A still-unsettled town chooses a defiant mascot and returns to the field in the wake of Hurricane Katrina.  

Where Katrina Lingers, Football Is a Refuge

The marriage of Warren E. Buffett to his longtime companion had the financial world abuzz, even if it did not move markets.

How Does Warren Buffett Get Married? Frugally, It Turns Out

The NASA decision is likely to change the dynamics of the space business, setting Lockheed up to be the dominant player in space exploration.

Lockheed Wins Job of Building Next Spaceship

The recent wave of apologies from politicians has been remarkable in its frequency and sweep.

Voters Hearing Countless Ways of Saying ‘Sorry’

Players are either thinfully sick or sinfully thin as they live through peer comparisons with the Arm & Hammer biceps of Rafael Nadal or the willowy elegance of Maria Sharapova.

Thin Line Between Fabulous and Flabulous

China is abandoning the Marxist template that has dominated the nation’s history textbooks since the 1950’s.

Where’s Mao? Chinese Revise History Books

The Bloomberg administration said it had discounted its offer based on the cost of building a platform for the development over the railyards.

Appraisal Puts West Side Railyards’ Value at 3 Times the City’s Offer

In early 2002, Brooke Astor’s son, Anthony D. Marshall, sold one of her favorite paintings for about $10 million, and took a $2 million commission. 

Astor Painting Becomes Focus of Courtroom Battle

For more than 30 years, the Ristuccias have summered in a house their father built. It is now for sale.

The Last Summer

Two state troopers were shot and critically injured last night in western New York, and the police said their main suspect is a fugitive who broke out of jail in April.

Two Troopers Are Shot Upstate, and Fugitive Is the Main Suspect

President Bush cast the struggle against Islamic extremists as the successor to the battles against Nazism and Communism.

In Latest Push, Bush Cites Risk in Quitting Iraq

It was only after his five-set battle against Marcos Baghdatis that Andre Agassi looked vulnerable.

After Five Sets, Agassi Is the One Standing

Few sights are more endearing than that of elected officials holding forth on matters thoroughly beyond their control.

A Reality That Reflects Some Current Priorities

Mariano Rivera secured the final three outs after Randy Johnson worked the first eight innings to improve to 15-10.

Pain Subsides When Rivera Gets Call in 9th

While high-tech companies have lined up behind the state’s recent pledge to curb carbon emissions, some in basic industries say it will force energy-intensive businesses out of state.

California Plan to Cut Gases Splits Industry

Baby boomers may be known as the generation that took it all, leaving their successors to take on the risks they did not have to accept for themselves.

If Boomers Have It All, What’s Left?

Lost in the hype of Yosemite and Sequoia is the national park between them: Kings Canyon, the least overrun and pretty much unchanged for the last four decades.

Western Grandeur Without the Crowds

In a patent dispute, a federal judge ordered a Canadian company to stop distributing its generic version of the anticlotting drug Plavix.

Generic of Plavix Is Blocked

For decades, India focused on its domestic economy and grew more slowly. But all that is starting to change.

A Younger India Is Flexing Its Industrial Brawn

For lower-income mothers, breast-feeding, and the pumping it requires, is close to impossible at work.

On the Job, Nursing Mothers Find a 2-Class System

New York State Troopers Joseph Longobardo and Donald Baker are shot and wounded near Fredonia, NY, while searching for fugitive Ralph Phillips, who has been at large since escaping from Erie County Correctional Facility on April 2; Phillips is accused of shooting and seriously wounding state trooper during traffic stop in Elmira, NY, in June; photos (M)

These are sorry days in American politics.     The Maryland comptroller, William Donald Schaefer, a former governor and Baltimore mayor, released a radio advertisement on Wednesday in which he apologized to anyone he had offended in his 50-year career, sins that ranged from ogling a woman at a public meeting to complaining that immigrants were not learning English fast enough.  

India's economic advancement no longer rests on telephone call centers and computer programmers.     Among villages with thatch-roofed huts and dirt roads on the outskirts of this city in central India, John Deere and LG Electronics have recently built factories turning out tractors and color television sets for sale in India and for export to the United States.  

Questions about $10 million sale of 1917 Childe Hassam painting belonging to Brooke Astor by her son Anthony D Marshall are added to unfolding legal dispute over Astor's financial affairs; Marshall, who took 20 percent commission on deal with Gerald Peters Gallery, says his mother approved of both sale and commission; photos (M)

 Highly Enriched Uranium Found at Iranian Plant  The International Atomic Energy Agency reported that inspectors had discovered traces of highly enriched uranium at an Iranian facility. The origin of the uranium was unclear, but the finding raises questions about whether Iran is pursuing nuclear weapons.   PAGE A10    Two State Troopers Shot  Two state troopers were shot in an area of western New York where the police have been looking for a fugitive who broke out of jail.   PAGE B1    F.B.I. Got Data on Students  The Education Department shared personal information on student loan applicants with the F.B.I. after the Sept. 11 terrorist attacks.   PAGE A11    Munch Paintings Recovered  Edvard Munch's paintings ''The Scream'' (below) and ''Madonna,'' which armed robbers ripped from a wall of the Munch Museum in Oslo two years ago, were recovered in Norway. An Oslo police official said the damage to the paintings was ''far from what we really could have feared.'' The case, however, remains unsolved.   WEEKEND, PAGE E3    Judge Blocks Generic Plavix  Acting in a patent dispute, a federal judge ordered a Canadian company to stop distributing its generic version of the blockbuster anti-clotting drug Plavix, giving a reprieve to Bristol-Myers Squibb and Sanofi-Aventis.   BUSINESS DAY, PAGE C1

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György Faludy, sometimes anglicized as George Faludy, was a Hungarian poet, writer and translator.

György Faludy, Hungarian author and poet (born 1910)

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Warren J. Mitofsky was an American political pollster.

Warren Mitofsky, American journalist (born 1934)

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Robert E. O'Connor Jr. was an American politician who was the Mayor of Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania from January 3, 2006, until his death.

Bob O'Connor, American businessman and politician, 57th Mayor of Pittsburgh (born 1944)

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Sir John Kyffin Williams, was a Welsh landscape painter who lived at Pwllfanogl, Llanfairpwll, on the Island of Anglesey. Williams is widely regarded as the defining artist of Wales during the 20th century.

September 1, 2006

Headlines from September 1, 2006

Where Katrina Lingers, Football Is a Refuge

How Does Warren Buffett Get Married? Frugally, It Turns Out

Lockheed Wins Job of Building Next Spaceship

Voters Hearing Countless Ways of Saying ‘Sorry’

Thin Line Between Fabulous and Flabulous

Billboard 200

Back To Basics

The Phoenix

Dangerous Man

Unappreciated

The Cheetah Girls 2

Notable Deaths

Historical Context for September 1, 2006