The secrecy around Mayor Michael R. Bloomberg’s selection of Cathleen P. Black to run the city’s schools highlighted his faith in business leaders and dislike of public debate.
Iraq’s leaders reached a tentative agreement to end an eight-month political impasse and return Nuri Kamal al-Maliki to power.
Starting Thursday, Wal-Mart plans to offer free shipping on its Web site, a move that may create an expectation among consumers and a threat to smaller retailers.
Psychiatry has been revived in China, but mental health remains a medical backwater, desperately short of financing, practitioners and esteem.
Victories for Blake Shelton and Miranda Lambert at the Country Music Awards were only some of the signs that Nashville is coming to terms with a new establishment.
President Obama said North Korea faces further isolation unless it gives up nuclear weapons.
As recent lawsuits suggest a long-term risk, doctors and drug makers are debating the use of osteoporosis drugs.
Secretary of State Hillary Rodham Clinton met with Egyptian officials, trying to overcome an impasse.
The last undecided Senate race could be weird politics or it could be an indicator of the rise of the independent voter.
Foreign capital in emerging markets has played a crucial role in development, but some are questioning its benefits.
At a prison and a psychiatric center, Governor-elect Andrew M. Cuomo spoke of wasteful spending and needed services.
The Obama administration is emphasizing the idea that the United States will have forces in Afghanistan until at least the end of 2014, which is a change in tone.
Juan Jesus Lopez and Rene Cuahuizo couldn’t afford the entrance fees for this year’s New York City Marathon, but had a chance to run with Edison Peña, the Chilean miner.
Christie’s sale totaled $272.8 million, and featured instantly recognizable Pop Art images that virtually screamed their creators’ names.
Psychiatry has been revived in China, but mental health remains a medical backwater, desperately short of financing, practitioners and esteem.
Iraq’s leaders reached a tentative agreement to end an eight-month political impasse and return Nuri Kamal al-Maliki to power.
The Obama administration is emphasizing the idea that the United States will have forces in Afghanistan until at least the end of 2014, which is a change in tone.
Despite a face-to-face meeting, President Obama and President Lee Myung-bak of South Korea said Thursday that they had not yet reached a trade agreement.
President Obama said North Korea faces further isolation unless it gives up nuclear weapons.
Muslim leaders praised President Obama’s approach to Indonesia but expressed doubts that his speech would resonate in the wider Muslim world.
Protesters upset about education cuts attempted to storm the building that houses the Conservative Party.
A package bomb from Yemen removed from a plane Oct. 29 could have exploded over the American East Coast.
The retired admirals attacked the decision to scrap Britain’s only aircraft carrier and its fleet of Harrier jump jets, saying it exposed the Falkland Islands to attack by Argentina.
Tightening the security of vulnerable public health laboratories in East Africa is a “security imperative,” a Defense Department official said.
The successful effort to block Iran’s bid for a seat on the board of UN Women was part of a larger United States strategy to isolate Iran.
Secretary of State Hillary Rodham Clinton met with Egyptian officials, trying to overcome an impasse.
World leaders’ pledge of $20 billion to help the poorest farmers around the globe has, a year and a half later, fallen woefully short.
Many suspicions have surfaced, but no one is in custody weeks after attacks at three galleries in the Tophane neighborhood.
High university graduation rates for women in the Gulf states are not necessarily translating into private sector jobs.
Counterfeiting and money laundering can flourish wherever governments relax tax and regulatory requirements to attract foreign investment and ease the rapid movement of goods.
Juan Jesus Lopez and Rene Cuahuizo couldn’t afford the entrance fees for this year’s New York City Marathon, but had a chance to run with Edison Peña, the Chilean miner.
Gap Inc. plans to open a flagship store in Shanghai on Thursday, and three other large outlets in Beijing and Shanghai this month.
A policeman who witnessed the massacre of 57 people in the southern Philippines last year testified on Wednesday that 40 of the victims were gunned down by one local official.
The continuation of the embargo highlights the delicate balance that Beijing officials are trying to strike as world leaders converge on Seoul.
A compromise agreement could ease conflict among the major world economies over trade, currency and monetary policies.
A weak dollar helped exports grow for the third consecutive month, and a separate report showed a drop last week in new unemployment claims.
Zhou Lianhai, who advocated justice for children harmed by tainted dairy products was sentenced to two and a half years in prison on Wednesday on charges that his efforts disrupted social harmony.
At least one suspect managed to board an airliner bound for the Middle East before the plane was ordered back to Kabul.
Mikhail Beketov, a crusading Russian journalist who was crippled in a brutal beating two years ago, was convicted on a criminal slander charge on Wednesday.
The program, which was suspended last year, will be reinstated at the start of the next school year, and its AP exam will again be offered in May 2012.
Legal issues are complicating a plan by the European Commission to surrender some power over biotech crops.
Bulgaria, which vowed to root out corruption to earn membership in the European Union in 2007, has failed to convict a single prominent organized-crime suspect.
The minister, Vit Barta, has been banned from driving for six months and fined 5,000 koruna, or about $280, for using a phony license plate on his Maserati.
The legislation raises the age by two years both for minimum retirement benefits and for a full pension.
Mr. Lipshutz had an important behind-the-scenes role in the Camp David peace accords.
Iran is building its own advanced antiaircraft missile system, after Russia said it would not sell it one, a top commander of the elite Islamic Revolutionary Guards Corps said Wednesday.
A fire broke out in a prison in Ilobasco on Wednesday, killing at least 16 young inmates and injuring 22.
Eric H. Holder Jr. said that the Obama administration was “close to a decision” on a trial for Khalid Shaikh Mohammed and four other men accused of planning the Sept. 11, 2001, attacks.
The Department of Defense has identified 1,361 American service members who have died as a part of the Afghan war and related operations.
Critics of construction plans in Norway say pylons would mar majestic mountain landscapes.
At their upcoming meeting in Lisbon, NATO leaders are likely to ignore the growing reluctance by NATO's European allies to face the global financial crisis and introduce reforms in the defense sector.
Among the canyons of the Sierra Madre Occidental in Mexico, Ruben E. Reyes documents an indigenous culture on the threshold of change.
A cemetery in Florence, Italy, holds the remains of America's fallen warriors.
A coalition of around 60 mostly left-leaning religious, veterans and anti-war groups are calling on Congress to expand the definition of conscientious objection to allow opposition to a particular war.
At the very moment that I was typing away in an effort to assure members of the military that gay service members were loyal members of the team, a friend was half a world away calling in a [casualty evacuation] to save his Marines.
