These days, the great moderation isn’t looking so great — or so moderate.

Worries That the Good Times Were Mostly a Mirage

The list of Academy Award nominations reflects Hollywood’s bleak state of mind.

‘No Country’ and ‘Blood’ Lead Oscar Nominations

The bank cited huge write-downs of mortgage-related securities and higher provisions for future losses in credit card and home equity loans.

Bank of America Joins Parade of Mortgage-Related Losses

A day with Jan Buhrman offers a glimpse of an alternative economy of eating.

On Martha’s Vineyard, Using Scallops as Currency

Crowded as New York is at ground level, it is the Great Plains of roofs, with acres and acres of sunny, open space for solar panels.

(Solar) Power to the People Is Not So Easily Achieved

The influx is reminiscent of the Cuban migration spurred by Fidel Castro’s overthrow of Fulgencio Batista in 1959.

Rise of Chávez Sends Venezuelans to Florida

Designed by Wolf Prix of the Vienna-based architectural firm Coop Himmelb(l)au, BMW Welt — or BMW World — joins an impressive list of high-profile architecture projects by German car companies in recent years.

Polishing the Brand in a Cathedral for Cars

Together, two high-end coffee makers may signal the resurgence of brewing among the most obsessive coffee enthusiasts.

At Last, a $20,000 Cup of Coffee

The Giants, set to play the Patriots in the Super Bowl, came back to New York with their N.F.C. title to a restless city that loves a winner and knows how to profit from one.

Victorious Giants Return Home and It’s Time to Party On

The Federal Reserve’s decision to cut interest rates by three-quarters of a percentage point should offer some comfort to consumers, with limits.

Borrowers With Good Credit May Benefit

As global markets swooned, Washington’s goal of projecting calm to the public crosses party lines.

Urgently, Washington Responds to Fast-Spreading Market Turbulence

Venus followed her sister Serena out of the Australian Open at the quarterfinal stage. But the biggest news in the round came earlier when Maria Sharapova upset No. 1 Justine Henin.

Sharapova Upsets Henin; Venus Williams Loses

A continuing corruption investigation in Brooklyn offers a striking example of police officers who appeared to have gone too far to make arrests.

Drugs-for-Information Scandal Shakes Up New York Police Narcotics Force

A dizzying somersault on the markets on Tuesday left traders and investors biting their nails and wondering  what lay ahead.

On Wall Street, a Day of Frayed Nerves

The House oversight committee subpoenaed Chuck Knoblauch after he failed to respond to an invitation to give a deposition and testify before Congress about his suspected use of H.G.H.

House Committee Subpoenas Knoblauch

A study found weight-loss surgery better than standard medical therapy in treating Type 2 diabetes in the obese.

Diabetes Study Favors Surgery to Treat Obese

After a slow weekend, the Sundance Film Festival’s flock of film buyers finally began seeing movies they could take to the multiplexes.

Done Deals Finally Start to Appear at Sundance

The Australian-born actor was found in a New York apartment with sleeping pills nearby, the police said.

Heath Ledger, Actor, Is Found Dead at 28

Fondue is as simple to make as a toasted cheese sandwich, but more satisfying.

A Little Nostalgia, a Long Fork and Lots of Cheese

Tests on sushi bought in Manhattan revealed mercury levels that exceed accepted safety standards.

High Mercury Levels Are Found in Tuna Sushi

Rehearsing can be tedious and time-consuming, and in New York City, musicians say it is more expensive than ever.

Seeking Room to Rock Where Cost of Space Just Keeps Rising

This year, the World Economic Forum is actually going to be about the world economy. Which is not to say that there won’t be fun. 

Anxiety Crashes the Party at Davos

A new legal drama making its debut this month on ABC is stepping into a subject that is the source of heated debate among some parents — the relationship between autism and childhood vaccines.

ABC Drama Takes on Science and Parents

The Giants are in a position to produce one of the greatest upsets in Super Bowl history, maybe even more important than the Jets’ 16-7 shocker over the Colts in the third Super Bowl.

Giants Guarantee No Guarantees

It’s no disgrace that “Almost an Evening,” the new bill of bite-size plays by Ethan Coen, lives up to the modesty of its title.

January 23, 2008

Headlines from January 23, 2008

Worries That the Good Times Were Mostly a Mirage

‘No Country’ and ‘Blood’ Lead Oscar Nominations

Bank of America Joins Parade of Mortgage-Related Losses

On Martha’s Vineyard, Using Scallops as Currency

(Solar) Power to the People Is Not So Easily Achieved

Billboard 200

As I Am

In Rainbows

Juno

Growing Pains

Taylor Swift

Historical Context for January 23, 2008