The resignation of an adviser to Barack Obama sparked new debates about how far he should go in responding to attacks.

Obama Camp Sees Fine Line in Hitting Back

N.F.L. Commissioner Roger Goodell is seeking a sweeping crackdown on spying for next season, according to a memo sent to the league’s rule-making competition committee.

Goodell Proposes New Rules to Keep Teams From Spying

Drafted by the Mets in the first round in 2000, Billy Traber may finally make it to the big leagues in New York — this time as a Yankee.

A Cross-Country Trip Could End in Pinstripes

West Virginia, which will allow hunting classes in schools, is one of many states trying to bolster a sport in decline.

To Revive Hunting, States Turn to the Classroom

Several major clothing designers plan to shift to different stores, creating transitions that could confuse consumers.

Big Names in Retail Fashion Are Trading Teams

The worst fears of investors and officials were confirmed as paralysis on Wall Street collided with new evidence of a likely recession.

Sharp Drop in Jobs Adds to Grim Economic Picture

Police hit a dead end when they found a California lawyer was erroneously linked to the recent Times Square recruiting station bombing.

Letter Leads F.B.I. on False Trail to California After Bombing

Three prominent executives defended the multimillion-dollar pay they received even as their firms struggled through the spreading credit crisis.

Chiefs’ Pay Under Fire at Capitol

Mayor Michael R. Bloomberg’s congestion pricing plan may be in serious trouble, not only in Albany but in the New York City Council.

Traffic Plan Needs Votes on Council, Survey Finds

Rutgers Coach C. Vivian Stringer, a college basketball lifer, has endured many a personal blow across 37 years at three schools while maintaining the audacity of hope.

Sold on a Sense of Family at Rutgers

The commanding general said the goal was not so much to humiliate those arrested, but to deter future incidents.

Fort Drum Prints Photos After Arrests for D.W.I.

A laboratory and showroom in Lower Manhattan tests the technologies of biometrics, including systems that can recognize faces.

The Camera Doesn’t Lie, but It Can Get Confused

The Ides of March has arrived early for the buyout lords of Wall Street, as the intensifying credit crisis humbles some of the industry’s once-celebrated deal makers.

Tight Credit, Tough Times for Buyout Lords

A Communist Party campaign in Xinyang, China, seeks to catch civil servants partaking of alcohol-soaked meals.

Got a Mint, Comrade? Chinese Ban Liquid Lunch

If history is a reliable guide, a dismal jobs report suggests that the recession of 2008 is now unavoidable.

Seeing an End to the Good Times (Such as They Were)

Driven in part by a lack of knowledge over the long-term health effects of mobile phone use, parent groups in Europe have called for a ban on marketing to children.

Concern in Europe on Cellphone Ads for Children

A condemning video is delayed, then leaked to the media, and an animal rights activist makes the most of the spotlight.

A Case of Abuse, Heightened

Roger Federer is at a sensitive stage of his brilliant career — one in which he has looked surprisingly vulnerable.

Federer’s Weakness Might Have Been an Illness

A front-page article on Sunday about Barack Obama’s effort to land a knockout blow to the campaign of Hillary Rodham Clinton with large advertising expenditures referred incorrectly to the indie-rock band Arcade Fire, which performed a concert for Mr. Obama in Ohio. Some members are from Canada and some from Texas; they did not all grow up in Texas.

Corrections: For the Record

A conflict over money and doping between the company that organizes the Tour de France and the International Cycling Union may spark a collapse of the sport’s organizational structure.

Dispute Is Threatening to Tear Apart Cycling

G.M. will stop production at nine more plants next week because of a strike at a parts supplier, American Axle and Manufacturing Holdings.

American Axle Strike Idles More G.M. Plants

An article in The Arts on Tuesday about the innovative release of new music by the band Nine Inch Nails in various formats, including digital downloads, referred incorrectly to BitTorrent. It is an online protocol that can be used in the distribution of files, like the band’s new recordings. It is not a distinct file-sharing network. Because of an editing error, the article misstated the Web address of the company that oversees the protocol. It is bittorrent.com.

An obituary on Tuesday about the guitarist, singer and songwriter Jeff Healey misspelled the given name of his wife, who survives him. She is Cristie Healey, not Christie.

A heroin mill operated out of an apartment building opposite a middle school on the Upper East Side was broken up on Friday, and seven people involved in buying and selling the drugs.

Police Arrest Seven as Members of Heroin Ring

An article in Business Day on Feb. 25 about Britney Spears’s finances in the wake of her public breakdown misstated the support she has given to her family, including her father, Jamie, since she first became a pop star in 1999. Although she has helped her father financially during that time, she has not been the primary breadwinner for Mr. Spears, who works as a caterer in Los Angeles.

March 8, 2008

Headlines from March 8, 2008

Obama Camp Sees Fine Line in Hitting Back

Goodell Proposes New Rules to Keep Teams From Spying

A Cross-Country Trip Could End in Pinstripes

To Revive Hunting, States Turn to the Classroom

Big Names in Retail Fashion Are Trading Teams

Billboard 200

Sleep Through The Static

As I Am

Back To Black

Kidz Bop 13

Step Up 2: The Streets

Historical Context for March 8, 2008