International Herald Tribune back issues from September 2007:
Backlash rises against instruments to cut risksSpread of loan crisis blamed on hedging
Sep 01, 2007; ... Jenny Anderson and Heather Timmons International Herald Tribune 09-01-2007 The evening entertainment for about 500 financial executives at the Deutsche Bank global derivatives conference in Barcelona in July did not come cheap - the Rolling Stones reportedly were paid more than $5 ...
U.S. watchdog is investigating Gonzales
Sep 01, 2007; ... Philip Shenon International Herald Tribune 09-01-2007 The Justice Department's internal watchdog has disclosed that he is investigating whether sworn statements to Congress by Attorney General Alberto Gonzales were ''intentionally false, misleading or inappropriate.''The first ...
U.S. and UN at odds over Iran atom programAgency head sees diplomatic progress
Sep 01, 2007; ... Elaine Sciolino and William J. Broad International Herald Tribune 09-01-2007 Elaine Sciolino reported from Vienna, and William J. Broad from New York. David E. Sanger contributed reporting from Washington.*A report showing a slow but steady expansion of Iran's nuclear technology has ...
IN OUR PAGES: 100, 75 AND 50 YEARS AGO1907: Coreans Killed
Sep 01, 2007 ... International Herald Tribune 09-01-2007 Official reports from Seoul reveal the employment of the extremest methods against the natives. Whole villages in the Yangkeun district have been destroyed by the torch. Coreans suspected of inciting the people were shot ruthlessly. The ...
IN OUR PAGES: 100, 75 AND 50 YEARS AGO1932: Striking Farmers Shot
Sep 01, 2007 ... International Herald Tribune 09-01-2007 Bloodshed and violence entered the Iowa farmers' strike anew today [Aug. 31] when 15 men picketing a road leading into Cherokee in the northwest section of the state were cut down and wounded by a volley of shot-gun slugs fired from a ...
IN OUR PAGES: 100, 75 AND 50 YEARS AGO1957: 'Energy Crisis' Foreseen
Sep 01, 2007 ... International Herald Tribune 09-01-2007 Premier Maurice Bourges-Maunoury told Frenchmen yesterday [Sept. 1] their country is suffering from an ''energy crisis'' which is likely to last until atomic energy and promising sources of petroleum in the Sahara desert are developed. ''Our ...
U.S. says suit risks exposure of secrets
Sep 01, 2007; ... Eric Lichtblau International Herald Tribune 09-01-2007 The Bush administration is signaling that it plans to turn once again to a favorite legal tool known as the ''state secrets'' privilege to try to shut down a lawsuit brought against a Belgium banking cooperative that secretly ...
Postwar judge still a hero in JapanNationalists honor Indian dissenter in Tokyo war crimes trials
Sep 01, 2007; ... Norimitsu Onishi International Herald Tribune 09-01-2007 An Indian judge remembered by fewer and fewer of his own countrymen 40 years after his death is still big in Japan.In recent weeks alone, NHK, the public broadcaster, has devoted 55 minutes of prime time to his life, and a ...
Hamas is not the IRAHistory's lessons
Sep 01, 2007; ... Zion Evrony International Herald Tribune 09-01-2007 Since my arrival in Ireland about a year ago as Israel's ambassador, it has been suggested to me in almost every conversation with Irish officials, academics, journalists and ordinary people that Israelis and Palestinians should ...
Abandoned at the borderAmerica's Iraqi allies
Sep 01, 2007; ... Joseph P. Hoar International Herald Tribune 09-01-2007 For more than a year, men and women in the American armed forces have been urging the United States to bring to safety the Iraqi translators and others who have worked beside them and are now the victims of retaliation.A Marine ...
Diana
Sep 01, 2007 ... International Herald Tribune 09-01-2007 Has it been 10 years already since Diana died? The best evidence isn't the calendar. It's the photographs of the Princess of Wales, staring out at us from the newsstandsand TV. They remind us how distant the near-past can seem, how ...
Our two summer selves
Sep 01, 2007; ... David Brooks International Herald Tribune 09-01-2007 Every year we go to the beach, and every year it becomes more obvious that beach vacations are a metaphor for the human predicament. For while in his soul the contemporary man seeks to realize the loftiness of his essential nature, ...
LETTERS TO THE EDITORLight bulb hypocrisy
Sep 01, 2007 ... International Herald Tribune 09-01-2007 Regarding the article ''Europe to keep tariffs on Chinese light bulbs,'' (Aug. 30): Ecologists are as ecologists do. The European Commission likes to pride itself as a leader in the fight against global warming. However, its refusal to permit ...
