The December 2, 2005 was a Friday under the star sign of ♐. It was the 335 day of the year. President of the United States was George W. Bush.
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2nd of December 2005 News
News as it appeared on the front page of the New York Times on December 2, 2005
Daily News Editor Resigns After Less Than a Year
Date: 03 December 2005
By Julie Bosman
Julie Bosman
Michael Cooke, the editor in chief of The Daily News in New York, announced his resignation yesterday after less than a year at the paper. His last day will be Jan. 2. Mr. Cooke, 53, is to return to Chicago, where he was the editor in chief of The Chicago Sun-Times before going to The Daily News in January 2005. He will become the vice president for editorial of the Sun-Times News Group, part of Hollinger International, which publishes The Sun-Times, several smaller daily newspapers and more than 60 suburban weeklies.
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Senate Summons Pentagon to Explain Effort to Plant News Stories in Iraqi Media
Date: 02 December 2005
By Eric Schmitt and David S. Cloud
Eric Schmitt
Chairman of Senate Armed Services Committee, John W Warner, summons top Pentagon officials to closed-door session to explain reported secret military campaign to plant paid propaganda in Iraqi news media; White House also expresses deep concerns about program, which is said to employ public relations firm Lincoln Group to translate articles written by American troops into Arabic; Gen George W Casey Jr initially protested that program should not be discussed publicly because it is classified; senior Pentagon official reportedly called Casey's response inadequate; photos (M)
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Bullet Points Over Baghdad
Date: 02 December 2005
By Paul Krugman
Paul Krugman
Paul Krugman Op-Ed column says Pres Bush's new public relations offensive on Iraq is test for news media, to see if they are still too cowed, too addicted to articles that contain little more than dueling quotes to tell public when administration is saying things that are not true; says many major news organizations have failed to provide public with effective fact-checking of typical speeches by Pres Bush and Vice Pres Cheney; notes that refuting some of their upbeat assertions about Iraq requires specialized knowledge, but many of them can be quickly debunked by anyone with Internet connection (M)
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The Pentagon's Vanity Press
Date: 03 December 2005
By John Tierney
John Tierney
Now that the Pentagon has been outed for planting articles in Iraqi newspapers, we're faced with one of the easiest questions of the year: Is it proper for the government to manipulate public opinion through self-serving, one-sided journalism? Of course not. In a free democratic society, biased journalism is the responsibility of billionaires, foundations and the reporters they buy.
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Leak Ruling Has Mystery, 8 Blank Pages
Date: 03 December 2005
By Adam Liptak
Adam Liptak
There are eight blank pages in the public version of a decision the federal appeals court in Washington issued in February. The decision ordered two reporters to be jailed unless they agreed to testify before a grand jury investigating the disclosure of the identity of a C.I.A. operative, Valerie Wilson. What is in those pages is one of the enduring mysteries in the investigation. In a filing yesterday, the special prosecutor in the case, Patrick J. Fitzgerald, told the court that he had no objection to the unsealing of parts of those pages, and he gave hints about what they say.
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In C.I.A. Leak, More Talks With Journalists
Date: 02 December 2005
By Richard W. Stevenson and Douglas Jehl
Richard Stevenson
Conversation between Time magazine reporter Viveca Novak and Karl Rove attorney Robert D Luskin may have led Rove to change his testimony last year to grand jury in CIA leak case, according to people knowledgeable about sequence of events; some suggest that prosecutor Patrick Fitzgerald is still trying to determine whether Rove was fully forthcoming with investigators (M)
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Ruling for Maker of BlackBerry
Date: 02 December 2005
By Bloomberg News
Bloomberg News
Research in Motion won a second ruling yesterday from the United States Patent and Trademark Office over one of the patents at the center of a dispute over its BlackBerry wireless e-mail device. NTP, a patent holding company based in Arlington, Va., contends that Research in Motion, based in Waterloo, Ontario, infringed on its patents for technology used in the BlackBerry. The patent office issued what it called a nonfinal action yesterday, saying that one of the five patents owned by NTP is invalid. Still pending is a reconsideration of another patent that was found to be infringed by Research in Motion.
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National Briefing | Science And Health: Anemia Drugs Pose Risk
Date: 03 December 2005
By Bloomberg News
Bloomberg News
Three popular drugs for anemia may damage red blood cells in rare cases, the Food and Drug Administration said. Their manufacturers, Johnson & Johnson and Amgen, have notified doctors that the drugs -- Aranesp, Epogen and Procrit -- should be discontinued if patients develop the bone-marrow disorder known as pure red-cell aplasia, in which the body fails to make new red blood cells. The three drugs, called erythropoietins, are used to treat anemia in cancer and kidney dialysis patients.
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Toshiba Wins New Trial
Date: 03 December 2005
By Bloomberg News
Bloomberg News
The Toshiba Corporation, Japan's second-largest chip maker, won a new trial yesterday on $465.4 million awarded to Lexar Media in a trade secrets dispute Judge Jack Komar of state Superior Court in San Jose, Calif., ordered a new trial to determine damages in the case. Judge Komar did not overturn the jury's finding that Toshiba shared Lexar's trade secrets with a competitor, but ordered a review of the damages.
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Commentator Acquitted in Fraud Trial
Date: 03 December 2005
By Bloomberg News
Bloomberg News
Courtney D. Smith, a financial commentator who was accused of failing to disclose payments by the now-defunct GenesisIntermedia to promote the company's stock, was acquitted by a federal jury. The jury in Los Angeles acquitted Mr. Smith, 53, of all 10 counts on Thursday, Thelen Reid & Priest, the law firm representing him said yesterday. The district court previously dismissed one charge for lack of evidence, the firm said. Mr. Smith owned a money management firm in New York and appeared on CNBC, CNN and Bloomberg Television.
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