Challenged by J. D. Hayworth from the airwaves, and soon in a primary, John McCain has moved starkly, and often awkwardly, to the right.
The worldwide recall will affect about 437,000 units of the 2010 Prius and other hybrid models, according to the company’s filing.
Republicans this month will bring President Obama a set of ideas and a more modest health care plan.
Russia’s preferred candidate is the apparent winner, but the starkly contested presidential race contrasts sharply with Russia’s recent history.
Brushing aside international threats of stricter sanctions, Iran reportedly began enriching its uranium on Tuesday.
Some families with deep roots in Manhattan kept their heads a few years ago when the market overheated.
Rajendra K. Pachauri and the U.N. Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change face accusations of scientific sloppiness and potential financial conflicts of interest.
Robert S. Khuzami, the head of enforcement, must restore confidence that the S.E.C. can police Wall Street.
At least 28 people are dead and another 1,500 are stranded following multiple avalanches in Afghanistan.
Results of a crime data survey have made critics and admirers of Mayor Michael R. Bloomberg wonder about the reliability of data underpinning policy decisions on the budget, education and other issues.
Doctors and aid workers are wrestling with proving that they are not illegally transporting children, whose risk of dying is rising while the paperwork awaits.
Rajendra K. Pachauri and the U.N. Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change face accusations of scientific sloppiness and potential financial conflicts of interest.
Russia’s preferred candidate is the apparent winner, but the starkly contested presidential race contrasts sharply with Russia’s recent history.
In Nineveh Province, a parliamentary election considered crucial to Iraqi unity is highlighting conflicts among ethnic and religious groups.
Agreements on U.S. bases and allowing nuclear-armed ships in Japanese ports date from the 1960s and 1970s.
The worldwide recall will affect about 437,000 units of the 2010 Prius and other hybrid models, according to the company’s filing.
The wife of former army commander General Sarath Fonseka said that she has not been able to find her husband since he was arrested on Monday, for what the army said were military offenses.
Brushing aside international threats of stricter sanctions, Iran reportedly began enriching its uranium on Tuesday.
The military has retaken the town of Damadola, in the Bajaur area, where the army has been fighting militants for more than a year, officials said.
The prime minister moved a contentious debate over “national identity” to a group of experts, ending the debate in its public form.
Robert M. Gates, the U.S. Defense Secretary, expressed concerns about a weapons deal that has raised alarm in the republic of Georgia.
Police officers also seized money and equipment worth hundreds of thousands of dollars during the crackdown, which occurred in November, state media reported over the past two days.
After Iran notified the U.N. nuclear agency of plans to enrich its uranium, officials from the U.S., France and Russia called for stronger measures against Tehran.
Nyi Nyi Aung, a naturalized American citizen, gave up a comfortable life near Washington to campaign for democracy for his native Myanmar.
The United Nations said Monday that counterfeiters have begun printing up fake vouchers, complicating giveaways that are meant for the hungriest Haitians.
President Dmitri A. Medvedev on Monday nominated Magomedsalam M. Magomedov to be the next president of the combustible southern republic.
The China Investment Corporation bought more than $9 billion worth of shares in companies like Bank of America and Apple.
Costa Ricans elected a former vice president, Laura Chinchilla, as the country’s first female president, giving the ruling party a resounding victory.
A Chinese activist who sought to document shoddy construction that he contended had contributed to deaths in China’s devastating 2008 earthquake has been sentenced to five years in prison for subversion.
The filmmakers may have moved one step closer to their goal of stopping the dolphin slaughter that the documentary depicts.
Despite large reserves of crude oil, the country relies on hydroelectricity for 70 percent of its power needs.
Ten West Africans have filed federal complaints accusing Wal-Mart stores in Colorado of discrimination.
Mr. Skubiszewski, Poland’s first foreign minister after Communism, helped the country chart a pro-Western course.
Sheikh Rashid Ahmed, who served as minister for information under Pervez Musharraf, survived the attack on Monday though four others were killed.
José Manuel Barroso’s economic agenda risks being overwhelmed by the debt crisis that has swept across the Continent.
The German government’s effort to remove American nuclear weapons has been sharply criticized by a former leader of NATO, who said the move was driven more by populist sentiment than any long-term strategic goal.
The commander of the largest air force base in eastern Canada has been charged with first-degree murder in the deaths of two women from eastern Ontario and with the sexual assault of two others.
