Selected Articles from The New York Times—
April 2006
(* denotes news of special interest)

Sunday, April 30, 2005:
On This Day: April 30 (St. Jean-Baptiste de La Salle 4/30/1651-4/7/1719, Eugen Bleuler 4/30/1857-7/15/1939, Franz Léhar 4/30/1870-10/24/1948, John Crowe Ransom 4/30/1888-7/4/1974, Joachim von Ribbentrop 4/30/1893-10/16/1946, Simon Kuznets 4/30/1901-7/8/1985, Eve Arden 4/30/1912-11/12/1990, Robert Shaw 4/30/1916-1/25/1999, Richard Farina 4/30/1937-4/30/1966, Princess Juliana 1909, Al Lewis 1910, Cloris Leachman 1926, Willie Nelson 1933, Gary Collins 1938, Burt Young 1940, Bobby Vee 1943, Jill Clayburgh 1944, Perry King 1948, Merrill Osmand 1953)
Communists Take Over Saigon; U.S. Rescue Fleet Is Picking Up Vietnamese Who Fled in Boats
(By George Esper, April 30, 1975)
Theodore Schultz, 95, Winner Of a Key Prize in Economics
[4/30/1902-4/30/1998] (By PETER PASSELL, March 2, 1998)

* John Kenneth Galbraith, 97, Dies; Economist Held a Mirror to Society (By HOLCOMB B. NOBLE & DOUGLAS MARTIN, Apr. 30, 2006)
NATIONAL: As Gas Prices Go Up, Impact Trickles Down (NY TIMES, Apr. 30, 2006)
A Cajun Craftsman Preserves the Hallowed Ping of History (By JON PARELES, Apr. 30, 2006)
Many Dismissing 'Donor Fatigue' as Myth (By STEPHANIE STROM, Apr. 30, 2006)
Loss of Competition Is Seen in Health Insurance Industry (By ROBERT PEAR, Apr. 30, 2006)
WORLD: Village Writes Its Epitaph: Victim of a Graying Japan (By NORIMITSU ONISHI, Apr. 30, 2006)
WORLD News Analysis: Iran Strategy: Cold War Echo (By DAVID E. SANGER & ELAINE SCIOLINO, Apr. 30, 2006)
WORLD: U.S. Says It Fears Detainee Abuse in Repatriation (By TIM GOLDEN, Apr. 30, 2006)
WORLD: A Preface to Paris: New Clues to the Roman Legacy (By ALAN RIDING, Apr. 30, 2006)
WORLD: 100,000 Families Are Fleeing Violence, Iraq Official Says (By RICHARD A. OPPEL Jr., Apr. 30, 2006)
* NY REGION: As New York Apartments Become Condos, Tenants Are Stuck in the Middle
(By JOSH BARBANEL, Apr. 30, 2006)
NY REGION: From Senator Clinton, a Lesson in Tactical Bipartisanship (By ANNE E. KORNBLUT, Apr. 30, 2006)
NY REGION: Now You See It, Now You ... After a While, You Don't (By JONATHAN MILLER, Apr. 30, 2006)
* SPORTS: Ruth to Bonds, Aging Sluggers Find It Hard to Say Goodbye (By RICHARD SANDOMIR, Apr. 30, 2006)
BASEBALL | Yankees 17, Blue Jays 6: Damon and Yanks Back Johnson's Shaky Outing
(By JOE LAPOINTE, Apr. 30, 2006)
* BASEBALL | Keeping Score: A Walk May Not Be as Good as a Hit (By ALAN SCHWARZ, Apr. 30, 2006)
* SPORTS | On Baseball: These Teams Are Poor? That's Rich (By MURRAY CHASS, Apr. 30, 2006)
EDITORIAL OBSERVER | The Rural Life: The Next Generation (By VERLYN KLINKENBORG, Apr. 30, 2006)
OP-ED: To Pump or Not to Pump (By T. C. BOYLE, Apr. 30, 2006)
OP-ED: Films of Infamy ["United 93"] (By DAVID THOMSON, Apr. 30, 2006)
LETTERS: Colleges Try to Sell Themselves (5 Letters) (By Adhitya S. Chittur, et. al., Apr. 30, 2006)
BUSINESS: Contents (NY TIMES, Apr. 30, 2006)
BUSINESS: Gold Reaches 25-Year Highs as the Dollar Falls (By JEFF SOMMER, Apr. 30, 2006)
Fundamentally | Back to Basics: Are Stocks Too Cheap, or Too Expensive? (By PAUL J. LIM, Apr. 30, 2006)
* MEDIA FRENZY | AOL: A Punching Bag in Need of a Big Hit (By RICHARD SIKLOS, Apr. 30, 2006)
INVESTING: When the Dollar Zigs, These Mutual Funds May Zag (By J. ALEX TARQUINIO, Apr. 30, 2006)
BUSINESS: How a Hit Almost Failed Its Own Audition (By BILL CARTER, Apr. 30, 2006)
ARTS: Contents (NY TIMES, Apr. 30, 2006)
ARTS: A. Doctor? B. Critic? C. Artist? Try All of the Above (By MICHAEL RUSH, Apr. 30, 2006)
DANCE: Love Hurts/Love Hurts (By CLAUDIA LA ROCCO, Apr. 30, 2006)
FILM: New York City as Film Set: From Mean Streets to Clean Streets (By JOHN CLARK, Apr. 30, 2006)
MUSIC: Joseph Volpe Bids the Met a Most Operatic Adieu (By DANIEL J. WAKIN, Apr. 30, 2006)
* MUSIC Playlist: It's All Right, Ma: Bob Dylan Turns D.J. (By BOB DYLAN, Apr. 30, 2006)
THEATER: In 'Faith Healer,' Ralph Fiennes, Cherry Jones and Others Perform an Ensemble of Solos
(By SUSAN LEHMAN, Apr. 30, 2006)
TV: A Children's Cartoon From the Middle East Has a New Mideast Peace Plan (By JACQUES STEINBERG, Apr. 30, 2006)
FASHION & STYLE: Contents (NY TIMES, Apr. 30, 2006)
STYLE: Boys Just Want to Be ... Olsens (By ANNA BAHNEY, Apr. 30, 2006)
STYLE: Up to Her Eyes in Gore, and Loving It (By ALEX WILLIAMS, Apr. 30, 2006)
* MODERN LOVE: Now for a Quick Lesson in International Relations (By EVAN RATLIFF, Apr. 30, 2006)
* POSSESSED: Through a Glass Eye Luckily [Lynn Redgrave] (By DAVID COLMAN, Apr. 30, 2006)
VOWS: Erika Meitner and Steven Trost (By JEN McCAFFERY, Apr. 30, 2006)
TRAVEL: Contents (NY TIMES, Apr. 30, 2006)
TRAVEL | Choice Tables: San Francisco: A Place Like No Other for Takeout Like No Other
(By MARK BITTMAN, Apr. 30, 2006)
WEEK IN REVIEW: Contents (NY TIMES, Apr. 30, 2006)
ART Critic: Outgrowing Jane Jacobs and Her New York (By NICOLAI OUROUSSOFF, Apr. 30, 2006)
THE NATION: There Are Leaks. And Then There Are Leaks. (By SCOTT SHANE, Apr. 30, 2006)
THE NATION: Pork Under Glass? Small Museums and Their Patrons on Capitol Hill (By BILL MARSH, Apr. 30, 2006)
THE WORLD: Rumsfeld Learns to Curb His Enthusiasm (By STEVEN R. WEISMAN, Apr. 30, 2006)
THE WORLD: Votes Counted. Deals Made. Chaos Wins. (By DEXTER FILKINS, Apr. 30, 2006)
* Ideas & Trends: The Bell Tolls for the Future Merry Widow (By KATE ZERNIKE, Apr. 30, 2006)
* Ideas & Trends: On to Oxford With a Little Stop at a French Brothel (By CHARLES McGRATH, Apr. 30, 2006)
* Ideas & Trends: An Adjective for Cakes, but Not for Bill Gates (By GEOFFREY NUNBERG, Apr. 30, 2006)
* Ideas & Trends: Play a Song for Me [Radio DJ's] (By LAURA CANTRELL, Apr. 30, 2006)
THE BASICS: Relaxing Clean Air Rules Means... (By HENRY FOUNTAIN, Apr. 30, 2006)
THE BASICS: Flying the Flag at Half-Staff, Made Easy (By THOMAS VINCIGUERRA, Apr. 30, 2006)
THE READING FILE: Saddam Hussein, Misunderstood (NY TIMES, Apr. 30, 2006)
THE READING FILE: Save the Children (NY TIMES, Apr. 30, 2006)
* THE READING FILE: What 'I' Means [Bush & Kerry's speech patterns] (NY TIMES, Apr. 30, 2006)
LAUGHING LINES: Jay Leno, Conan O'Brien and Stephen Colbert (NY TIMES, Apr. 30, 2006)
SUNDAY MAGAZINE: Contents (NY TIMES, Apr. 30, 2006)
* ON LANGUAGE: The Little Guy (By WILLIAM SAFIRE, Apr. 30, 2006)
* The Way We Live Now: Freud and the Fundamentalist Urge (By MARK EDMUNDSON, Apr. 30, 2006)
* Questions for Carlos Fuentes: Novel Politics (Interview by DEBORAH SOLOMON, Apr. 30, 2006)
CONSUMED: Fitting In (By ROB WALKER, Apr. 30, 2006)
THE ETHICIST: Giving to Rich U. (By RANDY COHEN, Apr. 30, 2006)
COVER ARTICLE: Ministering to the Upwardly Mobile Muslim (By SAMANTHA M. SHAPIRO, Apr. 30, 2006)
* The Rehabilitation of the Cold-War Liberal (By PETER BEINART, Apr. 30, 2006)
A Question of Resilience [coping with sexual abuse] (By EMILY BAZELON, Apr. 30, 2006)
STYLE: The Grassi is Greener [François Pinault, richest French art collector]
(By HERBERT MUSCHAMP, Apr. 30, 2006)
STYLE | Appearances: Fill 'er Up! [injectable dermal fillers] (By DAPHNE MERKIN, Apr. 30, 2006)
FOOD: The Way We Eat: Olde School (By CHRISTINE MUHLKE, Apr. 30, 2006)
LIVES: Step by Stepmother (By CANDY J. COOPER, Apr. 30, 2006)
BOOK REVIEW: Contents (NY TIMES, Apr. 30, 2006)
* 'High Lonesome: New & Selected Stories 1966-2006,' by Joyce Carol Oates: People Who Hurt People (Review by CATHLEEN SCHINE, Apr. 30, 2006)
* 'Oracle Bones,' by Peter Hessler: Letters From China (Review by JONATHAN SPENCE, Apr. 30, 2006)
* 'A Writer's Life,' by Gay Talese: A Reporter's Reporter (Review by KURT ANDERSEN, Apr. 30, 2006)
* 'The Great Transformation,' by Karen Armstrong: Roots of Faith (Review by JOHN WILSON, Apr. 30, 2006)
* ESSAY: The Epic of Iran (By REZA ASLAN, Apr. 30, 2006)
'The Book of Lost Books,' by Stuart Kelly: Treasure Hunt (Review by JOE QUEENAN, Apr. 30, 2006)
'Stravinsky,' by Stephen Walsh: A Change of Tone (Review by GREG SANDOW, Apr. 30, 2006)
'Fever: The Life and Music of Miss Peggy Lee,' by Peter Richmond: Queen of the Night
(Review by STEPHEN HOLDEN, Apr. 30, 2006)
Poetry Books by Mary Karr and Jim Harrison: Moonlighting
[Mary Karr's Sinners Welcome & Jim Harrison's Saving Daylight
Harrison sees the sacred in the world around him: in a flock of sandhill cranes,
say, as they fly above the river. "I'm enrolled in a school without/
visible teachers,/ the divine mumbling / just out of earshot." ]
(Review by DAVID KIRBY, Apr. 30, 2006)
'The Big Why,' by Michael Winter: The Disappointment Artist (Review by BENJAMIN MARKOVITS, Apr. 30, 2006)
* LETTERS: 'The Oxford Book of American Poetry'; What About Balzac?
[Retort to William Logan's negative review of the 1,085-page anthology.]
(By DAVID LEHMAN, et. al., Apr. 30, 2006)

