Shares rose on Monday after an investment deal raised hopes that wealthy foreign investors would come to the rescue of America’s ailing investment firms.

Markets Up After a Deal by Merrill

At an unusual elementary school outside Atlanta, more than half the 380 students are refugees from some 40 countries.

Georgia School as a Laboratory for Getting Along

It is all but certain that the Knicks tandem of Eddy Curry and Zach Randolph will be broken up - a move that many say should have happened long ago.

Curry and Randolph May Be One Big Man Too Many

Environmentalists are thinking ahead to the effect of tourists and investors on a landscape of crucial habitats.   

Conserving Cuba, After the Embargo

Merrill Lynch agreed on Monday to sell $5 billion of new stock to an investor from Singapore and a smaller stake to a domestic firm.

Merrill Lynch Sells Stake to Singapore Firm

Operation Lucky Bag, in which police plant items in public places and wait for somebody to take them, was criticized as bordering on entrapment.

‘Better Arrests’ in New York Decoy Program After Officers Receive More Training

Over the years, as Mikhail Baryshnikov repeatedly read and saw the plays, he developed an intense appreciation of what he calls “Beckett’s genius.”

A Master of Motion Learns Lessons of Inspired Immobility

Scholars from different disciplines are crossing lines to share ideas about reducing the threat of climate change.

A Threat So Big, Academics Try Collaboration

One of the last custom suitmakers in Manhattan has created almost all of the outfits worn by the actors in the Broadway hit “Jersey Boys,” helping to reverse the company’s declining fortunes.

Broadway Hit Captures Era, and Saves a Tailor

New York State officials trying to ban shock treatments have found an obstacle: parents of students given shocks.

Parents Defend School’s Use of Shock Therapy

There are enough things to admire about “The Great Debaters,” the heavily fictionalized true story of The Little Debate Team That Could, that your impulse is to forgive the movie its shortcomings.

Leading the Charge to Inspire Underdogs

In the marginalized world of music education, a good deal of serious thinking needs to be done.

To Provide Quality Music Education Now, Schools Could Learn From the Past

Resentment has been building at how presidential elections have become gold mines for media consultants.

Democrats Try to Rein In Fees on Consulting

Who or what is to blame when a once-powerful society collapses?

A Question of Blame When Societies Fall

Toy retailers across the country have largely pushed sleds and toboggans off their shelves and out of their catalog pages, victims of warmer weather and the changing taste of children.

It’s Downhill for Sleds, Lamentably

On the 50th anniversary of Diego Rivera's death, Mexico City is in the midst of a series of exhibitions celebrating his work.

Rivera, Fridamania’s Other Half, Gets His Due

Tom Coughlin can play it good and safe Saturday night. Or he can send a message to his team that he believes it can do what no one else in the N.F.L. has done: beat the Patriots.

Giants Should Dream Big and Play for an Upset

Baseball players may not be the only animals looking to gain an advantage by using steroids.

Birds, Bugs Named as Steroid Users!

“Persepolis,” austere as it may look, is full of warmth and surprise, alive with humor and a fierce independence of spirit. 

In a Flat World, a Rebel With a Cause

The governors of California, Illinois and Pennsylvania proposed sweeping plans to restructure health care this year, but none will finish 2007 having signed a bill.

States’ Widening of Health Care Hits Roadblocks

Once barely able to read at age 17, St. John’s forward Rob Thomas has gone back to basics, both in the classroom and on the court.

The Comeback Kid

The ambitious $750 million plan is imperiled by questions about whether the money could fall into the wrong hands.

Doubts Engulf an American Aid Plan for Pakistan

A juror in a racially charged manslaughter case says he and another juror endured pressure and mistreatment from other jurors because they remained “diametrically opposed” to them.

Juror in Long Island Killing Says He Was Pressured Into a Guilty Verdict

At the Church of the Transfiguration in Chinatown an Italian-American priest reviewed his homily, to be delivered in Cantonese and English – just two of the languages spoken there.

In Chinatown, a Church Speaks in Several Languages, but With One Strong Voice

An article last Tuesday about a lawsuit over two Picassos at the Guggenheim Museum and the Museum of Modern Art once owned by Paul von Mendelssohn-Bartholdy, scion of a wealthy Jewish family of philanthropists and financiers, included an erroneous spelling from MoMA for the maiden name of Mendelssohn-Bartholdy’s second wife, to whom he gave his art collection, and misspelled her married name after a subsequent marriage. She was Elsa Lucy Emmy Lolo von Lavergne-Peguilhen, not Lavergue-Peguilhen, and later became the Countess von Kesselstatt, not Kesselstat.

Corrections: For the Record

Desmond William Barrick was an English cricketer who played in 301 first-class matches between 1949 and 1960.

Des Barrick, English cricketer (born 1927)

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James Edward Beauchamp was an American Major League Baseball first baseman and outfielder who played from 1963 to 1973 for the St. Louis Cardinals, Houston Colt .45s/Astros, Milwaukee/Atlanta Braves, Cincinnati Reds, and New York Mets. He attended Grove High School in Grove, Oklahoma and Oklahoma State University before being signed by the Cardinals in 1957. He was the father of former minor league baseball player Kash Beauchamp. He was 6'2' and weighed 205 pounds.

December 25, 2007

Headlines from December 25, 2007

Markets Up After a Deal by Merrill

Georgia School as a Laboratory for Getting Along

Curry and Randolph May Be One Big Man Too Many

Conserving Cuba, After the Embargo

Merrill Lynch Sells Stake to Singapore Firm

Billboard 200

Noel

As I Am

Long Road Out Of Eden

NOW 26

Hannah Montana 2 (Soundtrack)/Meet Miley Cyrus

Notable Deaths

Historical Context for December 25, 2007