Paris's new Musée du Quai Branly has a simple and ambitious goal: to treat non-Western art with the same deference that, say, the Louvre gives to Greek, Roman and Renaissance art. 

Imperialist? Moi? Not the Musée du Quai Branly

Executives from Royal Dutch Shell, Chevron and ConocoPhillips indicated that they might be willing to give up sizable taxpayer subsidies. 

3 Oil Firms May Alter Gulf Leases

The defense lawyer was the 10th person associated with the court trying Saddam Hussein to be killed in the last 18 months.

Hussein Lawyer Seized and Slain in Baghdad Raid

Beginning next month, the museum will do away with traditional departments, and instead create two "teams," one for collections and one for exhibitions. 

Loss of Curators' Power Seen in Brooklyn Museum Plan

China's college students must grapple with petty fraud, substandard instruction and an intensely competitive job market. 

Rioting in China Over Label on College Diplomas

Welcome to your one-stop information resource about the next generation of home movie equipment!

Which New DVD Format? Neither Just Yet

Crow House, a rambling Arts and Crafts mix of architectural styles, now stands at the center of a complicated round robin of conflict that involves preservationists, a son, and a granddaughter.

An Arts and Crafts Haven, Intact but in Peril

After two years of horrendous hurricanes, coastal builders are finding eager buyers for their fortified houses.

Let a Hurricane Huff and Puff

There was a time when people whose erotic rituals ran to whips and chains and latex and highly complex protocols of dominance and submission were confined to the cultural shadows. No longer.

Kinky Chic Extends Its Dominance

With Wednesday's broad rally, the market recovered much of the ground it had lost in the last two weeks.

FedEx Profit Helps Propel Stock Market

Four months before the election, the leading candidate for N.Y. governor is already influencing events.

In Albany, Spitzer Already Casts a Long Shadow

Angelina Jolie gracefully slipped past viewer cynicism in her interview with CNN's Anderson Cooper on Tuesday night.

The Jolie Interview: The Humble Star and Eager Newsman

Rallied by President Bush, the party is trying to turn a liability into an advantage by portraying Democrats as advocates of an overly hasty withdrawal.

G.O.P. Decides to Embrace War as Issue

Mixed martial arts, a sport combining martial arts with boxing, has a star and many aspiring fighters.

No Holds (or Kicks, or Punches) Barred

The guard was one of six accused of giving contraband to female inmates in Florida in exchange for sex and money.

U.S. Agent Dies in Shootout With Prison Guard

After an Off Broadway production was derailed, resulting in a theatrical uproar, "My Name Is Rachel Corrie" is coming to the Minetta Lane Theater.

Play About Gaza Death to Reach New York

Analysts predict that the drugs will become blockbusters, with more than $1 billion in worldwide sales each.

4 Diabetes Drugs Are Seen Raising Hope and Profit

Jersey City has been in a resurgence, but this week the talk has been about the mayor, who had a clash with the police outside his sister's bar.

Jersey City Is Distracted by Arrest of Mayor

Tom Stoppard's exciting new play of immutable passions and mutable politics, "Rock 'n' Roll," has become the hottest ticket in London.

On London Stages, It's Only Passion 'n' Politics (but They Like It)

It is Ghana's turn to represent the hopes of a continent and Stephen Appiah, captain of Ghana's team, is leading the way.

The Hand of God to the Foot of Appiah

A visit to the apartment of Amy Sedaris, the comedian, reveals her at home, with her rabbit, thinking up hot lunches for lumberjacks.

Where a Comedian Does Her Serious Entertaining

Murray Chass On Baseball column discusses George J Mitchell's investigation into steroid use in Major League Baseball (M)2

Mitchell Seeks to Put Teeth Into Inquiry

Strong earnings and an upbeat forecast from a corporate bellwether sent the stock market up broadly yesterday, helping it recover much of the ground lost in the last two weeks.     Investors turned their attention from fears of inflation, an economic slowdown and higher interest rates to numbers that remain far more positive: profits.  

Upscale clothing boutiques, like B Oyama and Pieces of Harlem, are arriving in rapidly gentrifying Mount Morris Park section of Harlem; distance themselves from brash hip-hop aesthetic, offering fashion that deliberately summons Harlem's fabled past along with current fashion trends; flaunting aura of exclusivity, new shops offer high-style and pricey alternatives to wares on 125th Street; photos (M)

Downtown Comes to Harlem

Shengda College in central China has a diverse curriculum, foreign faculty members to teach English and a manicured campus, where weeping willows shade a recreational lake.     But many students paid the college's rich tuition -- at $2,500 a year one of the highest in China -- primarily because Shengda promised that their diplomas would bear the name of its parent, Zhengzhou University, a more prestigious national-level institution, and not mention Shengda at all.  

June 22, 2006

Headlines from June 22, 2006

Imperialist? Moi? Not the Musée du Quai Branly

3 Oil Firms May Alter Gulf Leases

Hussein Lawyer Seized and Slain in Baghdad Raid

Loss of Curators' Power Seen in Brooklyn Museum Plan

Rioting in China Over Label on College Diplomas

Billboard 200

Decemberunderground

Taking The Long Way

New Joc City

Laugh Now; Cry Later

High School Musical

Historical Context for June 22, 2006