Thirty-five cedars in Inwood Hill Park have been methodically destroyed.

In a City Park, a Crime Against Nature

For the first time, the selling of personal seat licenses, which entitle a fan to the first call on season tickets, is a real possibility in the New York area.

Jets and Giants Fans May Pay for the Right to Pay for Tickets

Critics say Norway’s plan to become “carbon neutral” relies too heavily on sleight-of-hand accounting and donations to foreign environmental projects.

Lofty Pledge to Cut Emissions Comes With Caveat in Norway

Gov. Bill Richardson urged Democrats to unite behind Senator Barack Obama to move the nation beyond its racial and partisan divide.

First a Tense Talk With Clinton, Then Richardson Backs Obama

Jane Jarvis, 92, is the much loved organist for the Mets. As a result of last Saturday’s crane collapse, she is something else: a displaced person.

Between Organist and Keyboard, a Crane

A long-running federal investigation into the orthopedic device industry’s suspected kickback payments to hip and knee surgeons now has the doctors in the spotlight.

New Focus of Inquiry Into Bribes: Doctors

The Duke Blue Devils are a No. 2 seed in this year’s N.C.A.A. tournament, but their prospects of advancing to their first Final Four since 2004 appear dim.

Weakness Inside Limits Duke to Outside Chance

American officials fear a softening stance just as President Pervez Musharraf has given the U.S. a freer hand to strike at militants.

Pakistan to Talk With Militants, New Leaders Say

For some relatives of service members killed in war death benefits feel at first like an affront, a price tag on a loved one’s life.

Military Kin Struggle With Loss and a Windfall

For most of the last decade, consumers in Britain went on a debt-financed spending spree, racking up a record £1.4 trillion in debt ($2.8 trillion) — more than the country’s gross domestic product.

Debt-Gorged British Start to Worry That the Party Is Ending

On a recent weekend on his private Caribbean island, Sir Richard Branson and several high-powered visitors gathered to figure out what to do about global warming.

Thinking Green While Sifting Through the Sand

San Diego’s plan to upset Connecticut was to be aggressive and show no fear, and the Toreros were certainly not intimidated as they pulled out a wild 70-69 victory.

San Diego Shows It’s Not Afraid of Heights

Forward Jeomi Maduka, the Ivy League basketball player of the year, is a primary reason the Big Red has reached the N.C.A.A. women’s tournament for the first time.

Cornell Star Divides Her Time, and Conquers

Gov. David A. Paterson reimbursed his campaign committee for two stays at a Manhattan hotel that he has acknowledged using to carry on an extramarital affair.

Paterson Reimburses Campaign for Expenses

Files containing personal information about Barack Obama, Hillary Rodham Clinton and John McCain were breached, the State Department said.

Passport Files of 3 Candidates Were Pried Into

Women now manage 10 of the 50 largest university endowments and private foundations, compared with 4 a decade ago, and oversee a combined $60.6 billion.

Corner of Finance Where Women Are Climbing

A review has begun of the construction jobs approved by an engineer charged with lying about the inspection of a building that collapsed in 2006.

Engineer’s Arrest Spurs Review of 29 Building Inspections

Short of putting our heads in the sand and hoping all the bad financial news passes, what should we do with our own finances?

Resist the Impulse to Panic Over Finances

An art review last Saturday about the International Asian Art Fair referred imprecisely to 583 Park Avenue, where the fair was held this year. Although the building’s owner, Third Church of Christ, Scientist, rents it regularly to organizers of events, Christian Science services are still held there; it is not a former church.

Corrections: For the Record

Ty Rogers’ 26-foot shot as the horn sounded in overtime in capped some of the most entertaining theater thus far in the N.C.A.A. tournament.

Western Kentucky, a Long Shot, Beats Drake at Buzzer

Lottery Numbers

The Metropolitan Transportation Authority plans to negotiate with the developer throughout the weekend over 26 acres of vacant land overlooking the Hudson River.

M.T.A. Leaning Toward Tishman Speyer’s Railyard Bid

The man was arrested after images and video from surveillance cameras were publicized in news reports.

Brooklyn Man Is Charged in Two Rapes at Housing Project

An exhibition review last Saturday about “John Milton at 400: A Life Beyond Life,” at the New York Public Library, misstated a line from “Paradise Lost” about the purpose of the work. It is “And justify the ways of God to men,” not “to justify the ways of God to man.” The review also misidentified the event in English history that Milton welcomed because of its promised transformation of English life and of which Oliver Cromwell was a leader. It was the rebellion, sometimes called the revolution, that overthrew Charles I and established a commonwealth; it was not the Reformation.

The State of the Art column in Business Day on Thursday, about a new class of inexpensive, easy-to-use camcorders, referred incorrectly to a model made by Thomson. It is the RCA Small Wonder EZ201, not EX201.

Israel López Valdés, better known as Cachao, was a Cuban double bassist and composer. Cachao is widely known as the co-creator of the mambo and a master of the descarga. Throughout his career he also performed and recorded in a variety of music styles ranging from classical music to salsa. An exile in the United States since the 1960s, he only achieved international fame following a career revival in the 1990s.

March 22, 2008

Headlines from March 22, 2008

In a City Park, a Crime Against Nature

Jets and Giants Fans May Pay for the Right to Pay for Tickets

Lofty Pledge to Cut Emissions Comes With Caveat in Norway

First a Tense Talk With Clinton, Then Richardson Backs Obama

Between Organist and Keyboard, a Crane

Billboard 200

Good Time

Sleep Through The Static

Discipline

Float

Warpaint

Notable Deaths

Historical Context for March 22, 2008