A concentrated burst of advertising is highlighting the diverging financial fortunes of the two parties.

Democrats Flood States With Ads as Tuesday Nears

After being eliminated from last season’s playoffs, the Giants’ owners retained Tom Coughlin, promoted Jerry Reese and quietly embarked on one of the most unexpected routes to the Super Bowl.

Anatomy of Success Starts With Brains and Heart

An architect’s design would change a claustrophobic two-bedroom in SoHo into an oasis of adventurous living.

A Shower Stall With a View

Some women who are backing Barack Obama say they like and admire Hillary Rodham Clinton but simply like Mr. Obama more.

In the Clinton Home Field, an Effort for Obama

The mortgage brokers, traders and bankers who took in big bucks steering customers into subprime loans should not be allowed to slink offstage without recognition.

Lenders Who Sold and Left

Raised in Manhattan, he is fascinated by the changes to his native borough. But from his garret across the river, he does not mourn its transformation.

His City, Lost and Found

Charles Bock’s first novel brings together the intersecting lives of parents and adolescents, strippers and pornographers, runaways and addicts — all against the neon-lit, heat-parched backdrop of Las Vegas.

Leaving Las Vegas

With a burst of confidence borne of three playoff road victories, the Giants are pursuing respect as surely as the Patriots are pursuing immortality.

Patriots and Giants Hope to Cap Their Quests With a Win

“Betrayed,” a new play by George Packer, features translators who believe in the U.S. mission in Iraq and wind up paying for it.

A Reporter Finds Drama in Iraqis’ Heartbreak

A close look reveals that the New York Giants might be able to stake more of a claim to the hearts and minds of Connecticut fans than the New England Patriots.

3 Cheers for the Home Team! (But, Uh, Which One Is It?)

By endorsing Hillary Rodham Clinton, Gov. Jon S. Corzine is at odds with a number of prominent New Jersey Democrats who are leaning toward Barack Obama. 

Presidential Race Dividing Some Top State Democrats

Celebrities have little to fear at the resorts, where the paparazzi want to be their friends.

Playing It Safe in Las Vegas

Another designer tries to revive the label, and rise above its history of failure.

Will 6 Be a Lucky Number for Halston?

On the eve of Super Tuesday, pulling apart consensus and orthodoxy, two perennial styles of politics and government in the United States.

The Party Animal Either Plays Well or Fights Well

A genre once known for high quality is now a source of lazy commercial fodder.

A Fine Romance, My Friend, This Is

Super Bowl predictions are being made and for the handicappers, it’s time to bet with cold reason, and not the heart.

Beyond the Point Spread: Super Bowl Science

The Patriots responded to a rumor that they had taped the St. Louis Rams walk-through before Super Bowl XXXVI, and the N.F.L. said it had found no evidence that the taping had occurred. 

Patriots Deny Another Accusation of Taping

Environmentally friendly flowers are a hard sell. After all, most people don’t eat them.

To Pull a Thorn From the Side of the Planet

Athletes with flawless achievements say making history will not be on the New England Patriots’ minds Sunday.

Perfection Is Afterthought, Perfect Examples Say

As they approach the New York State primary on Tuesday, Democratic and Republican voters in the suburbs appeared during recent interviews to be more focused on the character and personal histories of the candidates.

As Primary Nears, Voters Critique Field

Driving a Lamborghini is a Rorschach test: Onlookers either melt into beatific puddles or they ignore the car and dismiss its driver as a cologne-dipped jackass.

Trim and Ready to Rumble

Microsoft’s proposed mega-bid for Yahoo is based on its own particular corporate needs and may not be a harbinger of rampant deal-making in Silicon Valley.

Yahoo Sale Could Be Bad for Minnows

Current cars from H. F. S. Morgan look only slightly different from those built in the 1940s.

A Foundation in the Classics

Under New York City’s arcane tax laws, the biggest bills go to some of the new Manhattan condos, not to the trophy town houses or the white-glove co-ops.

February 3, 2008

Headlines from February 3, 2008

Democrats Flood States With Ads as Tuesday Nears

Anatomy of Success Starts With Brains and Heart

A Shower Stall With a View

In the Clinton Home Field, an Effort for Obama

Lenders Who Sold and Left

Billboard 200

As I Am

Juno

Growing Pains

In Rainbows

Love Behind The Melody

Historical Context for February 3, 2008