At least 15 Indian soldiers were killed after an avalanche smashed into a military training camp near the country’s disputed border with Pakistan on Monday, the army said.
The state human rights body has hired a lawyer to review the case of a girl whose mother sought her divorce from an 80-year-old man.
The Yemen-based wing of Al Qaeda called Monday for a regional holy war and a blockade of the Red Sea to cut off shipments to Israel.
The police arrested three top figures of the Muslim Brotherhood, the country’s most powerful opposition group, as part of a continuing crackdown since the group recently chose new leadership.
International judges said there was not enough evidence to try a Sudanese rebel leader on charges that he played a key role in the killing of 12 African Union peacekeepers in Darfur in 2007.
Pope Benedict XVI on Monday condemned the abuse of children by members of the clergy.
Dongfan Chung, who was convicted of passing space shuttle secrets to China, was sentenced Monday to 15 years in prison.
Japan’s most influential political leader, Ichiro Ozawa, said that he would keep his formal job as the No. 2 leader of the governing Democratic Party after prosecutors decided not to charge him in a financing scandal.
The Department of Defense has identified 969 American service members who have died as a part of the Afghan war and related operations.
Is the boom in Mandarin classes a fad or a cultural turning point?
Prime Minister Boiko M. Borisov has in recent months promoted several women, heralding what some see as a political sexual revolution in the Balkan country.
More women have come to hold power in Asia recently than in any other part of the world.
An informal media campaign tries to save a young Haitian girl from "death by red tape."
Video from Antarctica on the team that dug up five crates of whisky and brandy left beneath a hut there in 1909 by the explorer Ernest Shackleton.
A presidential election in Ukraine shows a deep divide between the country's red and blue regions.
A Jewish D.J. in Brooklyn finds himself defending his right to market what he calls an "Israeli remix of the keffiyeh," a symbol of Palestinian identity.
Chancellor Angela Merkel is facing a record public debt of about $136 billion, projections of faint economic growth, and a report of sinking industrial productivity.
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 average American is expected to spend nearly $1,000 this year on services like cable, Internet and video games.
Publishers have managed to take some control — at least temporarily — of how much consumers pay for their content.
A University of Pennsylvania study found that readers of news in print and online had more exalted tastes than might be expected.
The chairman of SAP, the German software company, said a decision to raise maintenance fees was wrong and acknowledged that he had been partly responsible for the move.
Foursquare, the hip social network whose software is on the phones of many young urbanites, is branching out.
Want to do more than look at a Nook? Starting Wednesday, Barnes & Noble will finally have its e-book reader available for sale in its bookstores.
While Amazon goes on a hiring spree for its Kindle division, hiring color LCD managers and Wi-Fi specialists, where does the company take the Kindle from here?
Futurists look for "weak signals" that suggest where the world is heading. In technology, the signals may be pointing to hardware mashups.
Police officers also seized money and equipment worth hundreds of thousands of dollars during the crackdown, which occurred in November, state media reported over the past two days.
A growing number of business travelers are using portable renewable energy devices to power up their electronics when they work in places that offer little or no access to electricity.
The publisher released its results, which analysts had expected to disappoint, after the regular market session ended.
Rajiv Goel said that in 2007 he provided the hedge fund founder Raj Rajaratnam with confidential tips about Intel and Sprint Nextel.
Google will unveil add-ons to Gmail that let people post and view messages about their day-to-day activities.
Major brands and manufacturers — and now, book publishers — are deploying new tactics and tools to control how their products are presented and priced online.
FT Press is selling stripped-down, 1,000- to 2,000-word versions of books, for $1.99, and a new series of essays of about 5,000 words, for $2.99.
Negotiators, under intense pressure from media companies, luxury brands and other corporate victims of piracy to complete a deal, are facing criticism over the process.
A Web site selling licensed Super Bowl merchandise mines the Web -- and maybe a sports bar -- and finds greater interest in the Saints.
The head of News Corporation and the editor of The Guardian are facing off over whether newspapers should charge for content on the Web.
An experiment begun in 2001 continues: Which camera offers the most bang for relatively few bucks?
While 3-D hardware is coming out this year, it will cost quite a bit more than the bargain HDTVs of the last few years; expect to pay about $4,000 for a full package.
