This one time, it’s perfectly acceptable to switch bandwagons after the Super Bowl. If you were rooting for the Colts, or rooting for no one, or simply hoping Tim Tebow would stop finding ways onto your television screen, feel free to cheer for New Orleans. You don’t even have to cheer for the Saints — particularly if you remember;
By LYNN ZINSER; 20100209

Standard & Poor’s could use a break. Instead, the credit-rating agency has committed another blunder. Last week, it revealed that PNC Financial was raising capital to help repay the government under the Troubled Asset Relief Program hours before the bank did so. As a party to the deal, S.& P. shouldn’t be grabbing such scoops.;
By ANTONY CURRIE and ALEXANDER SMITH; 20100208

Standard & Poor’s could use a break. Instead, the credit-rating agency has committed another blunder. Last week, it revealed that PNC Financial was raising capital to help repay the government under the Troubled Asset Relief Program hours before the bank did so. As a party to the deal, S.& P. shouldn’t be grabbing such scoops.;
Date: 20100208

VALENCIA, Spain — After a 30-month legal fight that seemed at times as if it might never end, a funny thing happened on the waters of the Western Mediterranean on Sunday: two teams led by rival billionaire yachtsmen got ready for a sailboat race. In final tuneups for the America’s Cup, crews put USA-17 of BMW Oracle Racing , owned by;
By HENRY FOUNTAIN; 20100208

NASHVILLE — Sarah Palin said she would consider a run for president in 2012 “if I believe that that is the right thing to do for our country and for the Palin family,” according to a television interview broadcast Sunday morning. “It would be absurd to not consider what it is that I can potentially do to help our;
By KATE ZERNIKE; 20100208

The California Milk Processor Board, San Clemente, named Santa Susana High School, Simi Valley, as the winner of the grand prize in a contest to create video clips centered on an online rock opera that is part of the “White Gold” campaign for the milk board. The school won $20,000 for its arts programs. Pioneer Technical Center, Madera,;
By THE NEW YORK TIMES; 20100208

Accounts ¶Turner Broadcasting System, part of Time Warner , chose MediaVest USA, part of the Starcom MediaVest Group division of the Publicis Groupe, to handle media buying for channels like CNN, TBS, Turner Classic Movies and TNT. The assignment, with spending estimated at more than $150 million, had been handled internally; media planning;
By STUART ELLIOTT; 20100208

The country-singing mother-daughter duo the Judds are reuniting for one last tour, Wynonna Judd announced on “The Early Show: Saturday Edition” on CBS. Before performing live from Miami on the network’s pre-Super Bowl XLIV show, Ms. Judd announced plans for a tour, as well as plans to record new music with her mother, Naomi Judd ,;
By RACHEL LEE HARRIS; 20100208

The American striker Jozy Altidore scored his first goal in the English Premier League on Saturday as Hull City upset visiting Manchester City, 2-1. Altidore, 20, playing his 18th Premier League match, scored in the 31st minute after taking a pass from Jan Venegoor of Hesselink on the edge of the penalty area and curling a shot into the bottom;
By THE ASSOCIATED PRESS; 20100207

NASHVILLE – As Sarah Palin left the stage at the inaugural National Tea Party Convention here Saturday night, the crowd erupted into chants of “Run Sarah Run!” “I think you like her!” said Judson Phillips, the chief organizer of the convention, when the ovation finally stopped and people had stepped down from the chairs;
By KATE ZERNIKE; 20100207