Video shot during student protests in London showed demonstrators breaking windows and swarming into the headquarters of Prime Minister David Cameron's Conservative Party.
A new Turkish action movie follows the adventures of an agent who travels to Palestine to exact revenge on the Israeli commander who ordered the raid on the Gaza flotilla that killed nine Turks.
A conservative Muslim minister in Indonesia, known for refusing to shake the hands of women, tried to explain the hand he extended to Michelle Obama on Tuesday.
An Israeli diplomat in Germany criticized the city of Frankfurt on Sunday for inviting a Jewish intellectual who has been critical of Israel to speak at a ceremony marking the 62nd anniversary of Kristallnacht.
Women in Yemen are not subject to police searches while in the company of male relatives. This is what allowed an anonymous woman to send a bomb using someone else's identity.
Lenders have become even less willing to part with their money, further crimping budgets and family spending.
The presidential race has turned into an audition for who could best handle a national economic emergency.
At issue is whether plaintiffs have the right to sue when the products that hurt them had met federal standards.
California legislative leaders and the governor have come to an agreement on the state budget, which is now roughly three months late.
After investigators said an engineer in last week’s collision had been texting on the job, regulators temporarily banned the use of all cellular devices by anyone at the controls of a moving train.
Democrats believe that a long list of Republican lawmakers with legal troubles makes it impossible for Republicans to gain much ground on the issues of ethics and good government.
The recommendations included a simpler application, Pell grant maximums linked to the consumer price index and federally financed college savings accounts for children in low-income families.
The blueprint would change the city’s building codes to promote energy efficiency, and it calls for installing huge solar panels at municipal properties and building alternative fueling stations.
Treasury and Fed officials were discussing with leaders in Congress a plan for the government to buy up distressed mortgages.
A backlash against short sellers has begun, with regulators in the U.S. and Britain tightening rules and authorities in New York intensifying investigations.
The president spoke briefly on Thursday after remaining largely out of sight as Wall Street has become engulfed by a financial crisis.
Senator John McCain’s once easygoing if irreverent campaign presence — endearing to crowds, though often resulting in gaffes — has been put out to pasture.
As Gov. Sarah Palin has moved to the national stage, Senator Ted Stevens, who goes on trial next week, has risen in some opinion polls in Alaska.
Todd Palin was one of 13 people subpoenaed in the inquiry into whether Gov. Sarah Palin or members of her administration abused their power in the dismissal of a top state administrator.
A Spanish-language Obama ad misrepresents John McCain’s record on the immigration issue and his relationship with Rush Limbaugh.
A privacy group filed a class-action lawsuit on Thursday seeking to halt what it describes as illegal surveillance of Americans’ telephone and Internet traffic.
Remnants of Hurricane Ike swept through the region on Sunday, bringing torrential downpours and strong winds.
As the veterans’ health system strains to handle a growing caseload, a move is under way in Congress to avoid yearly delays in financing that can hamper the medical care of the nation’s veterans.
O. J. Simpson’s legal team began Thursday to mount a defense that will sound familiar to anyone who followed his 1995 murder trial.
Flashing headlights and honking horns penetrated the early-morning sky as police officers and first responders led drivers in a slow procession across the new Interstate 35W bridge in Minneapolis.
Gov. Haley Barbour agreed to move a special election for Trent Lott’s former Senate seat to near the top of the November ballot, ending a dispute that had threatened to delay the start of absentee voting.
Lt. Gov. Sean Parnell of Alaska conceded to Representative Don Young in the Republican primary for Alaska’s only House seat.
Agriprocessors Inc., an embattled kosher meatpacker with a plant in Postville, Iowa, named a corporate lawyer from New York to be its chief executive, responding to an ultimatum from the leading kosher certifying organization.
An Episcopal bishop, whose diocese is moving toward splitting from the national church, was ousted from ministry.
A man charged in the killings of four people who died during a June killing spree in Illinois and Missouri has been charged with murder in four more bludgeoning deaths.
Every year, an estimated 500,000 people trek to a lake to see a veritable carpet of carp, and the state has temporarily called off a plan to force people to stop feeding bread to the fish.
The apps, like Instagram, Hipstamatic, DailyBooth and PicPlz, have been small-time projects, but now a few are trying to become real businesses.
Google’s acquisition of passwords, e-mails and other personal data from unsuspecting people may have violated the Communications Act.
Samsung and LG Electronics have moved into the realm of leadership in the technology industry, but as smartphones take the world by storm, they have remained largely confined to the sidelines.
Despite the company’s strong performance, shares fell close to 10 percent in after-hours trading after the earnings release.
Home Style, a new app from the English interior designer, includes 40 videos with furniture and design ideas.
Yahoo hired Wayne Powers, a former Time Inc. executive, to revive its slumping as sales business in the United States.
Miguel Helft on the new social browser RockMelt, gaming on a laptop and the Queen of England's joining Facebook.
The room-and-house rental vacation site announced it had raised $7.2 million in a Series A round of venture financing, led by Sequoia Capital and Greylock Partners.
A staggering 417 million mobile phones were sold worldwide last quarter, up 35 percent from the same period last year, the research firm says.
Two federal agencies are preparing reports on online privacy standards, and the findings could be at odds.
The partnership is the latest attempt by AOL to infuse its homepage with original video.
The mobile-phone company also raised its full-year earnings outlook after a strong first half.
The company will go back to being a question-and-answer service, but it’s re-entering a field that has become crowded.
The National Labor Relations Board said a company fired an employee illegally after she criticized her supervisor.
Licensing fees are a central point in the legal battle over how much SAP should pay in damages for stealing Oracle’s software.
Internet mogul Barry Diller has ended his company’s quest to develop Internet search technology to rival that of Google Inc and Microsoft Corp.
Three major technologies all have the potential to move from demonstration computers to practical, highly powerful machines.
Researchers are using artificially structured metamaterials to manipulate light or other electromagnetic waves in ways not achievable in nature.
After a trip of six and a half years, NASA’s Messenger spacecraft will finally pull into orbit around Mercury, and a rover the size of an S.U.V. is expected to land on Mars.
By acquiring Quidsi, the parent company of Diapers.com, Amazon.com should be able compete in the baby-products sector.
Samsung presents the Galaxy Tab, a new Android tablet with many features and a light touch. But it’ll cost you.
Inside the mind of Albert Gonzalez, America’s most notorious computer hacker.