In addition to the online language learning programs discussed in a recent Times article, here are several more that may be of interest.
This Super Bowl weekend, whether you are rooting for the New Orleans Saints or that other team, there is a dog pile of apps to can enhance the game.
AT&T has cleared Slingbox to transmit your home TV signal over the 3G network, providing TV without a Wi-Fi connection. Now it needs Apple's approval.
Rajendra K. Pachauri and the U.N. Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change face accusations of scientific sloppiness and potential financial conflicts of interest.
It was the second attempt to launch the Endeavour, 24 hours after Sunday’s attempt was scrubbed because of clouds over the launching pad.
Addressing a threat that has grown increasingly tense throughout the Midwest as genetic material from the fish was found in Lake Michigan.
The sailboats competing in the America’s Cup are the fastest ever built but about as delicate as a house of cards.
A University of Pennsylvania study found that readers of news in print and online had more exalted tastes than might be expected.
The Obama administration is trying to keep humans flying in space, but will its measured proposals succeed?
In his Princeton laboratory, Samuel Wang uses dog M.R.I.’s to research the relationship between brain structure and behavior.
Through his work in poor countries, Andrew Witty, chief executive of GlaxoSmithKline, has positioned his company as the leader among drug makers in advancing world health issues.
A video hookup between a patient on the scene and a doctor far away can save lives.
Sue Eisenfeld, a 38-year-old afflicted with maladies like carotidynia and mucocele, has given herself the title Queen of Minor Ailments No One Has Ever Heard Of.
After a surgeon removed a huge cancerous tumor from his abdomen, Robert Collison, 59, spent eight weeks in the hospital with infections and other complications.
A study of almost five million births in California found that the chance of having autistic children increased with older parents.
The herpes drug acyclovir lowered H.I.V. levels in the blood but did not make a person less likely to spread the AIDS virus, researchers said.
High blood pressure is often a top priority for doctors, but pain and depression may be more pressing to their patients.
Researchers are a step closer to understanding why babies who appear to be perfectly healthy may die suddenly.
A study found that products including St. John’s wort, ginger and garlic could be dangerous for people taking common medicines.
Can my LDL, my “bad” cholesterol, get too low?
Did the turkey stocks in the American Southwest come from Mexico, or were they domesticated on their own?
Scientists find that some moths chose high-speed tailwinds and adjusted their own flight heading if necessary to compensate for drift.
The animal’s forelimb muscle somehow knows to activate about 90 milliseconds before landing, researchers discovered.
Every pediatrician knows the frustration of trying to quantify the speech and language skills of a screaming toddler.
Can 3-D movies like “Avatar” cause motion sickness?
Orthopedic surgeons across the country are using techniques for hip replacement that reduce complications and speed recovery in patients.
Robert S. Khuzami, the head of enforcement, must restore confidence that the S.E.C. can police Wall Street.
The worldwide recall will affect about 437,000 units of the 2010 Prius and other hybrid models, according to the company’s filing.
As production resumes this week in Georgetown, Ky., and other American cities where Toyota builds cars, people are eager to see its recall problems blow over.
The system for monitoring car safety across the European Union has appeared, like Toyota, opaque and slow to react.
Jean-Claude Trichet is returning early from Australia to attend a meeting of European leaders, amid speculation over possible action to ease the debt crisis in several countries.
Hector Sants announced Tuesday that he planned to step down, surprising the markets and casting doubt over the future of the Financial Services Authority as well as broader banking reform.
UBS posted its first quarterly profit in over a year Tuesday, but customers continued to pull money out of the bank, sending its shares down.
The Japanese carrier said Tuesday that it will stay in the Oneworld alliance, rejecting an overture by Delta Air Lines of the rival SkyTeam group.
The average American is expected to spend nearly $1,000 this year on services like cable, Internet and video games.
While the debate continues in Washington, health care systems nationwide struggle to offset money spent to treat patients who cannot afford to pay their bills.
The China Investment Corporation bought more than $9 billion worth of shares in companies like Bank of America and Apple.
Some of the most-talked-about ads during the Super Bowl broadcast were those created or suggested by consumers, not advertising agencies.
A growing number of business travelers are using portable renewable energy devices to power up their electronics when they work in places that offer little or no access to electricity.
This year’s lists singled out the 10 "dirtiest" hotels in each of six regions — the United States, Asia, Canada, France, Italy and Britain.
