By ELAINE SCIOLINO
PARIS — She has called herself “a tamer of men” and described monogamy as boring.
But on Saturday morning, only three months after their first meeting, the super-model-turned-pop-singer Carla Bruni and the French president, Nicolas Sarkozy, were married in a small, 20-minute civil ceremony at the Élysée Palace.
Official confirmation came initially not […]
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By ISABEL KERSHNER
JERUSALEM — Egyptian troops closed the border with the Gaza Strip on Sunday morning, witnesses and Hamas officials said, apparently bringing an end to 11 days of free movement for Palestinian residents of the blockaded territory.
The Egyptian troops and police were allowing Gazans and Egyptians to cross the border to return to […]
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By MICHAEL SLACKMAN
TEHRAN — In one of the coldest winters Iranians have experienced in recent memory, the government is failing to provide natural gas to tens of thousands of people across the country, leaving some for days or even weeks with no heat at all. Here in the capital, rolling blackouts every night for […]
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By RANDAL C. ARCHIBOLD
SAN DIEGO — Two marines enter the Iraqi village and take aim.
“Tell me when,” one of them, Brent Callender, calls out, positioned just inside the flapping curtain of a doorway.
“Action!” the other, Ben Bagby, yells and takes aim — with a video camera.
Mr. Callender, 22, walks, leaning on his cane. Mr. […]
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By ANTHONY BIANCO
WHEN Martin J. Sullivan, now 53, took over the world’s largest insurer, the American International Group, three years ago, the company was the target of multiple criminal and civil investigations and its books were in such disarray that its auditors refused to endorse them. During Mr. Sullivan’s first 18 months on […]
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Novelties
By ANNE EISENBERG
HOW often have you wasted time searching through page after page of e-mail messages, Web sites, notes, news feeds and YouTube videos on your computer, trying to find an important item?
If the answer is “too often,” a San Francisco company, Radar Networks, is testing a free, Web-based application, called Twine, that […]
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