Saturday, April 29, 2005:
On This Day: April 29 (Alexander II 4/29/1818-3/13/1881, Henri Poincaré 4/29/1854-7/17/1912, William Randolph Hearst 4/29/1863-8/14/1951, Sir Thomas Becham 4/29/1879-3/8/1961, Harold Urey 4/29/1893-1/5/1981, Sir Malcomm Sargent 4/29/1895-10/3/1967, Duke Ellington 4/29/1899-5/24/1974, Fred Zinnemann 4/29/1907-3/14/1997, George Allen 4/29/1922-12/31/1990, Celeste Holm 1919, Carl Gardner 1928, Keith Baxter 1933, Rod McKuen 1933, Zubin Mehta 1936, Jerry Seinfeld 1954, Kate Mulgrew 1955, Michelle Pfeiffer 1957, Uma Thurman 1970)
Los Angeles Policemen Acquitted In Taped Beating of Rodney King
(By Seth Mydans, April 29, 1992)
Hirohito, 124th Emperor of Japan, Is Dead at 87
[4/29/1901-1/7/1989] (By SUSAN CHIRA, January 7, 1989)

Steve Howe, 48, Pitcher Who Battled Addiction, Dies (ASSOCIATED PRESS, Apr. 29, 2006)
NATIONAL: Bush Enters Anthem Fight on Language (By JIM RUTENBERG, Apr. 29, 2006)
BASEBALL: Pujols Sets Major League Home Run Record for April with 14
[13 Homers for Ken Griffey Jr. (1997) & Luis Gonzalez (2001)]
(ASSOCIATED PRESS, Apr. 29, 2006)
* OP-ED: Enough Already [Democrats slogan] (By TIM ROEMER, Apr. 29, 2006)
ARTS: Salinger and a Bathroom: Glass Family Private Moments in Public (By LILY KOPPEL, Apr. 29, 2006)
* BOOKS: For a Harvard Student and Aggrieved Novelist, Plagiarism Generates Interest (By MOTOKO RICH & GLENN RIFKIN, Apr. 29, 2006)
BOOKS | Editing Hustler: A Dirty Job Allan MacDonell Just Had to Do (By CHARLES McGRATH, Apr. 29, 2006)
MUSIC CRITIC: Many Friends Help Open New Orleans Fest (By JON PARELES, Apr. 29, 2006)
TV: Rosie O'Donnell to Join the Cast of 'The View' (By JACQUES STEINBERG, Apr. 29, 2006)

Friday, April 28, 2005:
On This Day: April 28 (James Monroe 4/28/1878-7/4/1831, Marie-Joseph Chenier 4/28/1764-1/10/1811, Tobias Asser 4/28/1838-7/29/1913, Erich Salomon 4/28/1886-7/7/1944, Johan Borgen 4/28/1902-10/16/1979, Bart Jan Bok 4/28/1906-8/7/1983, Kurt Gödel 4/28/1906-1/14/1978, Ferruccio Lamborghini 4/28/1916-2/20/1993, Carolyn Jones 4/28/1929-8/3/1983, Harper Lee 1926, James A. Baker III 1930, Saddam Hussein 1937, Ann-Margret 1941, Jay Leno 1950, Mary McDonnell 1953, Chris Young 1971)
* Kon-Tiki Trip Ends on Pacific Reef; Party Safe After 4,000-Mile Drift
(By Thor Heyerdahl, April 28, 1947)
* Lionel Barrymore Is Dead at 76; Actor's Career Spanned 61 Years
[4/28/1878-11/15/1954] (NY TIMES, November 16, 1954)

LETTERS: Cornell's Complex (1 Letter) (By Adam Thompson, Apr. 28, 2006)
BUSINESS: U.S. Economy Still Expanding at Rapid Pace (By DAVID LEONHARDT & VIKAS BAJAJ, Apr. 28, 2006)
BUSINESS: The Fed May Stand Back and Watch the Numbers for a While (By EDMUND L. ANDREWS, Apr. 28, 2006)
WORLD BUSINESS: China Raises Rates to Slow Its Economy (By KEITH BRADSHER, Apr. 28, 2006)
* TECHNOLOGY: Is Microsoft Preparing Big Attack? (By JOHN MARKOFF, Apr. 28, 2006)
* TECHNOLOGY: Intel Plans a Revamping in an Effort to Save $1 Billion (By LAURIE J. FLYNN, Apr. 28, 2006)
* ARTS: Crowd Pleasers | Chick-Lit: Dizzy or Smart? What's a Girl to Be? (By JANET MASLIN, Apr. 28, 2006)
* ARTS: The Morgan's Treasures Bedazzle in Their New Jewel Box (By HOLLAND COTTER, Apr. 28, 2006)
* BOOKS: Publisher Decides to Recall Novel by Harvard Student (By MOTOKO RICH & DINITIA SMITH, Apr. 28, 2006)

Thursday, April 27, 2005:
On This Day: April 27 (Claude Gillot 4/27/1673-5/4/1722, Nikolay Novikov 4/27/1744-7/31/1818, Mary Wollstonecraft 4/27/1759-9/10/1797, Samuel Morse 4/27/1791-4/2/1872, Herbert Spencer 4/27/1820-12/8/1903, Edward Whymper 4/27/1840-9/16/1911, Rogers Hornsby 4/27/1896-1/5/1963, Wallace Hume Carothers 4/27/1896-4/29/1937, Walter Lantz 4/27/1900-3/27/1900, Jack Klugman 1922, Coretta Scott King 1927, Anouk Aimee 1932, Casey Kasem 1932, Judy Carne 1939, Sheena Easton 1959)
* 58,339 Acclaim Babe Ruth in Rare Tribute at Yankee Stadium
(By Louis Effrat, April 27, 1947)
* The Career of a Soldier: Ulysses S. Grant Dies at 63
[4/27/1822-7/23/1885] (NY TIMES, July 24, 1885)

OP-ED: Good Enough to Fine [restaurants & health codes] (By GABRIELLE HAMILTON, Apr. 27, 2006)
* BOOKS: Puzzle Embedded in 'Da Vinci Code' Ruling
[Embedded in the first 13.5 pages of the 71-page ruling is Justice Peter Smith's very
own secret code, one that when partly solved reveals its name: the Smithy Code.]
(By SARAH LYALL, Apr. 27, 2006)
* BOOKS: First, Plot and Character. Then, Find an Author. (By MOTOKO RICH and DINITIA SMITH, Apr. 27, 2006)

Wednesday, April 26, 2005:
On This Day: April 26 (John James Audubon 4/26/1785-1/27/1851, Friedrich Flotow 4/26/1812-1/24/1883, Alfred Krupp 4/26/1812-7/14/1887, Frederick Law Olmsted 4/26/1822-8/28/1903, Harold Rothermere 4/26/1868-11/26/1940, Ma Rainey 4/26/1886-12/22/1939, Ludwig Wittgenstein 4/26/1889-4/29/1951, Anita Loos 4/26/1893-8/18/1981, Cass Canfield 4/26/1897-3/27/1986, Morris West 4/26/1916-10/9/1999, Carol Burnett 1933, Duane Eddy 1938, Bobby Rydell 1942, Claudine Auger 1942, Joan Chen 1961)
Soviet Announces Nuclear Accident at Electric Plant at Chernobyl
(By Serge Schmemann, April 26, 1986)
* Bernard Malamud Dies at 71; Chronicled Human Struggle
[4/26/1914-3/18/1986] (By MERVYN ROTHSTEIN, March 19, 1986)

* ON EDUCATION: In College Entrance Frenzy, a Lesson Out of Left Field (By SAMUEL G. FREEDMAN, Apr. 26, 2006)
* NY REGION: Student's Prize Is a Trip Into Immigration Limbo (By NINA BERNSTEIN, Apr. 26, 2006)
* OP-ED: Brand U. (By STEPHEN BUDIANSKY, Apr. 26, 2006)
* BOOKS: Aggrieved Publisher Rejects Young Novelist's Apology (By DINITIA SMITH, Apr. 26, 2006)

Tuesday, April 25, 2005:
On This Day: April 25 (Oliver Cromwell 4/25/1599-9/3/1658, Peter Ilich Tchaikovsky 4/25/1840-10/25/1893, John Frank Stevens 4/25/1853-6/2/1943, Howard Garis 4/25/1873-11/6/1962, Guglielmo Marconi 4/25/1874-7/20/1937, Wolfgang Pauli 4/25/1900-12/15/1958, William Brennan 4/25/1906-7/24/1997, Claude Mauriac 4/25/1914-3/22/1996, Ella Fitzgerald 4/25/1917-6/15/1996, Paul Mazursky 1930, Meadowlark Lemon 1932, Al Pacino 1940, Talia Shire 1946, Hank Azaria 1964, Renee Zellweger 1969, Emily Bergl 1975)
Two Soviet Armies Inside Berlin; 46 Nations Ready to Organize Peace; Only Poles Absent
(By James B. Reston, April 25 , 1945)
* Edward R. Murrow, Broadcaster And Ex-Chief of U.S.I.A., Dies at 57
[4/25/1908-4/27/1965] (NY TIMES, April 28, 1965)
The Final American Tour of Charles Dickens (Harper's Weekly, April 25, 1868)

* BOOKS: Harvard Novelist Says Copying Was Unintentional
[The Harvard Crimson reported that Ms. Kaavya Viswanathan, who received $500,000
as part of a deal for "Opal" and one other book, had seemingly plagiarized language
from two novels by Megan McCafferty, an author of popular young-adult books.]
(By DINITIA SMITH, Apr. 25, 2006)

Monday, April 24, 2005:
On This Day: April 24 (St. Vincent De Paul 4/24/1581-9/27/1660, Giovanni Battista Martini 4/24/1706-10/4/1784, Robert Bailey Thomas 4/24/1766-5/19/1846, Anthony Trollope 4/24/1815-12/6/1882, Henri-Philippe Petain 4/24/1856-7/23/1951, John R. Pope 4/24/1874-8/27/1937, Willem de Kooning 4/24/1904-3/19/1997, J. D. Cannon 1922, Shirley MacLaine 1934, Sue Grafton 1940, Barbra Streisand 1942, Richard Sterban 1943, Michael O'Keefe 1955)
Spain Declared War on the U.S. (NY TIMES, April 24, 1898)
* Robert Penn Warren, Poet and Author, Dies at 84
[4/24/1905-9/15/1989] (NY TIMES, September 16, 1989)

Sunday, April 23, 2005:
On This Day: April 23 (William Shakespeare 4/23/1564-4/23/1616, St. Catherine 4/23/1522-2/2/1590, Sir William Penn 4/23/1621-9/16/1670, J.M.W. Turner 4/23/1775-12/19/1851, James Buchanan 4/23/1791-6/1/1868, Stephen Douglas 4/23/1813-6/3/1861, Edwin Markham 4/23/1852-3/7/1940, Johannes Fibiger 4/23/1867-1/30/1928, Michel Fokine 4/23/1880-8/22/1942, Sergey Prokofiev 4/23/1891-3/5/1953, Lester Pearson 4/23/1891-12/27/1972, Roy Halston 4/23/1932-3/26/1990, Janet Blair 1921, Shirley Temple Black 1928, Alan Oppenheimer 1930, David Birney 1939, Lee Majors 1940, Sandra Dee 1942, Blair Brown 1948, James Russo 1953, Judy Davis 1955, Valerie Bertinelli 1960)
Sirhan Sentenced to Gas Chamber on 5th Jury Vote (By Douglas Robinson, April 23, 1969)
* Max Planck Dead; Noted Physicist, 89
[4/23/1858-10/4/1947] (NY TIMES, October 5, 1947)