In the travels of the chef Susur Lee, recipe ingredients raise red flags for airport security agents.
Economists said that Toyota’s troubles show that economic change is urgently needed in Japan.
The chairman of SAP, the German software company, said a decision to raise maintenance fees was wrong and acknowledged that he had been partly responsible for the move.
Rajiv Goel said that in 2007 he provided the hedge fund founder Raj Rajaratnam with confidential tips about Intel and Sprint Nextel.
Google will unveil add-ons to Gmail that let people post and view messages about their day-to-day activities.
Publishers have managed to take some control — at least temporarily — of how much consumers pay for their content.
Adam Hochfelder, a onetime real estate mogul, was charged with taking $2.5 million from clients and friends for hotel deals he never made.
Newsstand sales of magazines plummeted in the last half of 2009, helping to send total circulation lower.
A University of Pennsylvania study found that readers of news in print and online had more exalted tastes than might be expected.
A third trial of an experimental drug found that it worked better than a rival to delay the risk of bone complications in men with advanced prostate cancer.
Some families with deep roots in Manhattan kept their heads a few years ago when the market overheated.
Ten West Africans have filed federal complaints accusing Wal-Mart stores in Colorado of discrimination.
The Food and Drug Administration cleared the way for the cholesterol treatment to be used by millions of people who are not normally prescribed such drugs.
The publisher released its results, which analysts had expected to disappoint, after the regular market session ended.
Action figures tied to an adventure movie helped sales and Hasbro’s stock gains 11 percent.
Stock in CVS gained 3 percent after it posted an 11 percent profit increase, helped by the expansion of its benefits management business.
Through his work in poor countries, Andrew Witty, chief executive of GlaxoSmithKline, has positioned his company as the leader among drug makers in advancing world health issues.
The court might reject a new $150 million settlement over the takeover of Merrill Lynch, which could send the case to trial.
Kirin, the Japanese brewing giant, cited differences over management independence and transparency in a merged company as the reason for ending the talks.
Directors at banks can help control risk by routinely posing the question: “What could make this institution fail?”
The dividend, which private equity firms routinely paid to themselves until the economy turned against them, is back.
SAS, the Scandinavian airline group, said Tuesday that it would issue new shares to raise capital and cut 700 jobs after reporting a loss for 2009.
Susan Docherty of General Motors says that by asking potential hires how they would perform her job, she gets an idea of how they think on their feet.
When you sign for a debit card at a retailer, the store pays your bank more than twice as much as when you enter a PIN — a strategy Visa hatched decades ago.
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.
Barack Obama and Joe Biden once had a Felix and Oscar air about them. But in recent months, Obama has found a way to use Biden’s skills, while Biden has found ways to be of use.
Those in the lower-income groups are in a much, much deeper hole than the general commentary on the recession would lead people to believe.
China has America about where it wants it. You can make your own calculation of President Obama’s leverage over Beijing — and it’s heading south.
Believe it or not, there are some potential benefits to the United States should Iran build a bomb.
President Obama is calling on NASA to develop “game-changing” technologies. For this to happen, the plan must be focused and adequately financed.
Antitrust regulation still suffers from an unwillingness to challenge “vertical integration” — as such is the case in the merger between Ticketmaster and Live Nation.
The Environmental Protection Agency must make sure that General Electric follows through on the second phase of dredging the Hudson River no matter how difficult.
A follow-up column on the First Amendment and the recent Supreme Court decision, with a discussion of readers’ comments.
Treating numbers concretely - think rocks, for instance - can make calculations less baffling.
From Harvard Yard to National Guard one weekend a month is a journey into a different world.
Should we kill U.S. citizens abroad who aid terrorists?
NBC's recent adventures in talk-show-host management remind one former talk-show host of his own adventures in prime time with another network.
The time has come to hear from the insiders who know what really happened during the banking crisis.
Sarah Palin wants to get in front of the same parade John Edwards wanted to lead, and the resemblance doesn't end there.
No single approach will reduce sexual activity in all teenagers, but a new study suggests that there is a sensible, effective way to teach abstinence.
Though the government will soon need to address the deficit, the last thing it should do is slash spending at a time of high unemployment and fragile growth.
Toyota must provide the National Highway Traffic Safety Administration with all relevant information about recent recalls to help protect American drivers.
