Mr. Obama, in an extraordinary session with the Democratic caucus on Saturday, made a forceful case for the healh care legislation both on policy and political grounds.
As House Democratic leaders worked to secure the votes needed to pass the legislation, they said they would drop a plan to approve the Senate bill without a direct vote.
Politicians on both sides of the aisle are turning to the rule book to win the health care battle. Do voters care?
Pope Benedict XVI apologized to victims and their families in a letter to Irish Catholics but did not refer directly to immediate disciplinary action.
In most states, teenagers who send or receive sexually explicit photographs by cellphone or computer, known as “sexting,” have risked felony child pornography charges.
After 10 days of public quarreling over Jewish building in East Jerusalem, the U.S. and Israel move to ensure they aren’t surprised again.
A trek by the Winnemem Wintu tribe centers on an apology to the Chinook salmon for allowing the Shasta Dam to be built in Northern California in the 1940s.
Santos F.C. of Brazil is scheduled to play the Red Bulls in an exhibition at the new Red Bull Arena, a real soccer stadium just west of New York with proper contours and sight lines.
Washington Township police said that a 16-year-old boy had been arrested for using the public-address system at a Wal-Mart to order all blacks to leave the store.
Mr. Udall sowed the seeds of the modern environmental movement as secretary of the interior during the 1960s.
A man who was threatening his neighbors in a Bronx housing complex was shot after advancing on officers, the authorities said.
A paper imagining a cyberattack and a power failure in the U.S. has highlighted an atmosphere charged with hostility between the U.S. and China over cybersecurity.
One defining bank shot by the Gaels pushed the second-seeded Wildcats out of the tournament.
Evan Turner has blossomed from a cautious, wiry freshman to the Buckeyes’ most important player.
A debate over aggression in women’s sports takes place against the backdrop of violence in athletics over all.
Maybe more people should shun car decals that tell of vacation destinations, or children's sports teams, and a host of other things.
The effort to win over Afghans on former Taliban turf has put American commanders in the rare position of arguing against opium eradication, pitting them against some Afghan officials.
Pope Benedict XVI apologized to victims and their families in a letter to Irish Catholics but did not refer directly to immediate disciplinary action.
After 10 days of public quarreling over Jewish building in East Jerusalem, the U.S. and Israel move to ensure they aren’t surprised again.
Fifty-eight police officers were killed last year in Dagestan by a combination of Islamist militants, alienated youth, and ordinary criminals.
A Venezuelan Web site is emerging as a runaway success in Latin America as it repeatedly takes on President Hugo Chávez and a host of other leaders.
A paper imagining a cyberattack and a power failure in the U.S. has highlighted an atmosphere charged with hostility between the U.S. and China over cybersecurity.
The Kremlin clamped down on many protests by using the security services to put pressure on opposition groups and with minor concessions.
Chinese officials often say in public and in the Chinese news media that the country is moving toward democracy.
Haiti’s earthquake has exposed the inadequacies of its mental health services at the moment they are most needed.
British Airways canceled 1,100 flights on Saturday as some cabin crews started a three-day strike in protest over working conditions and pay.
The U.S. is trying to undo the damage caused by a troubled detention system, exposing a disagreement with Afghans over whether people were fairly held.
The Obama administration is discovering what President George W. Bush discovered: winning each successive round of sanctions against Iran is harder and harder.
Visiting the West Bank, Secretary General Ban Ki-moon plans to send a message of support for a Palestinian state and a return to negotiations.
At an international meeting on Friday, the emphasis was on starting Israel’s indirect talks with the Palestinians.
Kai Eide, the former top U.N. official in Afghanistan, said that the arrests by Pakistan have complicated peace negotiations.
The arrests of seven Muslims, five of whom have since been released, are viewed as part of a wider investigation involving the F.B.I.
Jorge Aníbal Torres Puello was detained without incident by the Dominican authorities, working with American law enforcement agencies.
Officials say the top candidate is Lt. Gen. Lloyd J. Austin III, who served two tours in Iraq and is a senior aide to the chairman of the Joint Chiefs of Staff.
Rights advocates said that Iranian authorities have released on bail dozens of high-profile opposition figures who were arrested after the disputed June presidential elections.
For those who gathered to view “The Hurt Locker,” to watch the film was to relive a recent chapter of their lives.
President Obama delivered his second message to the Iranian people for the festival of Nowruz, but he tempered his offer for diplomatic dialogue with a threat of international sanctions.
One of the heaviest rainfalls since Haiti’s Jan. 12 earthquake swamped homeless camps Friday, sweeping screaming residents into eddies of water, overflowing latrines and panicking thousands.
Instead of worrying about the recovery of the real estate market, some Canadians are concerned about the prospect of a price bubble.
While exports to the United States might rebound this year, in the long run the decline in western demand and the growing importance of China represent a fundamental shift for the oil market.
The European Commission president called for Germany and other governments that use the euro to put up a package of loans to assist Greece.