LETTERS TO THE EDITORMiddle East muddling
Sep 01, 2007 ... International Herald Tribune 09-01-2007 Roger Cohen's column, ''A November deadline for Mideast peace'' (Views, Aug. 30), rightly welcomes the return of the United States to Middle East diplomacy, but with reservation. Cohen points out that ''the United States must deliver'' at an ...
LETTERS TO THE EDITORDefining 'European'
Sep 01, 2007 ... International Herald Tribune 09-01-2007 As the European Union has kept expanding East, geography, history and culture have been distorted to suit the geopolitics of the day. What constitutes ''Europe'' or being ''European''?How European is Greece, when much of its modern history has ...
LETTERS TO THE EDITORPoland and World War II
Sep 01, 2007 ... International Herald Tribune 09-01-2007 Regarding the article ''Poland may demand $20 billion for Nazi destruction of art in war'' (Aug. 29): As a German born in 1966, I could not care less about German art in Poland. But ...
What's holding Indonesia backClear as mud
Sep 01, 2007; ... Stanley A. Weiss International Herald Tribune 09-01-2007 'This place is a rocket!'' boasts Muhammad Lutfi, Indonesia's investment chief, and his exuberance doesn't seem so irrational. Ten years after the Asian financial meltdown - which shoved millions of Indonesians into poverty, ...
U.S. says firm bribed army for Iraq jobs
Sep 01, 2007; ... Eric Schmitt and James Glanz International Herald Tribune 09-01-2007 A U.S.-owned company operating from Kuwait paid hundreds of thousands of dollars in bribes to U.S. contracting officers in efforts to win more than $11 million in contracts, the government contends in court ...
Fed chief vows to act if economy worsensIn speech, Bernanke says bank is watching debt market closely
Sep 02, 2007; ... Edmund L. Andrews and Jeremy W. Peters International Herald Tribune 09-02-2007 Jeremy W. Peters reported from New York. Ben Bernanke, chairman of the U.S. Federal Reserve Board, declared Friday that the central bank ''stands ready to take additional actions as needed'' to prevent ...
A niche of U.S.-Russian good will
Sep 02, 2007; ... C. J. Chivers International Herald Tribune 09-02-2007 At 5:34 p.m. on Wednesday on a military compound northeast of Moscow, three men sat in a room before small metal boxes adorned with red plastic buttons. Each button was connected to a cable that snaked through a hole in the wall ...
Laying enmity aside to combat Al QaedaU.S. forces and Sunni insurgents find common cause in the thick of battle
Sep 02, 2007; ... Michael R. Gordon International Herald Tribune 09-02-2007 From The New York Times Magazing * Checkpoint 20 was the last piece of U.S.-controlled terrain on the road to Hawr Rajab and our linkup point with Sheik Ali Majid al-Dulaimi. Before heading out, Lieutenant Colonel Mark Odom, ...
IBM's un-vacation policy: All you need, all the timeBut pressure to produce limits time off
Sep 02, 2007; ... Ken Belson International Herald Tribune 09-02-2007 It is every worker's dream: Take as much vacation time as you want, on short notice, and don't worry about your boss calling you on it. Cut out early, make it a long weekend, string two weeks together - as you like. No need to call ...
Fed 'ready as needed' to mitigate 'disorder'But Bernanke gives no hint of a rate cut
Sep 02, 2007; ... Jeremy W. Peters International Herald Tribune 09-02-2007 Ben Bernanke, the chairman of the U.S. Federal Reserve, said Friday that the central bank ''stands ready to take additional actions as needed'' to limit the effect of the recent financial market disorder on the economy as a ...
Thailand lifts ban on YouTubeVideo Web site agrees to block clips deemed offensive to the king
Sep 02, 2007; ... Seth Mydans International Herald Tribune 09-02-2007 YouTube is back.Thai censors lifted their ban Friday after five months of blocking the online video site because it had carried material seen as insulting to the country's highly venerated king.The site's management has agreed to ...
Family and fans remember Princess Diana
Sep 02, 2007; ... Sarah Lyall International Herald Tribune 09-02-2007 Prince Harry, the younger of her two sons, called her ''the best mother in the world.'' The bishop of London remembered how readily ''she found the right word or the right gesture to bring cheer and comfort.'' And Earl Spencer, her ...
Pilgrims flock to a borrowed Paris shrine
Sep 02, 2007; ... Katrin Bennhold International Herald Tribune 09-02-2007 If you squint, the gilded flame appears to flicker in the breeze above the entrance to the tunnel where Princess Diana died in a car accident 10 years ago. Loyal pilgrims depositing flowers, photos and written messages on its ...