The Obama administration must hold the line against critics who want to weaken an ambitious plan to revise the No Child Left Behind Education Act.
The latest Pentagon budget, like President Obama’s last one, makes some tough choices — but not enough.
Every bit of Christian teaching can be summed up in three words: God is love. That is the simple truth that teaches tolerance of same-sex unions.
On this day in 1986, the Duvaliers left Haiti. But the departure of an ultraviolent rule couldn’t uproot the impoverished nation’s longstanding political culture.
Companies that aim for cultish loyalty are vulnerable because they lack the ability to handle doubt, dismay or the obliteration of trust.
The blacks who are enraged by “Precious” have probably figured out that the film wasn’t meant for them.
Why Microsoft, America’s most famous and prosperous technology company, has failed to bring us the future.
To fight obesity, legislation would ban candy and sugary beverages, and many schools would be required to offer more nutritious fare.
Early-college schools, once for the affluent and overachieving, are serving more low-income students.
The stimulus helped forestall drastic cuts at public schools, but many are now approaching what officials call a “funding cliff.”
A district court judge denied a motion to dismiss a lawsuit headed by Ed O’Bannon and arguing that athletes should be compensated when their images are used.
Dr. Sarason was a psychologist whose groundbreaking work on social settings and their influence on individual problems helped establish the field of community psychology.
Haven Academy in the South Bronx is the first school in the New York City designed for children from broken homes.
When women outnumber men at a college, dating culture is skewed.
Dartmouth College announced Monday that it would lay off 38 non-teaching staff members this week and “a similar number” in April.
An aggressive lobbying by large student lenders has imperiled a plan to end subsidies to private lenders.
Professor Block's project began in 1968 with a group of 3-year-olds, and ended when they turned 32.
The university also will freeze deans’ salaries and reduce the number of new graduate students because of a drop in the endowment to $16.3 billion from $22.9 billion.
A study of middle-school students found for the first time that abstinence-only education helped to delay their sexual initiation.
Gifts to colleges and universities declined almost 12 percent in the 2009 fiscal year, the steepest decline recorded in 53 years.
Officials have closed a high-rise dormitory in downtown Philadelphia after carbon monoxide sickened several students and sent at least two to a hospital.
A $500 million drop in the school’s endowment means the end to direct scholarships that did not have to be repaid.
Some of the proposed changes to the No Child Left Behind education law were outlined Monday morning in documents relating to the president’s 2011 budget.
Princeton University’s bold vision to corral grade inflation is running into fierce resistance from its Type-A-plus students.
Should you consider part-time teaching as a way to improve your finances and expand your career opportunities?
A survey by a sophomore at a Connecticut prep school found that boys and girls play sports for their own reasons.
Is the boom in Mandarin classes a fad or a cultural turning point?
Business school students have turned toward courses in social entrepreneurship.
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Some families with deep roots in Manhattan kept their heads a few years ago when the market overheated.
The five men killed in the explosion at Kleen Energy Systems were coaches and leaders, self-appointed statesmen of the cities where they lived.
There has been no major regulatory change to directly address the issue of where gas should be vented during construction or maintenance.
Mayor Sebastian N. Giuliano of Middletown, Conn., said the local police had been issued a warrant to search for signs of what caused the explosion at the Kleen Energy Systems plant.
Results of a crime data survey have made critics and admirers of Mayor Michael R. Bloomberg wonder about the reliability of data underpinning policy decisions on the budget, education and other issues.
Some of the most competitive races for the midterm elections are taking shape in the New York metropolitan region as Republican challengers amass sizable sums of money to take on Democratic incumbents.
Federal prosecutors portrayed Bernard B. Kerik, the former police commissioner who faces sentencing for fraud this month, in damning terms.
Many Senate Republicans helped kill a reform bill that they once backed but that the governor said didn’t go far enough.
Natavia S. Lowery, accused of killing her employer, told the judge she wanted to change her legal team, but he refused her request.
Salima Rajwani shapes brows by threading, or rolling taut cotton strands along the skin to pull hairs from the root. She learned the technique in her native India.
Adam Hochfelder, a onetime real estate mogul, was charged with taking $2.5 million from clients and friends for hotel deals he never made.
