Caught off guard by the fight over Michael B. Mukasey, the White House has begun a campaign to salvage his candidacy.

Bush, Defending Justice Nominee, Sees Unfairness

After the 2005 transit strike, a judge took away a powerful money-raising tool from the Transport Workers Union, but now the Metropolitan Transportation Authority is urging its restoration.

M.T.A. Asks for Restoration of Automatic Dues Payment

As funds to restore beach sand have become increasingly scarce, Atlantic and Gulf Coast communities are having to develop their own solutions.

As Beaches Erode, So Do Solutions

Many investors appeared to have second thoughts about their first reaction to the Fed’s move to lower rates.

In Wild Swing, Stocks Give Up Rate-Cut Gains

Greatness hovers just outside “American Gangster,” knocking, angling to be let in.

Sweet, Bloody Smell of Success

The Jaguars’ Fred Taylor, who once worried that his career would not be complete without a Pro Bowl appearance, now looks to his family for fulfillment. 

Fatherhood Puts Game in Perspective

Martina Hingis, a five-time Grand Slam singles champion, said her decision to retire from tennis was linked to a positive drug test at Wimbledon this year.

Drug Test Hastens Retirement for Hingis

The sensational quadruple-murder case was a tempting career-maker, but it also came with warning signs.

How the Murder Case Against a Former F.B.I. Supervisor Collapsed

Thursday’s cuts, together with a previously announced elimination of 13,000 positions, represent a 30 percent reduction in Chrysler’s 2006 work force.

Job Cuts at Chrysler Go Even Deeper Than Expected

If Joe Girardi doesn’t win fast enough as the new manager of the Yankees, the man he beat out for the job will be waiting in the wings.

Girardi’s Introduction Starts the Clock Ticking

Linda Stein, the punk-rock manager turned real estate broker, was a vibrant and volatile person who aroused strong and often contradictory feelings in those who knew her.

A Slain Broker Is Recalled as a Loyal Friend With Nerve

An internal battle at Affiliated Computer Services highlights the tensions that can occur when a founder or chief executive leads a deal to acquire a company.

A Bitter Rift When a Boss Is the Buyer

In an interview, Senator Barack Obama said that forging a new relationship with Iran would be part of his effort to stabilize Iraq.

Obama Envisions New Iran Approach

Sunday’s battle between the undefeated Colts and Patriots will be the latest example of how competition and rivalries in the N.F.L. motivate teams to adapt and improve.

Blame the Colts for the New-Look Patriots

The Israeli economy has adjusted in surprising ways to the market power of the ultra-Orthodox community.

A Modern Marketplace for Israel’s Ultra-Orthodox

Seven years into an $8 billion effort to rescue the Florida Everglades, federal financing has slowed to a trickle.

Effort to Save Everglades Falters as Funds Drop

As oil approaches $100 a barrel, there is plenty of incentive to find more American oil, but even with new investment, the nation’s oil fields are mostly tapped out.

Tapped Out, but Hopeful: A Break in Texas’s Oil Decline

Every financial disaster deserves a scapegoat.  This time it could be the credit rating agencies. 

Being Kept in the Dark on Wall Street

On the foodie trail in the Hill Country it still is not unusual to speak of slabs instead of slices.

Texas Haute Country

For the first time, heavy fighting has moved beyond Pakistan’s tribal fringe and into more settled areas.

Militants Draw New Front Line Inside Pakistan

In driving the route of the ING New York City Marathon, issues of traffic congestion emerge.

Taking the Measure of the City’s Streets: Some Do It by Foot, Others by Car

David Leveaux’s disarming revival, starring Kevin Kline and Jennifer Garner, is sweet but surprisingly potent. 

Rapier Wit and a Nose for Poetry

Saugerties, N.Y., near the Catskills, is best explored from a 19th-century lighthouse bed-and-breakfast on the river.

Spending the Night Under the Lighthouse Beacon on the Hudson

The most genuinely apian aspect of “Bee Movie” is that it spends a lot of its running time buzzing happily around, sniffing out fresh jokes wherever they may bloom.

A Drone No More: No Hive for Him!

Because of an editing error, an article on Oct. 11 about a meeting on climate change attended by Nobel Prize laureates noted for their environmental work misstated the position of the United States on the Kyoto Protocol, the international treaty aimed at fighting global warming. It was signed by the United States but not ratified by the Senate; the United States did not refuse to sign the treaty.

Correction: For the Record

Charmaine Margaret Dragun was an Australian broadcast journalist and presenter. She was a co-anchor on Ten Eyewitness News. Dragun, who had been diagnosed with depression and had a history of anorexia, committed suicide in 2007.

Charmaine Dragun, Australian journalist (born 1978)

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Igor Aleksandrovich Moiseyev was a Soviet and Russian ballet master, dancer, choreographer and pedagogue. Moiseyev was widely acclaimed as the greatest 20th-century choreographer of character dance, a dance style similar to folk dance but with more professionalism and theatrics.

Igor Moiseyev, Russian dancer and choreographer (born 1906)

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Mary Lillian Ellison was an American professional wrestler, promoter and trainer better known by her ring name The Fabulous Moolah.

November 2, 2007

Headlines from November 2, 2007

Bush, Defending Justice Nominee, Sees Unfairness

M.T.A. Asks for Restoration of Automatic Dues Payment

As Beaches Erode, So Do Solutions

In Wild Swing, Stocks Give Up Rate-Cut Gains

Sweet, Bloody Smell of Success

Billboard 200

Magic

Rock N Roll Jesus

Still Feels Good

Noel

Chase This Light

Notable Deaths

Historical Context for November 2, 2007