International Herald Tribune back issues from August 2007:
Murdoch bid for Dow appears triumphantDeal that would reshape global media gains tentative support from Bancrofts
Aug 01, 2007; ... Richard Perez-Pena and Andrew Ross Sorkin International Herald Tribune 08-01-2007 In a deal that promises to reshape the financial media landscape, Rupert Murdoch appeared to win his long-coveted prize Tuesday, tentatively gaining enough support from the deeply divided Bancroft ...
Wrangling on carbon spills into EU courts6 nations challenge Union's limits on greenhouse gases
Aug 01, 2007; ... James Kanter and Stephen Castle International Herald Tribune 08-01-2007 A tug of war over carbon dioxide emissions in Europe has turned litigious, with governments and environmental watchdogs fighting at the region's highest court over the right to pollute.Poland, Hungary, the Czech ...
'Harry Potter' in China: Which one?
Aug 01, 2007; ... Howard W. French International Herald Tribune 08-01-2007 China could not wait for the official release date of the seventh book in the worldwide Harry Potter publishing franchise, a little more than a week ago. It came out here with an identical title a full 10 days before the ...
For some Japanese, dream wedding means a trip to Europe
Aug 01, 2007; ... Doreen Carvajal International Herald Tribune 08-01-2007 The first time that Hirosha Watanabe and Naoko Shibuya entered a church was the giddy moment on their march down the aisle in pearl grey tails and a frothy wedding dress to the strains of Wagner's ''Bridal Chorus.'' They were ...
Seoul seeks 'flexibility' on Taliban demandsAfter 2nd hostage dies, new pressure on Afghanistan and U.S.
Aug 01, 2007; ... Choe Sang-Hun International Herald Tribune 08-01-2007 Shocked by the killing of a second South Korean hostage in Afghanistan and weary of the 13-day-old crisis, South Korea on Tuesday urged the U.S. and Afghan governments to show ''flexibility'' over Taliban demands to exchange its ...
Senate bill could help finance nuclear plants
Aug 01, 2007; ... Edmund L. Andrews and Matthew L. Wald International Herald Tribune 08-01-2007 A one-sentence provision buried in the U.S. Senate's recently passed energy bill, inserted without debate at the urging of the nuclear power industry, could make builders of new nuclear plants eligible for ...
For some Japanese, dream wedding means a trip west
Aug 01, 2007; ... Doreen Carvajal International Herald Tribune 08-01-2007 The first time that Hirosha Watanabe and Naoko Shibuya entered a church was the giddy moment on their march down the aisle in pearl grey tails and a frothy wedding dress to the strains of Wagner's ''Bridal Chorus.'' They were ...
U.S. aid rules impede the flow of food to Africa
Aug 01, 2007; ... Celia W. Dugger International Herald Tribune 08-01-2007 As the U.S. Congress debates an omnibus farm bill, it is considering a small change that advocates say could make a big difference to the world's hungriest people: allowing the federal government to buy some food in Africa to ...
A massive Afghan phenomenon: Television
Aug 01, 2007; ... Barry Bearak International Herald Tribune 08-01-2007 Seven years ago, in a very different time in a very different Afghanistan, a medical student named Daoud Sediqi was bicycling from campus when he was stopped by the Taliban's whip-wielding religious police. The young man ...
Rich French exiles hear a plea to come on homeLetter from France
Aug 01, 2007; ... Celestine Bohlen International Herald Tribune 08-01-2007 Nicolas Sarkozy is rolling out the welcome mat for thousands of rich French people who fled one of Europe's most onerous tax regimes. Few may heed his call.In his first economic act as president, Sarkozy is pushing a tax law to ...
Encore for Chelsea Clinton in first family role?
Aug 01, 2007; ... Jodi Kantor International Herald Tribune 08-01-2007 Eric Konigsberg contributed reporting.*Asked which parent Chelsea Clinton most resembles, friends tick through the mother-daughter similarities. There is the habit of pre-empting questions by asking lots of them. The passionate ...
IN OUR PAGES: 100, 75 AND 50 YEARS AGO1907: Eight Dead in Casablanca Uprising
Aug 01, 2007 ... International Herald Tribune 08-01-2007 News received this morning [July 31] from Casablanca shows that the situation in that town is serious. This afternoon [July 31] a German ship anchored off Tangier. It contained a number of Israelites, fugitives from Casablanca. They stated ...