While they dig out from a huge snowstorm, road crews across the Mid-Atlantic states may be faced with having to dig out all over again after another heavy snowfall forecast for Tuesday.
Lottery numbers for Feb. 8, 2010.
Albany Democrats can ill afford to lose a single member, but Hiram Monserrate slashed his companion’s face.
A Brooklyn writer is celebrating four years of giving her friends cash and asking them to find ways to donate.
There are many ways to say "I love you,'' especially with Valentine's Day around the corner. But here's how some famous New Yorkers did it.
With “Shutter Island,” Martin Scorsese finds his next “something else.”
Why do heroes in films like “Avatar” and “District 9” become the rebels?
A field guide to the creatures whose hairy faces paved the way for the newest lupine film.
Moviegoers turned their attention to a mushy Nicholas Sparks adaptation over the weekend as “Dear John” ended the seven-week run of “Avatar” as the No. 1 movie in North America.
The director of “The Hurt Locker” stakes a claim on neutrality. Given the agony of our current involvements, it is easy to see why.
On DVD this week is “Bad Girls of Film Noir,” a two-volume collection that contains eight little-known titles from the Columbia Pictures archive.
The life of Warren Beatty, a man as hungry for artistic control as he was for women.
The whoops and giggles, heard when “The Blind Side” was announced as a best picture nominee, were the sound of Hollywood surprising itself.
Now that the nominations have been announced, the grumbling about the decision to move from 5 to 10 best picture nominees has decreased.
The blood that runs through the “Red Riding” trilogy begins as a river that races and then rages until it floods this dank, dark, pitiless world in misery.
“From Paris With Love,” starring John Travolta and Jonathan Rhys Meyers, is really a one-sided buddy movie.
Henrik Ruben Genz’s diabolical comedy “Terribly Happy” assures us that yes, something is definitely rotten in the state of Denmark.
“Eyes Wide Open” explores the conflict between sexual desire and religious obligation.
“District 13: Ultimatum” is pleasurable nonsense and another reminder that one of the great pulls of cinema is the spectacle of bodies in blissful motion.
A minimalist setup delivers maximum fright in “Frozen,” a nifty little chiller that balances its cold terrain with an unexpectedly warm heart.
“Dear John” may not be strong medicine, but it delivers an effective, pleasing dose of pure sentiment and vicarious heartache.
One of the pleasures of “Ajami” is its deep immersion in the beats and melodies of everyday life in Jaffa and beyond.
“Falling Awake” puts good intentions and appealing performances into the balance against clichés of dead-end neighborhoods and rebellious youth.
Mel Gibson tries a return to movie-star form in “Edge of Darkness.”
As you watch Philipp Stölzl’s gripping survival drama, “North Face,” it is impossible not to put yourself in the boots of its mountaineers.
“44-Inch Chest” can be described as six guys sitting around in barely furnished rooms, talking.
A battle is in progress over the estate of Stephen Bruton, the songwriter who co-produced the “Crazy Heart” soundtrack.
Filmmakers are using cheaper locales to stand in for Los Angeles, the capital of the movie industry.
Apparently the energy level is up in Austin, Tex., with the announcement of the films in the South by Southwest festival.
The Academy scattered its honors among an unusually wide field of contenders.
With his mischievous yet low-key good looks and an eye for cerebral, oddball dramas, Schneider frequently finds himself playing scene-stealing sidemen.
The Red Riding trilogy takes an epic look at a grim place and time.
Designers have been paying homage to movie title cards for decades, and especially now that the Internet has made access to film titles easier.
Buoyed by “Avatar,” the highest-grossing movie to date, News Corporation’s adjusted second-quarter earnings were 25 cents a share, a nickel above the average expectations of analysts.
The ACE Theatrical Group has agreed to restore the once-majestic Loew’s Kings Theater in Brooklyn, which opened in 1929.
An uncomfortable question surfaced at this year’s Sundance Film Festival: In the digital age, is trekking to Park City, Utah, each January becoming less necessary?
Is independent film on the verge of being new again?
Mr. Brown was an urbane New Yorker whose publishing background was the foundation of a producing career in Hollywood.
Sunday’s Super Bowl eclipsed the final episode of “M*A*S*H” to become the most watched television show in history.
Saints Coach Sean Payton’s path to the top of the N.F.L. embodies the team’s “unwanted and underrated” character.