EDUCATION LIFE: Contents (NY TIMES, Apr. 23, 2006)
* EDUCATION: Continuing Ed: Rejected? At This Age? (By SUSAN BRENNA, Apr. 23, 2006)
* EDUCATION | Notebook: When the Best Is Not Good Enough (By PAULA MARANTZ COHEN, Apr. 23, 2006)
* EDUCATION | Guidance Counselor: Taming the Monster (By SAMANTHA STAINBURN, Apr. 23, 2006)
* EDUCATION | Revisiting... Rate My Professors: Everybody's a Criti (By CAMPBELL ROBERTSON, Apr. 23, 2006)
ARTS: Wear This Book (but Bring It Back Friday) (By AMY SUTHERLAND, Apr. 23, 2006)
SUNDAY MAGAZINE: Contents (NY TIMES, Apr. 23, 2006)
* ON LANGUAGE: Glutmanship (By WILLIAM SAFIRE, Apr. 23, 2006)
* The Way We Live Now: Export This? [Democracy] (By JIM HOLT, Apr. 23, 2006)
Questions for Madeleine Albright: State of the Secretary (By DEBORAH SOLOMON, Apr. 23, 2006)
DIAGNOSIS: A Swelling Problem (By LISA SANDERS, M.D., Apr. 23, 2006)
CONSUMED: Animal Pragmatism (By ROB WALKER, Apr. 23, 2006)
DIAGNOSIS: The Pentecostal Promise (By BENJAMIN ANASTAS, Apr. 23, 2006)
* COVER ARTICLE: Google in China: The Big Disconnect
[When Kai-Fu Lee, the new head of operations for Google in China, gave a lecture
at one Chinese university about how young Chinese should compete with the rest
of the world, scalpers sold tickets for $60 apiece. At another, an audience of
8,000 showed up; students sprawled out on the ground, fixed on every word.]
(By CLIVE THOMPSON, Apr. 23, 2006)
In Search of a Secular, Nonsectarian Time [Baghdad] (By ROBERT F. WORTH, Apr. 23, 2006)
BOOK REVIEW: Contents (NY TIMES, Apr. 23, 2006)
* COVER ARTICLE | 'Ava Gardner,' by Lee Server: Ava's Allure (Review by PETER BOGDANOVICH, Apr. 23, 2006) Cover Photo
'The Omnivore's Dilemma,' by Michael Pollan: Deconstructing Dinner (Review by DAVID KAMP, Apr. 23, 2006)
* ESSAY: The Party's Over [Playboy Mansion book party in 1999] (By RACHEL DONADIO, Apr. 23, 2006)
POETRY CHRONICLE [Reviews of new books by David Young, Agi Mishol,
A. E. Stallings, Malena MÖrling, James McMichael, Don McKay,
Jennifer Rose, Noelle Kocot, Noelle Kocot and Christopher Bursk.
(By ERIC McHENRY and JOEL BROUWER, Apr. 23, 2006)
* 'Elements of Style,' by Wendy Wasserstein: East Side Story (Review by CARYN JAMES, Apr. 23, 2006)
'Windswept: The Story of Wind and Weather,' by Marq de Villiers: Weather Report (Review by ELIZABETH ROYTE, Apr. 23, 2006)
* 'The Last Witchfinder,' by James Morrow: Salem's Plot (Review by JASON GOODWIN, Apr. 23, 2006) Ben Franklin Image
* 'Seducing the Demon: Writing for My Life,' by Erica Jong: How to Save Your Own Life (Review by RON POWERS, Apr. 23, 2006)
* 'Philosophy Made Simple,' by Robert Hellenga: What Would Plato Do? (Review by REBECCA NEWBERGER GOLDSTEIN, Apr. 23, 2006)
'The Edge of Pleasure,' by Philippa Stockley: Artistic Licentiousness (Review by CHELSEA CAIN, Apr. 23, 2006)
'The Near Future,' by Joe Ashby Porter: Virtual Surreality (Review by DAVID KIRBY, Apr. 23, 2006)
BOOKS LETTERS: Fukuyama Responds to Krauthammer; 'Suite Française; Sven Birkerts (By FRANCIS FUKUYAMA, et. al., Apr. 23, 2006)

Saturday, April 22, 2005:
On This Day: April 22 (Isabell I 4/22/1451-11/26/1504, Henry Fielding 4/22/1707-10/8/1754, Immanuel Kant 4/22/1724-2/12/1804, Germaine de Stael 4/22/1766-7/14/1817, Emily Davies 4/22/1830-7/13/1921, Vladimir Ilich Lenin 4/22/1870-1/21/1924, Vladimir Nabokov 4/23/1899-7/2/1977, Dorothy Alexander 4/22/1904-11/17/1986, Yehudi Menuhin 4/22/1916-3/12/1999, Charles Mingus 4/22/1922-1/5/1979, Eddie Albert 1908, Aaron Spelling 1923, George Cole 1925, Charlotte Rae 1926, Glen Campbell 1936, Jack Nicholson 1937, Jason Miller 1939, Mel Carter 1943, John Waters 1946, Peter Frampton 1950, Joseph Bottoms 1954, Chris Makepeace 1964, Sheryl Lee 1967)
Land Rush: Into Oklahoma at Last (NY TIMES, April 22, 1889)
* J. Robert Oppenheimer, Atom Bomb Pioneer, Dies at 62
[4/22/1904-2/18/1967] (NY TIMES, February 19, 1967)

* NY REGION: Cornell's Worried Image Makers Wrap Themselves in Ivy (By ALAN FINDER, Apr. 22, 2006)

Friday, April 21, 2005:
On This Day: April 21 (Lodovico Carracci 4/21/1555-11/13/1619, Friedrich Froebel 4/21/1782-6/21/1852, Charlotte Bronte 4/21/1816-3/31/1855, Joss Billings 4/21/1818-10/14/1885, Max Weber 4/21/1864-6/14/1920, Billy Bitxer 4/21/1874-4/29/1944, Randall Thompson 4/21/1899-7/9/1984, Marcel Camus 4/21/1912-1/13/1982, Anthony Quinn 1915, Queen Elizabeth II 1926, Elaine May 1932, Charles Grodin 1935, Paul Davis 1948, Tony Danza 1951, Andie MacDowell 1958, Hohn Cameron Mitchell 1963)
* Mark Twain is Dead at 74 (NY TIMES, April 21, 1910)
* John Muir, Aged Naturalist, Dead at 76
[4/21/1838-12/24/1914] (NY TIMES, December 25, 1914)
* Octavio Paz, Mexico's Literary Giant, Dead at 84 (By JONATHAN KANDELL, April 21, 1998)

ARTS: Artists in Midcareer and Beyond Are Showing That Experience Matters (By HOLLAND COTTER, Apr. 21, 2006)
* BOOKS | 'The Great Transformation': The World's Spiritual Awakening, From Gods to God
[After an inspirational journey through more than two millennia of profound thought,
struggle and enlightenment, the reader gets a fortune cookie at the end.]
(By WILLIAM GRIMES, Apr. 21, 2006)
BOOKS: Two Literary Festivals Will Highlight Endangered Languages (By DINITIA SMITH, Apr. 21, 2006)
DANCE: At Dance Theater Workshop, Connecting the Dots Between Stravinsky and Hip-Hop
(By JOHN ROCKWELL, Apr. 21, 2006)
FILM: The Movies That Ate Manhattan: A User's Guide to the TriBeCa Film Festival (By DAVID CARR, Apr. 21, 2006)
TV: 'Elizabeth I': The Flirty Monarch With an Iron Fist (By ALESSANDRA STANLEY, Apr. 21, 2006)
TRAVEL | California: Art Blooms in the California Desert (By JULIA CHAPLIN, Apr. 21, 2006)

Thursday, April 20, 2005:
On This Day: April 20 (Johann Agricola 4/20/1494-9/22/1566, Odilon Redon 4/20/1840-7/6/1916, Daniel Chester French 4/20/1850-10/7/1931, Charles G. Curtis 4/20/1860-3/10/1953, Harold Lloyd 4/20/1893-3/8/1971, Joan Miro 4/20/1893-12/25/1983, William Dollar 4/20/1907-2/28/1986, Lionel Hampton 1908, John Paul Stevens 1920, Nina Foch 1924, George Takei 1940, Ryan O'Neal 1941, Jessica Lange 1949, Carmen Electra 1972)
Supreme Court, 9-0, Backs Busing to Combat South's Dual Schools, Rejecting Administration Stand
(By Fred P. Graham , April 20, 1971)
Hitler Fought Way to Power Unique in Modern History, Dies at 56
[4/20/1889-4/30/1945] (NY TIMES, May 2, 1945)

NATIONAL: Storm Evacuees Strain Texas Hosts (By JENNIFER STEINHAUER, Apr. 20, 2006)
WORLD: China's Leader Makes First White House Visit (By JOSEPH KAHN & CHRISTINE HAUSER, Apr. 20, 2006)
NY REGION: In Throats of Émigrés, Doctors Find a Legacy of Chernobyl (By RICHARD PÉREZ-PEÑA, Apr. 20, 2006)
SPORTS | BASEBALL: Tejada, for Now, Is All Smiles (By JACK CURRY, Apr. 20, 2006)
* SPORTS: Yamaguchi-Hedican: Skating With Stars, and Dealing With Diapers (By VIV BERNSTEIN, Apr. 20, 2006)
EDITORIAL: Things Change, and Stay the Same [Bush] (NY TIMES, Apr. 20, 2006)
OP-ED: Not Out of the Woods Just Yet (By DON MELNICK & MARY PEARL, Apr. 20, 2006)
OP-ED: A Peaceful Call to Arms (By PAUL KANE, Apr. 20, 2006)
OP-ED: Forgotten in New Orleans (By SUSAN E. HOWELL & JOHN B. VINTURELLA, Apr. 20, 2006)
LETTERS: A Jewish Lobby? Let's Talk About It (9 Letters) (By Jonathan D. Reich, et. al., Apr. 20, 2006)
* LETTERS: Family and Morality (1 Letter) (By Stephany Yablow, Apr. 20, 2006)
BUSINESS: Worries About Inflation Are Soothed by Earnings
[Dow +10, Nasdaq +14.74] (By, Apr. 20, 2006)
BUSINESS: Intel Posts Sharp Fall in Profit [-38%] (By LAURIE J. FLYNN, Apr. 20, 2006)
Apple Reports Sharp Climb in Both Sales and Earnings (By STEVE LOHR, Apr. 20, 2006)
* Google's First Quarter Profit Surges 60% [Google earned $592.3 million,
or $1.95 per share, during the first three months of the year. That compared
with net income of $369.2 million, or $1.29 per share, at the same time last year.
Google gained $4.50 up to $415, then climbed $29.89, or 7.2%, in extended trading.]
(ASSOCIATED PRESS, Apr. 20, 2006)
* TECHNOLOGY | BASICS: The Virtues of a Second Screen (By IVAN BERGER, Apr. 20, 2006)
WORLD BUSINESS: Rising Yuan Pushes China Upmarket (By KEITH BRADSHER, Apr. 20, 2006)
BOOKS | 'Elements of Style': After 9/11, Life Reconsidered (Briefly) by the Ladies Who Lunch
(By JANET MASLIN, Apr. 20, 2006)
BOOKS: Random House Confident of Follow-Up to 'Cold Mountain' (By MOTOKO RICH, Apr. 20, 2006)
* DANCE: The Martha Graham Troupe Looks Back on 80 Years of Milestones (By JOHN ROCKWELL, Apr. 20, 2006)
FILM: Billionaire Linked to Columnist Reports Being Shaken Down by a Hollywood Detective
(By DAVID M. HALBFINGER & ALLISON HOPE WEINER, Apr. 20, 2006)
* THEATER: Enough Said About 'Three Days of Rain.' Let's Talk Julia Roberts! (By BEN BRANTLEY, Apr. 20, 2006)
* STYLE: The Bank of Mom and Dad (By ANNA BAHNEY, Apr. 20, 2006)
STYLE | Skin Deep: Take 10 Years Off My Face, in 60 Seconds (By NATASHA SINGER, Apr. 20, 2006)
STYLE | Being Bad: The Career Move [Kate Moss] (By GUY TREBAY, Apr. 20, 2006)
* HOME & GARDEN: China's New Home Life (By ELAINE LOUIE, Apr. 20, 2006)
Found in Manhattan, Furniture From and Inspired by Chinese Dynasties (By ELAINE LOUIE, Apr. 20, 2006)
* SCIENCE: More Satellites to Explore Clouds' Most Intimate Secrets (By WARREN E. LEARY, Apr. 20, 2006)
HEALTH: Learning to Savor a Full Life, Love Life Included (By JANE GROSS, Apr. 20, 2006)
HEALTH: Mumps Epidemic Spreads; More Vaccine Promised (By NINA SIEGAL, Apr. 20, 2006)
* HEALTH: Study Finds a Link of Drug Makers to Psychiatrists (By BENEDICT CAREY, Apr. 20, 2006)

Wednesday, April 19, 2005:
On This Day: April 19 (Roger Sherman 4/19/1721-7/23/1793, Jose Echegaray y Eizaguirre 4/19/1832-9/4/1916, Ole Evinrude 4/19/1877-7/12/1934, Richard von Mises 4/19/1883-7/14/1953, Sir Thomas Hophinson 4/19/1905-6/20/1990, Glenn T. Seaborg 4/19/1912-2/25/1999, Jayne Mansfield 4/19/1933-6/29/1967, Hugh O'Brian 1925, Don Adams 1926, Dudley Moore 1935, Tim Curry 1946, Ashley Judd 1968)
At Least 31 Are Dead, Scores Are Missing After Car Bomb Attack in Oklahoma City Wrecks 9-Story Federal Office Building (By David Johnston, April 19, 1995)
Vargas Adopted 'Strong Man' Role, Brazilian President Dies at 71
[4/19/1883-8/24/1954] (NY TIMES, August 25, 1954)