IN OUR PAGES: 100, 75 AND 50 YEARS AGO1932: Hitler's Party Falls Short of Majority
Aug 01, 2007 ... International Herald Tribune 08-01-2007 Although failing to gain the clear majority they anticipated, the National Socialists are expected to go to the new German Reichstag with a total of 226 seats, having polled 13,372,413 votes out of a total of 36,976,219, according to ...
IN OUR PAGES: 100, 75 AND 50 YEARS AGO1957: Dulles Talks Arms With Soviets
Aug 01, 2007 ... International Herald Tribune 08-01-2007 Secretary of State John Foster Dulles met for the first time with chief Soviet delegate Valerian Zorin today [July 31] amid indications that the protracted United Nations disarmament subcommittee talks may be at a critical turning point. The ...
Army ends its security operations in Ulster
Aug 01, 2007; ... Sarah Lyall International Herald Tribune 08-01-2007 The British Army, for 38 years a prominent symbol of the sectarian antagonisms of Northern Ireland, closed down its operations there Tuesday. The army, which at the height of its presence had 27,000 soldiers stationed in Northern ...
With nails and sails, a ship rebornFrench artisans building vessel that took Lafayette to America
Aug 01, 2007; ... Elaine Sciolino International Herald Tribune 08-01-2007 Piece by piece, a graceful structure of whimsy and magic is taking shape in this old river port, fulfilling the dream of a group of sea-faring Frenchmen to pay tribute to a founding father of French-American friendship.For a ...
Michelangelo Antonioni, subversive filmmaker
Aug 01, 2007; ... Rick Lyman International Herald Tribune 08-01-2007 Christine Hauser and Graham Bowley contributed reporting.*Michelangelo Antonioni, the Italian director whose canticles of alienation dominated international filmmaking in the 1960s, inspiring intense admiration, denunciation and ...
After 38 years, British Army ends role in Northern Ireland
Aug 01, 2007; ... Sarah Lyall International Herald Tribune 08-01-2007 The British Army, for 38 years a prominent symbol of the sectarian antagonisms of Northern Ireland, closed down its operations there Tuesday. The army, which at the height of its presence had 27,000 soldiers stationed in Northern ...
Tribunal indicts head of Khmer Rouge jail
Aug 01, 2007; ... Seth Mydans International Herald Tribune 08-01-2007 A tribunal in Cambodia charged the commandant of the main Khmer Rouge torture house with crimes against humanity on Tuesday, bringing the first indictment in a long-delayed trial for the deaths of 1.7 million people in the late ...
Indian cabinet minister snared in dowry dispute
Aug 01, 2007; ... Amelia Gentleman International Herald Tribune 08-01-2007 A senior cabinet minister has been accused of breaking India's dowry laws, with his grandson's wife claiming that her new in-laws had demanded an expensive car and an apartment as part of the marriage settlement. Arjun Singh, ...
Abe regrets U.S. call for apology in World War II sex slavery
Aug 01, 2007; ... Norimitsu Onishi International Herald Tribune 08-01-2007 Prime Minister Shinzo Abe described as ''regrettable'' on Tuesday the approval of a resolution by the U.S. House of Representatives calling on Japan to acknowledge its wartime sex slavery, indicating strongly that the Japanese ...
Bollywood star sentenced to 6 years
Aug 01, 2007; ... Amelia Gentleman International Herald Tribune 08-01-2007 Anand Giridharadas contributed reporting from Mumbai.* On the last day of an epic 12-year trial, one of Bollywood's best-loved film stars was sentenced to six years in prison Tuesday for illegally procuring weapons from the ...
Corrections
Aug 01, 2007 ... International Herald Tribune 08-01-2007 An article in the Saturday-Sunday issue about a proposal by John Edwards to raise the U.S. capital gains tax misstated the current federal estate tax exemption. The exemption applies to estates valued at less than $2 ...
Seoul urges 'flexibility' on hostagesIt pleads with U.S. to find a solution
Aug 01, 2007; ... Choe Sang-Hun International Herald Tribune 08-01-2007 Brian Knowlton contributed reporting from Washington.* Shocked by the killing of a second South Korean hostage in Afghanistan and weary of the continuing crisis, South Korea on Tuesday urged the U.S. and Afghan governments to show ...
UN backs Brown call for action on Darfur
Aug 01, 2007; ... John Sullivan International Herald Tribune 08-01-2007 Prime Minister Gordon Brown of Britain urged strong action Tuesday in support of peacekeeping efforts in Darfur, calling the war that has plagued the region of western Sudan for four years ''the greatest humanitarian disaster the ...
