New hotels in Jersey City, Hoboken, hope to lure NYC leisure, business travelers and localsJERSEY CITY, N.J. — Jersey City and Hoboken offer great views of Manhattan from across the Hudson River. But New Yorkers and tourists don’t generally consider the two New Jersey cities destinations worth leaving the Big Apple for — unless they’re touring locations connected to “The Sopranos.” After star treatment in rural Alaska, Gov. Palin says she will continue to advocate for stateUNALAKLEET, Alaska — She was greeted like a rock star in Unalakleet, a fishing village on the Bering Sea. She danced with Eskimos in Kotzebue. And she watched grizzlies at a wildlife sanctuary on the Kenai Peninsula. Buffalo soldier remains from looted Old West fort to be reburied at Santa Fe National CemeteryALBUQUERQUE, N.M. — Until a few years ago, the memory of three African American soldiers was buried beneath the sandy, desert in New Mexico, their remains left behind by the military and to the mercy of looters. Pope urges new financial order guided by ethics, dignity, search for common good in encyclicalVATICAN CITY — Pope Benedict XVI called Tuesday for a new world financial order guided by ethics and the search for the common good, denouncing the profit-at-all-cost mentality blamed for bringing about the global financial meltdown. Celebrations planned for Dalai Lama’s 74th birthdayDHARAMSALA - Thousands of Tibetan exiles are expected to assemble in this Himachal Pradesh town Monday for celebrations to mark the 74th birthday of their spiritual leader the Dalai Lama. |