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Date: 09 February 2004
By Bloomberg News
Bloomberg News
Swedish police question Lars-Eric Petersson, former Skandia chief executive; have freed former executives Ulf Spaang and Ola Ramstedt; three are suspected of billing financial services company for apartment renovations (M)
Date: 09 February 2004
INTERNATIONAL A3-7 Anti-U.S. Plea to Al Qaeda Is Discovered in Iraq American officials displayed a detailed proposal that they said came from insurgents inside Iraq written to senior leaders of Al Qaeda asking for help in waging a ''sectarian war'' in Iraq in the next months. A1 Several of the biggest political parties in Iraq say they are determined to keep their well-armed militias, who number in the tens of thousands, despite American opposition to the idea. The Iraqi parties contend that the militias remain necessary in light of the lack of security throughout the country. A1
Date: 09 February 2004
By Bloomberg News
Bloomberg News
Knight Vinke Asset Management calls for changes in board and management structure of Royal Dutch/Shell Group; says members of supervisory and management boards control nominations to boards, excluding shareholders from process; says group is managed by committee at operating level, acting as deterrent to strong leadership (M)
Date: 08 February 2004
INTERNATIONAL 3-12 Musharraf and Nuclear Secrets For years Gen. Pervez Musharraf of Pakistan, according to his aides, heard about serious problems with Abdul Qadeer Khan, the Pakistani nuclear weapons scientist who last week issued a public confession to selling nuclear secrets worldwide. But for years little was done to stop the possible flow of nuclear information. Last week, the long standoff ended with a confrontation, confession and then a presidential pardon. 1
Date: 08 February 2004
By Claire Messud
Claire Messud
Claire Messud reviews book Someone to Run With by David Grossman (M)
Date: 08 February 2004
By Jason Horowitz
Jason Horowitz
The debate about Prime Minister Silvio Berlusconis degree of control over Italys news organizations once again boiled over last week.
Date: 09 February 2004
By Jacques Steinberg
Jacques Steinberg
Reuters, expanding on efforts by Western companies to send jobs to cheaper markets, plans to hire six journalists in Bangalore, India, to do basic financial reporting on 3,000 small to medium-size American companies; managing editor David Schlesinger says reporters will mostly extract basic financial data from company news releases and quarterly reports; modest pilot project is linked to company's much larger effort to send data-entry jobs to Bangalore from England and United States (M)
Date: 09 February 2004
By Jacques Steinberg
Jacques Steinberg
NBC is grooming Brian Williams to succeed Nightly News anchor Tom Brokaw before end of 2004; has ended his nightly newscast on its cable news channel and put him in featured reporting position on Brokaw's program; is giving him chance to show his sense of humor on programs like its late night show; graphs of network nightly news audience; table of top advertisers; photos (M)
Date: 08 February 2004
By Joe Lapointe
Joe Lapointe
NHL Notebook discusses Washington Capitals player Robert Lang, who disparaged New York Rangers to media (M)
Date: 08 February 2004
Pat Goudey O'Brien letter supports Daniel Okrent Feb 1 column asserting that important stories originating in other newspapers should not receive short shrift in New York Times