A fistful of iPhone apps that will save you time, make your life easier and make you smile.
The Kinect, which plugs into an Xbox, can project a digital version of you on screen while you shimmy, shake and play active games.
A new iPhone case with a Wi-Fi hot spot built in comes close to turning an iPod Touch into a real phone.
A new Bluetooth speaker from Jawbone lets you play music wirelessly from your smartphone and also serves as a speakerphone.
Gmail offers a number of advanced search features that can help people search messages in an extremely bloated in-box.
Scientists discovered two bubbles of energy erupting from the center of the Milky Way galaxy.
The project aimed at succeeding the Hubble would need increases of more than $200 million in both 2011 and 2012 to meet at 2015 launching date, the panel’s leader says.
In Ethiopia, geladas sleep on the very edges of cliffs. It's a wonder they survive.
A new cartoon video makes a plea for the design of electronic gadgets that last longer, have safe components and can be returned for recycling when they have outlived their usefulness.
In San Francisco, some salons are moving to identify establishments that use a so-called toxic trio of chemicals.
Dr. Siddhartha Mukherjee writes a “biography” of cancer and of those who have fought it throughout history.
Exiting Gov. David A. Paterson of New York has released an ambitious environmental plan to reduce the state’s greenhouse gas emissions.
The Pacific Gas and Electric executive in charge of the company’s smart meters used a fake name to join an online discussion organized by the program’s opponents.
Research is not the risk-free business that might easily be supposed from the promises of scientific spokesmen or the daily reports of new advances.
Three major technologies all have the potential to move from demonstration computers to practical, highly powerful machines.
China ended its embargo on rare-earth minerals late last month, but the hunt for other options continues.
Planetary science and cosmology are ripe for big news: respectively, about habitable planets beyond our solar system, and about what the universe is made of.
After a trip of six and a half years, NASA’s Messenger spacecraft will finally pull into orbit around Mercury, and a rover the size of an S.U.V. is expected to land on Mars.
Researchers are using artificially structured metamaterials to manipulate light or other electromagnetic waves in ways not achievable in nature.
It’s a fool’s errand to make precise predictions about the future. Even the famously prescient often fall on their faces.
Fishes take center stage in a presentation on biodiversity in Peru, but there are plenty of birds to be excited about too.
With the rapid biological inventory in Peru complete, scientists turn to their next task: writing it all down.
To mark the harbor's centennial, the city issues a report detailing the evolving history of wastewater treatment and other efforts to improve its health.
Cost and technical feasibility will be considered in requiring changes to plants' operations, the agency says.
Using statistical analysis, scientists suggested that the chances of the United States coast's being hit by a hurricane in a season this active were higher than 95 percent. But it didn't happen.
Designed to cover half the surface area of a pack, new proposed labels are meant to vividly remind smokers of tobacco’s dangers.
Collisions between deer and cars are generally on the rise, and worsen from October through December as bucks recklessly chase does, often across roadways.
Some policy experts are trying to use a highly successful international treaty that was ratified more than 20 years ago as a tool to curb climate change.
Some advances are unpredictable, but others we see coming. We’re still waiting on gene therapy, though.
To battle glioblastoma, a brain tumor that fights off every known therapy, doctors are delivering drugs through blood vessels that go into the head.
Researchers are trying to determine when and how the brain begins to deteriorate. If drugs can be given sooner, they say, treatment might be more successful.
Success of a gel that is used before intercourse (and without a partner knowing) has energized a field. Trials are set to begin for pills and a vaginal ring.
Scientists are focusing on epigenetics, the study of how people’s genes adapt to experience and environment, in exploring the causes of mental disorders.
The hidden costs when prosperity is fueled by "cheap" energy.
A problem that shows a way by which some French prisoners can overcome the extremely poor odds of freedom that their warden has offered them.
Hoping some of Twitter’s success will rub off on them, start-ups jostle to rent offices in the same San Francisco building.
The resistance to President Obama’s approach puts him at odds with his key allies and largest trading partners on fundamental issues of economic strategy.
President Obama and South Korea’s leader gave negotiators more time to work out differences over Korean imports of American autos and beef.
The daylong Seoul G-20 Business Summit led to an unusual juxtaposition of corporate and world leaders, with some businessmen expressing concern for criticism aimed at them.
Morgan Stanley and the quant team led by Peter Muller are negotiating a spinoff, the latest retreat from proprietary trading by a Wall Street firm.
Tina Brown is to become Newsweek’s editor after a long and sometimes frustrating search by Sidney Harman.
The idea of a vast free-trade zone of Pacific countries pits Japan’s farmers, who benefit from tariffs, against the country’s exporters.
New rules would oblige financial services firms to record relevant employee communications made on their work cell phones.
The European Union stands ready to offer a financial lifeline to Ireland, an official said on Thursday, as bond investors apply pressure that threatens to derail Europe’s fragile economic recovery.
A disappointing outlook from Cisco Systems rattled the market, as did a report that inflation rose in China in October at its fastest pace in more than two years.
General Electric announced Thursday that it would buy 25,000 electric vehicles by 2015, including 12,000 from General Motors, starting with the Chevrolet Volt, which is a plug-in hybrid.
New rules are not needed to keep the Continent’s telecommunications companies from selectively managing Internet access, Europe decides.
The journalists’ union said the new talks were dependent on management’s dropping disciplinary action against three employees for a strike last week.
Ben S. Bernanke, the Fed chairman, may long for some of the praise that was once lavished on Alan Greenspan.
The computer maker has reminded investors that it is on the hunt for acquisitions, but some analysts are wondering how well-defined its strategy may be.
Toby Barlow, executive vice president and chief creative officer at Team Detroit, is assuming the new responsibilities of chief creative officer at Global Team Ford.
Blue-ribbon panel after blue-ribbon panel has advocated some variation of the same set of fiscal policy reform ideas. If there is so much wonkish agreement, why hasn’t anything changed?
MetLife plans to discontinue the sale of new long-term care insurance but intends to keep servicing existing policyholders.
Three ways recent regulations have changed gift card policies and three pitfalls consumers still need to watch out for.
David Pogue writes about his fascination with the Chevy Volt, a car aiming to be the electric car without the short range of electric cars.
As lawyers have gained prominence in corporate management, the likelihood of becoming the focus of an investigation -- and perhaps prosecution -- has grown.
C.I.A. interrogators used the near-drowning technique, which Obama administration officials have described as torture, 266 times on two key prisoners from Al Qaeda.
