The theory behind Nell Merlino’s business is that some companies started by women would thrive if they had the capital. 

A Capital Idea for Women

After smuggled images jeopardized their crackdown on demonstrators, Myanmar’s generals cut off the Internet.

Monks Are Silenced, and for Now, Internet Is, Too

As Fred D. Thompson campaigned in Iowa this week, he was something other than the dynamic presence some Republicans have been yearning for.

On Stump, Low-Key Thompson Stirs Few Sparks

With every pitch, Yankees pitcher Joba Chamberlain peels back the stereotypes of the American Indian athlete as problematic, as fearful of success, as self-loathing.

Chamberlain Offers His Tribe Hope

For star-struck Americans, a new kind of home theater.

Adding an Extra Room for the Sky

The latest hit for “Saturday Night Live” on the Internet began taking shape on Sept. 24, when Andy Samberg and a group of his colleagues on the show were sitting around their offices, scrounging for a celebrity or politician “who could really use a love song right now.”

New Video Gives ‘SNL’ Another Hit on the Web

After allowing a leadoff single, Josh Beckett retired 19 consecutive batters and suffocated an Angels team that usually does the suffocating.

Beckett Makes an Opening Statement

The marketing of the “mommy makeover” seeks to pathologize the postpartum body, characterizing pregnancy and childbirth as maladies with disfiguring aftereffects that can be repaired with the help of scalpels and cannulae.

Is the ‘Mom Job’ Really Necessary?

With billions in profits at stake, stent makers are embroiled in lawsuits in the U.S. and abroad over patents. 

Keeping Arteries Cleared and the Courts Clogged

The premiere of “30 Rock” is mostly a reminder that even the most talented actors and writers sometimes slip under pressure. Next week’s episode can and should be better. “Grey’s Anatomy” has the opposite problem.

Sophomore Jitters and Seinfeld Vision

The deal sets a timetable for North Korea to disable all of its nuclear facilities in return for economic aid.

North Koreans Agree to Disable Nuclear Facilities

An initiative on electoral votes has become a battleground for Rudolph W. Giuliani and Senator Hillary Rodham Clinton.

In Ballot Fight, California Gets a Taste of ’08

An English teacher at a high school in New Jersey has asked parents to complete assignments based on their children’s work as a way to increase parental involvement.

Spreading Homework Out So Even Parents Have Some

The three women whose complaints of discrimination at Bloomberg L.P. spurred a federal lawsuit say Mayor Michael R. Bloomberg is involved in running the company despite his public statements to the contrary.

3 Say Bloomberg Keeps Hand in Company

Nicolas Ghesquiere’s bold statement has the power to change your eye.

He Sees You in Flowers

Paramount Vantage is delaying the release of “The Kite Runner” to get its three schoolboy stars out of Kabul, Afghanistan.

‘The Kite Runner’ Is Delayed to Protect Child Stars

Despite intense lobbying, growers of fruits, vegetables and tree nuts are falling short in their goals to secure government payments in the farm bill now being debated on Capitol Hill.  

Lean Crop of Dollars

Thousands of software developers are creating features for Facebook, the fast-growing social network, many hoping to strike it rich alongside Facebook’s own employees.

In Facebook, Investing in a Theory

A 2005 Justice Department opinion provided explicit authorization to barrage terror suspects with a combination of painful physical and psychological tactics, officials said.

Secret U.S. Endorsement of Severe Interrogations

The slowdown in the housing market is endangering the city’s efforts to transition away from manufacturing.

For Baltimore, Housing Slump Slows a Revival

The firings signal that the aggressive push by Merrill’s chief executive, E. Stanley O’Neal, into riskier markets  may be coming back to haunt him.

2 Executives Are Ousted at Merrill

No subject seems to set New York Democrats’ hearts aflutter these days like the possible opening of Hillary Rodham Clinton’s seat in the United States Senate.

Wishing and Hoping for Clinton’s Seat

A low-cost computer intended to aid children in poor countries will soon be on sale here, for two weeks only.

Laptop With a Mission Widens Its Audience

Joe Torre offered no surprises Wednesday when he announced that his lineup for Game 1 will include five lefties, a problem the Yankees learned to live during the regular season.

Yankees Found Balance Amid a Lefty Lineup

There are big charities that operate like businesses, there are small mom-and-pop ones, and then there’s Joe Ravalese.

The Pasta Is Good. The Giving Is Great.

HE Major General Qassem Pasha Al-Nasser (1925–2007) was a Jordanian officer who participated in the 1948 Arab-Israeli War. He was part of many battles, such as: Latrun, Bab El-wad, and Misherem, amongst others.

October 4, 2007

Headlines from October 4, 2007

A Capital Idea for Women

Monks Are Silenced, and for Now, Internet Is, Too

On Stump, Low-Key Thompson Stirs Few Sparks

Chamberlain Offers His Tribe Hope

Adding an Extra Room for the Sky

Billboard 200

Reba Duets

Graduation

Curtis

The Greatest Songs Of The Seventies

Just Who I Am: Poets & Pirates

Notable Deaths

Historical Context for October 4, 2007