The Super Bowl champion Saints have 29 free agents — 11 of them unrestricted — heading into next season.
Speedskating is the United States’ most successful sport at the Winter Olympics, but that has not translated to financial security for the athletes.
The Knicks’ present is gloomy, their future uncertain, and their short- and long-term goals in clear conflict. Call it an unfortunate but necessary side effect of rebuilding.
The first race of the 33rd America’s Cup was postponed Monday because of fickle winds, and now the best-of-three match is scheduled to begin Wednesday, weather permitting.
Hendrick Motorsports has won four consecutive Nascar Sprint Cup titles and it is the favorite to win again this year.
For Omar Vizquel, the opportunity to be linked on his new team with the Venezuelan Hall of Famer Luis Aparicio was the most alluring.
The German Bundesliga wants the world to know that even in these trying economic times, it is solvent — a soccer island in that exudes diligence, growth and smart management.
A district court judge denied a motion to dismiss a lawsuit headed by Ed O’Bannon and arguing that athletes should be compensated when their images are used.
Marcus Morris scored 18 points to lead No. 1 Kansas to an impressive victory on the road against No. 14 Texas.
Mike Richards scored the go-ahead goal with less than eight minutes left in the third period, leading the Philadelphia Flyers to a 3-2 victory over the visiting Devils.
The sailboats competing in the America’s Cup are the fastest ever built but about as delicate as a house of cards.
The persistent snow issues forced organizers to reduce athletes’ practice time at Cypress Mountain and move some training sessions to Whistler, the site for downhill skiing at the Games.
Saints Coach Sean Payton had the numbers on his side when making three aggressive play calls during the Super Bowl.
The Saints took aggressive chances on Sunday, and, starting in December, the Colts’ theme was to play it safe.
The brothers and owners of the architecture and design firm Moorhead & Moorhead pick out gifts that say ‘be mine’ with simple materials and fresh ideas.
Filipp and Raya Katz live in a red brick house in Bath Beach, Brooklyn, that Ms. Katz refers to as “my little palace.”
According to Temple Grandin, the revered expert in animal behavior, it’s fine to treat your dog like a child.
In his apartment at the edge of Germany’s Black Forest, the artist Stefan Strumbel embraces the street.
Mothers must learn how to ask for what they need. It sounds simple, but it isn’t.
After frustrating attempts at fixing up the bedroom in their Brooklyn apartment, a couple turned the room over to a pair of designers who remade it on a budget of $1,500.
Decades after the Cultural Revolution, China has reversed its attitude toward antiques, and the market has become hot.
Jens Risom, the iconic Danish-American furniture designer, chatted with visitors at a reception at the Ralph Pucci gallery in Chelsea last week.
Questions for Matt Muenster, a contractor and host of the DIY Network Toilet Bowl, a full day of shows about redoing bathrooms.
A mischievous blog called Unhappy Hipsters has taken on Dwell magazine.
Donna Wilson, a British designer, has given Staffordshire ceramic dogs a contemporary face-lift.
The artist and designer Michelle Jaffé has created bowls made of felt.
Sales at Broadway Panhandler, Bloomingdale’s and Modani.
A contemporary in Charlottesville, Va., a Mediterranean Revival in Sarasota, Fla., and a house in Los Angeles.
Prices in Amsterdam have come down in the last few years, even in the pricey and coveted Centrum area of town.
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The Royal Shakespeare Company will hold court in Manhattan for an unprecedented six-week, five-play residency inside the Park Avenue Armory.
Publishers have managed to take some control — at least temporarily — of how much consumers pay for their content.
Najla Said’s “Palestine,” a one-woman Off Broadway show, is a coming-of-age story about Ms. Said’s journey to become an Arab-American on her own terms.
The initial print runs for a graphic-novel adaptation of “Twilight” and a new graphic novel by Janet Evanovich are staggering.
Dante’s Inferno, the video game, is more reminiscent of the God of War games than it is of the “Divine Comedy,” the epic poem that inspired it.
The Unsound Festival, an electronic-music smorgasbord that began last week and continues through Sunday, gave two Warhol shorts imaginary soundtracks.
In its second outing, part of the Music Before 1800 series at Corpus Christi Church on Sunday, Juilliard Baroque showed an entirely different face.
Sarah Blake has coaxed forth a book that hits hard and pushes buttons expertly.