Separating the men from the boys at the Venice festivalSleuth / Michael ClaytonMOVIES
Sep 01, 2007; ... Roderick Conway Morris International Herald Tribune 09-01-2007 SleuthDirected by Kenneth Branagh (U.K./U.S.)*Michael ClaytonDirected by Tony Gilroy (U.S.)Reviewed by Roderick Conway Morris*The distinguished team responsible for the new ''Sleuth'' is justified in emphasizing that this ...
PEOPLE
Sep 01, 2007 ... International Herald Tribune 09-01-2007 The Netherlands invented reality television - now they give us Dutch Diana. The Dutch Diana Awards, a contest sponsored by a radio program, asked listeners on Friday to elect the ''reincarnation'' of Diana, the late princess of Wales, by ...
Back-to-school tips for the travel sector
Sep 01, 2007; ... Tyler Brule International Herald Tribune 09-01-2007 Beginning Tuesday the travel industry will officially return to its normal schedule, as vacations will be over and most people in the Northern Hemisphere will have run out of excuses as to why they're not back at work. Big-city ...
INDIAN SUMMERBOOKS & IDEASiht.com / culture
Sep 01, 2007 ... International Herald Tribune 09-01-2007 INDIAN SUMMERThe Secret History of the End of an Empire.By Alex von Tunzelmann.401 pages. $30. Henry Holt & Company.* On Aug. 15, 1947, Earl Mountbatten of Burma, the great-grandson of Queen Victoria and the last viceroy of India, gave a ...
NOVELS IN THREE LINESBOOKS & IDEASiht.com / culture
Sep 01, 2007 ... International Herald Tribune 09-01-2007 NOVELS IN THREE LINESBy Felix Feneon.Translated by Luc Sante.171 pages. $14. New York Review of Books.*Scraps of news on throwaway newsprint, written by an obscure French figure from the previous century - you'd think you could safely consign ...
A British minister (almost) tells allThe Blair YearsBOOKS & IDEAS
Sep 01, 2007; ... James P. Rubin International Herald Tribune 09-01-2007 The Blair YearsExtracts From the Alastair Campbell DiariesBy Alastair Campbell794 pages. $35, Alfred A. Knopf; l25, Hutchinson.Reviewed by James P. Rubin*For political junkies, ''The Blair Years'' is riveting stuff. Alastair ...
Discovering Portugal's FlaubertBOOKS & IDEAS
Sep 01, 2007; ... Alan Riding International Herald Tribune 09-01-2007 The MaiasEpisodes From Romantic LifeBy Eca de QueirosTranslated by Margaret Jull Costa628 pages. $17.95, New Directions; l9.95, Carcanet Press.Reviewed by Alan Riding*Jose Saramago, Portugal's only Nobel literature laureate to date, ...
Venice and the Islamic world: An alliance of paradoxes
Sep 01, 2007; ... Roderick Conway Morris International Herald Tribune 09-01-2007 The year 828 is the date traditionally given for when Venice's most distinguished guest from the Orient, St. Mark, took up residence in the city.The smuggling of his remains out of Alexandria to Venice by two Venetian ...
Altria spinoff poses problem for the DowViewPoints
Sep 01, 2007; ... David Wilson International Herald Tribune 09-01-2007 Altria Group's plan to spin off its Philip Morris International tobacco unit poses a dilemma for the guardians of the Dow Jones industrial average.Altria has been a member of the Dow industrials since October 1985, when the New ...
In a growing world, milk is the new oil
Sep 01, 2007; ... Wayne Arnold International Herald Tribune 09-01-2007 After years of saving, Geoff Irwin finally scraped up enough money to buy his parents' dairy farm near here in 2003. Now his parents have retired to a house nearby and Irwin, 45, runs the farm with its 300 cows.It is hard work, 12 ...
Prices drop in Japan as deflation keeps grip
Sep 01, 2007 ... International Herald Tribune 09-01-2007 Consumer prices in Japan declined for a sixth straight month in July, showing that the world's second-largest economy has yet to overcome a decade of deflation. Industrial production and household spending also dropped. Consumer prices ...
Making sense of market swingsOFF THE CHARTS
Sep 01, 2007; ... Floyd Norris International Herald Tribune 09-01-2007 Does it make sense for stock prices to plunge one day and soar the next, with little in the way of new information available to explain either move?Maybe not, but it happened this week, just as it did earlier in August. It was the ...