Scientists at CERN, the European nuclear research agency, announced that they had accelerated beams of protons at the Large Hadron Collider to energies of 3.5 trillion electron volts.
The ruling military junta decided to release a naturalized American citizen from prison because of its friendship with the United States, state media said Friday.
The first Chinese trial involving organ trafficking could take place next month in Beijing, according to a report in China Daily, an official English-language newspaper.
Cambodia has temporarily barred its citizens from marrying South Korean men, after two dozen women were sold into marriage by matchmakers, an official said Friday.
A three-day strike by some employees of the airline began Saturday after talks collapsed between the airline and the Unite trade union.
Ahmad Chalabi, an early proponent of the American invasion of Iraq, is close to an official grasp on power after recent parliamentary elections.
A trek by the Winnemem Wintu tribe centers on an apology to the Chinook salmon for allowing the Shasta Dam to be built in Northern California in the 1940s.
An entertaining memoir-cum-travelogue of a grad student’s improbable education in Russian language and literature.
A real-life mass poisoning in Tokyo in 1948, possibly linked to notorious wartime medical experiments, is the basis for this highly original crime novel.
On Saturday, the White House Web site posted a video message from President Barack Obama to the Iranian people as they celebrate the Persian New Year, Nowruz.
A Saudi woman who engaged her critics on the Arab world's answer to "American Idol," which features poets instead of singers, has reached the final of the competition.
Afghan officials and a man who claims to be a Taliban commander told Britain's Channel 4 News that Iran was supplying weapons to Taliban insurgents.
Dutch officials have reacted with anger to the claim by a retired American general that their nation's soldiers failed to prevent the Srebrenica massacre in 1995 because the presence of gay troops in the Dutch military.
What if there is a so-called hung Parliament in which neither of the major two parties - Labour or Conservative - secures a clear mandate to rule?
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.
Retailers say they are using video cameras to watch customers as a way to make shopping in stores more enjoyable, but privacy advocates are skeptical.
In most states, teenagers who send or receive sexually explicit photographs by cellphone or computer, known as “sexting,” have risked felony child pornography charges.
A Canadian organization has started a biotech cooperative, funded by sales of $20 shares, to develop personalized therapies for breast cancer.
An interview with Christopher "Moot" Poole, founder of 4chan, the racy message board.
Marten Mickos has opted to run another high-flier in the open-source software world.
An all-digital, luxury lifestyle magazine called VIVmag offers a glimpse of how magazine publishers could take advantage of the iPad's large, interactive color display.
Shares of Palm Inc. fell the most in more than two years in Nasdaq trading after it forecast sales this quarter that were less than half of analysts’ estimates.
The charge was one of many made by Viacom in filings in its copyright lawsuit against YouTube and Google.
Marketers are using Web video along with — rather than in place of — television.
The appointment of William Lynch, president of the Web division, to succeed Stephen Riggio was seen as a move toward a digital future.
But the revenue for the quarter exceeded Palm’s own gloomy forecast.
Officials drew Congressional rebuke when they decided to delay work on a decade-long project to develop a modernized information system to combat crime and terrorism.
Siemens said it wanted to have the conditions in place for its information technology unit to be a standalone operating business by the start of the next fiscal year on Oct. 1.
The company will test whether lower prices — $10 or less — will attract consumers who have cut back on buying CDs.
At 400 million members, Facebook might just replace restaurants as the go-to place for couples to cause a scene.
American companies with factories in China are now building high-tech research labs there as well.
As Apple builds its electronic bookstore, Amazon is trying to use its clout to hold on to its early lead in the market.
A new phone earpiece strives to be smaller and more stylish than its predecessors. Does it succeed?
Making sure Web sites send your personal data in encrypted form is crucial to security.
A platform called Google TV will bring the Web into the living room through televisions and set-top boxes.
There are several iPhone apps that allow users to follow Major League Baseball games in excruciating detail.
Iranian democracy advocates welcome a U.S. decision to lift sanctions on some online services, but they say they need more help in overcoming government roadblocks to information.
As DVD sales sink, an advertising campaign aims to push consumers to rent more movies through their cable boxes.
Mattel mashes a toy catalog into the social network to get a whole new way to sell more toys.
Want a new iPad? There's a way to get one for free.
How to regularly clean Windows 7.
Delegates at a conference on endangered species in Doha, Qatar, rejected the U.S.-backed measures.
Scientists at CERN, the European nuclear research agency, announced that they had accelerated beams of protons at the Large Hadron Collider to energies of 3.5 trillion electron volts.
Exports of ground whale parts from Iceland to Denmark stir concerns.
After packing more than a million sandbags and building miles of temporary dikes to hold back the surging Red River, Fargo, N.D., got lucky on Friday with a sudden drop in temperature.
Gov. Charlie Crist said the acquisition of 73,000 acres would heal the Everglades, but the water district that would finance it is struggling.
