Neither a curfew and tear gas nor King Gyanendra's offer to give up control of the state stemmed the fury of his subjects on Saturday.

Protests Mount as Nepal Parties Reject King's Bid

The breakneck success of Yellow Tail, an imported Australian wine, has lifted the brand into the top ranks of the American wine trade.

The Wallaby That Roared Across the Wine Industry

The exodus of residents displaced by Hurricane Katrina has brought low-income families to areas richer in opportunity.

Katrina's Tide Carries Many to Hopeful Shores

Pennsylvania Senate race is case study in Democratic efforts to find common ground between supporters and opponents of abortion rights; many supporters of rights are lining up to defeat incumbent social conservative Sen Rick Santorum by supporting state treasurer Bob Casey Jr, who opposes rights; Democratic strategists have argued since 2004 that party must find way to signal tolerance for opposing views; tension between principle and pragmatism is apparent on range of issues; photos (L)

Senate Campaign Tests Democrats' Abortion Tack

Quarterback Matt Leinart, expected to go near top of NFL draft's first round, is often compared to Joe Namath because of his charisma and celebrity relationships; photos (M)

Hollywood to Broadway? Leinart Has Special Arm, and Common Touch

Analysis of relocation patterns of New Orleans residents following Hurricane Katrina in 17 counties in and around Atlanta and Houston shows that average evacuee has landed in neighborhood with nearly twice the income as one left behind, less than half as much poverty, and significantly higher levels of education, employment and home ownership; it remains unclear whether better environment will bring success, but relocation creates grand experiment in class mixing; photos; maps (L)

Recent interest in survival techniques has generated new crop of wilderness training and survival courses for men around country; Reggie Bennett, teacher of Hidden Pursuit escape and evasion course at Mountain Shepherd Wilderness Survival School, Amherst, Va, discusses type of students he teaches and what he thinks men are looking for; some wilderness teachers profile students as everyday professionals seeking to enliven their existence rather than hard-core adventurers; photos (M)

Manly Men Answer Call of the Wild

New York Mets defeat San Diego Padres, 8-1; photos (M)

Masterly Outing by Martínez, Backed By 3 Homers, Sinks Padres

Junior and midlevel officers are joining debate about whether war plans for Iraq reflected unvarnished military advice, whether retired generals should have spoken out against Defense Sec Donald H Rumsfeld, whether active-duty generals will feel free to state their views in private sessions with civilian leaders, and whether Rumsfeld should resign; many officers who are blaming Rumsfeld are not faulting Pres Bush; debate is seen as academic exercise because most officers acknowledge that United States cannot leave Iraq without restoring security; photo (L)

Young Officers Join the Debate Over Rumsfeld

Central Intelligence Agency analyst Mary O McCarthy was fired April 20, accused of leaking information to reporters about overseas prisons operated by CIA since September 11 terrorist attacks; some colleagues say it is hard to imagine her as leaker, but other colleagues say it is possible that McCarthy became increasingly disenchanted by Bush administration methods for handling Al Qaeda prisoners; McCarthy gradually came over last decade to have one foot in secret world of intelligence and another in public world of policy; photo (L)

Colleagues Say C.I.A. Analyst Played by the Rules

Peter Bogdanovich reviews book Ava Gardner: Love Is Nothing by Lee Server; photos (M)

Ava's Allure

More than 100,000 Nepalese protesters flood streets of Katmandu, breaking through police lines to reach city center, approaching to within few blocks of Narayanhiti Palace; coalition of political parties rejects King Gyanendra's offer to return government to prime minister of their choosing, as it does not address restoration of parliament or referendum to rewrite Constitution; violent protests have become more referendum on reign of Gyanendra than cry for democratic reform; photos (L)

Review of 2006 Buick Lucerne; photos; chart (M)

2006 Buick Lucerne: So Shipshape the Portholes Seem to Fit

ED AND NANCY SOREL take a rather dim view of real estate. With its connotations of home-as-commodity, it represents everything that went wrong with their previous Manhattan apartment, a Franklin Street co-op that they bought in 1982 for $145,000.      ''The value of this dumb loft kept increasing by the hour,'' said Mr. Sorel (pronounced so-RELL). ''Suddenly, it wasn't simply a place to live, it was an investment,'' one they sold for $1.2 million.  