NATIONAL: Here's Donny! In His Defense, a Show Is Born (By DAVID S. CLOUD, Apr. 19, 2006)
F.B.I. Is Seeking to Search Papers of Dead Reporter [Jack Anderson] (By SCOTT SHANE, Apr. 19, 2006)
* WORLD | Letter From the United Kingdom:
I Can't Give You Anything but Love, She Said. And Did. [Queen Elizabeth's 80th birthday]
(By ALAN COWELL, Apr. 19, 2006)
WORLD: China's Big Need for Oil Is High on U.S. Agenda (By DAVID E. SANGER, Apr. 19, 2006)
OP-ED: A Lobby, Not a Conspiracy (By TONY JUDT, Apr. 19, 2006)
LETTERS: Facing the Threat of a Nuclear Iran (7 Letters) (By Arnold Pedowitz, et. al., Apr. 19, 2006)
LETTERS: Bodies on Display, at the Show and in the Lab (2 Letters) (By Elizabeth Marquardt, et. al., Apr. 19, 2006)
BUSINESS: Shares Soar as Fed Minutes Hint at End to Rising Rates
[Dow +194.99, Nasdaq +44.98] (By, Apr. 19, 2006)
BUSINESS: Fed Signals Policy Shift on Rates (By EDMUND L. ANDREWS, Apr. 19, 2006)
Yahoo Profit Falls 22%; Ad Sales Up (By LAURIE J. FLYNN, Apr. 19, 2006)
BUSINESS: Salads or No, Cheap Burgers Revive McDonald's (By MELANIE WARNER, Apr. 19, 2006)
* BOOKS: Richard Wilbur Wins $100,000 Poetry Prize
["If you had to put all your money on one living poet whose work
will be read in a hundred years, Richard Wilbur would be a good bet."]
(By LAWRENCE VAN GELDER, Apr. 19, 2006)
TV: On PBS's 'Show Cats,' Beauty Is a Befurred, Lordly Thing (By ANITA GATES, Apr. 19, 2006)

Tuesday, April 18, 2005:
On This Day: April 18 (Lucrezia Borgia 4/18/1480-6/24/1519, Gaeetano Vestris 4/18/1729-9/23/1808, George Henry Lewes 4/18/1817-11/28/1878, Max Weber 4/18/1881-10/4/1961, Leopold Stokowski 4/18/1882-9/13/1977, George H. HITCHINGS 4/18/1905-2/27/1998, Little Brother Montgomery 4/18/1906-9/6/1985, Barbara Hale 1921, James Drury 1934, Hayley Mills 1946, James Woods 1947, Cindy Pickett 1947, Melody Thomas Scott 1956, Conan O'Brien 1963)
* Over 500 Dead, $200,000,000 Lost in San Francisco Earthquake (NY TIMES, April 18, 1906)
Clarence Darrow, Famous Criminal Lawyer Is Dead at 80 in Chicago
[4/18/1857-3/13/1938] (NY TIMES, March 14, 1938)
* Cartoon about the latest shoe fashion fad (Harper's Weekly, April 18, 1885)

NATIONAL: Evacuee Study Finds Declining Health (By SHAILA DEWAN, Apr. 18, 2006)
* WORLD: Babylon Awaits an Iraq Without Fighting (By JEFFREY GETTLEMAN, Apr. 18, 2006)
NY REGION: A New Crime Fighter, for $10 in Hay and Oats (By ANDREW JACOBS, Apr. 18, 2006)
EDITORIAL: Dateline San Francisco, April 18, 1906 (NY TIMES, Apr. 18, 2006)
* EDITORIAL OBSERVER: The Future of Journalism as Told by Hilaire Belloc in 1918
(By VERLYN KLINKENBORG, Apr. 18, 2006)
* OP-ED: San Francisco's Survivors (By MAE M. NGAI, Apr. 18, 2006)
OP-ED: Iran's Sitting Duck (By MICHAEL LEVI, Apr. 18, 2006)
OP-ED: A Tax Credit or a Handout? (By DOROTHY A. BROWN, Apr. 18, 2006)
LETTERS: Rumsfeld's Critics, and His Defense (6 Letters) (By Russell A. Burgos, et. al., Apr. 18, 2006)
LETTERS: Rude on the Cellphone (1 Letter) (By Lawrence Schwartz, Apr. 18, 2006)
* BUSINESS: Academia Dissects the Service Sector, but Is It a Science? (By STEVE LOHR, Apr. 18, 2006)
* ART | 'Andrew Wyeth: Memory and Magic' at the Philadelphia Museum of Art (By KEN JOHNSON, Apr. 18, 2006)
* BOOKS: Gay Talese's New Memoir Emerges After 14 Tortured Years (By CHARLES McGRATH, Apr. 18, 2006)
THEATER: Defying Poverty's Everyday Despair in Odets's 'Awake and Sing!' (By CHARLES ISHERWOOD, Apr. 18, 2006)
SCIENCE NEWS: Contents (NY TIMES, Apr. 18, 2006)
SCIENCE: A Meat Eater Bigger Than T. Rex Is Unearthed (By JOHN NOBLE WILFORD, Apr. 18, 2006)
SCIENCE: A Conversation With Jeffrey Mount:
Giving Sacramento Good Reason to Have New Orleans on Its Mind (By CLAUDIA DREIFUS, Apr. 18, 2006)
Taiwan Moves Closer to Mainland, Pulled by Forces That Molded Its Mountains (By INGFEI CHEN, Apr. 18, 2006)
* FINDINGS: A Real Flip-Flopper, at 3 Trillion Times a Second (By DENNIS OVERBYE, Apr. 18, 2006)
HEALTH: In Heart Disease, the Focus Shifts to Women (By DENISE GRADY, Apr. 18, 2006)
* Personal Health: A Slight Change in Habits Could Lull You to Sleep (By JANE E. BRODY, Apr. 18, 2006)
The Consumer: Nemo Beware: Fish Tank Can Be a Haven for Salmonella (By DEBORAH FRANKLIN, Apr. 18, 2006)
* REALLY?: The Claim: Birth Order Influences Intelligence (By ANAHAD O'CONNOR, Apr. 18, 2006)

Monday, April 17, 2005:
On This Day: April 17 (Samuel Chase 4/17/1741-6/19/1811, William Simms 4/17/1806-6/11/1870, J. P. Morgan 4/17/1837-3/31/1913, Sir Leonard Woolley 4/17/1880-2/20/1960, Artur Schnabel 4/17/1882-8/15/1951, Isak Dinesen 4/17/1885-9/7/1962, Thornton Wilder 4/17/1897-12/7/1975, Sir Vincent Wigglesworth 4/17/1899-2/11/1994, Harry Reasoner 4/17/1923-8/6/1991, Lon McCallister 1923, Jan Hammer 1948, Olivia Hussey 1951, Liz Phair 1967)
Anti-Castro Units Land in Cuba; Report Fighting at Beachhead; Rusk Says U.S. Won't Intervene (By Tad Szulc, April 17, 1961)
* Khrushchev's Human Dimensions Brought Him to Power and to His Downfall, Dies at 77
[4/17/1894-9/11/1971] (By ALDEN WHITMAN, September 12, 1971)

* NY REGION | Metropolitan Diary: Dear Diary (NY TIMES, Apr. 17, 2006)
* EDITORIAL OBSERVER: A Small-Time Crime With Hints of Big-Time Connections Lights Up the Net
(By ADAM COHEN, Apr. 17, 2006)
* OP-ED: Corrupt Me Elmo (By KAREN KARBO, Apr. 17, 2006)
OP-ED: Bringing It All Back Home [Liberia's Charles Taylor] (By JOHN E. LEIGH, Apr. 17, 2006)
LETTERS: Can a DNA Test Give You an Edge? (6 Letters) (By Conn Nugent, Apr. 17, 2006)
* TECHNOLOGY: A Sinister Web Entraps Victims of Cyberstalkers (By TOM ZELLER Jr., Apr. 17, 2006)
* DAVID CARR: Steal This Newspaper [online version] (By DAVID CARR, Apr. 17, 2006)
BUSINESS MEDIA: The Hard Edge of a Fluff Machine (By DAVID CARR, Apr. 17, 2006)
* LINK BY LINK: MySpace Is Unprofessional, but That's the Point (By TOM ZELLER JR., Apr. 17, 2006)
E-Commerce Report: For Travelers, a Way to Save More Dollars While Using Fewer Clicks
(By BOB TEDESCHI, Apr. 17, 2006)
* ARTS: At Some Medical Schools, Humanities Join the Curriculum (By RANDY KENNEDY, Apr. 17, 2006)
TV: A PBS Documentary Makes Its Case for the Armenian Genocide, With or Without a Debate
(By ALESSANDRA STANLEY, Apr. 17, 2006)

Sunday, April 16, 2005:
On This Day: April 16 (Elizabeth Vigee-Lebrun 4/16/1755-3/30/1842, Sir John Franklin 4/16/1786-6/11/1847, Ford Madox Brown 4/16/1821-10/6/1893, Anatole France 4/16/1844-10/12/1924, Wilbur Wright 4/16/1867-5/30/1912, John M. Synge 4/16/1871-3/24/1909, Nikolay P. Akimov 4/16/1901-9/6/1968, Sir Kingsley Amis 4/16/1922-10/22/1995, Henry Mancini 4/16/1924-6/14/1994, Spike Milligan 1918, Barry Nelson 1920, Peter Ustinov 1921, Herbie Mann 1930, Bobby Vinton 1935, Queen Margrethe II 1940, Kareem Abdul-Jabbar 1947, Gerry Rafferty 1947, Ellen Barkin 1954)
Blasts and Fires Wreck Texas City of 15,000; 300 to 1,200 Dead (Associated Press, April 16, 1947)
* Chaplin's Little Tramp, an Everyman Trying to Gild Cage of Life, Enthralled World
[4/16/1889-12/25/1977] (By ALDEN WHITMAN, December 26, 1977)

* Muriel Spark, Novelist Who Wrote 'The Prime of Miss Jean Brodie,' Dies at 88 (By HELEN T. VERONGOS & ALAN COWELL, Apr. 16, 2006)
NY REGION | Westchester: 5 Figures (ZIP Codes) Tell Neighbors' Wealth (By DAVID CAY JOHNSTON & RON NIXON, Apr. 16, 2006)
NY REGION: Average Interest Income in the New York Region (NY TIMES, Apr. 16, 2006)
* NY REGION: New York Leads Politeness Trend? Get Outta Here! (By WINNIE HU, Apr. 16, 2006)
SPORTS: Proving Bonds Committed Perjury Would Be Hard, Lawyers Say (ASSOCIATED PRESS, Apr. 16, 2006)
SPORTS: Baby Boomers Stay Active, and So Do Their Doctors (By BILL PENNINGTON, Apr. 16, 2006)
* OP-ED: I'm O.K., You're Biased (By DANIEL GILBERT, Apr. 16, 2006)
OP-ED: Greener Pastures [8 steps for a perfect lawn] (By TED STEINBERG, Apr. 16, 2006)
LETTERS: Is Time on the Side of Iraq? (9 Letters) (By John Duffy, et. al., Apr. 16, 2006)
LETTERS: 'Give Me Your Talented ...' (3 Letters) (By Dianne Feinstein, et. al., Apr. 16, 2006)
LETTERS: Ga-Ga in Front of the TV (By Kristine L. Sherman, Apr. 16, 2006)
* LETTERS: What Prayer Can Do (By W. F. Hughes, Apr. 16, 2006)
BUSINESS: Contents (NY TIMES, Apr. 16, 2006)
* BUSINESS: Is Poker Losing Its First Flush? (By TIMOTHY L. O'BRIEN, Apr. 16, 2006)
* BUSINESS: In Silicon Valley, a Man Without a Patent (By JOHN MARKOFF, Apr. 16, 2006)
Media Frenzy: Why Can't I Have Just the Cable Channels I Want? (By RICHARD SIKLOS, Apr. 16, 2006)
* Career Couch: Nine to Five, and Then Some (By MATT VILLANO, Apr. 16, 2006)
* STRATEGIES: One Borrowed Share, but One Very Real Vote (By MARK HULBERT, Apr. 16, 2006)
* ECONOMIC VIEW: Cost of Illegal Immigration May Be Less Than Meets the Eye (By EDUARDO PORTER, Apr. 16, 2006)
WEEK IN REVIEW: Contents (NY TIMES, Apr. 16, 2006)
* Set Ways: Vive La Dolce Vita (By ROGER COHEN, Apr. 16, 2006)
Big Tent Religion: Evangelicals Debate the Meaning of 'Evangelical' (By MICHAEL LUO, Apr. 16, 2006)
SUNDAY MAGAZINE: Contents (NY TIMES, Apr. 16, 2006)
* ON LANGUAGE: So to Speak (By WILLIAM SAFIRE, Apr. 16, 2006)
The Way We Live Now: Way Upstairs, Downstairs (By WALTER KIRN, Apr. 16, 2006)
Questions for Cyndi Lauper: Girls Just Want to Sing Weill (Interview by DEBORAH SOLOMON, Apr. 16, 2006)
* IDEA LAB: Does Eating Salmon Lower the Murder Rate? (By STEPHEN MIHM, Apr. 16, 2006)
COVER ARTICLE: Taking the Least of You [The Tissue-Industrial Complex] (By REBECCA SKLOOT, Apr. 16, 2006)
* Christianity, the Brand (By STRAWBERRY SAROYAN, Apr. 16, 2006)
BOOK REVIEW: Contents (NY TIMES, Apr. 16, 2006)
* COVER ARTICLE | 'Flaubert: A Biography,' by Frederick Brown: The Man Behind Bovary
(Review by JAMES WOOD, Apr. 16, 2006)
* 'The Oxford Book of American Poetry': Poetic Boom?
[From Whitman's and Dickinson's damaged psyches, American
poetry has borrowed more than it cares to admit.]
(Review by WILLIAM LOGAN, Apr. 16, 2006)
* ESSAY: Dwight Macdonald at 100 (By JAMES WOLCOTT, Apr. 16, 2006)
NOVEL: 'Black Swan Green,' by David Mitchell: Wonder Year (Review by NELL FREUDENBERGER, Apr. 16, 2006)
* 'Anatomy of a Secret Life,' by Gail Saltz: Don't Tell [Alter-egos] (Review by LYNN HARRIS, Apr. 16, 2006)
* 'The Jasons: The Secret History of Science's Postwar Elite,' by Ann Finkbeiner: Rent-a-Genius
[Hans Bethe, Freeman Dyson, Richard Garwin, Steven Weinberg and Murray Gell-Mann]
(By JOHN HORGAN, Apr. 16, 2006) Image
* 'Howling Near Heaven,' by Marcia B. Siegel: Revolutionary Movement [Twyla Tharp & modern dance]
(Review by JENNIFER HOMANS, Apr. 16, 2006)
'Catholic Matters,' by Richard John Neuhaus: The Zeal of a Convert (Review by PATRICK ALLITT, Apr. 16, 2006)
BOOKS LETTERS: Krauthammer on Fukuyama; 'This Changes Everything'; Library of America (By CHARLES KRAUTHAMMER, et. al., Apr. 16, 2006)
* BOOKS: Forget your goals, get happy: Same conclusion, different approaches from two authors
(Reviewed by Don Lattin, San Francisco Chronicle, Apr. 16, 2006)

