Marion Jones is expected to plead guilty to lying to federal agents about her use of steroids, two attorneys said.

Olympic Champion Acknowledges Use of Steroids

I think my favorite time of year is right now, the moment defined by the middle of the New York Film Festival.

New York Festival Is Flavored by France

The Indians hit four home runs to crush the Yankees in Game 1 of their American League division series on Thursday. 

Yankees’ Season of Catch-Up Continues

After distancing himself from the company he founded and owns, Mayor Michael R. Bloomberg said that he talked regularly to senior executives at the firm.

Bloomberg Concedes Closer Ties to Company

The disclosure of secret legal opinions on interrogation sparked debate over whether Congress has been adequately informed of legal policies.

Debate Erupts 
on Techniques Used by C.I.A.

Marion Jones was tripped up not by a snitch, not by a drug test, but by the floppy, loose laces of her own face-saving lie. 

A Tarnished Golden Girl Can’t Outrun the Truth

Tens of thousands of nonviolent inmates taken to Rikers Island on misdemeanor charges were wrongly strip-searched in violation of a court settlement.

City to Pay Damages for Strip Searches

In an experimental program, anthropologists are paired with American combat units in Afghanistan and Iraq.

Army Enlists Anthropology in War Zones

In places like East Hampton, what's the line between visitor and citizen?  Does it still matter?

Locals vs. ‘Aways’

Walk on Charlotte Street now and you will find suburban-style ranch houses with small yet pampered front lawns. It wasn’t so 30 years ago.

In the Bronx, Blight Gave Way to Renewal

Despite some passages that crackle with original life, “Mauritius” mostly has the ersatz air of an expertly drawn blueprint on tracing paper.

Three Thugs and a Stamp Collection

Former Mayor Rudolph Giuliani often could not contain himself on his radio show while he was New York mayor.

Giuliani Pulled No Punches on the Radio

The House overwhelmingly approved a bill that would bring all U.S. government contractors in the Iraq war zone under the jurisdiction of American criminal law.

House’s Iraq Bill Applies U.S. Laws to Contractors

Senator Larry E. Craig of Idaho, defying the wishes of many in his party, said he would stay in the Senate.

Guilty Plea Stands, but Craig Won’t Quit Senate

The reputation of China Expert Technology suffers as hints of possible fraud emerge.

In China, a Rising Star Falters

In the last few years, G.E. has shown an ever-greater willingness to hook up with other companies, even if it means taking a minority position.

The Venturesome Giant

The 290-mile-long Benton MacKaye Trail is a ribbon of dirt blazed through the wildest stretches of southern Appalachia.

Appalachia’s Other Trail

Recordings showed Carol A. Gotbaum behaving erratically and then being arrested in an airport terminal in the moments before she died last Friday.

Phoenix Police Release Tapes of Gotbaum

As the economy may be starting to sputter from a weak housing market, will $80 oil begin to cause economic pain in a way that it hasn’t in nearly three decades? 

Can a Plucky U.S. Economy Surmount $80 Oil?

The verdict against a mother of two from Minnesota was a crucial victory for the recording industry in its legal effort to rein in music piracy.

Labels Win Suit Against Song Sharer

Many investors have grown increasingly impatient with the company’s less-than-stellar performance, according to people with knowledge of the search.

Sprint Nextel Is Said to Seek a New Chief

If you were a teenager in the late 1950s, and made it into a brainy place like the Bronx High School of Science, you might have paid more attention than most to an anniversary Thursday.

What Sputnik Meant to a Kid Studying Science

He doesn’t swing for the cameras anymore, and yet Alex Rodriguez is still posing even when he’s not trying to be a poser.

No Longer Trying, Rodriguez Positions Himself for Success

Dark in color, mood and outraged worldview, “Michael Clayton” is a film that speaks to the way we live now.

They Call Him the Fixer in a World That’s a Mess

An article yesterday about skepticism among some New York Democrats regarding Gov. Eliot Spitzer’s decision to allow illegal immigrants to obtain New York driver’s licenses misidentified the Democratic State Senate candidate defeated by fewer than 1,000 votes last year by Senator Serphin R. Maltese, a Queens Republican whose district has a fast-rising immigrant population. The Democratic candidate was Albert Baldeo  not Joseph P. Addabbo Jr., a New York City councilman.

October 5, 2007

Headlines from October 5, 2007

Olympic Champion Acknowledges Use of Steroids

New York Festival Is Flavored by France

Yankees’ Season of Catch-Up Continues

Bloomberg Concedes Closer Ties to Company

Debate Erupts on Techniques Used by C.I.A.

Billboard 200

Reba Duets

Graduation

Curtis

The Greatest Songs Of The Seventies

Just Who I Am: Poets & Pirates

Historical Context for October 5, 2007