UPI Almanac for Friday, Nov. 30, 2007.

UPI almanac for Thursday, Nov. 30, 2006.

Today is Wednesday, Nov. 30, the 334h day of 2005 with 31 to follow.

Today is Tuesday, Nov. 30, the 335th day of 2004 with 31 to follow.

Today is Sunday, Nov. 30, the 334th day of 2003 with 31 to follow.

WASHINGTON, Oct. 20 (UPI) -- Like a vampire whose captors can't find a silver stake, un-expensed stock options still wander among us, distorting earnings comparisons wherever they alight. The Financial Accounting Standards Board has now announced it won't produce a definitive ruling

Jazz as protest music goes back to Billie Holiday's anti-lynching recording "Strange Fruit" in the 1940s, tenor saxophonist Sonny Rollins' "Freedom Suite," the

WASHINGTON, April 25 (UPI) -- Michael Wharton, the now-nonagenarian satirical genius who created the world of Peter Simple in his "Way of the World" columns in the London Daily Telegraph over the past four and a half decades, does not share the now-common optimism about America's blit

WASHINGTON, April 23 (UPI) -- Britain's greatest living satirist, and quite arguably its greatest living writer -- a figure who has been admiringly compared Jonathan Swift, Thomas Carlyle and Voltaire for his influence, genius and scathing, lacerating wit, has just turned 90. And nobo