An investigation into the killings of 24 Iraqis in Haditha found that the U.S. marines involved appear to have destroyed or withheld evidence.

Marines May Have Excised Evidence on 24 Iraqi Deaths

Threatened with obsolescence in the era of broadband, Earthlink is transforming itself into a full-service telecommunications company.

A World Beyond Dial-Up

The company was ordered to pay $51 million in damages to a retired F.B.I. agent who suffered a heart attack while taking the painkiller Vioxx.

Merck Suffers a Pair of Setbacks Over Vioxx

The Justice Department filed an immediate appeal, allowing the wiretapping to continue for the time being.

Judge Finds Wiretap Actions Violate the Law

The ruggedly beautiful Canadian provinces of New Brunswick and Prince Edward Island may offer the last affordable waterfront properties on the Atlantic Ocean. 

North to Canada, for an Ocean View

It is unclear whether John M. Karr’s confession is genuine or the product of a troubled, attention-seeking man.

Arrest in Ramsey Case Presents More Questions

Fewer black and Hispanic pupils are passing an admission test for elite high schools, despite efforts to prepare them.

In Elite N.Y. Schools, a Dip in Blacks and Hispanics

Can’t wait for the new shows? Try settling for the slightly used.

Before the Fall:  DVD’s of TV Seasons (Just) Past

Tiger Woods and Phil Mickelson each shot a three-under-par 69 at the P.G.A. Championship, placing them three shots off a lead shared by Lucas Glover and Chris Riley. 

Woods and Mickelson Keep Their Distance

New Britain, Conn., is the midpoint between New York City and Boston, but is this where one draws the line of baseball’s bitterest border?

Where Do Rivals Draw the Line?

Unlike other cities, New York only counts deaths from heat stroke, leaving out related deaths with other causes.

New York’s Tally of Heat Deaths Draws Scrutiny

Mark Green delivered a withering series of attacks during a debate between four Democrats seeking to replace Eliot Spitzer as New York’s attorney general.

Green Attacks Cuomo’s Housing Record in Debate

Matt Dillon inhabits the role of Henry Chinanski, the alter ego of the writer Charles Bukowski, in Bent Hamer's adaptation of Bukowski's 1975 novel of the same name.

On the Barstool Again, With One for His Muse, in ‘Factotum’

Watching Usher glide around the stage in rehearsal for the Broadway musical "Chicago," you have to admit he’s got those Fosse poses down.

Usher in ‘Chicago’? Well, He’s No Stranger to Razzle-Dazzle and Hocus-Pocus

The Wesleyan Chapel on Fall Street in Seneca Falls, N.Y. (or what’s left of it), stands as a reminder 150 years after the birth of the women’s rights movement. 


A Quiet Place to Start a Revolution

The Maah Daah Hey Trail, a remote 96-mile dirt track in western North Dakota, can be unrelenting and harsh.

Good Ride in the Badlands

The number of angioplasties performed in Elyria is so high that Medicare is starting to ask questions.

Heart Procedure Is Off the Charts in an Ohio City

Times may be bleak in the Middle East, but they have been a boon of sorts for Dean Obeidallah, a stand-up comic in New York.

An Arab Who Wields a Rapier Wit

Three days after its announcement of a safety recall, Dell reported lower profits and an informal S.E.C. investigation into its accounting.

Profit Falls by Half at Dell

For all of Derek Jeter’s skills, the most useful is his ability to boil down any job to its essence, which has stood out this season more than ever. 

Jeter’s Secret? It’s Simple: Play to Win

Hollywood celebrities who show up at awards ceremonies and leave with armloads of booty can expect one more item with their gift baskets: a tax form.

Hollywood, the I.R.S. Is Watching

It appears unlikely that the Mills Corporation can finish a half-built $2 billion shopping and entertainment complex in the Meadowlands.

Some Call for New Jersey to Intervene to Save Xanadu Project

A provision of the new bankruptcy law is supposed to prevent companies from rewarding top executives with rich retention payments while others are suffering.

It’s the Law, but Is the Law Meaningless?

Hollywood celebrities who show up at awards ceremonies and leave with armloads of booty can expect one more item with their gift baskets: a tax form.      The Internal Revenue Service announced Thursday that it had settled a tax matter with the Academy of Motion Picture Arts and Sciences over gift baskets -- which this year were worth about $100,000 each -- given to presenters and performers at the Oscar ceremony.  

FOR years the boozy, beautiful world of Charles Bukowski has proved catnip to European filmmakers and a few American actors happy to go along for the rough ride: Ben Gazzara, Mickey Rourke and now Matt Dillon. Bukowski's own story (his parents moved to Los Angeles from Germany when he was 3) clearly holds attraction for certain creative types, as do all his tales of ordinary madness. That many of those stories take place in Los Angeles may be particularly seductive, since few images telegraph the paradox of the American dream better than a drunk passed out in the shadow of Hollywood.     Hollywood, as sign or guiding principle, is nowhere to be found in ''Factotum,'' and there isn't a palm tree in sight. Shot in a seedy, forlorn Minneapolis, far from that city's green-canopied streets and Prairie School architecture, the film was directed by the wonderfully named Bent Hamer, a Norwegian whose earlier features include the deadpan comedy ''Kitchen Stories.'' Working with the producer Jim Stark, Mr. Hamer adapted the screenplay from the 1975 novel of the same title, with snippets from three other, more characteristically Bukowskian sounding volumes: ''The Days Run Away Like Wild Horses Over the Hills'' and the posthumous ''What Matters Most Is How Well You Walk Through the Fire'' and ''The Captain Is Out to Lunch and the Sailors Have Taken Over the Ship.''  

Kenneth Howard "Killer" Kearney was an Australian rugby footballer – a dual-code international player – and a rugby league coach. He represented the Wallabies in seven Tests, and the Kangaroos in thirty-one Test matches and World Cup games. He captained Australia in nine rugby league Test matches in 1956 and 1957. He was a hooker and captain-coach with the St. George Dragons in the first half of their eleven-year consecutive premiership winning run from 1956 to 1966. He is considered one of Australia's finest footballers of the 20th century.

August 18, 2006

Headlines from August 18, 2006

Marines May Have Excised Evidence on 24 Iraqi Deaths

A World Beyond Dial-Up

Merck Suffers a Pair of Setbacks Over Vioxx

Judge Finds Wiretap Actions Violate the Law

North to Canada, for an Ocean View

Billboard 200

NOW 22

Year Of The Dog...Again

Kidz Bop 10

Come What(ever) May

LeToya

Notable Deaths

Historical Context for August 18, 2006