At this point, it is still more wishful thinking than fact to label Eddy Curry the eventual centerpiece for a serious playoff team.

Knicks’ Hopes Are Shaky in Middle

At the New York International Auto Show, doors swing open to reveal push-button starters — no key necessary.

Car Keys Could Go the Way of Tail Fins

The chairman of a state commission that oversees judges has been given a vote of no confidence by the commission for helping to write a book they said is racially and ethnically inflammatory.

Lawyer Attacked for Book His Panel Deems Offensive

Saturday afternoon’s game in Cleveland could be subjected to the same kind of weather that hamstrung the Indians last weekend, when their entire four-game series against Seattle was snowed out.

Wintry Conditions Have Interfered With a Rite of Spring

Critics say the V-22 Osprey’s limitations may make it vulnerable to attack.

Combat, With Limits, Looms for Hybrid Aircraft

An interim approach to total hip replacement is offering an alternative that still leaves open the possibility of successfully receiving an artificial hip later in life.

Hip Surgery With a Future

A Justice Department message appears to be at odds with officials’ repeated statements that no successors were selected before several U.S. attorneys were dismissed.

E-Mail Identified G.O.P. Candidates for Justice Jobs

With its billowing sheets of curved glass, its partly white windows, and the world’s largest high-def screen in its  expansive lobby, the new headquarters of IAC is unlike anything in Manhattan.

A Building for Diller by Gehry

Comcast is warning its customers to limit their bandwidth or face a one-year termination of service.

Say Good Night, Bandwidth Hog

At its core, the fight is about President Bush and his tumultuous relationship with the rest of the world.

Wolfowitz Fight Has Subplot


Someone broke into the room where the Staten Island Liberian Community Association runs a weekly food pantry and stole a month’s worth of provisions.

Theft Empties Pantry, but Hungry Keep Coming

Self-effacing and plain-spoken, but blessed with a cutting-edge sense of humor, Richard J. Codey, 59, is a warmly regarded politician in New Jersey.

In Charge Again, Codey Plans No Surprises

For her classmates, Hillary Rodham Clinton’s quest to become the first female president is a generational mirror.

Wellesley Class Sees ‘One of Us’ Bearing Standard

A weakening economy is getting some relief from abroad as American companies step up their sales to foreigners, the latest data, released Friday, suggests.

Sales Abroad Propping Up the Economy

After a devastating car crash, Gov. Jon S. Corzine of New Jersey is to undergo more operations, one today and another on Monday.

Corzine Facing Severe Hurdles in Intensive Care

The effort by DaimlerChrysler to find a buyer for Chrysler is becoming a drawn-out, complicated process beset by issues including debt, health costs and unions. 

Guardedly Kicking the Tires on Chrysler

A triple-double from Jason Kidd pushed the Nets to a victory over the Knicks. They later clinched a playoff berth when the Indiana Pacers lost to the Miami Heat.

Kidd and Nets Seal Knicks’ Fate and Clinch Berth

Google agreed to its largest acquisition Friday, reaching a deal to purchase DoubleClick for almost double what it paid for YouTube last year.

Google Buys an Online Ad Firm for $3.1 Billion

The software company accused its founder of masterminding a huge accounting fraud.

CA Says Its Founder Aided Fraud

Carl Pavano, who missed most of the last two seasons with a variety of ailments, will miss his start on Saturday with stiffness in his right arm.

More Aches and Pains: Now Pavano Will Miss Start

By most appearances, goaltender Rick DiPietro is ready to return to the net Saturday night for Game 2 of the Islanders’ playoff series against the Buffalo Sabres.

Isles to Wait Until Game Time to Decide if DiPietro Will Play

An article in The Arts on Wednesday about an exhibition of Roman mosaics from Tunisia at the Getty Villa in Pacific Palisades, Calif., misstated the date of the battle of Thapsus, in which Julius Caesar ensured Roman control of North Africa. It took place in 46 B.C., not 47 B.C. Because of an editing error, the article also misidentified the commander of Caesar’s opponents. They were led by Pompey’s father-in-law, not by Pompey, who had been murdered.

Correction: For the Record

An article in The Arts on Thursday about a dispute in which Alan Dershowitz, the Harvard law professor, is trying to block Norman Finkelstein, a political science professor, from gaining tenure at DePaul University in Chicago included an incorrect reference to DePaul that Mr. Finkelstein attributed to a dean there who opposes tenure for him. While DePaul is a Roman Catholic university, it is not Jesuit, and Mr. Finkelstein acknowledges that the dean, Charles Suchar, did not say that it is. The article also misstated Mr. Suchar’s middle initial. It is S, not E.

A dance review on April 2 about “Colors of Rajasthan” at Symphony Space in Manhattan, citing information in the program, misidentified the musician who played the wooden blocks. He was Bhawroo Khan Langa, not Habib Khan Langa. (Habib Khan Langa played the bowed lute and double flute.).

An obituary on Friday and in some copies on Thursday about the writer Kurt Vonnegut referred incorrectly to the military role of the character Billy Pilgrim in the Vonnegut novel “Slaughterhouse-Five, or The Children’s Crusade,” set in Europe during World War II. Pilgrim was a chaplain’s assistant, not an infantry scout, although he encounters scouts in his travels and joins up with them.

Donald Tai Loy Ho was a Hawaiian traditional pop musician, singer, and entertainer. He is best known for the song "Tiny Bubbles" from the 1966 album of the same name.

Don Ho, American singer and ukulele player (born 1930)

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René Rémond was a French historian, political scientist and political economist.

April 14, 2007

Headlines from April 14, 2007

Knicks’ Hopes Are Shaky in Middle

Car Keys Could Go the Way of Tail Fins

Lawyer Attacked for Book His Panel Deems Offensive

Wintry Conditions Have Interfered With a Rite of Spring

Combat, With Limits, Looms for Hybrid Aircraft

Billboard 200

Let It Go

NOW 24

Buck The World

Music Is My Savior

Konvicted

Notable Deaths

Historical Context for April 14, 2007