Some environmentalists said the nuclear industry would be risking its green record if it adapted smaller nuclear reactors, like those once used in submarines, to light a city.
“Hubble 3D” is dazzling to look at of course. But such ponderous, cliché-heavy narration.
Astronauts from the United States and Russia landed safely on Thursday after spending almost six months on the International Space Station.
A discovery strengthens the link between the first animal to enter human society and the subsequent invention of agriculture about 10,000 years ago.
American companies with factories in China are now building high-tech research labs there as well.
The Alta Velocidad Española, or AVE, has made train travel in Spain the way to go, both environmentally and in comfort and convenience.
Chinese archaeologists unearthed a 4,000-year-old cemetery in Xinjiang Province that seemed to be a vanished people’s paean to the pleasures or utility of procreation.
From a helium balloon, Felix Baumgartner, no stranger to high jumps, intends to break the speed of sound in free fall.
The autonomous underwater vehicle, which had come out of semi-retirement to help researchers study the seafloor off the coast of Chile, was lost at sea.
Researchers trying to decipher the drug’s effects have discovered surprising clues to how normal limbs develop.
A new book is as inventive, wide ranging and full of astonishing surprises as the insect world itself.
House Democratic leaders were exploring a deal that would clinch the votes to pass the legislation, but they faced stiff resistance from lawmakers who support abortion rights.
Experts see a gap in treatment between pediatric and adult care.
The former New York City health commissioner has rapidly reversed many of the Bush administration’s policies at one of the world’s top health agencies.
A generic anti-inflammatory drug from the aspirin family helped patients in a clinical trial lower their blood sugar.
Stigmatizing fat people has become not just acceptable but, in some circles, de rigueur.
Open defecation is on the decline in many countries, according to a report released Monday by the W.H.O. and Unicef. Nonetheless, about 1.1 billion still practice it.
A new study of kidney donors found that having only one kidney did not affect long term survival and that the risk of dying from the surgery itself was very low.
Recent figures from the C.D.C. showed one in six Americans have genital herpes, prompting concern among health officials because people with the virus are at greater risk of H.I.V. infection.
Research found that when the price of a two-liter bottle went up, people consumed less, which was associated with a drop in weight and a lower risk for pre-diabetes.
Science museums experiment in their struggle to define themselves.
Long-term hominin evolution is the main concern of the impressive David H. Koch Hall of Human Origins, which opened this week at the Smithsonian’s National Museum of Natural History.
The human impulse to parcel nature into smaller and smaller plots is a danger to biodiversity.
Researchers have used a short-pulse, high-intensity laser in the effort to help electronics engineers make faster chips.
A study suggests that promoting the growth of certain organisms could result in the harmful production of a neurotoxin.
Researchers are investigating new methods for storing and releasing an important gas for those who do not produce enough of it.
Why do I find some of the melodic themes “playing” in my mind for several days after a concert?
A “full house,” weekend admissions, nurse staffing and the seasonal flu can all affect a patient’s risk of dying in the hospital.
This is a very personal story of living gracefully with a fatal diagnosis.
The cliches most people use when talking about someone with cancer make Dana Jennings, who was treated for prostate cancer, bristle.
Can the cold-fighting supplement, zinc, lower the risk of childhood ear infections?
A letter to the editor.
Letters to the editor.
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Retailers say they are using video cameras to watch customers as a way to make shopping in stores more enjoyable, but privacy advocates are skeptical.
British Airways canceled 1,100 flights on Saturday as some cabin crews started a three-day strike in protest over working conditions and pay.
One problem is that DNA scanning is often unable to offer meaningful predictions about a person’s risk for a disease.
While exports to the United States might rebound this year, in the long run the decline in western demand and the growing importance of China represent a fundamental shift for the oil market.
The president called on lawmakers to support a bill being debated next week by the Senate Banking Committee.
The Department of Agriculture will begin enforcing rules on testing organically grown foods for pesticides, after an audit exposed gaps in the National Organic Program.
Instead of worrying about the recovery of the real estate market, some Canadians are concerned about the prospect of a price bubble.
Finding a good one takes research and perseverance, but unfortunately, the typical search is made under duress and with little time available.
Dominique Strauss-Kahn’s proposed European Resolution Authority would be supported by funds from governments and the private sector to deal with failures of large banks.
The Senate Banking Committee, which is set to begin consideration of a bill that would overhaul financial regulations, received 359 amendments by the Friday deadline.
Wealthy benefactors are becoming more attuned to the particulars of setting up prizes, sometimes worth millions, to achieve their goals or draw attention to causes.
Because of a late application, a patent on Angiomax will expire this year instead of 2014, potentially costing a drug maker hundreds of millions.
One of the two government-sponsored companies that set lending standards has announced it would stop backing interest-only mortgages.
HGTV is hoping to seduce viewers around the country with tales of the city’s opulent residential properties and the intense New Yorkers who buy and sell them.
Washington Township police said that a 16-year-old boy had been arrested for using the public-address system at a Wal-Mart to order all blacks to leave the store.
