The New York Times
Thursday, April 10, 2008 - 00:00
What remained unknown at the end of a day of acrimony was whether the Democrats might be willing to let the accord go to a vote if the White House made concessions on economic stimulus measures
Tuesday, April 8, 2008 - 00:00
This barrage of activity is over the trade pact that cost Mark Penn, a top adviser to Senator Hillary Rodham Clinton, his job over the weekend
Tuesday, April 8, 2008 - 00:00
President Bush said on Monday that he was sending a free trade agreement with Colombia to Congress, and called on the lawmakers to ratify it soon, to strengthen America’s national security, its economy and its image among other nations
Thursday, April 3, 2008 - 00:00
Agricultural groups on Wednesday suspended a nationwide farmers’ strike that shut down highways across the country for 21 days and caused food shortages.
Thursday, April 3, 2008 - 00:00
The French government said Wednesday that it was trying to help a woman who had been held hostage by Colombian rebels for more than six years
Tuesday, April 1, 2008 - 00:00
Building large-scale hydroelectric dams is an old-world way of obtaining energy. It is too late in the environmental life of this planet to accept such ecologically destructive energy solutions
Sunday, March 30, 2008 - 00:00
Of the 87 convictions won in union cases since 2001, almost all for murder, the ruling judges found that union activity was the motive in only 17
Sunday, March 30, 2008 - 00:00
Officials here said they believed that the official in question was Gen. Hugo Carvajal, the director of military intelligence in Venezuela, a confidant of Mr. Chavez and perhaps Venezuela’s most powerful intelligence official
Friday, March 28, 2008 - 00:00
Peace Commissioner Luis Carlos Restrepo said if some captives are liberated, that could jump-start the process of exchanging guerrillas for dozens of high-profile hostages, such as three U.S. defense contractors
Friday, March 28, 2008 - 00:00
The project, called Cybersyn, was the brainchild of A. Stafford Beer, a visionary Briton who employed his “cybernetic” concepts to help Mr. Allende find an alternative to the planned economies of Cuba and the Soviet Union