Saturday, April 15, 2005:
On This Day: April 15 (Leonhard Euler 4/15/1707-9/18/1783, Charles Wilson Peale 4/15/1741-2/22/1827, Walter Channing 4/15/1786-7/27/1876, Henry James 4/15/1843-2/28/1916, Hohannes Stark 4/15/1874-6/21/1957, Max Wertheimer 4/15/1880-10/12/1943, Thomas Hart Benton 4/15/1889-1/19/1975, Bessie Smith 4/15/1898-9/26/1937, Arshile Gorky 4/15/1904-7/21/1948, Nilolaas Tinbergen 4/15/1907-12/21/1988, Ed O'Brien 1968, Roy Clark 1933, Claudia Cardinale 1939, Lois Chiles 1947, Linda Bloodworth-Thomason 1948, Michael Tucci 1950, Amy Wright 1950, Heloise 1951, Emma Thompson 1959, Samantha Fox 1966)
* Titanic Sinks Four Hours After Hitting Iceberg; 866 Rescued By Carpathia, Probably 1,250 Perish;
Ismay Safe, Mrs. Astor Maybe, Noted Names Missing (NY TIMES, April 15, 1912)
A. Philip Randolph Is Dead at 90; Pioneer in Rights and Labor
[4/15/1889-5/16/1979] (Associated Press, May 17, 1979)

* NY REGION: The Fraidy-Cat of Hudson Street Is Yanked to Safety (By ANTHONY RAMIREZ & TONI WHITT, Apr. 15, 2006)
* ARTS | Making Artists: Warhols of Tomorrow Are Dealers' Quarry Today (By CAROL VOGEL, Apr. 15, 2006)

Friday, April 14, 2005:
On This Day: April 14 (Christiaan Huygens 4/14/1629-7/8/1695, Augustus Pitt-Rivers 4/14/1827-5/4/1900, Gerhard Rohlfs 4/14/1831-6/2/1896, James Branch Cabell 4/14/1879-5/5/1958, Arnold Toynbee 4/14/1889-10/22/1975, Juan Belmonte 4/14/1892-4/8/1962, Francois Duvalier 4/14/1907-4/21/1971, Rod Steiger 1925, Bradford Dillman 1930, Loretta Lynn 1935, Julie Christie 1940, Pete Rose 1941, John Shea 1949, Sarah Michelle Gellar 1977)
* Awful Event: President Lincoln Shot by an Assassin (NY TIMES, April 14, 1865)
Mrs. Macy Is Dead at 70; Aided Miss Keller
[4/14/1866-10/20/1936] (NY TIMES, October 21, 1936)

* BUSINESS: Forget Computers. Here Comes the Sun (By JOHN MARKOFF, Apr. 14, 2006)
* ART: Veronese at the Frick: A Renaissance Explorer With a Brush (By GRACE GLUECK, Apr. 14, 2006)
* BOOKS: Fibonacci Poems Multiply on the Web After Blog's Invitation (By MOTOKO RICH, Apr. 14, 2006)
* TV Critic: The Evil Screen's Plot to Take Over the 2-and-Under World (By VIRGINIA HEFFERNAN, Apr. 14, 2006)

Thursday, April 13, 2005:
On This Day: April 13 (Peter Faber 4/13/1506-8/1/1546, Thomas Jefferson 4/13/1743-7/4/1826, Sir Thomas Lawrence 4/13/1769-1/7/1830, Eli Terry 4/13/1772-2/26/1852, Sir William Benett 4/13/1816-2/1/1875, Martinez Gonzalez 4/13/1871-2/19/1952, Gyorgy Lukacs 4/13/1885-6/4/1971, Sir Robert Watson-Watt 4/13/1892-12/5/1973, John Braine 4/13/1922-10/28/1987, Eudora Welty 1909, Howard Keel 1919, Stanley Donen 1924, Lyle Waggoner 1935, Paul Sorvino 1939, Bill Conti 1942, Jack Casady 1944, Tony Dow 1945, Ron Perlman 1950, William Sadler 1950, Gary Kasparov 1963, Page Hannah 1964)
Power Failure Imperils Astronauts; Apollo 13 Will Head Back to the Earth (By John Noble Wilford, April 13, 1970)
* Samuel Beckett Is Dead at 83; His 'Godot' Changed Theater
[4/13/1906-12/22/1989] (By MEL GUSSOW, December 27, 1989)

NATIONAL: Rumsfeld Faces Growing Revolt by Retired Generals
(By DAVID S. CLOUD, ERIC SCHMITT & THOM SHANKER, Apr. 13, 2006)
NY REGION: Tycoon of Chinese Real Estate Is Leasing at Trade Center Site (By DAVID BARBOZA, Apr. 13, 2006)
OP-ED: Italy's Natural Selection (By GIANNI RIOTTA, Apr. 13, 2006)
* OP-ED: Déjà Vu All Over Again (By ABDELLAH TAÏA, Apr. 13, 2006)
* LETTERS: Does Jesus Have a Political Message? (5 Letters) (By Roy Herndon Smith, et. al., Apr. 13, 2006)
* LETTERS: When Boys Go Wild (3 Letters) (By Jon McGill, et. al., Apr. 13, 2006)
* BUSINESS: Google Chief Rejects Pressuring China
[Google introduced a Chinese-language brand name for the company's domestic
search engine— Gu Ge, which roughly translates as "a harvesting song."]
(By JIM YARDLEY, Apr. 13, 2006)
BUSINESS: Cheap Money Fades as 10-Year Note Tops 5% (By VIKAS BAJAJ, Apr. 13, 2006)
AMD: Chip Maker's Profit Highest Since 2000
[Net income was $184.5 million, or 38¢ a share, after a loss of
$17.4 million, or 4¢, a year ago. Sales +8.6%, to $1.33 billion.]
(By BLOOMBERG NEWS, Apr. 13, 2006)
BUSINESS: A Crystal Ball Submerged in a Test Tube (By ANDREW POLLACK, Apr. 13, 2006)
SMALL BUSINESS: More Women Are Enjoying Being Their Own Bosses (By BARBARA WHITAKER, Apr. 13, 2006)
AdDVERTISING: Reality Shows and Comedies and the 'Network' Is AOL (By DOREEN CARVAJAL, Apr. 13, 2006)
* TECHNOLOGY | DAVID POGUE: Run Windows and Mac OS Both at Once (By DAVID POGUE, Apr. 13, 2006)
* TECHNOLOGY | Read It? Watched It? Swap It [Zunafish] (By MICHEL MARRIOTT, Apr. 13, 2006)
* ART | 'Stories to Tell': Illustrations by American Artists at the Dahesh Museum (By KEN JOHNSON, Apr. 13, 2006)
* ARTS: Shanghai's Boom: A Building Frenzy (By HOWARD W. FRENCH, Apr. 13, 2006)
* SCIENCE: How the Gospel of Judas Emerged (By BARRY MEIER & JOHN NOBLE WILFORD, Apr. 13, 2006)

Wednesday, April 12, 2005:
On This Day: April 12 (Edward de Vere 4/12/1550-6/24/1604, Henry Clay 4/12/1777-6/29/1852, Sir James Mackenzie 4/12/1853-1/26/1925, Imogen Cunningham 4/12/1883-6/24/1976, Lily Pons 4/12/1904-2/13/1976, Pete Desjardins 4/12/1907-5/6/1985, Ann Miller 1923, Jane Withers 1926, Charles Napier 1936, Herbie Hancock 1940, Frank Bank 1942, David Letterman 1947, Scott Turow 1949, David Cassidy 1950, Andy Garcia 1956, Vince Gill 1957, Suzzanne Douglas 1957, Shannen Doherty 1971, Claire Danes 1979)
* President Roosevelt is Dead at 63; Truman to Continue Policies (By Arthur Krock, April 12, 1945)
* Jan Tinbergen, Dutch Economist and Nobel Laureate, Dies at 91
[4/12/1903-6/9/1994] (By PETER PASSELL, June 14, 1994)

OP-ED: From Bombs to Bricks to Bombs Again (By JOHN S. BURNETT, Apr. 12, 2006)
LETTERS: Threats From Iran, and Against Iran (6 Letters) (By Michael Blaine, et. al., Apr. 12, 2006)
* LETTERS: When Life Is a Prayer (By Rabbi Simkha Y. Weintraub, Apr. 12, 2006)
* LETTERS: Why Can't a Woman Be More Like Herself? (2 Letters) (By Alexandra Buder Shapiro, et. al., Apr. 12, 2006)
BUSINESS: Merck Jury Adds $9 Million in Damages (By ALEX BERENSON, Apr. 12, 2006)
BUSINESS: MySpace.com Hires Official to Oversee Users' Safety (By MARIA NEWMAN, Apr. 12, 2006)
* TECHNOLOGY: From the Back Office, a Casino Can Change the Slot Machine in Seconds
(By MATT RICHTEL, Apr. 12, 2006)
* SCIENCE: Planet Discovered Last Year, Thought to Be Larger Than Pluto, Proves Roughly the Same Size
(By KENNETH CHANG, Apr. 12, 2006)
* SCIENCE | THE DNA AGE: Seeking Ancestry in DNA Ties Uncovered by Tests (By AMY HARMON, Apr. 12, 2006)

Tuesday, April 11, 2005:
On This Day: April 11 (Margaret of Angouleme 4/11/1492-12/21/1549, Edward Everett 4/11/1794-1/15/1865, Sir Charles Halle 4/11/1819-10/25/1895, John Davidson 4/11/1857-3/23/1909, Charles Evans Hughes 4/11/1862-8/27/1948, Gustav Vigeland 4/11/1869-3/12/1943, Quentin Reynolds 4/11/1902-3/17/1965, Attila Jozsef 4/11/1905-12/3/1937, Leo Rosten 4/11/1908-2/19/1997, Dale Messick 1906, Oleg Cassini 1913, Hugh Carey 1919, Ethel Kennedy 1928, Johnny Sheffield 1931, Joel Grey 1932, Louise Lasser 1939, Ellen Goodman 1941, John Milius 1944, Bill Irwin 1950)
* Truman Relieves MacArthur of All His Posts; Finds Him Unable to Back U.S.-U.N. Policies;
Ridgway Named to Far Eastern Commands (By W. H. Lawrence, April 11, 1951)
Architect of Postwar Policy, Acheson Advocated Containment of the Soviet Union, Dies at 78
[4/11/1893-10/12/1971] (By ALDEN WHITMAN, October 13, 1971)