Obama administration officials say the approach will allow them to shore up the nation’s banking system without seeking more money from Congress.
Leaders from the Western Hemisphere closed a summit meeting proclaiming a new dawn for relations in the region.
Resistance to President Obama’s tax and revenue proposals could threaten a major health care overhaul and other policy initiatives.
With terms like “socialism” losing their punch, some Republicans are weighing the word “fascism” to describe President Obama’s agenda.
An official assembles a briefing book of the letters, which offer the president a way to keep in touch with the public.
Advocates of legalizing marijuana are sensing increasing acceptance of the drug, as medicine or entertainment.
Tracking food scares in the U.S. is left to more than 3,000 departments, and in several cases Minnesota officials have safeguarded the rest of the country.
Gen. Michael V. Hayden said the Obama administration’s release of memos detailing harsh interrogation techniques would limit the agency’s ability to pursue terrorists.
Congress was preparing to return from a two-week recess and take up a charged agenda centered on core Obama objectives.
West Point should offer a curriculum that keeps its founders’ belief that the soldier’s role was to build, not just to destroy.
Pop-culture parallels to the midterm elections and America’s past history are more prevalent than you might think.
Finally, a ray of hope for Pakistan. The middle class is stirring, and a girl named Zahida is able to get a great education.
A draft proposal from leaders of President Obama’s deficit-reduction commission frankly acknowledges that shared sacrifice will be required.
A program for unstable veterans facing criminal charges could put them on a path toward recovery without forcing them to also navigate the penal system.
Recollections and photographs of members of the United States Armed Forces in acknowledgment of Veterans Day.
It is a particular disappointment that Senator John McCain is vowing to filibuster a Pentagon bill unless a measure repealing “don’t ask, don’t tell” is stripped out.
The G.O.P.'s success may depend on how the party handles its fact-challenged members.
The resignation of Joel Klein as New York City’s schools chancellor comes at a challenging time.
In newspaper editorials, the South reacts to Lincoln's election and explores the possibility of secession.
The perils of getting a pedicure when you're Korean, and 30, and unmarried.
Why do politics and government service no longer seem appealing to young people?
Readers respond to article about the resignation of Joel I. Klein, the chancellor of the New York City school system.
Readers respond to article about an effort to stop bulling of gay and lesbian students.
A response to a Nicholas D. Kristof column about inequality in the United States.
A response to an article about Afghan women who set themselves on fire to escape lives of servitude and abuse.
A response to an article about the new appeal of the PATH network.
A response to an article about the difficulties of running an English-language school in China.
The map of the 1860 presidential election points clearly to secession.
The Senate should heed the will of the voters and either reject the New Start treaty or amend it so that it doesn’t weaken our national defense.
The Republicans reveal how they plan to close the deficit.
The secrecy around Mayor Michael R. Bloomberg’s selection of Cathleen P. Black to run the city’s schools highlighted his faith in business leaders and dislike of public debate.
School administrators have arisen with one foot in business and one in education, but Mayor Michael R. Bloomberg passed them over.
Giving to 1,027 universities and colleges plummeted 11.9 percent in 2009, and indicators are that overall giving for fiscal 2010 may be flat.
Protesters upset about education cuts attempted to storm the building that houses the Conservative Party.
The program, which was suspended last year, will be reinstated at the start of the next school year, and its AP exam will again be offered in May 2012.
Cathleen P. Black, the Hearst Magazines chairwoman, will be the New York City schools chancellor, as Joel I. Klein leaves to work for the News Corporation.
Like the mayor of New York, Cathleen P. Black is a tough-minded executive from the media industry.
Kaplan and other for-profit education companies have come under scrutiny amid concerns over student debt.
The suicide of a teacher whose poor evaluation was published has stirred all sides in the school reform debate.
Catholic officials said the list was based not on what the Archdiocese spent on the schools, but on their enrollment record.
A new program financed primarily by Yale University will be open to students who live in New Haven and have attended its public schools since at least ninth grade.
Do colleges really need 30,000 applications to find 1,500 great students?
A new report focusing on black males suggests that the picture of the achievement gap separating black from white students is even bleaker than generally known.
Medical residency programs are seeking refunds of Social Security taxes.
Homework helpers are part of a growing a niche industry. But educators wonder if this is another facet of “helicopter parenting.”
A wave of Chinese undergraduates is choosing American colleges. Culture shock? Beer pong, anyone?
College applications can include as many as a dozen spaces for work and extracurriculars. Get busy?
The Common Application isn’t the only game in town. Here’s a guide to the new apps. Hit ‘submit’ once.
Students find hurdles, even rejection, when trying to sign up for coveted electives.
As the search for the right college continued, the more muddled my mind became.
Advocates for the learning disabled say it has become harder to get extra testing time. What’s a student to do?
Amid sea change, the profession moves to raise the educational bar.
Student groups for the 21st century.
Lessons to teach acceptance of homosexuality, which have gained urgency after suicides, are causing culture wars.
A delegation of 16 university presidents from across Canada is visiting India to promote academic collaboration.
A foundation formed by the Yonkers mayor and local businesses is giving the city’s high school students more opportunity to get a higher education.
Online education is finding its way into more colleges, many of them public institutions facing tight budgets.
More and more students are flocking to online programs to make up failed classes.
The Lower East Side public academy is being investigated after accusations of financial mismanagement and admissions irregularities.
Smaller endowments tend to be invested more than larger ones in traditional assets such as domestic equities and fixed income.
Many universities now offer substantial portions of their courses online, a sign of the direction in which the “open education” movement is headed.
The Securities and Exchange Commission has requested information about stock sales made by some top officials of the Apollo Group, which owns the University of Phoenix.
A London university says reports that it is considering “going private” in response to the government’s announced plans to cut its contribution to university budgets is not true.
College Board reports said that rising tuition had been accompanied by an increase in federal financial aid, which helped keep down the actual amount students pay.
After receiving 90,000 public comments, the Department of Education will require program-integrity changes at for-profit colleges.
Decisions on closings will be made by mid-December, and closings will be done by phasing out a grade each year.
In the last school year, seniors at Dartmouth College and Cornell University have created a sort of dishonor roll of peers who failed to donate to the class gift.
In rare cases children who do poorly on a preschool test for admission to top private schools can get retested.
N.C.A.A. athletes are earning degrees at record rates, graduate at higher rates than other students and football players and black men’s basketball players are making gains in the classroom.
A Maine high school hopes to solve its financial woes by persuading Chinese students to pay $27,000 a year there.