ON THE RECORD
Sep 01, 2007 ... International Herald Tribune 09-01-2007 ''We don't get enough objective press.''Sergei Kupriyanov, chief spokesman for Gazprom, the Russian ...
Lone Star slashes takeover offer for AccreditedBuyout firm drops its price by 44% after mortgage company stops making loans
Sep 01, 2007 ... International Herald Tribune 09-01-2007 Lone Star Funds cut its takeover offer for Accredited Home Lenders Holding by 44 percent, to $214 million, after the subprime mortgage company fired 60 percent of its workers and stopped making new loans.Lone Star offered $8.50 a share ...
WestLB loses on tradesPressure rises on bank to find partner
Sep 01, 2007; ... Nicola Clark International Herald Tribune 09-01-2007 WestLB, a troubled German state-run bank, said it had lost more than $820 million on speculative trades in global stock markets in the first half of 2007 - pushing it into a net loss for the period and renewing pressure on the ...
At Standard & Poor's, a change of the top post
Sep 01, 2007 ... International Herald Tribune 09-01-2007 Standard & Poor's named Deven Sharma to replace Kathleen Corbet as president after lawmakers and investors criticized the credit rating company for failing to judge the risks of securities backed by subprime mortgages.McGraw-Hill, the ...
China starts recall system for food and toys as problems persistLatest tainted goods case affects 27,000 coloring sets sold by Toys 'R' Us
Sep 01, 2007 ... International Herald Tribune 09-01-2007 Recall systems for unsafe food products and toys went into effect Friday in China as part of a bid to improve product safety, state media said.The Xinhua press agency said the recall systems - set up by the Chinese General Administration of ...
Barclays to bail out ailing debt fundBRIEFING: LONDON
Sep 01, 2007 ... International Herald Tribune 09-01-2007 Barclays will help rescue a $1.6 billion debt fund run by Cairn Capital, an asset manager, after it was unable to raise money in the credit markets. The securities unit of the bank will ...
Indian GDP growth drives inflation worriesBRIEFING: NEW DELHI
Sep 01, 2007 ... International Herald Tribune 09-01-2007 Economic growth in India unexpectedly accelerated last quarter, stoking inflation concerns that may force the central bank to raise interest rates further. The Indian economy expanded 9.3 percent in the three months to June 30 from a year ...
Russia central bank fires key deputyBRIEFING: MOSCOW
Sep 01, 2007 ... International Herald Tribune 09-01-2007 The central bank in Russia fired Tatyana Paramonova, a first deputy chairwoman, after she was passed over to serve on the board of directors. An official with the central bank, who declined to be identified due to a policy by the bank, ...
Same play, new actorsINVESTING
Sep 01, 2007; ... Conrad de Aenlle International Herald Tribune 09-01-2007 When a crisis grips a segment of the market and the extent of the damage is unclear, investors are prone to err on the side of panic, selling until share prices account for just about everything that might go wrong. Then they ...
Traveling a bumpy road at breakneck speedYOUR MONEY
Sep 01, 2007; ... Miki Tanikawa International Herald Tribune 09-01-2007 A sian stocks, led by the powerful momentum of China and India, have outperformed European and U.S. stock markets over the past several years. The soaring indexes of Shanghai, Mumbai, Hong Kong and Singapore were finally braked by ...
Sharapova remakes her serve, and wins
Sep 01, 2007; ... Lynn Zinser International Herald Tribune 09-01-2007 Hidden behind Maria Sharapova's chiseled game face and completely obscured by her dominance of her first two opponents at the U.S. Open, a revamped serve and a resolute eye on her future have been perhaps the most remarkable part of ...
Stake in Arsenal is sold to investorsROUNDUP: Soccer
Sep 01, 2007 ... International Herald Tribune 09-01-2007 David Dein, the former Arsenal vice chairman, has sold almost 15 percent of the club to two investors.Dein, who left in April, will become chairman of Red & White Holdings, which bought the stake in the London club on Thursday for l75 ...
An ancient Roman roadWeekly Highlights from Globespotters Urban advice from reporters who live there / iht.com/globespotters
Sep 01, 2007; ... Elizabetta Povoledo International Herald Tribune 09-01-2007 To end summer, Elizabetta Povoledo bikes along an ancient Roman road: ''The Appian Way used to be known as the 'Regina Viarum,' the queen of all roads. A recent bike ride along this ancient thoroughfare confirms that the ...
