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Retailers say crowds
bigger this year
The pre-dawn sales frenzy is over — and now the tally begins.
Internet gains more ground
in holiday shopping
More American consumers are leaving their cars at home and shopping online for the holidays in the face of high fuel costs, giving an extra boost to Internet shopping.
Southern states considered
generous givers
Using that standard, the 10 most generous states were, in descending order, Mississippi, Arkansas, South Dakota, Oklahoma, Tennessee, Alabama, Louisiana, Utah, South Carolina and West Virginia.
Monday, Monday! Best holidays
buys are on Mondays
Mondays are the busiest days for online holiday shopping during the season that runs from the Thanksgiving holiday to the end of the year, and advertisers should plan their spending accordingly, a study released Thursday said.
Murdoch predicts gloomy
future for newspapers
Rupert Murdoch has forecast a gloomy future for newspapers with the growth of the internet, saying he doesn't know "anybody under the age of 30 who has ever looked at a classified ad".
GOP loses an asset:
'Purple' Democrats
In a major shift aimed at the 2006 midterm elections, House Democrats are suddenly closing ranks on big votes, forcing an embattled Republican leadership to eke out victories, where they can, on their own.
Poll: Many Americans
think torture justified
Nearly half of Americans believe the use of torture against suspected terrorists to gain information is justified, according to a survey published by the Pew Research Center.
Iraq says pullout
will lead to violence
 Iraqi Foreign Minister Hoshiyar Zebari urged Japan on Friday to keep its troops in southern
Iraq, saying an early pullout of coalition forces would lead to more violence by insurgents.
Court nominee deals
with ethics criticism
Judge Samuel Alito has said he did not break a federal ethics law when he ruled in a case involving the company that handles his mutual fund investments.
Legal experts are divided over whether Alito did anything wrong in the case three years ago.
Anniversary of bus
boycott shifts focus
With the death of Rosa Parks, the 50th anniversary of her arrest and the historic bus boycott it sparked will focus on the protest's lesser-known foot soldiers.
What's next
for GM workers?
With GM cutting 30,000 hourly jobs and at least 2,500 salaried positions, thousands of workers at the automaker face an uncertain future.
High fashion, low-end
stores: Will it work?
Wal-Mart unveiled a series of new ads in Vogue. That same month the retail giant made an appearance at New York Fashion Week - a first.
A city's legacy of
peace-seeking endures
The committee is part of a community planning group called Dayton: A Peace Process (DAPP). It has organized a series of high- profile events this fall to commemorate the 10th anniversary of the Dayton Peace Accords.
Southern drawl gets
a tongue lashing
Across the fast-growing South, accents are under assault, and not just from the modern-day Henry Higginses of academia. There's the flood of transplants from other regions, notions of Southern upward mobility that require dropping the drawl, and stereotypes that "y'alls" and "suhs" signal low status or lack of intelligence.
Definition of South,
being Southern is changing
In this most maligned and mused-upon of American regions, the term conjures a variety of images. Magnolias, front porch swings and sweet tea for some; football, stock cars and fried chicken for others; lynchings, burning crosses and civil rights marches for still others.
Many blacks take pride
in Southern roots
Blacks have a complicated love affair with the South. Their ancestors were enslaved in the region for generations, then Jim Crow laws pushed them to the back of the bus. From inner-city slums to old plantation counties, being black too often still means a second-class existence.
Yes, ma'am, Southerners
take pride in politeness
At a cozy corner table of Mrs. Wilkes' Dining Room, Andrea and Roland Lemke sit elbow-to-elbow with complete strangers as the manager rings the bell at 11 a.m. and asks for bowed heads.
Retailers lack hot
toy this year
Toy retailers sorely need a must-have item to emerge this year to yank them from the doldrums. Without one so far, they have resorted to big discounts to spur sales, and more cuts are likely to come in their own effort to stave off a third-consecutive
year of flat sales.
War's strain wearing
on Army troops, tools
Drawing lessons from his own career, Col. Mat Moten tells his students at the U.S. Military Academy in West Point, N.Y., they could one day have a duty just as important as fighting terrorism: helping rebuild an Army fractured and exhausted by a long and unpopular war.
Fed up with corporate media, Craigslist founder promises real online news
Saying U.S. newspapers "are afraid to talk truth to power," Craigslist founder Craig Newmark hinted that he's about to launch a major online journalism project within the next few months that will copy the successful "wisdom of the masses" approach to classified advertising and apply it to journalism.
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New Orleans' Mardi Gras
parades to roll on
New Orleans' colorful Mardi Gras parades will roll again next year, despite the hole that Hurricane Katrina punched in the city budget.
But there will be fewer floats and a shorter marching season because the city can't afford police overtime, officials said on Wednesday.
FEMA gives hurricane
evacuees extra month
Stung by complaints it was pushing hurricane victims out before the holidays, FEMA extended its hotel housing program Tuesday by a month in 10 states where most of the homeless evacuees sought shelter after Katrina and Rita.
Toyota quickens quest
to unseat GM
 Toyota Motor Corp. is quickening its quest to unseat ailing rival General Motors Corp. as the world's biggest automaker with reported plans to start manufacturing up to 100,000 Toyota vehicles at a Subaru factory in Indiana.
Honda Civic named
top car for 2006
 The Honda Civic, which in its latest incarnation offers drivers a more sleek and upscale take on the popular compact car, has claimed the honor of 2006 Car of the Year from Motor Trend magazine.
Home Depot apologizes to
man accused of taking pencil
The Home Depot has apologized to a carpenter who was banned by the chain after he absent-mindedly pocketed a pencil sitting next to a cash register.
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