For magazines and newspapers with long histories, old material can be reborn on the Web as an inexpensive way to attract readers, advertisers and money.

Dusting Off the Archive for the Web

Critics say Starbucks has squandered its musical tastemaking cachet by offering more mainstream selections in its coffee shops.

Does This Latte Have a Funny Mainstream Taste to You?

The Connecticut Supreme Court is expected to rule soon on a case that presents a new constitutional challenge to the political compromise of civil unions.

Gay Couples Say Civil Unions Aren’t Enough

Alitalia, the money-losing Italian airline, accepted a 747 million-euro takeover offer from Air France-KLM on Sunday, seizing an 11th-hour financial lifeline.

Alitalia Takes Offer for Buyout

If the swearing-in of David A. Paterson on Monday looks carefully choreographed, that is no accident.

Paterson Is Calling the Shots on Swearing-In

Investors are bracing for another volatile week in the markets as bankers and policy makers deal with the fallout from their bid to rescue Bear Stearns.

Fears That Bear Stearns’s Downfall May Spread

A heavy piece of steel designed to secure the crane came loose and sheared a second support free, creating a fatal imbalance, officials said.

Fall of Six-Ton Support Caused Crane to Topple

South by Southwest is an annual reminder that the fortunes and misfortunes of the recording business don’t stop the music.

Southwest Festival Wraps Up Its 2,000-Course Feast

In a shocking deal reached on Sunday to save Bear Stearns, JPMorgan Chase agreed to pay less than one-tenth the firm’s market price on Friday.

JP Morgan Pays $2 a Share for Bear Stearns

When the New York Public Library announced a $1 billion expansion it signaled both a great opportunity and a great temptation.

With Expanding Library’s Promise, Concern About Its Purpose

A Barack Obama supporter quizzed on the street has drawn a million views on YouTube.

More Than a Sound Bite, This Clip Has Some Teeth

The Dalai Lama accused China of waging “cultural genocide” against his followers in Tibet.

Curbs on Protest in Tibet Lashed by Dalai Lama

A shoestring operation stunned by its own success faces growing pains.

Open-Source Troubles in Wiki World

For my Final Four, it would be easy to pick all four No. 1 seeds, but chances are all four will not make it that far.

Take It From a Coach: Pick Favorites, Expect Anything

Dilip Ratha, who has gone from a village in India to the World Bank, knows the economics of migration firsthand.

World Banker and His Cash Return Home

This brief and bilious new play by Caryl Churchill opened in a superlative production at the Public Theater.

They Don’t Call It a Special Relationship for Nothing

The N.C.A.A. unveiled its field, with a few familiar faces missing and teams from outside college basketball’s six power conferences still struggling for representation.

A Strong Early Schedule Is a Key to Getting In

Saturday’s disaster exposed the often-uneasy relationship cranes have with the New Yorkers who walk below them.

Now, Cringing in the Shadows Cast by Cranes

The decision by L. Paul Bremer III to dissolve Iraq’s Army was a reversal from a plan the White House had approved.

Fateful Choice on Iraq Army Bypassed Debate

Fubar, the unpretentious bar crushed in Saturday’s crane collapse, is a stark symbol for victims of a building boom.

Near Rubble, Regulars Miss Regular Bar

The feeling of Mr. Morrison’s new songs was somewhere between Western swing and rhythm and blues.

Van Morrison on Science, the Spiritual and Rituals

The Fed approved a $30 billion loan for the takeover of Bear Stearns and announced a new lending tool for investment firms.

Fed Acts to Rescue Financial Markets

An article on March 7 about arts education in New York City public schools incorrectly described the results of a city survey about instruction in the arts. Only 4 percent of the city’s elementary schools meet the state’s requirement for arts education, not 4 percent of all public schools. And fewer than 30 percent of middle school students — not middle schools — meet the state’s requirements in arts instruction. (Such instruction is offered by 79 percent of middle schools.).

Corrections: For the Record

An article in The Arts on Thursday about Hollywood’s plans for several 3-D movies referred incorrectly to one planned for release in 2009, “G-Force,” from Disney, about a squad of guinea pigs sent to stop an evil billionaire from taking over the world. While it has computer-generated guinea pigs, it is a live-action movie, not animated.

Tiger Woods won with a huge putt on the final green, the longest putt he had made in the tournament: a nasty, hard-breaking slider of a putt that would have made Ben Hogan cringe.

Birdie on 18th Gives Woods 5th Palmer Title

Roland E. Arnall was an American businessman and diplomat. As the owner of ACC Capital Holdings, he became a billionaire with Ameriquest Mortgage. Additionally he funded, financed and was the visionary and co-founder of the Simon Wiesenthal Center, and from 2006 until shortly before his death he was the United States Ambassador to the Netherlands.

March 17, 2008

Headlines from March 17, 2008

Dusting Off the Archive for the Web

Does This Latte Have a Funny Mainstream Taste to You?

Gay Couples Say Civil Unions Aren’t Enough

Alitalia Takes Offer for Buyout

Paterson Is Calling the Shots on Swearing-In

Billboard 200

Discipline

New Amerykah: Part One (4th World War)

Sleep Through The Static

Savage Life 2

As I Am

Notable Deaths

Historical Context for March 17, 2008