The scientific misconduct case against a Harvard researcher underscores the difficulty of defining error in a field like animal cognition where inconsistent results are common.
Part 1 of the responses by an independent college counselor to reader questions about the fall admission season, for high school seniors and juniors.
A mother, and daughter, navigate a period of limbo in the college admissions process: an early application is in, its fate uncertain, while another deadline, Jan. 1, looms.
A veteran counselor finds the application process smoothed by the latest advances in technology, but misses "the smell of musty college catalogs on my bookshelf.''
The latest news for applicants and their families on how to seek extra time on the SAT and ACT, and on why colleges seek to recruit record-breaking numbers of applicants every year.
When tackling the section of the Common Application on activities outside class, students should avoid the temptation to fatten their resumes with filler.
This word has appeared in five New York Times articles in the past year.
Lesson Plan | Examining the nature of scientific advancement and recent developments in science, and considering what types of discoveries merit inclusion in textbooks.
Use the numbers in this article to calculate how many total vehicles in the U.S. were recalled by Toyota.
Student Opinion | Try your hand at writing a similar "love letter" to the piece of technology that means the most to you, whether it's an iPod you own or a computer, television, camera, or cellphone you covet.
The secrecy around Mayor Michael R. Bloomberg’s selection of Cathleen P. Black to run the city’s schools highlighted his faith in business leaders and dislike of public debate.
School administrators have arisen with one foot in business and one in education, but Mayor Michael R. Bloomberg passed them over.
Juan Jesus Lopez and Rene Cuahuizo couldn’t afford the entrance fees for this year’s New York City Marathon, but had a chance to run with Edison Peña, the Chilean miner.
With control of the House of Representatives and probably the State Senate about to shift, black politicians face diminished influence.
The trial of Joshua Komisarjevsky, portrayed as the instigator of some of the most horrific moments in the Petit family killings, may be more harrowing than the first trial in the case.
At a prison and a psychiatric center, Governor-elect Andrew M. Cuomo spoke of wasteful spending and needed services.
Immigrant advocates say little discretion is evident in who gets deported from New York City’s main jail.
Christie’s sale totaled $272.8 million, and featured instantly recognizable Pop Art images that virtually screamed their creators’ names.
In Brighton Beach, a woman describes being a pawn in what federal authorities called a $42 million fraud.
Manhattan literary agencies are doing the previously unthinkable: moving to Brooklyn.
Milton Balkany told a hedge fund that he would keep supposedly damaging information secret in return for a donation to his school.
Staff members at the Anderson Center for Autism find that some of their most patient and effective therapists have four paws and a wagging tail.
An antiterrorism statute was misapplied in the sentencing of a man convicted of killing a 10-year-old bystander to a gang shooting, a New York court determined.
Lottery numbers for New York, New Jersey and Connecticut.
A judge finds that agency made "totally incomplete representations" regarding the length of time it would take to build the Brooklyn project.
When it comes to pets and apartments, rules are rules. Except when they aren't.
Have you encountered unwanted harassment, groping or flashing? How have you dealt with it?
A plea from cyclists to the city to finish a promised six-mile protected bike lane up Second Avenue.
Some of the modern touches added to the White Hart Inn after a $5 million renovation were deemed a terrible fit for a New England town.
John McFadden Jr., co-owner of Staubitz Market in Brooklyn, has stabbed himself a few times and has sliced off a piece of his palm, but says, really, it’s his own fault.
Cherry DeLeon immigrated from Jamaica in 1983 with high hopes, and after losing her job and her electricity, she is learning to hope again.
Rachel McAdams plays a television producer in the romantic comedy “Morning Glory.”
This 99-minute moving meditation from the artist Sharon Lockhart is guaranteed to lower your blood pressure and recalibrate your mind.
The Film “Made in Dagenham” is not about fashion, but a red dress in the movie stands out.
Sean Penn and Brad Pitt are among celebrity driving forces behind charity organizations.
The World Cinema Foundation brings 12 of its rescue projects to the Brooklyn Academy of Music.
The actress Jill Clayburgh, who died on Friday, had the gift of resembling a real person undergoing life-altering change.
Eli Wallach (or Uncle Eli, as he is known to A. O. Scott) is about to usher in his 95th birthday with a lifetime achievement Oscar.
HD technology and movie theater broadcasts are changing the way performing arts are produced.
“Megamind” reached No. 1 with an estimated $47.7 million in its opening weekend at the North American box office, according to Hollywood.com, a compiler of box-office statistics.
Xing Xing, a Chinese animation and computer special effects company, aims to develop original content for the international market.
Denzel Washington and the director Tony Scott, veterans of four films together, talk about their new thriller, “Unstoppable,” co-starring Chris Pine.
Not all of the human subjects of documentaries enjoy enduring relationships with the filmmakers. Errol Morris, Andrew Jarecki and other directors explain.
Two decades after “Poison” galvanized both supporters and opponents of gay film, a revival gives a chance to assess its impact.
A new boxed set includes 15 films by Elia Kazan, the director who helped create a new generation of stars.
The director Ping Chong brings his stage version of the Kurosawa classic “Throne of Blood” to the Brooklyn Academy of Music.
Brooklyn residents are among the biggest fans of the so-called Nollywood films, but many of the copies they buy are counterfeit versions.
In two programs, Film Forum is revisiting the work of an experimentalist who appealed to the brain as well as to the eye.
Danny Boyle’s “127 Hours” recreates the ordeal of Aron Ralston, the hiker who decided to extricate himself from a narrow slot of rock by severing an arm.
An odd-couple, buddy road movie, “Due Date” stars Zach Galifianakis and Robert Downey Jr. as reluctant car companions.
Sean Penn and Naomi Watts star as Joseph Wilson and Valerie Plame Wilson, the couple at the center of the controversy over whether Iraq had weapons of mass destruction.
Alex Gibney’s new documentary, “Client 9: The Rise and Fall of Eliot Spitzer,” examines the hubris and politics that played a role in Mr. Spitzer’s undoing.
With “For Colored Girls” Tyler Perry works very hard and gets it mostly right.
“Four Lions,” directed by Chris Morris, is a stiletto-sharp satire about a group of bumbling terrorists.
Evil becomes good and vice versa in “Megamind,” a new 3-D fantasy from DreamWorks Animation.
A Boston-based musical commentary on love and art, “Guy and Madeline on a Park Bench” floats on a wave of spontaneity and charm.