“Past Life,” a Fox series that makes its debut on Tuesday night, is the latest drama to feature an empathetic heroine talking to the dead to help them with their unfinished business.
Sunday’s Super Bowl eclipsed the final episode of “M*A*S*H” to become the most watched television show in history.
The threads that bind movement to music are nowhere more various or more subtle than in “The Sleeping Beauty.”
On Sunday the promising young tenor Sean Panikkar joined the coloratura soprano June Anderson for an eclectic program ranging from Beethoven to Weill.
“Flying Cheap,” Tuesday’s “Frontline” on PBS, revisits the February 2009 crash of a commuter flight outside Buffalo and surveys problems within the regional airline system.
Hectoring and uplift enjoy an uneasy truce in the music of Delta Spirit.
A real-time, chamber-music performance of an inhumanly generated composition: that was Lou Reed’s “Metal Machine Music” as played by the Fireworks Ensemble at Miller Theater.
A case like no other will be treated like any other case, a Los Angeles County judge says.
If designing a boat for a voyage from San Francisco to Sydney isn't daunting enough, this one also has to be environmentally irreproachable.
The triumphant sales of Impressionist and Modern masters in London last week consecrate the power of myth.
A historic sale of Impressionist and Modern art at Sotheby's in London netted a total of £146.82 million, or $235.65 million.
An exhibition in Singapore traces how the Hindu epic, with numerous heroes and villains and its powerful message of good triumphing over evil, spread through the centuries throughout Southeast Asia.
Christie's in London sold a total of £76.83 million worth, while records were set for an Otto Mueller and a Natalia Goncharova.
Not known for his funnybone, Giuseppe Verdi produced two comedic operas, the well-known "Falstaff" and the lesser "Un Giorno di Regno," which have been revived in recent productions in Italy.
Best known for lavishly sweet wines, Hungary is also making dry whites again, and some are stunningly delicious.
To fight obesity, legislation would ban candy and sugary beverages, and many schools would be required to offer more nutritious fare.
The editor of Health said cost concerns did not drive the decision to recycle recipes from Real Simple.
The F.D.A. may update serving sizes for foods like chips, cookies and ice cream to reflect how Americans really eat.
If you didn’t know it, you’d think these muffins were made from something else.
The thrifty epicure can take shrimp shells and turn them into flavorful stock.
In a couple of months, a person will be able to buy a beer legally in New Albany, Miss., William Faulkner’s birthplace, for the first time in more than 50 years.
After decades of magical dietary thinking, a father finally gets the wisdom of whole grains.
In Texas, chefs are finding their own voice and setting up shop in refreshingly unusual spaces.
Buckfast Tonic Wine is a symbol of Scotland’s drinking problems at a time when it is debating how to address them.
Where to eat in Vancouver, British Columbia, which is among the best food towns in the history of the Winter Games.
Fat, salt and crunch should always be invited to a Super Bowl gathering.
The sleek Park Avenue shop Borne Confections is now importing chocolates by the Spanish chef Oriol Balaguer.
Petrossian is now making pressed caviar — a less expensive form of the delicacy made from damaged roe — from white sturgeon.
The wrappers on Good Karmal’s buttery caramels, which sit in a basket for Valentine’s Day, bear quotations from authors like Henry Miller, Aesop and Maya Angelou.
European officials are increasing pressure for an international ban on bluefin tuna, a threatened fish whose fatty belly is prized for sushi.
If you want them fresh and warm from the roaster, SP’s, in Lower Manhattan, is about all that’s left.
After the Department of Health cited Manhattan’s Pegu Club for serving a cocktail that contained raw egg, some mixologists are thinking twice before cracking a shell.
The menu at this new East Village restaurant reads like a roster of favorite snacks and midnight feasts, albeit executed with a precision honed in high-end kitchens.
Where modern American Mad Men can be found, male and female, grooving corporate and middle-aged, drinking martinis with intent.
Feijoada — a hearty combination of black beans, sausage and stewing meat — is the kind of comfort food found at this small Brazilian-accented spot in Williamsburg, Brooklyn.
The main reason to come to this small Flushing restaurant is to eat a dish with a prosaic name: braised pork shoulder in brown sauce.
There's nothing rational in the view that it's weird of the Chinese to eat dog. After all, in the West pet "micro pigs" are becoming fashionable.