Several top soccer clubs, including champions Juventus, are under investigation.

In Italy, a Scandal Overshadows a Quest

The people of Bridgeport have certainly been educated and entertained in recent years — all while being fooled.

A City's Shame: Settling for Less

The Supreme Court ruled that a plan to put detainees on trial before military commissions was unauthorized by federal statute and violated international law.

Justices, 5-3, Broadly Reject Bush Plan to Try Detainees

It is a question that occurs to almost everyone who becomes seriously ill: Should you go to your local hospital or would you do better if you went to a major medical center?

Looking for Answers When Choosing Care

Some think of Times Square as the Crossroads of the World, but Cross Hairs of the World can feel more like it.

Barriers to Terror, or Huge Ugly Ashtrays?

The Pentagon said that the ruling did not prevent the practice of holding suspects indefinitely.

Ruling Leaves Uncertainty at Guantánamo

The past has a nasty way of springing up when it is least expected.

Finding Solidarity, a Cup at a Time

Meryl Streep inspires both terror and a measure of awe as the imperious editor of a glossy fashion magazine in the screen version of Lauren Weisberger's best-selling novel. 

In 'The Devil Wears Prada,' Meryl Streep Plays the Terror of the Fashion World

Shanghai, while known as youthful and vigorous, also has the oldest population in China, and it is getting older. 

As China Ages, a Shortage of Cheap Labor Looms

The move kicked off a powerful celebration in the stock market by lowering its alarms about inflation.

Fed Raises Rates, but Scales Back Talk of Inflation

Without Lance Armstrong, the Tour de France, which begins on Saturday, has opened up to a new group of contenders. 

Drug Scandal Looms Over Wide-Open Tour's Start

An hour and a half from Washington, St. Michaels, Md., has begun to lure V.I.P.'s who, some boosters would have it, could propel it into the gilded realm of the Hamptons and Nantucket.

Weekends With the President's Men

A day after the floods, the waters slowly started to recede. But trouble did not go with them. 

In Mid-Atlantic, Flooding's Fury Goes Downriver

A sense of untainted solitude is the defining characteristic of the Cedar Mountains in Utah, the newest federally designated wilderness area.

Ah (New) Wilderness in Utah

For Felix J. Grucci Jr., of Fireworks by Grucci, life is simpler now that he is out of Long Island politics.

Finding Refuge in the Family Fireworks

Biologists in New Jersey are keeping a watchful eye as the population of the striped bass rebuilds.

No Longer Tourists, Stripers Return to Stay

It would seem that misery, like water, flows downstream.     A day after a nexus of swollen rivers spilled their banks in some of the worst floods in the Mid-Atlantic region in decades, the waters slowly started to recede yesterday. But trouble did not go with them.  

Shanghai is rightfully known as a fast-moving, hypermodern city -- full of youth and vigor. But that obscures a less well-known fact: Shanghai has the oldest population in China, and it is getting older in a hurry.     Twenty percent of this city's people are at least 60, the common retirement age for men in China, and retirees are easily the fastest growing segment of the population, with 100,000 new seniors added to the rolls each year, according to a study by the Shanghai Academy of Social Sciences. From 2010 to 2020, the number of people 60 or older is projected to grow by 170,000 a year.  

Many Pennsylvania and New Jersey towns along Delaware River are engulfed in flood waters for third time in 21 months; Trenton (NJ) suffers most disruption; photos (M)

In Towns Along Delaware, Treading Water Is Getting to Be a Habit

As part of a Shakespeare in the Park season of plays about, and against, war, the Public Theater will present a free staged reading of David Hare's ''Stuff Happens'' at the Delacorte Theater in September. The production at the Public this spring starred Jay O. Sanders, right, as George W. Bush.       An article is on Page 3.

The Central Park Theater of War

SAND, warm sun-kissed sand, a spread of golden grains stretching out as far as the eye can see, the caw-caw of the seagulls, the lapping of the waves, the      O.K., go ahead and just shoot Michael Bevilacqua now. Right now.  

To Beach or Not to Beach ...

Apple Computer said yesterday that it had uncovered irregularities related to stock options awarded between 1997 and 2001, a move that raises questions about whether a grant made to Steven P. Jobs, one of the largest ever, was properly disclosed.     The announcement, after the close of regular stock trading, makes Apple  the latest company to acknowledge possible problems with option grants. More than 60 companies, from Silicon Valley start-ups to industry giants like Microsoft, have announced that their option practices are under review.  

Apple Tells of Problems on Options

As the Supreme Court prepared to rule on the Bush administration's plan to try terror suspects before special military tribunals here, the commander of Guantánamo's military detention center was asked what impact the court's decision might have on its operations.     ''If they rule against the government, I don't see how that is going to affect us,'' the commander, Rear Adm. Harry B. Harris, said Tuesday evening as he sat in a conference room in his headquarters. ''From my perspective, I think the direct impact will be negligible.''  

Clyde Haberman NYC column on barricades frequently seen in streets in post 9/11 New York City; Michael Sorkin, Director of graduate urban design program at City College of New York, says barricades make city feel like fortress; lawyers and urban planners discuss loosening security measures at Municipal Art Society meeting (M)

Israeli troops seized 64 members of Hamas in the West Bank on Thursday, including a third of the Palestinian cabinet and 23 legislators, a move that Israeli officials said indicated a significant change in Israel's policy toward the Hamas government.     The seizures are partly intended to warn Hamas leaders that they could lose their power and liberty, if not their lives, unless they act to release a captured Israeli soldier, a senior Israeli military official said. But Israel has also concluded that Hamas, which had largely kept to a cease-fire before, is now openly engaged in violent acts against Israel and must be treated differently.  

June 30, 2006

Headlines from June 30, 2006

In Italy, a Scandal Overshadows a Quest

A City's Shame: Settling for Less

Justices, 5-3, Broadly Reject Bush Plan to Try Detainees

Looking for Answers When Choosing Care

Barriers to Terror, or Huge Ugly Ashtrays?

Billboard 200

The Big Bang

Taking The Long Way

Decemberunderground

High School Musical

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Historical Context for June 30, 2006