Only the criminals are safe
Aug 01, 2007 ... International Herald Tribune 08-01-2007 Guatemala's vicious 36-year civil war ended a decade ago. Unfortunately, the bloodshed and rampant impunity have not. More than 5,000 murders are reported each year. Many are committed by the same groups - both left and right - that terrorized ...
A rising refugee crisisAid for Iraq
Aug 01, 2007; ... John Holmes International Herald Tribune 08-01-2007 One of the world's largest and fastest-growing humanitarian crises is also among the least known: Iraq. More than four million people, one out of every seven Iraqis, have fled their homes in what is the largest population ...
Abe on the ropes
Aug 01, 2007 ... International Herald Tribune 08-01-2007 Voters in Japan have inflicted every possible electoral humiliation on Prime Minister Shinzo Abe and his Liberal Democratic Party short of forcing him to resign. On Sunday, the center-right governing party won only 37 of the 121 contested ...
What's in a name?Taiwan and the UN
Aug 01, 2007; ... James Huang and Michael Kau International Herald Tribune 08-01-2007 The Republic of China has tried, without success, to re-enter the United Nations since 1993. This year marks the first time that it has changed tactics by bidding to join the world body under the name Taiwan. Why the ...
Time to act on voting reform
Aug 01, 2007 ... International Herald Tribune 08-01-2007 Before the House of Representatives takes its August recess, it owes it to the voters to pass a bill that would fix the problems with electronic voting. And there is a good bill ready, sponsored by Rush Holt, Democrat of New Jersey, that would ...
Why Africa fears Western medicineMedical killers
Aug 01, 2007; ... Harriet A. Washington International Herald Tribune 08-01-2007 To Westerners, the repatriation of five nurses and a doctor to Bulgaria last week after more than eight years' imprisonment meant the end of an unsettling ordeal. The medical workers, who in May 2004 were sentenced to ...
Rice and Gates seek Arabs' help on Iraq
Aug 01, 2007; ... Helene Cooper and David S. Cloud International Herald Tribune 08-01-2007 Isabel Kershner contributed reporting from Jerusalem.*Secretary of State Condoleezza Rice and Defense Secretary Robert Gates coupled their big military assistance package for Arab allies with a request for Arab ...
House passes disclosure reform
Aug 01, 2007; ... Jeff Zeleny International Herald Tribune 08-01-2007 With only eight votes cast against it, a bill requiring greater disclosure of fund-raising information and measures to finance special-interest projects was passed by the U.S. House of Representatives on Tuesday.The bill, which was ...
Iraqi foes concern next Joint Chiefs'Unlimited pool' of militants cited
Aug 01, 2007; ... David Stout International Herald Tribune 08-01-2007 President George W. Bush's choices to lead the Joint Chiefs of Staff, the senior uniformed leadership of the armed services, said Tuesday that they were concerned about the seemingly inexhaustible numbers of militant fighters in ...
After seizure, top justice loses aura of invincibility
Aug 01, 2007; ... Linda Greenhouse International Herald Tribune 08-01-2007 No matter what his doctors eventually tell John Roberts Jr., or the world, about the diagnosis and outlook for his seizure disorder, it is clear that something changed irrevocably following the 52-year-old chief justice's ...
Jail chief for Khmer Rouge is indicted
Aug 01, 2007; ... Seth Mydans International Herald Tribune 08-01-2007 A tribunal in Cambodia charged the commandant of the main Khmer Rouge torture house with crimes against humanity on Tuesday, bringing the first indictment in a long-delayed trial for the deaths of 1.7 million people in the late ...
U.S. chief justice leaves hospital after seizure
Aug 01, 2007; ... Katie Zezima and Linda Greenhouse International Herald Tribune 08-01-2007 Chief Justice John Roberts was discharged from a hospital here Tuesday after being kept overnight as a ''precaution'' following a seizure, hospital officials said.Looking jovial, Roberts walked out of the ...
LETTERS TO THE EDITORTraffic in Paris
Aug 01, 2007 ... International Herald Tribune 08-01-2007 Regarding Serge Schmemann's ''Loving Paris means never having to drive'' (Meanwhile, July 26): To an observer coming from another planet perhaps the solutions adopted by green Mayor Bertrand Delanoe in order to reduce traffic appears ...
