team handed Merrimack a 4-1 Hockey East loss last night in North Andover. | 1 |
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