The strangling death of the coach of Pakistan’s national cricket team has gained the world’s attention.

Suspicions Turn to Cricket’s Dark Side

The meeting, 10 days before the ousters of seven U.S. attorneys, appeared to contradict the attorney general’s previous statements on the subject.

Gonzales Met With Advisers on Dismissals

Carla Katz, a former companion of Gov. Jon S. Corzine of New Jersey, never replied to a formal request in 2005 that she disclose any gifts of value.

Union Chief Didn’t Detail Corzine Gifts

John Edwards’s decision to continue his bid to be the Democratic nominee for president despite his wife’s illness raises questions of love and ambition.

Public Takes Up Pros and Cons of Edwards Bid

Refund anticipation loans, the money-making service provided by tax preparers, appear to be falling on hard times.

Tax Loans Are Losing Some Allure

A judge in the State Supreme Court in Manhattan gave the maximum sentence to Paul Cortez, after hearing from the father of a murdered dancer.

Actor Receives 25 Years to Life in ’05 Murder

Doctors say the soaring cost of new vaccines makes it difficult for them to buy the shots they give their patients.

Pediatricians Voice Anger Over Costs of Vaccines

Democratic leaders said they acted on overriding American sentiment to change course in Iraq.

House, 218 to 212, Votes to Set Date for Iraq Pullout

With 2.5 seconds left, Jeff Green delivered a shot high off the glass from the right side of the lane that gave Georgetown a victory over Vanderbilt Friday night. 

Hoyas’ Past Is Becoming Present

Even if Barclays and ABN fail to combine, the talks may help start a round of cross-border banking mergers in Europe.

Europeans Are Kicking Off a Quiet Revolution in Worldwide Banking

A high school principal in Wilton, Conn., canceled a play written by students, citing questions of political balance and context.

Play About Iraq War Divides a Connecticut School

For the second straight night, the Knicks looked thoroughly disjointed as they scored a season-low 68 points and are now a season-high nine games below .500.

Knicks Hit New Low and May Go Further

Lawyers in the fen-phen case defrauded their clients and kept the bulk of the money for themselves, a judge ruled.

Fraud Inquiry Looks at Lawyers in Diet-Drug Case

Switzerland’s banks can now be found throughout the world, selling more sophisticated investment vehicles to attract high-net-worth individuals.

Discreet Swiss Banks Now Offering Sophisticated Investment Vehicles

Many analysts are questioning why South Africa has taken some incongruous positions on human rights issues.

South Africa Lowers Voice on Human Rights

U.C.L.A. guard Darren Collison, whose parents were world-class sprinters from Guyana, may be the only Bruin who can keep up with the up-tempo Kansas Jayhawks.

As Mother Looks On, Bruins Guard Sprints Toward Final Four

The young, gifted Tar Heels are capable of exploding at any moment, and that was what they did Friday night as they roared back from a 16-point second-half deficit.

Explosive Tar Heels Rally to Win

A 2003 tax cut includes a provision that has given some foreign companies a financial advantage over their U.S. competitors.

Foreigners Get Benefit of Tax Cut

In 1949, 10 prototype subway cars for the Second Avenue line were delivered to the New York Board of Transportation, but the line was never completed.

A Museum-Quality Car for a Subway Yet Unbuilt

An article on Thursday about questions raised by Senator Hillary Rodham Clinton’s presidential campaign about the consistency of Senator Barack Obama’s opposition to the Iraq war incorrectly rendered a statement by Bill Burton, a spokesman for Mr. Obama. Mr. Burton said that it was Mr. Obama who would not comment on a hypothetical question about how he might have voted on the resolution authorizing the war had he been in the Senate in 2002. Mr. Burton did not say that he, as a spokesman, would not comment on that hypothetical question.

Corrections: For the Record

A report in the Extra Time soccer roundup on Wednesday, about United States national team preparations for friendly matches, misidentified one team member’s professional affiliation. Jonathan Spector plays for West Ham United in the English Premier League  not for Charlton. (He played for that English Premier League team last season.).

The Italian utility Enel and the Spanish construction conglomerate Acciona said they were working on a bid for the Spanish utility Endesa.

Another Group May Bid for Spanish Utility

Florida was not stylish, but the Gators were too experienced, too talented and too poised to lose to Butler Friday night as they advanced to the Midwest Regional final.

Florida Proves Too Tall and Too Much for Butler

An obituary yesterday about Tanya Reinhart, an Israeli linguist and critic of her country’s policies toward the Palestinians, misstated her birth year. It was 1943, not 1944. (As the obituary correctly noted, she was 63.).

Naomi Campbell, the millionaire fashion model, emerged from a grimy Department of Sanitation garage in a floor-length evening gown, marking the end of her court-ordered community service.

After 5 Days of Mopping and Scrubbing, What Else Would a Model Wear?

Shripad Narayan Pendse was a Marathi writer.

March 24, 2007

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Suspicions Turn to Cricket’s Dark Side

Gonzales Met With Advisers on Dismissals

Union Chief Didn’t Detail Corzine Gifts

Public Takes Up Pros and Cons of Edwards Bid

Tax Loans Are Losing Some Allure

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