LETTERS TO THE EDITORThe power of meditation
Aug 01, 2007 ... International Herald Tribune 08-01-2007 David Brook's column, ''Bonded by loops and flares'' (Views, July 21), showed great sensitivity and reflection. However, I disagree with his statement, ''It exposes the fallacy of the New Age narcissists who believe they can find their true, ...
LETTERS TO THE EDITOREarthquake in Japan
Aug 01, 2007 ... International Herald Tribune 08-01-2007 Regarding the article ''Atom plans unshaken by quake in Japan'' (July 27): I am admittedly unable to be objective about the revelations of possible cover-ups concerning the nuclear plant at Kashiwazaki, Japan, because my wife is from that city ...
A war best served coldAmerica's 'containment' policy
Aug 01, 2007; ... Nicholas Thompson International Herald Tribune 08-01-2007 Sixty years ago this summer, writing under the byline of X, George Kennan supposedly laid out America's Cold War foreign policy. Kennan's essay is often said to be the most influential article in the history of America's ...
'24' as a reality television showMeanwhile
Aug 01, 2007; ... Judith Warner International Herald Tribune 08-01-2007 'I hope people will make the distinction between television and reality.''Jack Bauer stood with his back to the sea, the variegated light of early evening playing upon the features of his careworn face. Pondering the future, he ...
U.S. chief justice suffers a seizure but is called 'fully recovered'
Aug 01, 2007; ... Linda Greenhouse International Herald Tribune 08-01-2007 Lawrence K. Altman contributed reporting from Seattle.* Chief Justice John Roberts Jr. has been hospitalized after suffering a seizure at his summer home in Maine, the Supreme Court announced. The episode occurred Monday and ...
U.K. badger on rampage, in Iraqi press
Aug 01, 2007; ... Stephen Farrell International Herald Tribune 08-01-2007 Nazariya al-Muwamara, they call it in Arabic: the conspiracy theory. As they go, this one is a gem. Take a Western army wearing out its welcome in the ancient land of Mesopotamia. Add a large, sharp-toothed creature halfway ...
British leader stresses 'shared values' with U.S.But Brown lacks the Bush-Blair coziness
Aug 01, 2007; ... Jim Rutenberg International Herald Tribune 08-01-2007 On his first official trip to the United States as the prime minister of Britain, Gordon Brown has displayed what can best be described as a resounding - if dispassionate - show of like-minded camaraderie with President George W ....
Michelangelo Antonioni, 94, filmmaker
Aug 01, 2007; ... Rick Lyman International Herald Tribune 08-01-2007 Michelangelo Antonioni, the Italian director whose canticles of alienation dominated international filmmaking in the 1960s, inspiring intense admiration, denunciation and confusion, died Monday at his home in Rome. He was 94.Tall, ...
BOOKS/ NonfictionInside the Red Mansion
Aug 01, 2007; ... Janet Maslin International Herald Tribune 08-01-2007 On the Trail of China's Most Wanted ManBy Oliver August268 pages. $26. Houghton Mifflin.Reviewed by Janet Maslin*As Beijing bureau chief for The Times of London, Oliver August soon discovered something very newsworthy: that ''the ...
Audacious 'Take Flight' rises above a field of stale musicals
Aug 01, 2007; ... Matt Wolf International Herald Tribune 08-01-2007 The London theater has an odd relationship with that most beloved of genres, the musical, though you wouldn't necessarily guess as much from the vast swath of song-and-dance shows defining the West End at the moment. Cast a careful ...
A debut at Bayreuth unsettles a legacy
Aug 01, 2007; ... George Loomis International Herald Tribune 08-01-2007 Like the knight Walther von Stolzing in ''Die Meistersinger von Nurnberg,'' who composes a prize song to win his beloved Eva, Katharina Wagner has created a production of the opera with a reward in mind: an offer to succeed her ...
PEOPLE
Aug 01, 2007 ... International Herald Tribune 08-01-2007 Kelly Osbourne , the daughter of Ozzy and Sharon Osbourne , will make her legitimate-theater debut as the prison matron ...
Restaging the '60s as both art and protest
Aug 01, 2007; ... Randy Kennedy International Herald Tribune 08-01-2007 It's not an unfamiliar tableau these days: people gathered on a grassy expanse of the National Mall here, listening to someone deliver an impassioned antiwar speech with phrases like ''aggressive, activist foreign policy,'' ''the ...