As the chief executive of the Golfsmith golf and tennis chain said, “Selfishly, this is perfect.”
Major United States hotel chains are aggressively expanding into Asia, creating new options for travelers looking for familiar brands abroad.
A joint venture in a mine in the West African nation of Guinea suggests that tension between Australia and China may be easing.
The closings bring to 37 the number of bank failures so far this year.
A three-day strike by some employees of the airline began Saturday after talks collapsed between the airline and the Unite trade union.
The European Commission president called for Germany and other governments that use the euro to put up a package of loans to assist Greece.
Boeing was thought to have won the contract by default after Northrop Grumman ended its partnership with EADS.
Navigenics is aiming its DNA testing as a health-related service; 23andMe considers it informational. In a business sense, those are major differences.
The offer by Carl Icahn, who owns about 18.9 percent of the film company, comes after Lions Gate’s rejection of his previous proposal for a 29.9 percent stake.
In taking an unexpected step, the bank said it was “imperative” to control rising prices as inflation reached a 16-month high.
Wall Street indexes declined as a sharp drop in the price of oil weighed on energy stocks.
Shares of Palm Inc. fell the most in more than two years in Nasdaq trading after it forecast sales this quarter that were less than half of analysts’ estimates.
The SunPower Corporation posted a lower quarterly profit and said it would restate earnings for two years because of accounting errors.
The Lloyds Banking Group said that it expected to report a profit this year as trading had so far been strong and provisions for bad assets were not as large as previously forecast.
Canadian retail sales rose in January, as consumers stocked up on home improvement supplies before a federal tax credit expired.
Gov. Charlie Crist said the acquisition of 73,000 acres would heal the Everglades, but the water district that would finance it is struggling.
An appeals court affirmed a decision that the Federal Reserve Board must release reports identifying financial firms that received $1 trillion in emergency loans.
The Humane Society of the United States said that the exploding demand among the needy for food banks was rapidly expanding to desperate pet owners.
The spending habits of Representative Gregory W. Meeks have drawn the scrutiny of ethics watchdogs and regulators, who question his use of campaign money.
Officials blamed the 34 percent increase on the recession and promised new efforts to deal with the problem.
If you’ve locked in a rock-bottom rate, does it still make sense to make extra payments to reduce your mortgage? It depends.
Ruptures in aging water systems cause pollutants to seep into water supplies, but in many cities residents have protested rate increases to fix pipes.
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.
After yet another resignation in Gov. David Paterson’s administration, it’s time for the governor to prove he is worthy of the office. If not, he should resign.
The rejection of a proposed ban on international trade in bluefin tuna, which is spiraling toward extinction, was largely the result of lobbying by Japan.
When the House takes up legislation on cocaine cases already approved by the Senate, it should remove the disparity in sentencing entirely.
“Undercover Boss” is bad television, but it is a perfect show for our times with its heaping helpings of false populism.
As the states face fiscal ruin, severe budget cuts across the country are undermining economic recovery.
In the protracted battle over the health care bill, this weekend may finally provide the critical moment for which President Obama has fought.
The empty-headed chattering class has speculated that the president’s approval rating has dropped to its lowest yet. Silly pundits.
Why Google Translate won’t put me out of a job.
A reflection on Alex Chilton, the soulful singer of the Box Tops and Big Star, by the man who wrote “Alex Chilton.”
The star of “Davy Crockett” became famous when television was so new still that few recognized its power to transform a person’s life.
To better train financial investigators, take a page from the Foreign Service.
There are times when you want to stay right where you are.
Those fantastical nighttime narratives have a practical purpose after all.
Is the Congressional Budget Office a paragon of objectivity, or does it do whatever the majority wants?
If simple incentives had been in place on Wall Street, could the latest crisis have been largely avoided?
Doctors preach the importance of a good night's rest yet are often sleep-deprived themselves.
The strategy that underlies many missionaries' reverence for Allah.
The Senate bill represents the best chance in decades of fixing this country’s broken health care system. House Democrats should approve it.
President Obama has some good ideas for reworking No Child Left Behind. Now Congress must strengthen the law.
It's time for European nations and others to join the U.S. in speaking up against China’s manipulation of its currency.
Iraqis and Americans need a swift and legitimate transition to a new government in Baghdad, but early election results give reasons to worry.
Anti-abortion legislators unsatisfied with the Senate’s health care bill must give ground in the interests of passing reform.
To solve the education crisis, end local control of schools.
Construction in Jerusalem is not derailing the peace talks. The problem is the Palestinians’ increasing demands.
Why celebrate the Irish? Because they saved Western civilization’s books.
A failure to recognize the magnitude of the task, and a toxic political environment, undermined the effort to achieve health care reform.
President Obama wants to get DNA profiles from people arrested. A fairer way to compile a national database is to get samples from all Americans.
Stuyvesant High School’s Asian population has soared to 70 percent, inspiring a volunteer interpreter program to help parents who don’t speak English.