Hong Kong's 'mall art'Weekly Highlights from Globespotters Urban advice from reporters who live there / iht.com/globespotters
Sep 01, 2007; ... Joyce Hor-Chung Lau International Herald Tribune 09-01-2007 Joyce Hor-Chung Lau combines her two passions of shopping and art:''Museums do not usually top the list of things travelers do in Hong Kong. But now, you can slip a little high culture in between the restaurants and the shoe ...
Real mozzarellaWeekly Highlights from Globespotters Urban advice from reporters who live there / iht.com/globespotters
Sep 01, 2007; ... Elisabeth Rosenthal International Herald Tribune 09-01-2007 Finally, Elisabeth Rosenthal delivers an ode to foods that evoke a favorite place:''Whenever I return to a familiar city, I eat to confirm I have arrived. In New York, I eat a sesame bagel with cream cheese. In Paris, a ...
Opera GuideARTS GUIDE
Sep 01, 2007; ... Elisabeth Hopkins International Herald Tribune 09-01-2007 A sampling of what will be heard at some of the world's major houses during the 2007-2008 opera season.*AustraliaOpera AustraliaOpera Australia offers alternating seasons in Sydney and Melbourne with a variety of styles ...
Speaking of freedom, Merkel means businessLetter from Germany
Sep 02, 2007; ... Judy Dempsey International Herald Tribune 09-02-2007 When Angela Merkel was elected chancellor in 2005, she made freedom a main theme of her domestic and foreign policy, although her advisers - and critics - were unsure of how such a philosophy would be implemented. In the two years ...
What webs they spinSpiders blanket a park in North Texas
Sep 02, 2007; ... Gretel C. Kovach International Herald Tribune 09-02-2007 Most spiders are solitary creatures. So the discovery of a vast web crawling with millions of spiders that is spreading across several acres of a North Texas park is causing a stir among scientists and park visitors. Sheets of ...
Thais lift ban on YouTube after screening agreementSite is said to agree to block offensive clips
Sep 02, 2007; ... Seth Mydans International Herald Tribune 09-02-2007 YouTube is back.Thai censors lifted their ban Friday after five months of blocking the online video site because it had carried material seen as insulting to the country's highly venerated king.The site's management has agreed to ...
Correction
Sep 02, 2007 ... International Herald Tribune 09-02-2007 An article Friday on WestLB's earnings for the first half of 2007 gave an ...
Tourists returning to GreeceDespite wildfires, few cancellations
Sep 02, 2007; ... Anthee Carassava International Herald Tribune 09-02-2007 For all the calamity caused by a barrage of brutal wildfires in Greece, travelers seem undeterred, tourism officials say. The inferno, still blazing but seemingly under control, hit the western Peloponnesus, a popular tourist ...
Olive harvest reduced (folo)Tourists returning to GreeceDespite wildfires, few cancellations
Sep 02, 2007 ... International Herald Tribune 09-02-2007 The fires may have destroyed as many as five million olive trees, cutting production in the world's third-largest olive oil supplier and threatening to reduce output for years, Bloomberg ...
Gazans protest Hamas 'provocations'Fatah supporters show their defiance
Sep 02, 2007; ... Steven Erlanger International Herald Tribune 09-02-2007 Defying warnings from Hamas, several thousand Gazans prayed outside mosques Friday in a Fatah-inspired protest.As Hamas police officers and gunmen watched, a large crowd of Gazans prayed in a public square in Gaza City during ...
Dishonesty about Abu Ghraib
Sep 02, 2007 ... International Herald Tribune 09-02-2007 We would have been hard pressed to think of a more sadly suitable coda to the Bush administration's mishandling of the Abu Ghraib nightmare than Tuesday's verdict in the court-martial of the only officer to be tried for the abuse, sexual ...
More realism, less spin
Sep 02, 2007 ... International Herald Tribune 09-02-2007 A new report from the investigative arm of the U.S. Congress provides a powerful fresh dose of nonpartisan realism about Iraq . With a crucial debate on Iraq set for next month, the report should be read by members of Congress who may be ...
Turkey's democratic choice
Sep 02, 2007 ... International Herald Tribune 09-02-2007 The election of Abdullah Gul, an observant Muslim, to the Turkish presidency is a victory for democracy. The military, which has a habit of defending Turkish secularism at the expense of Turkish democracy, tried to block his candidacy last ...
It's time for a fresh effortTurkey and the EU
Sep 02, 2007; ... Carl Bildt and Massimo D'Alemais International Herald Tribune 09-02-2007 With Turkey now forming a new government with Abdullah Gul finally being appointed as its new head of state, it is high time that the European Union and Ankara make a fresh effort to re-launch the accession ...