Going into Game 6 of the American League Championship Series on Saturday, the Red Sox, fresh off a victory, are acting a lot looser.

With the Series a Little Tighter, the Red Sox Are Feeling Loose

Stocks plunged to their lowest level in a month, capping a week of poor earnings reports, particularly at large banks.

Markets Slide as Wall Street Sees Signs of Trouble

The violence upon Benazir Bhutto’s return has raised questions about whether a tenuous power-sharing deal with President Pervez Musharraf can survive.

Backstage, U.S. Nurtured Pakistan Rivals’ Deal

The world’s leading finance ministers called Friday for a joint effort to set up guidelines for government-owned investment funds.

Rules Urged to Govern Investing by Nations

Though candidates suggest adapting the health care program that covers Congress and offering it to millions of uninsured Americans, such a plan would be unlikely to cut costs.

Health Plan Used by U.S. Is Debated as a Model

Joe Torre rejected the Yankees’ contract offer on Thursday, but in a news conference at the Hilton Rye Town on Friday he said he felt rejected by them.

Torre Says Yankees’ Offer Showed Lack of Trust

The opposition leader Benazir Bhutto said she had warned the Pakistani government that suicide bomb squads were going to go after her on her return to the country.

After Bombing, Bhutto Assails Officials’ Ties

No one could have predicted a decade or so ago that the Devils would be the first team in the New York-New Jersey market to have a new arena or stadium.

Devils Win the Race to Be First

The attorney general nominee gave senators direct answers, but his view of presidential power is perfectly aligned with that of the Bush administration.

Plainly, a Justice Department Pick of Like Mind

Japanese fashion designers are devising a variety of novel solutions that they hope will ease growing fears of crime.

Fearing Crime, Japanese Wear the Hiding Place

Gonzalo Sanchez fell five stories from the side of a town house on 186th Street on Friday. Contrary to what his boss says, it was a big deal.

Construction Booms, and Gonzalo Takes a Fall

In a raucous, almost Dickensian hearing at a Manhattan courtroom, dozens of claimants picked at the chaos that once was the glorious Salander-O’Reilly Galleries. 

Art Gallery Is Target as Dozens Go to Court

The powerful explosion was apparently the fault of vagrants who broke into a new house in Irvington, N.J., to steal pipes for scrap and severed a natural gas line. 

Explosion Levels 2 Buildings in New Jersey, Killing 1 and Injuring 4

Other Yankees managers shouted publicly about George Steinbrenner, but Joe Torre was too smart for that. 

Torre Could Manage Yankees and Steinbrenner

Dismay with the kind of work that has often been honored by the Nobel prize in economics has led even a couple of its winners to suggest it be abolished.

The Prize That Even Some Laureates Question

A new cable channel, run by Roger Ailes, makes its debut.

Ready or Not, Here Comes the Fox Business Network

After rebuffing complaints about a building project for a year and a half, the Buildings Department reversed its stance, and now says it never should have been approved. 

City Overlooked Building Flaws in Brooklyn Condo Project

An increasingly vocal and potent anti-coal movement in the West includes ranchers, farmers and religious groups.

Fight Against Coal Plants Draws Diverse Partners

A ban could transform the way parents cope with the most common illness in young children, but drug makers said they would fight the recommendations.

F.D.A. Panel Urges Ban on Medicine for Child Colds

An article on Wednesday about a proposal to simplify the military disability system misstated which members of the military would be served by the new system. The plan would cover all service members who apply for disability benefits once the new system is in place, and service members in the existing system who were severely wounded in Afghanistan and Iraq after October 2001. It would not apply “only to veterans who entered the military after October 2001.”.

Corrections: For the Record

ESPN did not offer details about what the veteran columnist will do for the company.

Rick Reilly to Leave Sports Illustrated for ESPN

A federal appeals court overturned a decision to dismiss a lawsuit against the F.B.I. by an Egyptian student who was detained for 34 days shortly after 9/11. 

Lawsuit Is Reinstated for Man Wrongly Suspected in 9/11

A picture caption on Thursday with an article about a renewed dispute in the Pacific Northwest over spotted owls misspelled the surname of a woman shown measuring a Douglas fir. She is Chandra LeGue, not LaGue.

An article in some editions on Thursday about the fatal shooting of a convenience store owner in Irvington, N.J., gave an erroneous spelling from prosecutors for his given name and included incorrect details from witnesses and the mayor about an incident involving an armed man that took place in the store several hours before the shooting. (The misspelled name also appeared in a picture caption.) The victim was Dewight Cousar, not Dwight. The incident, originally reported as a robbery, might in fact have been only an attempted robbery, according to a law enforcement official, citing contradictory reports as to whether anything had been stolen. The man was armed with a knife, not a gun, and Mr. Cousar was not in fact in the store at the time.

The TV Watch column in Weekend yesterday, about the season finales of “Mad Men” and “Damages,” misstated the day that the FX network will show past episodes of “Damages.” It is today, from 8 a.m. to 8 p.m.; the past episodes were not shown on Friday. (“Mad Men” ended its season on Thursday; “Damages” will have its finale on Tuesday.).

William Max McGee was an American professional football player who was an end and punter for the Green Bay Packers of the National Football League (NFL) from 1954 to 1967. He is best known for his seven receptions for 138 yards and two touchdowns, scoring the now historical initial touchdown, in the first Super Bowl.

October 20, 2007

Headlines from October 20, 2007

With the Series a Little Tighter, the Red Sox Are Feeling Loose

Markets Slide as Wall Street Sees Signs of Trouble

Backstage, U.S. Nurtured Pakistan Rivals’ Deal

Rules Urged to Govern Investing by Nations

Health Plan Used by U.S. Is Debated as a Model

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Exile On Mainstream

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