Racial and constitutional questions are raised in the suspension of students after a fight at their high school.
The federal government would increase financing for Pell grants by $36 billion over 10 years under a Democratic plan.
As New York State moves to shut down an Albany charter school, it is apparent that holding schools accountable is not always so easy, or bloodless, as numbers on a page.
Fewer Hispanic students earned degrees even at both competitive and less competitive colleges nationwide, the American Enterprise Institute found.
The Yale law library, which has one of the best collections of rare law books in the world, is now the official repository of Supreme Court justice bobblehead dolls.
A federal appeals court ruled that parents could block the prosecution of their children on child pornography charges for appearing in photographs found on classmates’ cellphones.
Under Gov. Christopher J. Christie’s $29.3 billion budget plan, direct state aid to 59 of New Jersey’s wealthiest school districts would be eliminated.
The move is the latest effort aimed at rescuing an academically failing district in the midst of a financial crisis.
Federal education rules favor big-city school districts over rural systems, some lawmakers complain.
Through a program at the Studio Museum in Harlem, a dozen new photographers are documenting growing up in New York City.
The Obama administration is trying to persuade union leaders and teachers that its proposed education policies are good for teachers and for public schools.
The deaths have revived talk of Cornell’s reputation — unsupported, say officials — as a “suicide school.”
The challenges of implementing a new education policy for the Obama administration are political and practical.
Federal prosecutors say a freshman at Drew University stole famous letters written by a founder of the United Methodist Church and world leaders, including Abraham Lincoln and Madame Chiang Kai-Shek.
The bill, which awaits a decision by Parliament, suggested that the country’s higher education system cannot cope with rising demand.
A growing number of schools use a recess coach to curb behavior problems.
The governor will unveil his budget proposal on Tuesday, and is expected to decrease state aid to school districts by as much as 15 percent.
The administration is seeking changes to the Bush-era No Child Left Behind law, eliminating divisive provisions.
Commercial trade schools are under fire because they are attracting more students and Pell grants.
With a larger television contract a strong possibility, the idea of increasing the number of teams to 96 in the tournament has gained momentum.
Even if your college days are a distant memory, it’s possible to travel on a student discount over spring break this year.
The president of Harvard said the university has seen a culture shift since it was suggested there in 2005 that women were unsuited to careers in math and science.
Because Texas is a large buyer of textbooks, the changes approved by the school board will have a broad influence.
A federal commission has determined that the Department of Education discriminated against the principal of an Arabic-language public school in Brooklyn.
Dr. Taylor conducted research in more than 70 countries and helped establish international health as a distinct academic field in the United States.
The decision to shutter 28 of its 61 schools reveals the depth of dysfunction in the chaotic, almost nonfunctioning Kansas City School Board.
The deal would bundle a bill on student loan overhaul into an expedited budget package along with the Democratic health care legislation.
Calvin Coolidge High School in Washington made the rare move of hiring a woman, Natalie Randolph, to coach its football team.
As public schools compete for money, a popular movement is facing more opposition.
Business school students have turned toward courses in social entrepreneurship.
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Steve Levy declared himself the only candidate with the independence to take on interest groups.
The spending habits of Representative Gregory W. Meeks have drawn the scrutiny of ethics watchdogs and regulators, who question his use of campaign money.
Officials blamed the 34 percent increase on the recession and promised new efforts to deal with the problem.
Washington Township police said that a 16-year-old boy had been arrested for using the public-address system at a Wal-Mart to order all blacks to leave the store.
The federal judge rejected a settlement between the city and workers at ground zero, saying the deal did not provide enough compensation to plaintiffs.
After 16 failed attempts, Thomas Hagan, the man who admitted to shooting Malcolm X as he lay bleeding, has been given his freedom by the state.
The delay in getting Marcelo Lucero to the hospital is playing a role in the defense of Jeffrey Conroy, who is accused of attacking Mr. Lucero.
The contest to fill the seat vacated by Simcha Felder is also a battle for bragging rights.
An appeals court affirmed a decision that the Federal Reserve Board must release reports identifying financial firms that received $1 trillion in emergency loans.
Under a proposal expected to be approved next week, the M train would take the place of the V line in Queens and Manhattan.
At the home in Queens he bought during the Depression, the city's oldest man looks back on a life spent making things with his hands.
A man who was threatening his neighbors in a Bronx housing complex was shot after advancing on officers, the authorities said.
Nora S. Anderson, a Surrogate’s Court judge, is accused of filing false campaign documents indicating that $250,000 in contributions came from her personal finances.
The action in Camden, N.J., involved 185 prosecutions and convictions.
Stuyvesant High School’s Asian population has soared to 70 percent, inspiring a volunteer interpreter program to help parents who don’t speak English.
Sunset Park offers nature in Green-Wood Cemetery, Central American food, hilltop views and a cool bowling alley.
