Rubbermaid Cuts Its Full-Year Profit Forecast
Date: 04 June 2011
By Bloomberg News
Bloomberg News
Newell Rubbermaid, the maker of Sharpie pens and plastic storage containers, cut its full-year profit forecast Friday on slumping consumer spending, setting off a 12 percent decline in its share price.
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Mets’ Day Starts With Bad News, and Gets Worse With Latest Collapse
Date: 04 June 2011
By Zach Schonbrun
Zach Schonbrun
A costly error at shortstop by Jose Reyes in the eighth turned the game abruptly, erased the Mets’ one-run lead and helped the Braves to a victory.
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For Couric, ABC’s Pitch Proved Best
Date: 05 June 2011
By Bill Carter
Bill Carter
ABC announced that it has signed Katie Couric to a multiyear contract to host a new daytime talk show, and she will also join the ABC News division.
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Sarah Palin and the Politics of Winging It
Date: 04 June 2011
By Mark Leibovich
Mark Leibovich
Behold Sarah Palin’s Wild Goose Chase Tour, in which grumbles fuel the press and politician alike and conventional campaigning becomes roadkill.
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Too Late for Blagojevich, a Watergate Refugee Teaches Ethics to Lawyers
Date: 04 June 2011
By James Warren
James Warren
James Dean, the convicted Watergate conspirator, is giving a Chicago legal seminar on ethics, but it comes too late to benefit Rod Blagojevich.
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Central Park Zoo Bear Is Euthanized at 25
Date: 04 June 2011
By Elizabeth A. Harris
Elizabeth Harris
Born in Buffalo and a Central Park resident since she was 2, Ida achieved a measure of celebrity as one of the zoo’s two polar bears.
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Iran Protests Hijab Ban
Date: 05 June 2011
By Jack Bell
Jack Bell
Iran plans to protest to FIFA over an official’s decision to bar its women’s national team from playing in an Olympic qualifier because the players were wearing the traditional Muslim head dress, the hajib.
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Brinkmanship in Sudan as a Deadline Nears
Date: 05 June 2011
By Jeffrey Gettleman
Jeffrey Gettleman
Khartoum’s recent military attacks on the eve of the independence of southern Sudan seemed aimed, not at starting a war, but at assuring access to oil.
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A Polarizing Figure in End-of-Life Debates
Date: 05 June 2011
By John Schwartz
John Schwartz
Within the movement known generally as death with dignity, the evaluation of Dr. Jack Kevorkian’s contribution might seem surprisingly qualified, and the praise decidedly muted.
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Palin Says She Didn’t Err on Paul Revere
Date: 05 June 2011
By James Risen
James Risen
Sarah Palin defended her historical account of Paul Revere’s famous midnight ride of 1775 on Sunday, telling an interviewer “I know my American history.”
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