“Red Hill” is a galloping revenge tale that uses young blood to unearth old sins.
Closeted, forced out of the service, and now facing identity issues at home.
“Jews and Baseball: An American Love Story” chronologically name-checks history’s most famous Jewish ballplayers.
Casper Andreas’s “Violet Tendencies” is an ugly-duckling fairy tale about a woman with lots of gay friends who decides she needs her own relationship with a man.
In “Cherry” Kyle Gallner stars as a freshman who falls for a 31-year-old fellow student — and her daughter.
The musical adaptation of “Women on the Verge of a Nervous Breakdown,” at the Belasco Theater on Broadway, has a serious case of attention deficit disorder.
Not even the Bates Motel itself could save the mess that is “Beneath the Dark.”
A critical guide to movies playing in New York City.
“Outside the Law,” Rachid Bouchareb’s sweeping historical melodrama of the Algerian struggle for independence, proceeds from a still-burning sense of outrage.
Pedro Costa’s unusual documentary “Ne Change Rien,” about the French singer and actress Jeanne Balibar, focuses on work — the performer’s mix of inspiration and hard labor.
Feng Xiaogang’s “Aftershock,” a huge hit in China, traces 30 fraught years in the life of a mother, beginning with a natural disaster in 1976 and ending with another one in 2008.
In “Saw 3D,” its makers say the horror-film franchise is bringing its punishing schedule to a close.
“The Girl Who Kicked the Hornet’s Nest” feels like the concluding chapter it is, with neatly tied loose ends and closing remarks, though it unfolds as something of a secular passion play.
Kristen Stewart upends the lives of James Gandolfini and Melissa Leo, who portray grieving parents in Jake Scott’s “Welcome to the Rileys.”
Hélène Cattet and Bruno Forzani’s “Amer” is a protracted erotic tease in which a female protagonist is observed from childhood to adulthood.
Claude Chabrol’s film “Inspector Bellamy” starts off hinting at death, but violence and grief play less of a role in this murder mystery than you might expect.
Lucy Walker’s inspiring documentary profiles Brazilian catadores, or trash pickers, and the artist Vik Muniz.
“Monsters” is a wondrously atmospheric drama from the young British filmmaker Gareth Edwards.
The story of two memorable concerts in 2008, and of the stadium where they were held.
In Doug Block’s remarkable documentary “The Kids Grow Up,” the viewer becomes absorbed into the family as a daughter matures.
“Wild Target,” directed by Jonathan Lynn, is a remake of a French film and stars Bill Nighy and Emily Blunt.
“A Small Act” follows Chris Mburu, who, as a child in Africa, was sponsored by Hilde Back, a woman in Sweden.
A guide to films playing in the New York area.
“Walkaway” is a breezily schematic Indian movie about relationships in the big city — New York, that is
“Jolene,” starring Jessica Chastain, follows a woman on her 10-year search for happiness.
“Winston Churchill: Walking With Destiny” is a glowing biography of the wartime prime minister.
An honorary Oscar for the filmmaker Jean-Luc Godard has awakened charges of anti-Semitism.
After two years and a thorny overhaul, Steven Spielberg and DreamWorks are aiming high with a lineup of new releases.
Mr. Hickenlooper won an Emmy for his documentary film about the making of Coppola’s “Apocalypse Now.”
The seventh and final installment in Lionsgate’s horror-rific franchise took the No. 1 spot at the weekend box office, according to Hollywood.com.
TCM’s seven-part documentary series, “Moguls & Movie Stars,” traces the history of the American film industry through 1970, with an emphasis on its inventors and pioneering studio bosses.
Rachel McAdams, currently in “Morning Glory,” has established herself as an actress equally adept at comedy and drama.
For “127 Hours,” his adaptation of Aron Ralston’s book about his self-amputation in a hiking accident, the director Danny Boyle challenged his star, James Franco.
The filmmakers behind the 3-D animated comedy “Megamind” designed a villain with a big brain, as well as a big heart.
In “The King’s Speech,” Colin Firth portrays a wartime monarch with a stuttering problem.
In Darren Aronofsky’s “Black Swan,” Natalie Portman portrays an ambitious ballerina consumed by a fairy-tale role.
“The Illusionist,” the new movie by the French animator Sylvain Chomet (“The Triplets of Belleville”) is based on a treatment by the great comic actor and filmmaker Jacques Tati.
Norbert Leo Butz and Aaron Tveit will assume the lead roles of an F.B.I. agent and a charming scoundrel who were played by Tom Hanks and Leonardo DiCaprio in the 2002 movie.
Jason Garrett led his first practice as the Cowboys’ interim coach Wednesday, stressing a return to fundamentals.
The Jets receiver, who was traded from the Browns last season, does not expect a fond welcome Sunday when he returns to his former home.
David Lee, who scored a season-high 28 points, left Madison Square Garden with a broad smile after leading the Golden State Warriors to a victory over his former team.
The emergence of the athletic forward J. J. Hickson and a 4-3 start have helped ease Cleveland’s pain of losing LeBron James in the off-season.
An I.O.C. rule could keep athletes out of the Olympics long after they serve doping bans, or from even contesting their exclusion.
Looking for Yankees General Manager Brian Cashman? He’s probably on a plane.
Joe Moglia, a former executive at TD Ameritrade, will coach the new Virginia club in the U.F.L., his first coaching job in 27 years.
The Sabres defeated the frustrated Devils, who remain winless at home, in a shootout.
The death of Dave Niehaus, 75, will be devastating for fans in the Northwest.
Despite not starting forward Troy Murphy, the Nets bounced back from a loss to the Cavaliers on Tuesday.
The National Women’s Law Center sent complaints to the education department that 12 school districts had failed to offer equal opportunities.
Juan Jesus Lopez and Rene Cuahuizo couldn’t afford the entrance fees for this year’s New York City Marathon, but had a chance to run with Edison Peña, the Chilean miner.
Mr. Dailey earned All-American honors at the University of San Francisco, but his missteps contributed to the university’s decision to drop its storied basketball program for three years.
The American midfielder Maurice Edu was carried off on a stretcher in the first half of the Glasgow Rangers’ 3-0 loss to visiting Hibernian in the Scottish Premier League.
The sport’s national governing body on youth and amateur levels made the changes at its annual meeting in attempts to make the game safer for youngsters.
The Ethiopian runner Haile Gebrselassie, who said he was retiring after pulling out midway through Sunday’s New York City Marathon with a knee injury, said he was having second thoughts.