A spirited rivalry is under way in New York between a long-established Yiddish theater company and an upstart.
Art imitates life in Lena Dunham’s “Tiny Furniture,” the winner of the juried narrative film prize at South by Southwest.
“Greenberg” is the funniest and saddest movie Noah Baumbach has made so far, and also the riskiest.
“Vincere” is a sustained, alternatingly exhausting and aesthetically exhilarating howl of a film.
“The Runaways” evokes its moment and milieu with affectionate, almost uncanny fidelity.
“The Bounty Hunter” is the latest evidence that, when it comes to romantic combat, we live in a more thoughtlessly brutal age than our ancestors did.
To audiences starved for quasi-medical gore, the gruesome “Repo Men” should help fill the void left by “Nip/Tuck.”
In “The Girl With the Dragon Tattoo,” Noomi Rapace more or less looks the part that the filmmakers don’t let her fully play.
Beautifully lighted and meticulously recorded, “Neil Young Trunk Show” looks and sounds like several million bucks.
“Hubble 3D” is dazzling to look at of course. But such ponderous, cliché-heavy narration.
Gianni Di Gregorio’s luminous sliver of a film, “Mid-August Lunch,” is a Chekhovian vignette about the joys and regrets of old age and the pleasures of sociability.
In “Diary of a Wimpy Kid,” episodes that might be howlingly funny on the page turn weirdly gross and sadistic on screen.
“City Island” is a professionally executed farce of the yelling-family variety.
They say you should never look directly into the sun — unless you’re the star of a teeny-tiny indie and need an excuse to squint and experience visions.
“Kimjongilia” is built around interviews with more than a half-dozen North Koreans who fled their country but can’t shake its hold on their imaginations.
“The Killing Jar” is a cheapie hostage drama with a lot more swagger than substance.
Zhao Dayong’s documentary is a nearly three-hour-long visit to a remote Chinese mountain village.
In “Green Zone,” action under pressure is a test and a revelation of character.
For those who gathered to view “The Hurt Locker,” to watch the film was to relive a recent chapter of their lives.
The offer by Carl Icahn, who owns about 18.9 percent of the film company, comes after Lions Gate’s rejection of his previous proposal for a 29.9 percent stake.
Lawyers for the director Roman Polanski said that testimony by a former prosecutor supports their claims of judicial misconduct.
As DVD sales sink, an advertising campaign aims to push consumers to rent more movies through their cable boxes.
Mr. Graves, the television spymaster and the host of the “Biography” series, also successfully spoofed his own gravitas in the “Airplane” movie farces.
Noah Baumbach’s “Greenberg” crystallizes the Ben Stiller persona.
The most striking thing about “The Runaways,” a new film about the trailblazing bad-girl rock band from the 1970s, is how authentic it feels.
Kathryn Bigelow’s two-fisted win at the Academy Awards has helped dismantle stereotypes about what types of films women can and should direct.
Robert Rodriguez, producer of the film "Predators," offered a first look at the film and discussed some of its creatures to come.
The actor Edward Norton discusses his approach to comedy in "Leaves of Grass."
Hollywood suffered its first major flop of the year over the weekend with the debut of the Iraq thriller “Green Zone,” which sold an anemic $14.5 million in tickets at North American theaters.
Matthew Vaughn, the director of the South by Southwest opening-night film discusses how he directs action.
Waning ad revenue and increasing competition on the Web raise the question if entertainment trade papers like Variety and The Hollywood Reporter can survive.
“The Girl With the Dragon Tattoo” and its celebrated director arrive in America, each trailing big expectations.
Although she was perhaps the biggest female star of the silent era, Norma Talmadge is barely remembered today.
Hanging out with the Oscar winner for best short documentary as he makes the obligatory first stop for Oscar winners and nominees.
City Island, a tiny and curious enclave in the Bronx, has a cinematic history that is long, if not quite storied.
“How to Train Your Dragon” might be made for kids, but the lighting is for grown-ups.
A conversation with the four stars of “Hot Tub Time Machine” about their memories of the ’80s.
Anne Bass documents the metamorphosis of a young Cambodian dancer into American ballet performer.
Lawyers for film director Roman Polanski, under house arrest in Switzerland awaiting possible extradition to the United States, filed an appeals petition on Thursday revealing the existence of sealed testimony about secret dealings between high-ranking prosecutors and a judge in the 33-year-old sex crimes case.
One defining bank shot by the Gaels pushed the second-seeded Wildcats out of the tournament.
Da’Shena Stevens scored 19 points and Shenneika Smith added 13 Saturday as sixth-seeded St. John’s ran away from the 11th-seeded Tigers, 65-47, in the first round of the Dayton Region.
Evan Turner has blossomed from a cautious, wiry freshman to the Buckeyes’ most important player.
The fourth-seeded Terrapins used a 12-2 run early in the second half to glided to an 89-77 victory over No. 13 Houston in the first round of the Midwest Region.
