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To posterity the balding man in the courtroom was the greatest writer in the English language. To the maidservant formerly employed at his lodgings, he was “one Mr Shakespeare that laye in the house.” To the Court of Requests, taking ... [full story]

TRAVELERS who are tired of paying top dollar for trendy hotel rooms may soon get a break. A new wave of hotel chains, designed with fashionable but price-sensitive travelers in mind, is on the rise. Skip to next paragraph ... [full story]

JUST off Mount Pleasant Avenue in Dover, opposite the Rockaway Townsquare Mall, there is a place now being transformed into a point of refuge for business travelers — after more than 30 years spent as a point of refuse. Skip ... [full story]

Before a baby shower for the birth of my son last year, friends insisted I had to register for gifts, and enlisted my mother to escort me to Buy Buy Baby — two floors of everything you need for baby ... [full story]

SAN FRANCISCO, May 16 — Hewlett-Packard said Tuesday that strong sales of laptop computers and printer supplies along with cost-cutting helped push its quarterly profit up 51 percent. The company also said its market share in personal computers ... [full story]

BEIJING (AP) — Treasury Secretary Henry M. Paulson Jr. urged Chinese leaders on Wednesday to press ahead with financial market reforms, but acknowledged the American credit crisis might make them hesitant. Skip to next paragraph ... [full story]

The company whose longstanding proposal to build a Las Vegas-style casino in the Catskills was derailed by the federal government last month is expected to announce this week that it is working with the owners of the dormant Concord Hotel ... [full story]

Three bits of news from the first two months of 2008 highlight the galling inconsistency and inadequacy of the federal government’s system for turning immigrants into citizens. Skip to next paragraph The Board Blog Additional ... [full story]

BURBANK, Calif. Skip to next paragraph Readers’ Opinions Forum: Movies Kevork Djansezian/Associated Press John Lasseter with his Golden Globe award for “Cars,” is a creative force in Disney. IT wasn't the first time John ... [full story]

When Peter K. Homer, an out-of-work director of a local community center in Maine, first heard that NASA was turning to America's backyard inventors to brainstorm new technologies for a possible return to the moon, he had an idea. With ... [full story]