Total sales at U.S stores rose 8 percent to $386 million. U.S. sales at stores open at least a year, or same-store sales, increased 8 percent at Tiffany's branches, while falling 1 percent at its New York flagship store..
The latest deaths followed an especially bloody week in which about 200 Iraqis and a dozen U.S. troops were killed. Iraqi politicians, meanwhile, claimed headway in forming a stable coalition government following the
unusually Dec. 15 elections, whose final results
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Messier's No. 11 was raised to the Garden rafters Thursday night, joining those of former teammate Mike Richter, and earlier stars Eddie Giacomin and Rod Gilbert, who found their way to the Hockey Hall of Fame but never to Broadway's Canyon of Heroes.