A mother’s separation from a breast-feeding child, a U.S. citizen, has prompted changes to immigration guidelines.

Immigration Quandary: A Mother Torn From Her Baby

Do recent walkouts at the auto unions, on Broadway and in Hollywood portend a resurgence of labor, even a new union militancy?

On Strike to Protect the Gains of the Past, With an Eye on the Future

The case against Derek Jeter shows how tax officials build a case against someone who files a tax return as a nonresident while keeping an apartment in New York. 

Tax Inquiries Can Combine Guesswork and Digging

Three days after he stormed away in a fit over losing his starting job, Knicks guard Stephon Marbury sounded like a different person.

Marbury Says He Is Willing to Accept Role as a Backup

For all the dour economic predictions, Americans will still mob the malls this holiday shopping season in search of the right gift at the right price. Here’s a guide to five likely trends.

Shopping Bargains Before the First Bite of Turkey

Smith is still the most common American surname, but for the first time, two Hispanic names are in the top 10.

In U.S. Name Count, Garcias Are Catching Up With Joneses

Kmart said that it would remove all jewelry advertised as “lead free” after it was found that some pieces contained high concentrations of the metal.

Kmart Items Marked Safe Had Lead

A defense lawyer for Barry Bonds and two outside legal experts raised questions Friday about the timing of the perjury indictment against the former San Francisco Giants slugger.

Timing of Bonds’s Indictment Feeds Speculation

Importing bushmeat from Africa is a thriving trade by all accounts, but a federal case in Brooklyn may put someone in prison for doing so. 

A Taste of Baboon and Monkey Meat, and Maybe of Prison, Too

Venezuela seems likely to start an extraordinary experiment in centralized, oil-fueled socialism.

Chávez’s Vision Shares Wealth and Centers Power

Is a mass tort really the right mechanism to settle disputes about product safety, or to punish corporate wrongdoing?

Forget Fair; It’s Litigation as Usual

A story of two brothers with ties to the security contractor involves estrangement and a potential conflict of interest.

Brothers, Bad Blood and the Blackwater Tangle

The slow response by New York health officials to a case where patients were at risk for hepatitis opens a window into a debate over how to regulate doctors who endanger public health. 

A Health Dept.’s Quandary: Warn the Public or Supervise the Doctor?

For as little as $1,000 and a saliva sample, customers of an infant industry will be able to learn what is known about how their biological code shapes who they are.

My Genome, Myself: Seeking Clues in DNA

Noah Van Niel, Harvard’s bruising 250-pound fullback, has established himself as a promising operatic tenor.

Football Bruiser With Pavarotti Dream

In its final and most powerful report, an international panel details mounting risks in specific and forceful language, scientists said.

U.N. Report Describes Risks of Inaction on Climate Change

As news of Barry Bonds’s indictment spread, handicapping a likely trial and predicting possible strategies became popular throughout the nation’s law schools.

Prosecution’s Best Pitch Is Precision, Experts Say

On Saturday night, 30 women on two teams will compete for the championship of the Gotham Girls Roller Derby, in the Holman gymnasium at City College.

When Their Alter Egos Come Out to Play

The Knicks (2-6) are now 0-3 on a trip that concludes Saturday night in Denver, where the air is thin and the opponent is supremely talented.

Knicks Fall in Double Overtime, Stretching Losing Streak to Five

Although NBC Universal is interested in striking a deal, it wants DreamWorks to find outside financing to make its movies, which Universal could then distribute.

Discontented, DreamWorks Is in Talks to Join NBC

An article in some editions on Nov. 1 about the death of Linda S. Stein, a Manhattan real estate agent and a pioneer of the punk music scene during her marriage to Seymour Stein, the founder of Sire Records, attributed an erroneous distinction to him. Although several publications say Mr. Stein was the creator of the Billboard Top 100 music charts, now known as the Hot 100, they were in fact created by Tom Noonan, Mr. Stein’s boss at the time. The caption for a picture in some editions showing Ms. Stein and some of her music industry associates in 1979 misstated the surname of the wife of the musician Dee Dee Ramone. She is Vera Ramone, not March. 

Corrections: For the Record

Giants middle linebacker Antonio Pierce practiced Friday for the first time since sustaining a mild concussion last Sunday.

Pierce Says He Is Ready to Play

An entry in the Spare Times for Children listing in Weekend yesterday about “The Cat Who Went to Heaven,” a puppet musical at Culture Project, in SoHo, included outdated schedule information. After the section went to press, Culture Project said the production, scheduled to open today, had been postponed indefinitely.

Corrections

Don Garber, the commissioner of Major League Soccer, has helped to transform the soccer landscape with a broad growth plan for the league.

Hoping (Dreaming?) of Soccer as National Pastime

Martha Palomino is still haunted by the violence that killed her husband and drove her from Colombia. 

Finding Her Haven From Terror, a Continent Away

Aarne Hermlin was an Estonian chess player who won the Estonian Chess Championship. He was awarded the title of International Correspondence Chess Master in 1986 and of FIDE Master in 1992.

November 17, 2007

Headlines from November 17, 2007

Immigration Quandary: A Mother Torn From Her Baby

On Strike to Protect the Gains of the Past, With an Eye on the Future

Tax Inquiries Can Combine Guesswork and Digging

Marbury Says He Is Willing to Accept Role as a Backup

Shopping Bargains Before the First Bite of Turkey

Billboard 200

Long Road Out Of Eden

Blackout

Carnival Ride

Avenged Sevenfold

Everything Is Fine

Notable Deaths

Historical Context for November 17, 2007