Garrett Jones seemed to be stuck in the minors, but at age 28 he hit 21 homers in 82 games for the Pirates.
This season in the N.B.A., Houston was a team that was truly better than the sum of its parts.
KNOXVILLE, Tenn. (AP) -- When Tennessee lost in the first round of the NCAA tournament last year, coach Pat Summitt sent the team to the practice court immediately.
Major League Soccer and its players signed a five-year labor contract Saturday that avoids a strike that had been scheduled for this week.
The Magic’s Vince Carter can seemingly score from anywhere, but can at times appear to be aloof.
Nelson Figueroa, Pat Misch and Hisanori Takahashi have all thrown virtual shutouts in spring training.
The Golden Bears’ victory over the Cardinals gave the Pac-10 a 2-0 record against the highly regarded Big East.
The eighth-seeded Bulldogs had plenty of weapons to ease past the ninth-seeded Seminoles.
Playing with confidence offensively, No. 12 Cornell turned its first-round N.C.A.A. tournament game with No. 5 Temple on its head with efficient, fast-moving play.
With coaching vacancies at four Division I programs in the New York area, a question lingers: Can a program with big aspirations achieve success without breaking N.C.A.A. rules?
The two-time halfpipe gold medalist Shaun White will compete at the U.S. Open Snowboarding Championships, but he has already begun skateboarding, his summertime diversion.
A review of possible changes is under way, including adjustments to the playoff schedule and the expanded use of video replay.
Marco G., the team’s master of ceremonies, keeps beckoning for cheers, applause or any signs of life from Izod Center crowds benumbed by a 7-61 record.
Jeremy Tyler, the first American high school player to skip his senior year and play overseas, booked his own flight home Thursday.
As the chief executive of the Golfsmith golf and tennis chain said, “Selfishly, this is perfect.”
Johan Santana allowed five runs to his old team, Minnesota, but said he was pain-free. “That’s the most important thing,” he added.
The fifth-seeded Spartans almost squandered a 16-point lead against the 12th-seeded New Mexico State Aggies.
No. 4 Purdue, considered a national-title contender before Robbie Hummel’s injury, displayed enough second-half feistiness to beat No. 13 Siena.
By all appearances, No. 16-seed Vermont did not belong on the same court as the top-seeded Orange on Friday.
Ali Farokhmanesh, the son of an 1980 Iranian Olympic volleyball player, is finally getting a chance to enjoy the fruits of his, and his father’s, labors.
Kevin McGuff has built a talented team that has kept it light even as it has constructed an 18-game winning streak entering the N.C.A.A. tournament.
Live updates and analysis from the N.C.A.A. tournament.
A debate over aggression in women’s sports takes place against the backdrop of violence in athletics over all.
Santos F.C. of Brazil is scheduled to play the Red Bulls in an exhibition at the new Red Bull Arena, a real soccer stadium just west of New York with proper contours and sight lines.
Ryan Nelsen, the captain of the New Zealand national team, is a battle-tested defender whose ambitions are as efficient as his play.
Passers-by slow down in front of the house on Cottage Place where John Foxell has lived for a 25 years.
Turning a one-bedroom apartment into a push-button kingdom in which the heat, the locks and the music can be controlled with a touch.
Sheena Iyengar, a blind writer on the psychology of choice, built a wardrobe and furnished her apartment by convening a committee of experts, including her teaching assistants, her friends and her husband.
Radim Kralik, his wife, Barbora Kralikova, and their two children live in a modern concrete box built on top of a 1943 grain silo.
Testing new mops to see how well they clean, how much liquid they absorb and how easy they are to maneuver.
Charlotte Moss, the interior designer, found tableware fresh with flowers and vegetables.
Because dogs aren’t able to indicate what their aches and pains are when they are sick, illness can be especially frightening.
Several new books extolling the virtues of green living provide information for readers of all commitment levels.
A limited-edition set of prints, designed by David Reid, James Klein and Eva Zeisel, is now available.
Home Economics, an Oregon store, sells vintage fabric once used as bus signage in England.
René Veenhuizen and Tejo Remy, from the Dutch design company Droog, will have furnishings on view at Industry Gallery in Washington.
Sales at Hable Construction, Lee’s Studio and Vermont Woods Studio.
At 350 West Broadway, an apartment marketed with marble and velvet.
Prices in Nabq, Egypt, remain low by comparison with those in many global vacation spots.
A midcentury modern house in Boise, Idaho, a historic house in Chester, S.C., and a home in Jackson, Miss.
Visitors to the new Marina Abramovic retrospective at the Museum of Modern Art, a survey of an often arduous strain of performance art, seem more intrigued than repulsed.
“Undercover Boss” on CBS is — so far at least — the breakout television hit of the year, with the largest audience and the strongest appeal to younger viewers.
Surfer Blood, from West Palm Beach, Fla., is playing its first South by Southwest, yet the introductory phase of the band’s life span is to some extent already over.