Former N.F.L. player David Meggett, who played with the Giants, the Patriots and the Jets, was sentenced to 30 years in prison after a conviction on charges of criminal sexual conduct and burglary.
Randy Moss, who was claimed off waivers by the Titans, was gruff but compliant at a news conference Wednesday.
The Yankees signed catcher Jesus Montero in 2006, and he may now be ready for the majors.
Baseball needs to slow down and evaluate the merits of inducting George Steinbrenner into the Hall of Fame.
Jets Coach Rex Ryan dressed up as his twin brother Rob, Cleveland's defensive coordinator, and poked fun at him at a news conference on Wednesday.
Brandon Jacobs led the Giants with 78 yards rushing in their 41-7 win over the Seattle Seahawks on Sunday.
On Sunday, Mark Sanchez and Matt Stafford squared off in a battle of the top two quarterbacks picked in the 2009 draft. But there's another story developing among sophomore quarterbacks: Josh Freeman.
A video tribute and a standing ovation as the one-time fan favorite in a down era comes back to Madison Square Garden.
The Knicks team president is scheduled to have hip-replacement surgery next week, and said he would return to the team as quickly as possible.
The Utah Jazz staged an epic comeback Tuesday against the Heat, thanks to Paul Millsap's hot shooting touch.
An interesting series of international friendly matches takes place later this month, and national team managers are beginning to fashion their squads.
The feel-good story of the week may just not be true. How sad. I had been so happy to read that Zinedine Zidane and Marco Materazzi had hugged and made up during an impromptu meeting in Milan last week.
Bobby Convey, a professional at 16, has rebounded from an injury while playing in England to help San Jose into the M.L.S. semifinals.
The Bruins are off to a good start but a concussion to second-line center David Krejci is forcing some adjustments.
A proposal to have 3-on-3 hockey follow the 4-on-4 overtime is on the agenda at the N.H.L. general managers meeting today.
Down Goes Brown has a preview of what the N.H.L. general managers will be complaining about at their annual meeting.
The Hall of Fame second baseman said he was "not surprised" ESPN declined to renew his contract with "Sunday Night Baseball."
The owners' wing of the Hall includes some of the game's most influential figures but some of them, like George Steinbrenner, left a mixed legacy because of character flaws or decisions unpopular with fans and players.
According to the National Baseball Hall of Fame, there are 47.
Tenth-ranked Stanford dominated No. 13 Arizona and put itself in position for a Bowl Championship Series game -- perhaps even in Pasadena.
This game is a showcase for the Mountain West Conference.
The matchup between Texas Christian and Utah is the clear highlight of a weekend that features a number of interesting games.
For some of the terminally ill, creating a space that embodies their deepest longings is part of saying goodbye.
A novelist learns what it means to be at home from a young child, and the strangers along the way.
Three experts choose their favorite indoor plants and offer growing tips.
An architect built a house from three giant concrete I-beams, two concrete segments of an irrigation canal and two steel girders, all anchored by a 20-ton granite slab.
Nancy Fitzpatrick, the owner of the Red Lion Inn in Stockbridge, Mass., brings a skilled touch to designing and renovating rooms for guests.
The Paris-based designer discusses his “Design and Gesture” exhibition at the Museum of Arts and Design.
Home Style, a new app from the English interior designer, includes 40 videos with furniture and design ideas.
The 1,800-square-foot space on the corner of Lafayette and Broome Streets carries furniture and accessories with a sustainable or ethical bent.
OurGoods.org is a site where designers and artists can swap skills, space or art objects.
The company’s new lamp provides direct light or an ambient glow, and has a base that doubles as a jewelry tray.
Discounts on kettles, bath fixtures, beds and more.
The property market in Uruguay has experienced modest growth this year, with transactions up around 10 percent.
A three-bedroom house in Montana, a loft in Philadelphia and a two-bedroom house in California.
Architects converted a 1,300-square-foot NoHo apartment into an uncluttered family home, modeled on a Japanese bento box, by devoting half of it to storage.
An entrepreneur takes a straightforward approach to marketing his product.
A landmark Gordon Bunshaft 1950s complex gets revamped with apartments designed by well-known interior designers.
An exhibition at the San Francisco Museum of Modern Art explores the evolution of wine's visual and material culture.
The TLC series “Sarah Palin’s Alaska” is a nature series for political voyeurs: viewers get to observe Ms. Palin observing nature.
The German violinist Anne-Sophie Mutter will play her first of several concerts with the New York Philharmonic on Sunday afternoon.
In “Tiny Furniture,” a recent college graduate reluctantly returns to her family’s loft in TriBeCa, where she does her desperate best to construct a meaningful life.
A new 35-millimeter print of Jean-Luc Godard’s 1980 film, “Every Man for Himself,” begins a two-week run at the Film Forum.
Pee-Wee Herman, the adorable man-child in the skinny suit and red bow tie, has parked his playhouse on Broadway.
A biography of Kay Thompson, the eccentric entertainer and author of “Eloise,” written by Sam Irvin.
Shows of work by William N. Copley and Peter Saul exude their different yet complementary free-wheeling renegade styles.
The National Museum of American Jewish History, opening in Philadelphia, emphasizes American freedom.
The Mexican pop band Camila, which specializes in sweet power ballads, took top awards in a year that favored romantic rockers and pop crooners.
A lawyer for Michael Jackson's estate has released a letter saying that it is Jackson's voice on "Breaking News."
Tony Scott discusses a sequence from his film about a runaway train, "Unstoppable."
The producers of one of Broadway's biggest hit plays of the fall, "Driving Miss Daisy," are talking to stars Vanessa Redgrave and James Earl Jones about continuing in the show through the spring.
In “Unstoppable” Denzel Washington and Chris Pine try to stop a runaway train carrying hazardous cargo.
A private collection of American furniture and Dutch old master paintings has been promised to the National Gallery of Art in Washington.
The Museum of Modern Art’s four-month-long Weimar cinema series should help fill in some of the gaps in our perceptions of this rich and influential body of work.
“Cuba in Revolution,” at the International Center of Photography, exhibits 180 pictures by 30 photojournalists to illustrate the stirring tale of the rise and triumph of the Fidelistas.
The author is touring productions of “The Nutcracker” across the United States.
At auction are the colorful remnants of Dominick Dunne’s life in his Manhattan and Connecticut homes.
Tiffany pottery; firefighting artifacts; Japanese ceramics; and Pier 94’s steampunk section.