SPORTS | HOCKEY: Skating? Check. Scoring? Check. And It Hurts, Too. (By NANCY RAMSEY, Apr. 11, 2006)
* OP-ED: Faith-Based Medicine (By RAYMOND J. LAWRENCE, Apr. 11, 2006)
OP-ED: Right Trial, Wrong Defendant (By JOHN FARMER, Apr. 11, 2006)
OP-ED: The Tale of the Tapes (By ALAN BERRY, Apr. 11, 2006)
* BUSINESS | RETIREMENT: Health Clubs for Older Brains? (By BARBARA WHITAKER, Apr. 11, 2006)
* BUSINESS | Health Care: Want to Retire Early and Hang a Shingle? It'll Cost You
(By JOHN O'NEIL, Apr. 11, 2006)
SCIENCE NEWS: Contents (NY TIMES, Apr. 11, 2006)
* SCIENCE: Regrow Your Own [salamanders can do it— why not humans?]
(By NICHOLAS WADE, Apr. 11, 2006)
* 1906 Earthquake: The Ground Shook, a City Fell, and the Lessons Still Resound (By KENNETH CHANG, Apr. 11, 2006)
* Scientist at Work | Randy Olson: Eager to Tell the Stories of Science, a Biologist Evolves
(By CORNELIA DEAN, Apr. 11, 2006)
FINDINGS: Why Industrious Rats Put Up With Lazy Ones (By HENRY FOUNTAIN, Apr. 11, 2006)
SCIENCE | Commentary: From Squeak to Syntax: Language's Incremental Evolution (By GARY MARCUS, Apr. 11, 2006)
* OBSERVATORY: Measuring for Liftoff (That First Flight Is Crucial) & Planetary Rings
(By HENRY FOUNTAIN, Apr. 11, 2006)
Experts See Peril in Reduced Monitoring of Nation's Streams and Rivers (By JOHN SCHWARTZ, Apr. 11, 2006)
SCIENCE: Crash Is Planned in Hunt for Lunar Water (By WARREN E. LEARY, Apr. 11, 2006)
Q & A: The Food Speedway (By C. CLAIBORNE RAY, Apr. 11, 2006)
* HEALTH: Eye Infections May Be Tied to a Solution for Lenses (By GARDINER HARRIS, Apr. 11, 2006)
* PERSONAL HEALTH: What's Holding Up the Sandman? [sleep drugs] (By JANE E. BRODY, Apr. 11, 2006)
HEALTH: Studies Challenge Traditional Breast Cancer Treatments (By GINA KOLATA, Apr. 11, 2006)
Doctor's World | Doctor of the Deep: The Challenges of Shipboard Medicine (By LAWRENCE K. ALTMAN, M.D., Apr. 11, 2006)
HEALTH ESSAY: Saying No Is a Patient's Choice, However Risky (By BARRON H. LERNER, M.D., Apr. 11, 2006)
HEALTH | Behavior: Anxiety About Anxiety Saved a Patient's Life (By RICHARD A. FRIEDMAN, M.D., Apr. 11, 2006)
* HEALTH | REALLY?: The Claim: Antique Watches Made With Radium Can Emit High Levels of Radiation
(By ANAHAD O'CONNOR, Apr. 11, 2006)
VITAL SIGNS | Stages: Even Tiny Babies Have Ouch Centers in the Brain (By NICHOLAS BAKALAR, Apr. 11, 2006)
VITAL SIGNS | In the Genes: When the Littlest Family Member Snores, Too (By NICHOLAS BAKALAR, Apr. 11, 2006)
VITAL SIGNS | Habits: Frequent Tanners Can Quit Anytime, or Can They? (By NICHOLAS BAKALAR, Apr. 11, 2006)
VITAL SIGNS | Senses: A Whiff of Fear Can Sharpen a Woman's Thinking (By NICHOLAS BAKALAR, Apr. 11, 2006)
* HEALTH REMEDIES | Growth Hormone: The Secret of Youth or a Cautionary Tale? (By BONNIE DeSIMONE, Apr. 11, 2006)

Monday, April 10, 2005:
On This Day: April 10 (Hugh Grotius 4/10/1583-8/28/1645, Benjamin H. Day 4/10/1810-12/21/1889, Lewis Wallace 4/10/1827-2/15/1905, William Booth 4/10/1829-8/20/1912, Frank Baldwin 4/10/1838-4/8/1925, George Arliss 4/10/1868-2/5/1946, Vladimir Lenin 4/10/1870-1/21/1924, Frances Perkins 4/10/1882-5/14/1965, Robert Burns Woodward 7/8/1979, Harry Morgan 1915, Liz Sheridan 1929, Max von Sydow 1929, Omar Sharif 1932, John Madden 1936, Don Meredith 1938, Steven Seagal 1951, Peter MacNichol 1954, Haley Joel Oset 1988)
* Dodgers Purchase Jackie Robinson, First Negro in Modern Major League Baseball (By LOUIS EFFRAT, April 10, 1947)
* Joseph Pulitzer Dies Suddenly at 64 [4/10/1847-10/29/1911] (NY TIMES, October 30, 1911)

* OP-ED: Globalizing Good Government (By RICHARD W. FISHER & W. MICHAEL COX, Apr. 10, 2006)
* OP-ED: How to Lose the Brain Race (By STEVEN CLEMONS & MICHAEL LIND, Apr. 10, 2006)
* OP-ED | The City Life: Step Right Up to the Anatomy Lesson (By FRANCIS X. CLINES, Apr. 10, 2006)
LETTERS: Ah, the Family Dinner. Remember? (5 Letters) (By Candy Schulman, et. al., Apr. 10, 2006)
LETTERS: E-Mail Confidential (By Susan Keiser, Apr. 10, 2006)
ARTS: Paulo Mendes da Rocha of Brazil Wins the Pritzker Architecture Prize (By ROBIN POGREBIN, Apr. 10, 2006)
SCIENCE: Craft Nears Venus to Seek Global Warming Clues (By WARREN E. LEARY, Apr. 10, 2006)
HEALTH: Blasting of Kidney Stones Has Risks, Study Reports (By LAWRENCE K. ALTMAN, Apr. 10, 2006)

Sunday, April 9, 2005:
On This Day: April 9 (Isambard Brunel 4/9/1806-9/15/1859, Charles Baudelaire 4/9/1821-8/31/1867, Leon Blum 4/9/1872-3/30/1950, Frank King 4/9/1883-6/24/1969, Sol Hurok 4/9/1888-3/5/1974, Mary Pickford 4/9/1893-5/28/1979, Paul Robeson 4/9/1898-1/23/1976, Curly Lambeau 4/9/1898-6/1/1965, J. William Fulbright 4/9/1905-2/9/1995, Antal Dorati 4/9/1906-11/13/1988, Hugh Hefner 1926, Jim Fowler 1932, Jean-Paul Belmondo 1933, Dennis Quaid 1954, Paulina Porizkova 1965)
* Hang Out Your Banners; Union Victory! Peace! [Lee Surrenders to Grant at Appomattox] (NY TIMES, April 9, 1865)
Dr. Pincus, Developer of Birth-Control Pill, Dies at 64 [4/9/1903-8/22/1967] (NY TIMES, August 23, 1967)

NATIONAL: Huge Crowd Marches in Dallas in Support of Immigrants (By LAURA GRIFFIN, Apr. 9, 2006)
Tennessee Digs Out From Deadly Tornadoes (By THEO EMERY, Apr. 9, 2006)
Class-Action Lawsuit to Be Filed Over SAT Scoring Errors (By KAREN W. ARENSON, Apr. 9, 2006)
* WORLD: In a First, the Stones Rock China, but Hold the Brown Sugar (By HOWARD W. FRENCH, Apr. 9, 2006)
WORLD: U.S. Study Paints Somber Portrait of Iraqi Discord (By ERIC SCHMITT & EDWARD WONG, Apr. 9, 2006)
WORLD: On the Brink: Beyond Swollen Limbs, a Disease's Hidden Agony (By DONALD G. McNEIL Jr., Apr. 9, 2006)
* NY REGION: Making It Ashore, but Still Chasing U.S. Dream (By NINA BERNSTEIN, Apr. 9, 2006)
* NY REGION: Game of Gossip Is Played With Favors and Tips (By CAMPBELL ROBERTSON, Apr. 9, 2006)
Reporter Was Quick Study in Art of Mingling With the Rich and Glamorous (By MARC SANTORA, Apr. 9, 2006)
BASEBALL | Keeping Score: Complete Games Are Dwindling, but for a Reason (By BENJAMIN HOFFMAN, Apr. 9, 2006)
* EDITORIAL: A Missing Evolutionary Link (NY TIMES, Apr. 9, 2006)
* OP-ED: Christ Among the Partisans (By GARRY WILLS, Apr. 9, 2006)
OP-ED: Blue Devils Made Them Do It [college sports] (By ALLAN GURGANUS, Apr. 9, 2006)
OP-ED: The Young and the Restless [Orthodox Jews] (By, Apr. 9, 2006)
LETTERS: Health Care, the Massachusetts Way (7 Letters) (By Dave Anand, et. al., Apr. 9, 2006)
BUSINESS: Contents (NY TIMES, Apr. 9, 2006)
BUSINESS | Executive Pay: A Special Report: Off to the Races Again, Leaving Many Behind
(By ERIC DASH, Apr. 9, 2006)
* Digital Domain: Looking at the Free Market, and Seeing Red [China imports]
(By RANDALL STROSS, Apr. 9, 2006)
MARKET WEEK: Have Stocks of Papers Hit Bottom? (By CONRADE DE AENLLE, Apr. 9, 2006)
* Off the Shelf: A Bit of Buffett, and a Pinch of Graham (By PAUL S. BROWN, Apr. 9, 2006)
THE BOSS: Diplomacy Over Diplomas [Klaus Peter Löbbe, CEO, BASF] (As told to CLAUDIA H. DEUTSCH, Apr. 9, 2006)
* STRATEGIES: Same Portfolio, Higher Cost. So Why Choose It? (By MARK HULBERT, Apr. 9, 2006)
MUTUAL FUNDS | 1st Quarter 2006: Contents (NY TIMES, Apr. 9, 2006)
* MUTUAL FUNDS: An Extraordinary Quarter, but Why? (By PAUL J. LIM, Apr. 9, 2006)
Like the Fund. Love the Fund Company. (By DANIEL GROSS, Apr. 9, 2006)
Different Routes to Small-Cap Gains (By CAROLE GOULD, Apr. 9, 2006)
A Portfolio Is True to Its Convictions (By CONRAD DE AENLLE, Apr. 9, 2006)
ARTS: Contents (NY TIMES, Apr. 9, 2006)
* ART | Close Reading: 'Boating Party' by Renoir Is Returning Home to Phillips Collection
(By ANNETTE GRANT, Apr. 9, 2006)
* INTERACTIVE SLIDE: Renoir's The Boating Party (1881) (Phillips Collection, Apr. 9, 2006)
* FILM: The Bjork-Barney Enigma Machine ["Drawing Restraint 9"] (By RANDY KENNEDY, Apr. 9, 2006)
* MUSIC: Condoleezza Rice on Piano (By ANTHONY TOMMASINI, Apr. 9, 2006)
TV: New Version of 'Ten Commandments' in Mini-Series on ABC (By ANDREW WALLENSTEIN, Apr. 9, 2006)
FASHION & STYLE: Contents (NY TIMES, Apr. 9, 2006)
* STYLE: You Want It Clean? You Clean It! (By LISA BELKIN, Apr. 9, 2006)
By Day, the Mayor; by Night, an Item (By MIREYA NAVARRO, Apr. 9, 2006)
Is There Life After 'American Idol'? (By DAVE ITZKOFF, Apr. 9, 2006)
* MODERN LOVE: I Was Between Husbands, He Was Between Cupcakes (By MARGO HOWARD, Apr. 9, 2006)
* A Night Out With: Janis Ian: At Fifty-Five (By MELENA RYZIK, Apr. 9, 2006)
VOWS: Campbell Brown and Dan Senor (By LOIS SMITH BRADY, Apr. 9, 2006)
TRAVEL: Contents (NY TIMES, Apr. 9, 2006)
* ARIZONA: In Search of the Vortex Vibe [Sedona]
[Nowhere else in this country does a natural setting feel
so much like the inside of a soaring pantheistic cathedral.]
(By DWIGHT GARNER, Apr. 9, 2006)
INDIA | NEXT STOP: A New Generation of Pilgrims Hits India's Hippie Trail (By SETH SHERWOOD, Apr. 9, 2006)
PERU | JOURNEYS: On a High Andean Lake, an Island of the Incas (By LUKE JEROD KUMMER, Apr. 9, 2006)
CAMBODIA | SURFACING: In Cambodia, the 'Next Phuket'? (By JEFF KOYEN, Apr. 9, 2006)
Armchair Traveler: 'There & Then: The Travel Writings of James Salter' (By RICHARD B. WOODWARD, Apr. 9, 2006)
WEEK IN REVIEW: Contents (NY TIMES, Apr. 9, 2006)
* HEALTH | Critic's Notebook: Be Merry, Not Ancient (By FRANK BRUNI, Apr. 9, 2006)
THE WORLD: Just When It's Needed, Russia's Not There (By STEVEN R. WEISMAN, Apr. 9, 2006)
* IDEAS & TRENDS: When Will We Stop Saying 'First Woman to _____'? (By JILL ABRAMSON, Apr. 9, 2006)
* IDEAS & TRENDS: This Boring Headline Is Written for Google
[Search-engine "bots" of Google, Yahoo and MSN that crawl the Web are increasingly
influential, delivering 30% or more of the traffic on some newspaper, magazine
or television news Web sites. And traffic means readers and advertisers.]
(By STEVE LOHR, Apr. 9, 2006)
* ANTI-SEMITISM'S MUSE: Without Judas, History Might Have Hijacked Another Villain
(By DAVID GIBSON, Apr. 9, 2006)
TESTING FAITH: Science and Religion, Still Worlds Apart (By GEORGE JOHNSON, Apr. 9, 2006)
THE BASICS: For the Sandman, Déjà Vu All Over Again
[Song Remains the Same: The Yanks' Rivera & Mets' Wagner share Metallica.]
(By RICHARD SANDOMIR, Apr. 9, 2006)
SUNDAY MAGAZINE: Contents (NY TIMES, Apr. 9, 2006)
* ON LANGUAGE: War Names (By WILLIAM SAFIRE, Apr. 9, 2006)
The Way We Live Now: Disunities [Iraqi politics] (By NOAH FELDMAN, Apr. 9, 2006)
COVER ARTICLE: Pro-Life Nation (By JACK HITT, Apr. 9, 2006)
Not Far From Forsaken [North Dakota losing population] (By RICHARD RUBIN, Apr. 9, 2006)
BOOK REVIEW: Contents (NY TIMES, Apr. 9, 2006)
COVER ARTICLE: 'Suite Française,' by Irène Némirovsky: As France Burned
(Review by PAUL GRAY, Apr. 9, 2006)
* 'The Poem That Changed America: "Howl" Fifty Years Later': Classic Beat
[24 essays on Allen Ginsberg's "Howl" edited by Jason Shinder]
(Review by GREIL MARCUS, Apr. 9, 2006)
* 'On Earth: Last Poems and an Essay,' by Robert Creeley: Yankee Bohemian
["On Earth" carries on the emergence of rhyme and form in Creeley's later work:
"Oh life, oh miracle of / Day to day existence, sun, food and others!"]
(Review by D. H. TRACY, Apr. 9, 2006)
ESSAY: Where Have All the Strivers Gone? (By JOSEPH FINDER, Apr. 9, 2006)
'My Lives,' by Edmund White: The Bearable Lightness of Being (Review by LAURA MILLER, Apr. 9, 2006)
* 'In Search of Memory,' by Eric R. Kandel: The Secret Life of the Mind (Review by SHERWIN B. NULAND, Apr. 9, 2006)
* 'The Joys of Much Too Much,' by Bonnie Fuller: That (Other) Cosmo Girl (Review by ALEXANDRA JACOBS, Apr. 9, 2006)
'The Messiah of Morris Avenue,' by Tony Hendra: Beware of God (Review by JAMES CAMPBELL, Apr. 9, 2006)
'The Man on Whom Nothing Was Lost,' by Molly Worthen: Teacher Man [Charles Hill]
(Review by ROSS DOUTHAT, Apr. 9, 2006)
* 'On Earth: Last Poems and an Essay,' by Robert Creeley: Yankee Bohemian
[Creeley is so averse to discursive writing that reminiscence stretches him in interesting
ways, and his recollections here are characterized by immediacy rather than removal. Warm
elegies for friends and poems of baffled gratitude allow themselves a kind of sensuous cry
("Oh life, oh miracle of / Day to day existence, sun, food and others!")]
(Review by D. H. TRACY, Apr. 9, 2006)
BOOKS: 'Great Pretenders'; Chick Lit in Japan (By NED ROREM, et. al., Apr. 9, 2006)