An intimate production of the French Baroque pastorale “Actéon,” performed by Les Arts Florissants, opened at the Brooklyn Academy of Music on Thursday night.
Art imitates life in Lena Dunham’s “Tiny Furniture,” the winner of the juried narrative film prize at South by Southwest.
The charming contours of “L’Étoile,” Emmanuel Chabrier’s three-act gem of a comic opera, are revealed in a vibrant, season-opening production at New York City Opera.
The wealth and variety of material in “Life,” an 11-part documentary that begins Sunday on Discovery, may surprise even regular viewers of nature programs.
Joanna Newsom drew mostly from her new album, “Have One on Me,” during a sold-out 90-minute show at Town Hall on Thursday night.
Mr. Muscatine was a scholar who transformed Chaucer studies by turning attention to the French models for Chaucer’s poetry and an education reformer.
Ms. Sherman was a writer who not only chronicled the excitement of early-20th-century American dance but also lived through it as a performer.
For audiences weaned on the Walt Disney version of “The Little Mermaid,” John Neumeier’s bleak ballet adaptation at San Francisco’s War Memorial Opera House may be a bit of a shock.
“Jerseylicious,” a witless reality show on the Style Network about a beauty salon in Green Brook, N.J., and the vapid people who work there, begins on Sunday.
The jazz vibraphonist Chris Dingman performed at the Jazz Gallery in the South Village on Thursday night.
In her new “Proximity Spiral,” which opened at the Joyce SoHo on Thursday night, the choreographer Stefanie Nelson explores intimacy using numbers.
The sparkling veneer of a respectful production of T .S. Eliot’s “The Cocktail Party,” at the Beckett Theater, hides a much more brooding, sanctimonious and didactic play.
Elaine Summers Film and Dance Company presented a film and work by Ms. Summers on Thursday at Danspace Project.
Christoph Eschenbach led the New York Philharmonic through works by Berg, Schoenberg and Brahms at Avery Fisher Hall on Thursday evening.
For those who gathered to view “The Hurt Locker,” to watch the film was to relive a recent chapter of their lives.
At the Spring North American Championships in Reno, Nev., when the premier event, the Vanderbilt Knockout Teams, ends on Sunday, a team that has never won the title will be crowned.
The European Fine Art Fair, a major barometer of the mood of the market, has seen buoyant buying interest this month.
Giovanni Grimani was not only a passionate collector and patron of the arts but also an extraordinary architect and interior designer.
Restaurants and events are attracting increasing numbers of visitors to museums despite the economic downturn.
The title of a new exhibition, "Joris Laarman Lab," sums up the show perfectly because it features some of the experiments the designer and his collaborators are conducting in Amsterdam.
At the 23rd European Fine Art Fair, the addition of galleries and dealers has turned it into a collector's supermarket.
For the past four decades, Mr. Harsono has provided a critical voice against political and social oppression in Indonesia. Some of his seminal works are now on show at the Singapore Art Museum, until May 9.
Inspired by Sardinian flatbread, this unleavened matzo-like bread contains more flavor than matzo does.
How to make a meatloaf that is as pungent and zesty as a meatball, but baked in that iconic, sliceable form.
Catering primarily to working-class loyalists, Prakash is not about haute cuisine or ambience.
How to make ideal hash browns without ruining your day.
Ho Chi Minh City’s narrow streets and tiny alleys overflow with no-frills restaurants that open onto the sidewalk.
The chef Tom Colicchio’s newest restaurant isn’t perfect. But it is exciting. And the food is terrifically good.
The creation of Covenant cabernet sauvignon, California’s finest kosher wine, began as a challenge for two nonpracticing Jews.
Salsa has emerged as Mexico’s most misunderstood culinary export.
Forget sous vide and braising and the farm-to-table ethos. We are a nation that cooks with an index finger.
The wine panel recently tasted 20 bottles from Chinon and Bourgueil, red wines that are versatile with all sorts of food.
The chef Zakary Pelaccio’s Fatty franchise has expanded to Williamsburg, Brooklyn, where barbecue will meet Southeast Asian flavors.
A neo-retro Lower East Sider whose menu is built on house-ground meatballs.
Vegetable worship seems to be a rider on the lease at this address, well off the main drag in Greenpoint, Brooklyn.
A new rule in New York City schools, which officials say is aimed at tackling obesity, restricts student bake sales.
Starting in July, restaurants will have to display placards showing their most recent letter grade from health inspectors.
The stars at this handsome little storefront are the bomboloni — Italian filled yeast doughnuts that give the place its name.
The chocolate-covered dried wine grapes recently introduced at the confectioner Bissinger’s are lushly delicious.
The pungent piment d’Espelette chili defines French Basque cooking as much as anything.
A soft-ripening cheese, Le Cendrillon is meant to be put on the cheese board, at room temperature, not in a salad with beets.
A recipe for scrambled eggs with trout roe.
A recipe for hash browns.
A recipe for olive-oil-poached cod with saffron-blood-orange nage.