Old-School Bohemians in Their Lair

Hiring managers and recruiters are encountering rise in lying on resumes to enhance experience; human resources departments are increasingly checking references and other information, with detrimental effects on untruthful job applicants and workers; photo (M)

Fudging the Facts on a Résumé Is Common, and Also a Big Risk

Article on growth of and changes at MySpace.com, originally introduced in 2002 by Chris DeWolfe and reintroduced in summer 2003 by eUniverse, later renamed Intermix Media, as social networking site; Rupert Murdoch, whose News Corp bought MySpace and Intermix last year, has embraced DeWolfe and MySpace president and co-founder Tom Anderson and their management team and is slowly adding advertising to mix; News Corp is assembling overarching online unit Fox Interactive Media to cobble together several Web properties into big Internet company focused on youth, with Myspace as its top priority; photos (L)

For MySpace, Making Friends Was Easy. Big Profit Is Tougher.

Battle lines are being drawn between Pfizer Inc, which has given chief executive and chairman Hank McKinnell $65 million in pay since January 2001 and $83 million pension when he retires, and shareholders, who are angry over 46 percent decline in market value since McKinnell took top job; some shareholders are threatening to withhold votes for several Pfizer directors but company is using alliances and relationships with institutional shareholders to fight back; governance experts say battle illustrates imbalance of power between company owners and managers that is prevalent today; chart (M)

Investors vs. Pfizer: Guess Who Has the Guns?

Emergence of new breed of male socialites attending New York City parties discussed; contrary to escorts of past generations, some men are utilizing social circuit as way to enhance business opportunities; prominent male socialites discussed; photos (M)

The Socialite Wore a Black Tie

Upcoming National Football Leauge draft, which is now two-day televised event on ESPN, described; is designed to allow professional football teams to equitably divide up each year's collegiate players; April event features commentary by sports analyst Mel Kiper Jr; photos; drawing (M)

N.F.L. Draft Daze: The Lost Weekend

Article on surprise success of Yellow Tail, once unknown Australian wine, whose sales in US surpassed 7.5 million cases in 2005; John Casella, whose winery in southeastern Australia, Casella Wines Ltd, produces Yellow Tail, predicts sales of 8 million or 8.5 million cases in US this year; says sales in Europe, Canada and Asia, which started only recently, could add 3.5 million; William Deutsch and son Peter, whose import company William J Deutsch & Sons began importing Yellow Tail into US in 2001, comment; photos; graph (M)

Article profiles author Gay Talese, whose memoir A Writer's Life is about to be published; his life and career discussed; photos (L)

Notes From Underground

Kelefa Sanneh article discusses why New Orleans hip-hop, despite being its most popular musical export in recent decades, has been largely ignored by the post-Katrina tributes; focus has been on saving and preserving city's older musical heritage; history of New Orleans hip-hop beginning in late 1980's described; photos (L)

New Orleans Hip-Hop Is the Home of Gangsta Gumbo

New York Giants sign linebacker LaVar Arrington to seven-year, $3.7 million per year contract; photos (M)

Giants Sign Arrington as an Anchor at Linebacker

Article discusses problems facing musical Lestat, based on Anne Rice's vampire novels with music by Elton John and lyrics by Bernie Taupin, which is about to open on Broadway; producer Gregg Maday comments; show received terrible critical notices during its January tryout in San Francisco; seventy-five percent of production has been changed since original preview; photos (L)

'Lestat': Bringing Anne Rice's World to the Stage With Elton John's Help

New Jersey Devils defeat New York Rangers, 6-1, to lead first-round playoff series, 1-0; photos (M)

Devils Keep Composure as Rangers Punish Themselves

Phil Walden was a co-founder of the Macon, Georgia-based Capricorn Records, along with former Atlantic Records executive Frank Fenter.

April 23, 2006

Headlines from April 23, 2006

Protests Mount as Nepal Parties Reject King's Bid

The Wallaby That Roared Across the Wine Industry

Katrina's Tide Carries Many to Hopeful Shores

Senate Campaign Tests Democrats' Abortion Tack

Hollywood to Broadway? Leinart Has Special Arm, and Common Touch

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Me And My Gang

NOW 21

King

High School Musical

Greatest Hits Vol 2: Reflected

Notable Deaths

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