Saturday, April 8, 2005:
On This Day: April 8 (Giuseppe Tartini 4/8/1692-2/26/1770, David Rittenhouse 4/8/1732-6/26/1796, John Loudon 4/8/1783-12/14/1843, William Welch 4/8/1850-4/30/1934, Harvey Cushing 4/8/1869-10/7/1939, Albert I 4/8/1875-2/17/1934, Sir Adrian Boult 4/8/1889-2/23/1983, Sir John Hicks 4/8/1904-5/20/1989, Carmen McRae 4/8/1920-11/10/1994, Michael Bennett 4/8/1943-7/2/1987, Betty Ford 1918, Franco Corelli 1923, Fred Ebb 1933, Seymour Hersh 1937, John Havelicek 1940, Julian Lennon 1963, Robin Wright Penn 1966, Patricia Arquette 1968)
* Picasso is Dead in France at 91 (NY TIMES, April 8, 1973)
* Sonja Henie, Skating Star, Dies at 57 [4/8/1912-10/12/1969] (NY TIMES, October 13, 1969)

Charles L. Schepens, Eye Researcher, Dies at 94 (By JEREMY PEARCE, Apr. 8, 2006)
Maggie Dixon, Army Women's Basketball Coach, Is Dead at 28 (By FRANK LITSKY, Apr. 8, 2006)
NY REGION: One Catholic School's Fervent Plea to Stay Open (By MICHAEL LUO, Apr. 8, 2006)
* A California Billionaire Who Avoided the Spotlight Suddenly Finds Himself in It
(By TIMOTHY L. O'BRIEN, Apr. 8, 2006)
BASEBALL | Angels 4, Yankess 1: Yanks' Star-Studded Lineup Falling Short on Hits
(By TYLER KEPNER, Apr. 8, 2006)
EDITORIAL: Trading Up in China (NY TIMES, Apr. 8, 2006)
* OP-ED: The Gospel Truth (By ELAINE PAGELS, Apr. 8, 2006)
* OP-ED: Microsoft's Mac Attack (By ROBERT X. CRINGELY, Apr. 8, 2006)
LETTERS: The President and the C.I.A. Leak (5 Letters) (By John S. Koppel, et. al., Apr. 8, 2006)
LETTERS: A Yankee Victory, a Loss for the Fans (3 Letters) (By Corey M. Goodman, et. al., Apr. 8, 2006)
LETTERS: Saturday Night at the Movies, With Glitches (3 Letters) (By Connie Welling, Apr. 8, 2006)
LETTERS: Market Manipulation (1 Letter) (By Marc E. Kasowitz, Apr. 8, 2006)
BUSINESS: Now in the Rearview Mirror: Low Gasoline Prices (By JAD MOUAWAD, Apr. 8, 2006)
* What's Online: A Tug of War Over Keywords (By DAN MITCHELL, Apr. 8, 2006)
* ART: Who Paid $35.8 Million for J. M. W. Turner's View of Venice?
[Buyer: Stephen A. Wynn of Las Vegas] (By CAROL VOGEL, Apr. 8, 2006)
* ART: Joseph M. W. Turner's Venetian painting, Giudecca, La Donna della Salute and San Giorgio (AP Photo/Christie's, Apr. 8, 2006)
BOOKS | 'My Life in France': Julia Child's Memoir of When Cuisine Was French for Scary
(By WILLIAM GRIMES, Apr. 8, 2006)
* BOOKS: Idea for 'Da Vinci Code' Was Not Stolen, Judge Says (By SARAH LYALL, Apr. 8, 2006)

Friday, April 7, 2005:
On This Day: April 7 (St. Francis Xavier 4/7/1506-12/3/1552, William Wordsworth 4/7/1770-4/23/1850, Jens Peter Jacobsen 4/7/1847-4/30/1885, W. K. Kellogg 4/7/1860-10/6/1951, John McGraw 4/7/1873-2/25/1934, Sir David Low 4/7/1891-9/19/1963, Allen Dulles 4/7/1893-1/29/1969, Walter Winchell 4/7/1897-2/20/1972, R. G. Armstrong 1917, Ravi Shankar 1920, James Garner 1928, Wayne Rogers 1933, Ian Richardson 1934, Hodding Carter 1935, Jerry BRown 1938, Francis Ford Coppola 1939, David Frost 1939, Bill Kreutzman 1946, John Oates 1949, Janis Ian 1951, Jackie Chan 1954, Tony Dorsett 1954, Victoria Adams Beckham 1975)
General Grant defeated Confederates at Battle of Shiloh in Tennessee (NY TIMES, April 7, 1862)
* Billie Holiday Dies Here at 44; Jazz Singer Had Wide Influence
[4/7/1915-7/17/1959] (NY TIMES, July 18, 1959)

Marshall Goldberg, 88, Who Led 2 Teams to Football Titles, Dies (By IRA BERKOW, Apr. 7, 2006)
Abdul-Salam Ojeili, Syrian Novelist, 88, Is Dead (ASSOCIATED PRESS, Apr. 7, 2006)
NATIONAL: Facing Tough Questions, Bush Defends War (By JIM RUTENBERG, Apr. 7, 2006)
NY REGION: New York Post Says Freelancer Is Subject of Extortion Inquiry (By JENNIFER 8. LEE, Apr. 7, 2006)
* OP-ED: The Last Picture Show (By NORA EPHRON, Apr. 7, 2006)
* BOOKS: Judge Rules in Favor of 'Da Vinci Code' Writer
[Judge Peter Smith rejected a copyright-infringement claim by Michael Baigent
& Richard Leigh, authors of Holy Blood, Holy Grail, who claimed that
Dan Brown's blockbuster "appropriated the architecture" of their 1982 book.
(ASSOCIATED PRESS, Apr. 7, 2006)
* SCIENCE: Study, in a First, Explains Evolution's Molecular Advance (By KENNETH CHANG, Apr. 7, 2006)
* RELIGION: Document Is Genuine, but Is Its Story True? [Gospel of Judas] (By LAURIE GOODSTEIN, Apr. 7, 2006)

Thursday, April 6, 2005:
On This Day: April 6 (Raphael 4/6/1483-4/6/1520, Jean-Baptiste Rousseau 4/6/1671-3/17/1741, James Mill 4/6/1773-6/23/1836, Rene Lalique 4/6/1860-5/5/1945, Louis Raemaekers 4/6/1869-7/26/1956, Walter Huston 4/6/1884-4/7/1950, Anthony Fokker 4/6/1890-12/23/1939, Lowell Thomas 4/6/1892-8/29/1981, Lonald Douglas 4/6/1892-2/1/1981, Gerry Mulligan 4/6/1927-1/20/1996, André Previn 1929, Merle Haggard 1937, Billy Dee Williams 1937, Roy Thinnes 1938, Barry Levinson 1942, Michelle Phillips 1944, John Ratzenberger 1947, Marilu Henner 1952, Janet Lynn 1953, Ari Meyers 1969)
* Peary Discovers the North Pole After Eight Trials in 23 Years (NY TIMES, April 6, 1909)
Dr. Clarence E. McClung Zoologist, 75, Dies [4/6/1870-1/17/1946] (By ROBERT LINDSEY, January 19, 1946)

Gene Pitney, Who Sang of 60's Teenage Pathos, Dies at 65 (By BEN SISARIO, Apr. 6, 2006)
NY REGION | INK: What if the Birds Were Carrier Pigeons? (By TINA KELLEY, Apr. 6, 2006)
* BOOKS: A 'How to Get Into College by Really, Really Trying' Novel
[Kaavya Viswanathan's How Opal Mehta Got Kissed, Got Wild and Got a Life]
(By DINITIA SMITH, Apr. 6, 2006)
TECHNOLOGY | DAVID POGUE: Internet Calls Untethered From Your PC (By DAVID POGUE, Apr. 6, 2006)
* SCIENCE: 'Gospel of Judas' Surfaces After 1,700 Years (By JOHN NOBLE WILFORD & LAURIE GOODSTEIN, Apr. 6, 2006)
* Gospel of Judas [selections] (National Geographic, Apr. 6, 2006)
* Gospel of Judas [complete PDF file— 7 pages] (National Geographic, Apr. 6, 2006)