It's simple: Murdoch just wanted it more than anyone else
Aug 01, 2007; ... David Carr International Herald Tribune 08-01-2007 In the end, News Corp.'s capture of Dow Jones was quite simple: Rupert Murdoch wanted it more.He wanted it more than other potential bidders, like General Electric, Pearson and Ron Burkle, who never came close to challenging his ...
GM profit climbs, but U.S. losses continue
Aug 01, 2007; ... Jeremy W. Peters International Herald Tribune 08-01-2007 Micheline Maynard contributed reporting from Detroit.* General Motors' global auto business helped lift the company to a profit in the second quarter, GM said Tuesday, but problems in North America continued to act as a drag ....
Murdoch's strategy: Take on the rivalsHe'll seek both readers and advertisersNews Analysis
Aug 01, 2007; ... Richard Siklos International Herald Tribune 08-01-2007 Louise Story contributed to this article.*So now what? Since News Corp.'s offer for Dow Jones was first made public three months ago, Rupert Murdoch's business career, character and motives have been dissected in an effort to ...
U.S. nuclear sector asks for major loan help from energy bill
Aug 01, 2007; ... Edmund L. Andrews and Matthew L. Wald International Herald Tribune 08-01-2007 A one-sentence provision buriedin an energy bill recently passed by the U.S. Senate could make builders of new nuclear plants in America eligible for tens of billions of dollars in government loan ...
Carrefour gains from safety fears in China
Aug 01, 2007; ... Dune Lawrence International Herald Tribune 08-01-2007 Dr. Wang Daying no longer buys her pork straight off the carcass. These days, the physician shops at an underground, air-conditioned Carrefour store in north Beijing. ''Big supermarkets have quality safeguards, particularly ...
Supermart says it sells safer food in China
Aug 01, 2007 ... International Herald Tribune 08-01-2007 Dr. Wang Daying no longer buys her pork straight off the carcass. These days, the physician shops at an underground, air-conditioned Carrefour store in north Beijing. ''Big supermarkets have quality safeguards, particularly foreign ...
Murdoch's Dow deal still too close to call
Aug 01, 2007; ... Richard Perez-Pena and Andrew Ross Sorkin International Herald Tribune 08-01-2007 Robert Weisman of The Boston Globe contributed reporting.* News Corp. appears tantalizingly close to winning the support of enough members of the Bancroft family to succeed in its bid to acquire Dow ...
No end seen as oil finds new reasons for rising
Aug 01, 2007; ... Jad Mouawad International Herald Tribune 08-01-2007 The great oil rally, now in its fourth year, shows no signs of slowing down. On Tuesday, oil prices reached a record level, beating the peak from last summer. Light, sweet crude oil futures for September delivery rose to $77.21, up ...
Paulson plea on China policy
Aug 01, 2007 ... International Herald Tribune 08-01-2007 The U.S. Treasury secretary, Henry Paulson Jr., said Tuesday that legislation to force China to raise the value of its currency was the ''wrong approach'' and risked provoking protectionist measures from other countries.Paulson and other ...
Lloyds TSB gains 27%EARNINGS: LONDON
Aug 01, 2007 ... International Herald Tribune 08-01-2007 Lloyds TSB Group, Britain's largest provider of unsecured consumer loans, increased its dividend for the first time in five years after posting a 27 percent gain in first-half profit, more than ...
EARNINGS
Aug 01, 2007 ... International Herald Tribune 08-01-2007 MAN, Europe's third-largest truckmaker, posted its 16th consecutive quarterly profit increase on growing Eastern European sales, a gain from a legal settlement and a ...
Did Libya use nurses to get deals with West?MANAGING GLOBALIZATION
Aug 01, 2007; ... Daniel Altman International Herald Tribune 08-01-2007 Daniel Altman discusses the economic news of the day online with an eye to how individuals, companies and governments are coping with the challenges of globalization. Here are some recent, edited entries from his blog and ...
GM posts $891 million second-quarter profit
Aug 01, 2007 ... International Herald Tribune 08-01-2007 General Motors reported a second-quarter profit of $891 million on Tuesday, a huge reversal from the $3.4 billion loss it posted in the same period last year.It was the third straight quarterly profit for the nation's largest automaker, which ...
U.S. mortgage woes spread deeperGerman bank's securities freefall rattles markets in Europe
Aug 01, 2007; ... Vikas Bajaj International Herald Tribune 08-01-2007 Carter Dougherty contributed reporting from Frankfurt.*Problems in the U.S. mortgage market are spreading deeper and farther afield.Trading in the shares of a large U.S. mortgage company was suspended Monday, and the largest insurer ...