Eddy Curry was not benched in his hometown Friday night and thus avoided one major indignity. But he appears to have lost some of his coach’s faith, which may be a greater long-term concern.

Criticism of Curry Comes From a Big Fan

A pick-up in prices will complicate efforts by the Federal Reserve as it tries to stave off a slowdown in economic growth.

Adding to the List of Worries, Signs That Inflation Is Bubbling Up

The Ethiopian government, a top U.S. ally, is said to be forcing teachers, doctors and aid workers to fight rebels.

Ethiopians Said to Push Civilians Into Rebel War

The Justice Department said a House investigation into the destruction of interrogation videotapes presented “significant risks” to its own inquiry.

Delay Is Sought by Justice Dept. on C.I.A. Inquiry

Exactly how did Bill Belichick’s image cross the Rubicon from envied champion to football villain?

The Enemy at the Gates of Going Undefeated

One unidentified active baseball player who cooperated with George J. Mitchell was able to keep his name out of Mitchell’s report.

Player Cooperated, and His Name Was Left Out of Report

The New York State Theater will go dark during New York City Opera’s 2008-9 season so that it can be renovated, and City Opera will perform at sites yet to be determined. 

New York State Theater to Close for Repairs in 2008

Rudolph Giuliani promises to govern transparently if elected president, a daring claim since prying information out of the Giuliani City Hall required teams of lawyers with the persistence of mules. 

Giuliani, Very Open? There’s Always a First Time

Suddenly television screens are part of the Manhattan cab ride experience. Is anything worth watching? Stay tuned.

Taxi TV, Brisk as the Traffic You’re Stuck In

The industry is experiencing a historic boom, yet ethanol remains a mystery to the motoring public, even in states that have pushed it hardest. 

Ethanol’s Issue: Getting Acquainted With Drivers

China is the biggest producer and exporter of seafood in the world, but contaminated water has created serious food safety and environmental problems.

In China, Farming Fish in Toxic Waters

A former police officer from Queens linked Roger Clemens and Andy Pettitte to  performance-enhancing drugs.

A Baseball Lover, Key to Tarnishing a Yankee Era

A proposal would allow New York State’s public colleges to raise tuition without the approval of the Legislature.

Report to Urge Sweeping Change for SUNY System

Most small retailers, which cannot afford either price cuts or expensive advertising, are doing something else this holiday season: making a virtue of their size.

Small Shops See Smallness as Their Big Selling Point

The Mitchell report threw a huge changeup to casual fans for whom the steroid era simply meant Barry Bonds. Now they had a big-time pitcher to go along with a home run slugger.

Steroid Era Is No Longer Only About Bonds

With the dollar near its lowest rate ever against the euro, many Europeans are looking at the United States as a cheap place to flex their strong currency.

Money Goes Far in New York, if You’re European

An architect was seriously injured when metal studs being hoisted at the new Goldman Sachs office tower near ground zero plummeted to the ground. 

7-Ton Load Falls Near Ground Zero

The person who spurred the government to action concerning the subprime mortgage mess was not Treasury Secretary Henry M. Paulson Jr. It was Sheila C. Bair.

In a Mess, Yes, but She’s Got a Plan

 RBS Greenwich Capital Markets, the American securities unit of Royal Bank of Scotland, said its chief executive, Jay Levine, would leave in March. He is retiring because the subsidiary, based in Greenwich, Conn., will be reorganizing as a result of Royal Bank’s purchase of ABN Amro Holding. “It was really something Jay wasn’t interested in,” a company spokesman, Peter Ward, said. “He really wanted to get to a smaller, more entrepreneurial endeavor.”

Retirement at RBS

An article in Business Day on Friday about billionaires who push for social change in poorer countries misspelled the surname of one such entrepreneur. He is Warren E. Buffett, not Buffet.

Corrections: For the Record

An article on Thursday about a visit to Bethlehem by Tony Blair, the former prime minister of Britain and now an international envoy for Palestinian development, described incompletely Israel’s policy about the presence of its citizens in the West Bank. While Israeli citizens cannot freely visit Palestinian towns there, tens of thousands of Israelis do live in settlements in the territory.

Recycling programs are  improving the environmental impact of all the packaging Americans consume, says Patrick J. Moore, chairman and chief executive of the Smurfit-Stone Container Corporation. 

Building a Greener Cardboard Box

An article in Business Day on Wednesday about plans by the Securities and Exchange Commission to delay requiring small companies to adhere to some auditing requirements under the Sarbanes-Oxley Act left the incorrect impression that the S.E.C. chairman, Christopher Cox, was leaving the door open for an indefinite stay of the requirements. As the article noted, testimony prepared for Mr. Cox to deliver to a Congressional panel did not explicitly say that he wanted the commission to require small companies to obey the law after the delay. His testimony, however, did include a reference to a time “when, eventually, smaller public companies do come into full compliance” with the law.

The Weekend Explorer column on Friday, about the Upper East Side, referred imprecisely to the architectural style of the mansion Andrew Carnegie built at the corner of Fifth Avenue and 91st Street and of the town house Woody Allen bought on East 70th Street between Lexington and Park Avenues. They were built after the death of the last King George of Britain in 1830, and thus are Georgian style, not Georgian. The column also misstated the year Carnegie moved into the mansion. It was 1902, not 1901.

A subheading in the NYC column on Friday, about the absence of urban and suburban issues as a topic in the Democratic and Republican presidential debates, referred incorrectly to the type of community that is home to more than 80 percent of the nation’s population. That proportion lives in metropolitan areas, which include cities and suburbs; the 80 percent figure does not represent urban dwellers only. (About 50 percent of the population is in the suburbs and 30 percent in cities.).

Julia May Carson was an American politician who served as a member of the United States House of Representatives for Indiana's 7th congressional district from 1997 until she died in 2007. Carson was the first woman and first African American to represent Indianapolis in the U.S. Congress. She was also the second African American woman elected to Congress from Indiana, after Katie Hall, and her grandson André Carson succeeded to her seat following her death.

December 15, 2007

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Criticism of Curry Comes From a Big Fan

Adding to the List of Worries, Signs That Inflation Is Bubbling Up

Ethiopians Said to Push Civilians Into Rebel War

Delay Is Sought by Justice Dept. on C.I.A. Inquiry

The Enemy at the Gates of Going Undefeated

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