Wednesday, April 5, 2005:
On This Day: April 5 (Thomas Hobbes 4/5/1588-12/4/1679, Elihu Yale 4/5/1649-7/8/1721, Jean-Honoré Fragonard 4/5/1732-8/22/1806, Vincenzo Gioberti 4/5/1801-11/26/1852, Joseph Lister 4/5/1827-2/10/1912, Algernon Swinburne 4/5/1837-4/10/1909, Lincoln Filene 4/5/1865-8/27/1957, Chester Bowles 4/5/1901-5/25/1986, Bette Davis 4/5/1908-10/6/1989, Herbert von Karajan 4/5/1908-7/16/1989, Chaim Grade 4/5/1910-6/26/1982, Gregory Peck 1916, Arthur Hailey 1920, Gale Storm 1922, Roger Corman 1926, Nigel Hawthorne 1929, Colin Powell 1937, Tommy Cash 1940, Michael Moriarty 1941, Peter Greenaway 1942, Jane Asher 1946)
Rosenbergs, Atom Spy Couple Sentenced to Die; Aide Gets 30 Years (By William R. Conklin, April 5, 1951)
Dr. B. T. Washington, Negro Leader, Dead at 59 [4/5/1856-11/14/1915] (NY TIMES, November 15, 1915)

WORLD: Thai Premier Quits His Post, Ending Turmoil [Thaksin Shinawatra] (By THOMAS FULLER, Apr. 5, 2006)
* NY REGION: Families With Full Plates, Sitting Down to Dinner (By LISA W. FODERARO, Apr. 5, 2006)
SPORTS | BASEBALL: For Wagner and Rivera, Play It Again, Metallica (By BEN SHPIGEL, Apr. 5, 2006)
BUSINESS: NBC Is Poised to Hire Couric's Replacement (By JACQUES STEINBERG, Apr. 5, 2006)
TECHNOLOGY | INNOVATION: Like to Tinker? NASA's Looking for You (By NOAH SHACHTMAN, Apr. 5, 2006)
* TECHNOLOGY: A Phone Alternative That Offers Something for Nothing (By KEN BELSON, Apr. 5, 2006)
* TELECOMMUNICATIONS: A Superspeed Connection Covering That Vexing Last Mile (By KEN BELSON, Apr. 5, 2006)
* TV | 'Voyage to Kure': Jean-Michel Cousteau Finds a Bounty of Trash in a Remote Island Paradise
(By NEIL GENZLINGER, Apr. 5, 2006)
HEALTH: Low-Calorie Diet May Lead to Longer Life (By DENISE GRADY, Apr. 5, 2006)

Tuesday, April 4, 2005:
On This Day: April 4 (Grinling Gibbons 4/4/1648-8/3/1721, Edward Hicks 4/4/1780-8/23/1849, Dorothea Dix 4/4/1802-7/17/1887, Pierre Monteux 4/4/1875-7/1/1964, Arthur Murray 4/4/1895-3/3/1991, Robert Sherwook 4/4/1896-11/14/1955, Antony Tudor 4/4/1908-4/20/1987, Marguerite Duras 4/4/1914-3/3/1996, Anthony Perkins 4/4/1932-9/12/1992, Elmer Bernstein 1922, Elizabeth Wilson 1925, Maya Angelou 1928, Clive Davis 1932, Richard Lugar 1932, Kitty Kelley 1942, Steve Gatlin 1951, Robert Downey Jr. 1965)
Martin Luther King Is Slain in Memphis; A White Is Suspected (By Earl Caldwell, April 4, 1968)
Muddy Waters, Blues Performer, Dies at 68 [4/4/1915-4/30/1983] (By ROBERT PALMER, May 1, 1983)

* OP-ED: Steal This Book [The Da Vinci Code trial] (By JOSEPH FINDER, Apr. 4, 2006)
BLOG: Friction Over Fiction [The Da Vinci Code trial] (By Colin Samuels, Apr. 4, 2006)
* TECHNOLOGY: Growing Worry for Businesses: Old Computers (By LAURIE J. FLYNN, Apr. 4, 2006)
TECHNOLOGY: Out of Consumers' Sight, Radio Tags Gain Ground (By BARNABY J. FEDER, Apr. 4, 2006)
TV: ABC Suspends John Green, Executive Producer of 'Good Morning America Weekend,' for E-Mail Messages
(By JACQUES STEINBERG, Apr. 4, 2006)
SCIENCE NEWS: Contents (NY TIMES, Apr. 4, 2006)

Monday, April 3, 2005:
On This Day: April 3 (Pierre-Fidele Bretonneau 4/3/1778-2/18/1862, Washington Irving 4/3/1783-11/28/1859, Mary Carpenter 4/3/1807-6/14/1877, Edward Everett 4/3/1822-6/10/1909, Alcide De Gasperi 4/3/1881-8/19/1954, Bud Fisher 4/3/1884-9/7/1954, Leslie Howard 4/3/1893-6/1/1943, Stanislawa Walasiewicz 4/3/1911-12/4/1980, Virgil I. Grissom 4/3/1926-1/27/1967, Marlon Brando 1924, Doris Day 1924, Miyoshi Umeki 1929, Helmut Kohl 1930, Don Gibson 1932, William Gaunt 1937, Marsha Mason 1942, Wayne Newton 1942, Tony Orlando 1944, Carlos Salinas de Gortari 1948, Alec Baldwin 1958, Eddie Murphy 1961)
Aid Bill is Signed by Truman as Reply to Foes of Liberty (By Harold B. Hinton, April 3, 1948)
* Henry R. Luce, Creator of Time-Life Magazine Empire, Dies in Phoenix at 68
[4/3/1898-2/28/1967] (By ALDEN WHITMAN, March 1, 1967)

Sunday, April 2, 2005:
On This Day: April 2 (Charlemagne 4/2/742-1/28/814, Giovanni Casanova 4/2/1725-6/4/1798, Hoffmann von Fallersleben 4/2/1798-1/19/1874, Erastus B. Bigelow 4/2/1814-12/6/1879, Frederic a. Bartholdi 4/2/1834-10/4/1904, Nicholas Butler 4/2/1862-12/7/1947, Walter Chrysler 4/2/1875-8/18/1940, Kurt Adler 4/2/1905-2/9/1988, Buddy Ebsen 1908, Sharon Acker 1935, Leon Russell 1941, Linda Hunt 1945, Emmylou Harris 1947, Pamela Reed 1949, Debrlee Scott 1953, Ron Palillo 1954)
President Wilson Declares War on Germany, Stronger Navy, New Army of 500,000 Men (NY TIMES, April 2, 1917)
* Max Ernst, Catalytic Figure in 20th Century Art, Dies at 85
[4/2/1891-4/1/1976] (By JOHN RUSSELL, April 2, 1976)

MUSIC | Playlist: Cassandra Wilson Goes Pop, and the Stones Go Crackle (By BEN RATLIFF, Apr. 2, 2006)
TRAVEL | JAPAN JOURNEYS: Near Nagoya, Architecture From When the East Looked West (By FRED A. BERNSTEIN, Apr. 2, 2006)
WEEK IN REVIEW: Contents (NY TIMES, Apr. 2, 2006)
THE NATION: Immigrants and the Economics of Hard Work (By JOHN M. BRODER, Apr. 2, 2006)
Ideas & Trends: The Peculiar Power of the Chattering Class (By ANNE E. KORNBLUT, Apr. 2, 2006)
THE BASICS: Making Up for Lost Time in Space (By KENNETH CHANG, Apr. 2, 2006)
SUNDAY MAGAZINE: Contents (NY TIMES, Apr. 2, 2006)
* ON LANGUAGE: Nodding Homer (By WILLIAM SAFIRE, Apr. 2, 2006)
The Way We Live Now: The Time Trap (By ANN HULBERT, Apr. 2, 2006)
Questions for Michael Chertoff: On the Homeland Front (Interview by DEBORAH SOLOMON, Apr. 2, 2006)
* CONSUMED: A Fruit's Stand [Pom Wonderful juice] (By ROB WALKER, Apr. 2, 2006)
COVER ARTICLE: If Not Peace, Then Justice (By ELIZABETH RUBIN, Apr. 2, 2006)
* A Depression Switch? (By DAVID DOBBS, Apr. 2, 2006)
Kid Rock [How a group of Australians turned an ed-school
project into a multimillion-dollar toddler supergroup
(By PAUL SCOTT, Apr. 2, 2006)
BOOK REVIEW: Contents (NY TIMES, Apr. 2, 2006)
* BOOKS: 'Edgar Allan Poe & the Juke-Box,' by Elizabeth Bishop: Rough Gems
[From the beginning, Bishop's work was descriptive rather than assertive,
conversational rather than rhetorical and discreet rather than confessional.]
(Review by DAVID ORR, Apr. 2, 2006)
* 'Programming the Universe,' by Seth Lloyd: Welcome to the Machine (Review by COREY S. POWELL, Apr. 2, 2006)
'The Disposable American: Layoffs and Their Consequences,' by Louis Uchitelle: Americans Idle
(Review by BRAD DELONG, Apr. 2, 2006)
* 'Rousseau's Dog,' by David Edmonds and John Eidinow: Great Minds Behaving Badly (Review by DARRIN M. McMAHON, Apr. 2, 2006)
'The Revenge of Thomas Eakins,' by Sidney D. Kirkpatrick: A Life in Somber Tones
(Review by DEBORAH SOLOMON, Apr. 2, 2006)
* BOOKS LETTERS: Review of Garry Wills' What Jesus Meant (By BRUCE CHILTON, et. al., Apr. 2, 2006)

Saturday, April 1, 2005:
On This Day: April 1 (William Harvey 4/1/1578-6/3/1657, Jean-Etienne Portalis 4/1/1746-8/25/1807, Otto von Bismarck 4/1/1815-7/30/1898, Jorge Isaacs 4/1/1837-4/17/1895, Edwin Austin Abbey 4/1/1852-8/1/1911, Edmond Rostand 4/1/1868-12/2/1918, Sergey Rachmaninoff 4/1/1873-3/28/1943, Edgar Wallace 4/1/1875-2/10/1932, Lon Chaney 4/1/1883-8/26/1930, William Manchester 4/1/1922-6/1/2004, Jane Powell 1929, Grace Lee Whitney 1930, Debbie Reynolds 1932, Jim Ed Brown 1934, Don Hastings 1934, Ali MacGraw 1938, David Eisenhower 1947, Jimmy Cliff 1948, Gil Scott-Heron 1949, Annette O'Toole 1953, Magdalena Maleeva 1975 )
Americans Invade Okinawa in Ryukyus; Seize 2 Airfields (By Bruce Rae, April 1, 1945)
Colonel Florence Blanchfield, 87; Ex-Head of Nurse Corps, Dies
[4/1/1884-5/12/1971] (NY TIMES, May 13, 1971)

* OP-ED: An Outside-the-Park Investigation [steroids in baseball] (By BUSTER OLNEY, Apr. 1, 2006)
* OP-ED: A Fool There Was [April Fool's Day] (By WES DAVIS, Apr. 1, 2006)
OP-ED: Preparing for Nature's Attack (By TED NORDHAUS & MICHAEL SHELLENBERGER, Apr. 1, 2006)
* LETTERS: Why the French Take to the Streets (8 Letters) (By Auriana Tognetti, et. al., Apr. 1, 2006)
* LETTERS: The Immigrants and Their Flags (3 Letters) (By Christine M. Flowers, et. al., Apr. 1, 2006)
LETTERS: College Women and Men (By Warner B. Huck, Apr. 1, 2006)
* ARTS: China: The New Contemporary-Art Frontier (By CAROL VOGEL, Apr. 1, 2006)
ARTS: Saving Chinese Artifacts: A Slow Fight (By HOWARD W. FRENCH, Apr. 1, 2006)
* BOOKS: New Elizabeth Bishop Book Sparks a Controversy
[In a scathing review that appeared in the April 3 issue of The New Republic,
Helen Vendler, arguably the country's most prominent poetry critic, takes on
Alice Quinn of The New Yorker, arguably the country's most prominent poetry editor,
for editing Edgar Allan Poe & the Juke-Box: Uncollected Poems, Drafts and Fragments
by Elizabeth Bishop, one of the most respected of American poets.]
(By MOTOKO RICH, Apr. 1, 2006)
DANCE | 'Mauvais Genre': 'Mauvais Genre' by Alain Buffard Opens at Danspace (By JENNIFER DUNNING, Apr. 1, 2006)
OPERA | 'Don Giovanni': A New Spark for a Don Beyond Compare (By ANNE MIDGETTE, Apr. 1, 2006)
TV: Robert Wuhl Is a Teacher on HBO's 'Assume the Position With Mr. Wuhl' (By RICHARD SANDOMIR, Apr. 1, 2006)
TV: 'Samurai 7': An Animated Series Based on a Kurosawa Classic (By DAVE KEHR, Apr. 1, 2006)