Battling shock and grief, Iola Latman greeted those who came to pay tribute to her son Nicholas T. Pekearo, who was killed with his partner in the line of duty.

A Slain Officer’s Mother Tells of Her Sad Intuition

Part of being Irish in America is a nostalgia for the old sod. And now you can buy it for a few dollars per pound. 

Pining for Irish Soil? You Can Buy It by the Bag


The gas-powered shoe is a symbol of both Russia’s deep scientific traditions and the country’s inability to convert that talent into useful merchandise.

These Boots Were Made for 22 M.P.H.

Two of the detectives were charged with second-degree manslaughter and a third with the lesser charge of reckless endangerment.

3 Detectives Are Indicted in 50-Shot Killing in Queens

Middle school teachers often lack expertise in subject matter and the mysteries of the adolescent mind.

For Teachers, Middle School Is Test of Wills

The emotional and psychological factors that caused David R. Garvin to unleash a torrent of violence on Wednesday night in Greenwich Village remain difficult to comprehend.

Greenwich Village Gunman Saw Himself as Slow to Anger, E-Mail Says

Democrats fear that the rising number of homeowners who cannot repay their mortgages could cause broader economic problems.

Lawmakers Aim to Curb Loan Abuses

The problem for both Google and Viacom is that copyright law is filled with compromises and ambiguity.

Awaiting a Compromise on YouTube

Virginia Commonwealth Coach Anthony Grant took over as coach last April under difficult circumstances after the popular Jeff Capel left suddenly but gained the trust of his team.

For V.C.U. and Its Coach, Trust Is Contagious

The presidential candidate’s racial consciousness and political curiosity appear to have begun far from Illinois.

Charisma and a Search for Self in Obama’s Hawaii Childhood

A harsh winter storm descended on the Northeast, burying parts of the region in damp snow and stranding thousands of travelers.

Delays and Dangers as Messy Storm Hits Region

Wal-Mart abruptly withdrew its application to obtain a special banking charter after a firestorm of criticism.

Wal-Mart Abandons Bank Plans

Hundreds of thousands of families who bought houses in the last two years are being expelled into rental housing.

Mortgage Trouble Clouds Homeownership Dream

The Blackstone Group is preparing for an initial public offering that could value the firm at more than $30 billion.

A Titan of Private Equity May Go Public

Iranian goods are flooding Iraqi markets and Iraqi cities are looking to Iran for basic services.

Iran Is Playing a Growing Role in Iraq Economy

A picture caption on March 4 with an article about Leroy Nicholas Barnes  a former heroin dealer from Harlem who is the subject of “Mr. Untouchable,” a book and a documentary  carried incorrect information from the producer of the film about the photograph. Mr. Barnes and Marc Levin, the film’s director, were seated at a chessboard; they were not playing chess because the board was rotated 90 degrees from its proper orientation. (The producer, who supplied the picture, said the board was set up that way to get the best images of Mr. Barnes’s hands on the chessboard.).

Corrections: For the Record

Corrections

A front-page article yesterday about the contents of e-mail messages sent by government officials concerning the dismissals of United States attorneys misspelled the surname of a former White House lawyer who received one of the e-mails. He is David Leitch, not Leatch.

An article yesterday about disputes between Singapore and its neighbors referred incorrectly to an article in the newspaper Business Times that proposed that the government create a charitable foundation to go with its investment activities in the region. The article was a bylined column by Vikram Khanna, associate editor; it was not an editorial representing the views of the newspaper.

After a week of mounting tension in southeast Queens, the news that three officers would face criminal charges in the shooting of Sean Bell came as a relief to Bishop Erskine Williams. He heard it on television yesterday afternoon and could not stop smiling.

Where Victim Was at Home, Indictments Bring Relief

Because of an editing error, an article on Thursday about a convicted killer pleading guilty to a second murder for which another man had served 16 years in prison before being exonerated omitted the given name of a spokesman for Janet DiFiore, the Westchester County district attorney. He is Lucian Chalfen.

An article in the Circuits pages of Business Day on Thursday about using cellphones overseas misstated the charge to T-Mobile USA customers for placing a call in Britain. It is 99 cents a minute, not $1.99. The article also referred incorrectly to the status of CDMA cellphone technology in Australia. While CDMA phones from American carriers do not operate there, other CDMA phones are in use; they are not “basically nonexistent.” And the article also referred incompletely to a source of low rates for calls from Britain. The rates  26 cents a minute for local calls and 9 to 14 cents a minute for calls to the United States  are available with use of a SIM card sold by Telestial.

Investors this week showed that while they are still ready to sell at a moment’s notice, they remain unpredictable.

Fickle Investors Bobbing in Sea of Subprime Loans

A front-page article last Saturday about the shared grief of Muslim Malian immigrants in New York following a fire that killed members of two families misspelled the surname of the owner of Makbarat As-Salaam, a cemetery in Millstone, N.J., where some of the victims were eventually buried. He is Anthony Suleiman Sparno, not Spano. (Mr. Sparno, known as Tony, also uses Suleiman as a surname.).

The former business partner of Conrad M. Black settled a case over funds that regulators say were fraudulently diverted from Hollinger International.

Black’s Ex-Partner Pays $29 Million to Settle Civil Case

John Warner Backus  was an American computer scientist. He led the team that invented and implemented FORTRAN, the first widely used high-level programming language, and was the inventor of the Backus–Naur form (BNF), a widely used notation to define syntaxes of formal languages. He later did research into the function-level programming paradigm, presenting his findings in his influential 1977 Turing Award lecture "Can Programming Be Liberated from the von Neumann Style?"

March 17, 2007

Headlines from March 17, 2007

A Slain Officer’s Mother Tells of Her Sad Intuition

Pining for Irish Soil? You Can Buy It by the Bag

These Boots Were Made for 22 M.P.H.

3 Detectives Are Indicted in 50-Shot Killing in Queens

For Teachers, Middle School Is Test of Wills

Billboard 200

Daughtry

Not Too Late

Konvicted

Infinity On High

The Evolution Of Robin Thicke

Notable Deaths

Historical Context for March 17, 2007