In a tribute to Mitropoulos, the New York Philharmonic’s performance of Mendelssohn’s oratorio raises memories and comparisons.
The jazz musician Brad Mehldau crosses over to classical in a concert of his work at Zankel Hall.
“Shake Hands With the Devil,” directed by Roger Spottiswoode, is a dramatization of the 1994 slaughter in Rwanda.
The “Radio City Christmas Spectacular” feels like an entertainment throwback, which is part of the appeal.
Michael Sladek’s documentary, “Con Artist,” examines the artist Mark Kostabi, who has relentlessly spoofed the relationship between art and commerce.
Ondi Timoner’s documentary about the Danish economist Bjorn Lomborg, who earned the ire of the green movement.
Were it not for the gorgeous costumes, Ping Chong’s “Throne of Blood” would be as boring to look at as it is to listen to.
It is hard to know what boundaries were being pushed in the hourlong show “Pushing Boundaries.”
The marriage of the design fair Modernism and another, Art20, has nudged painting and sculpture into close contact with furnishings and decorative objects, producing a kind of friction rarely seen in museums.
“Disco and Atomic War,” Jaak Kilmi’s lighthearted documentary, describes the effect of American television shows from Finland on the Soviet state in Estonia in the 1980s.
“now and nowhere else,” a performance piece by Iver Findlay and Marit Sandsmark at Performance Space 122, is an abrasive, indulgent contemporary tale using dance, theater, music and video.
Lynda Carter’s latest cabaret show, “Wicked Cool,” draws from the ’60s and ’70s.
Mr. De Laurentiis produced hundreds of movies in his career, including “Serpico” and “Three Days of the Condor.”
A few restaurants and bars are exploring new frontiers in coffee cocktails, which reflect more ambition and thought.
An overlanding expedition on the ancient roads that crisscross Vermont.
Adults take figure skating lessons for exercise, stress relief or fulfillment of childhood dreams.
“Eichmann” claims the moral high ground of being based not just on a true story but on “official Israeli interrogation manuscripts.”
If the aim of “The Magician” is to prove that the life of the average hit man is as grindingly tedious as that of the average road sweeper, then mission accomplished.
In “Helena From the Wedding” a cozy cabin is the setting for themes of romantic dissatisfaction and career frustration among yuppies staring down 40.
The second annual Brooklyn Pie Bake-Off Benefit; the New Literature From Europe festival; the New York chapter of the Mystery Writers of America hosts its Whodunit Slam event .
A listing of cultural events this week.
Roy Lichtenstein's 1964 comic-book-style painting "Ohhh...Alright...," and Alexander Calder's stabile "Red Curlicue" set world records on Wednesday. Warhol did well, again, too.
Warhol, again, brought the biggest price, but a living artist, Gerhard Richter, held his own at the auction Tuesday night.
Many suspicions have surfaced, but no one is in custody weeks after attacks at three galleries in the Tophane neighborhood.
If the goal of the art show, held at the Shanghai Art Museum, was to challenge the idea of what is or is not art, then it succeeded with its varied offerings.
Sales were spotty at this year's exposition, the second, but judging by the impressive roster of the 48 international and regional participating galleries, the event was a success.
The near-record sale of a Warhol silk screen at Phillips, de Pury & Company begins a week of contemporary art sales in New York.
At Flying Disc Ranch, Robert Lower’s dates are predictably excellent.
Thanks to a daylong swirl in smoke, birds from Greenberg Smoked Turkey in Tyler, Tex., deliver the succulence that eludes many holiday cooks.
When it comes to big holiday gatherings, why fool around? Have plenty of different red and white wines on hand, and even rosé.
Professional chefs in New York have much advice to offer on how to prepare a turkey, and the rest of the feast too.
A new book includes a recipe in the starlet’s handwriting that suggests that she not only cooked, but cooked confidently and with flair.
For cooks, most Thanksgiving problems are brought about by the number of dishes competing for the stove. The best solution is to make food in advance.
This large and almost luxurious new restaurant on East 58th Street is set above a nightclub.
The first Hill Country proved that great Texas barbecue can exist in Manhattan. Now the owners repeat the feat (down the street) with fried chicken.
Jimmy Bradley, the restaurant’s owner and original chef, has returned to the kitchen after an absence of many years, and replaced the menu with his own.
Autumn inspired, with butternut squash, mushrooms and goat cheese in puff pastry.
When rolling cabbage leaves with lamb and rice, the only real work is the rolls themselves.
An American and French butcher go head to head in a demonstration of the butchering craft at Meat Hook, a butcher shop in Williamsburg, Brooklyn.
High-profile chefs like Alain Ducasse, Eric Ripert, Michael Schwartz and Bobby Flay take to the islands with Caribbean outposts of their top-shelf restaurants.
Kale and chickpea recipes so good, meat becomes the side dish.
Uplands Cheese has introduced the satiny Rush Creek Reserve, with a mild flavor that hints of smoke and pork.
After working for years in his father’s Manhattan food markets, Paul Likitsakos has opened Anthi’s on Amsterdam Avenue.
“A neighborhood bakery” is how Jay Mus, a French-trained baker, describes his latest LuLu Cake Boutique.
Seafood, a new steakhouse, a wine tasting room and 48 flavors of ice cream.
The annual Chocolate Show; a talk by Joan Nathan about the traditional foods of French Jews; and other events around town.
Mark Bittman learns a few lessons while visiting with his parents. Among them: off season weirdo varieties of corn can be good.
Ideas about where to eat your Thanksgiving dinner and about what you yourself might cook at home.
An aggregation of links from the reporters and editors of Diner's Journal.
This recipe serves 6 to 8, and is adapted from “Sunday Suppers at Lucques,” by Suzanne Goin.
Peppery arugula contrasts sharply with sweet carrots and a nutty dressing.
This spicy carrot cake is less sweet and cloying than the traditional kind.
If you’re trying to eat less meat but miss chunky tomato sauce, you’ll appreciate the finely diced carrots in this one.
A recipe for Marilyn’s Monroe’s turkey stuffing.
Lamb and Rice Stuffed Cabbage with Tomato Sauce.
A recipe for Torrisi Turkey.
A recipe for Butternut Squash, Pecans and Currants.
A recipe for Fatty ’Cue Brussels Sprouts.
A recipe for Stewed Chestnuts with Ricotta.
Our writer discusses eating in New York in 2010.
An entrepreneur takes a straightforward approach to marketing his product.
El Bulli's former sweets chef on design, architecture and gastronomy.