The Spoleto Festival U.S.A. and its long-lost partner in Italy, the Festival of Two Worlds in Spoleto, Umbria, have announced that they will renew an association that ended 15 years ago.

Spoleto Festivals to Renew Their Ties

Many N.F.L. talent evaluators believe that three years is the necessary incubation period to pronounce a draft pick a boom or a bust.

Bona Fide or a Bust? Don’t Rush to Judgment

Democrats are wondering about what role race may be playing in Barack Obama’s difficulties in securing the nomination.

For Obama, a Struggle to Win Over Key Blocs

You can learn how to creatively apply the rule of longevity by using your computer.

How to Live Longer Without Really Trying

The poet August Kleinzahler writes with elegiac insight about life’s losers, the people he calls “strange rangers,” the addicted, insane or destitute.

Bullies, Addicts and Losers: A Poet Loves Them All

The offers came in, but Daniel Myrick, a creator of “The Blair Witch Project” and director of the new film “The Objective,” has been happy to stay independent.

Life After That Very Profitable Fake Witch

Augusten Burroughs's new memoir, about his relationship with his father, is more Stephen King than David Sedaris.

A Son Peers at His Father and Finds a Sociopath

As car sales soar in China, even first-time buyers are getting more sophisticated and want better cars.

With First Car, a New Life in China

Buoyed by unusually strong Macintosh sales, the company grew notably faster than the rest of the computer market in the first three months of the year.

Apple Riding a 51% Jump in Mac Sales

For the first time in 36 years, the Kips Bay Decorator Show House is being held in an apartment building: Manhattan House on East 66th Street.

Kips Bay: Coloring In the White Boxes

Martin H. Tankleff, whose convictions for the murders of his parents were overturned, has been catching up with civilian life since his release in December.

Tankleff Awaits Decision on Future

A former Bristol-Myers Squibb executive was charged with making false statements to the F.T.C. about a pact made with a Canadian maker of generic drugs.

Drug Executive Is Indicted on Secret Deal

As men’s wear gets more adventurous, men are themselves getting more adventurous about that onetime cardinal sin: clashing. 

Men in Plaid Do Mix

Joe Flacco, who stands about six and a half feet tall, could be the first quarterback from what used to be called Division I-AA to go in the first round of the N.F.L. draft since 1995.

Measuring Up, on the Doorway and on the Draft Board

Pants may be touted as the coming thing, but women think otherwise — and flaunt it.

Long Live the Dress (for Now)

At a gas station in Westchester County, higher prices make one owner nostalgic.

Flirting With $4 at His Pump, Old-School Gas Man Looks Back

The former Patriots video assistant negotiated a deal to share with the N.F.L. information he has related to the investigation of the team’s videotaping tactics.

Former Patriots Video Assistant Reaches Deal With N.F.L.

Following the resignation of the chairman of Samsung amid criminal indictments, South Korea seems uncertain about how much pressure to put on family-owned corporate groups.

South Korea Faces Question of Corporate Control

The two commanders most closely associated with President Bush’s current strategy in Iraq would be elevated into new posts extending into the next administration.

New Jobs Set for 2 Generals With Iraq Role

Nothing, it seems, can bring down the Club Kalua, which has survived repeated attempts by the city to close it. It has even survived the notoriety of the Sean Bell shooting.

Club With a Past Survives, Even Without Any Liquor

Call it the Lasik indicator. As consumers cut back on discretionary spending, the number of laser vision-correction surgeries has been falling.

As Economy Slows, So Do Laser Eye Surgeries

The Mets revealed a remarkable ability to capitalize on their opponent’s mistakes in a victory over the Washington Nationals on Wednesday.

Santana Helps Mets End Skid at 3

Banning smoking at charity bingo games may have health benefits, but it is proving harmful to earnings.

After the Smoke Cleared, Where Did All the Bingo Players Go?

Designers at the Milan Furniture Fair explored how they can help us navigate recession, environmental crisis and design’s neurosis about its role in a saturated consumer culture.

Survivalist Spirit at the Milan Furniture Fair

As “Lost” embarks on Thursday on the second half of its strike-shortened fourth season, the series is moving at a breakneck pace that has excited the fan base and energized the show’s writers, actors and staff. What happened?

Timetable Energizes What Once Was ‘Lost’

James Peter Giuffre was an American jazz clarinetist, saxophonist, composer, and arranger. He is known for developing forms of jazz which allowed for free interplay between the musicians, anticipating forms of free improvisation.

April 24, 2008

Headlines from April 24, 2008

Spoleto Festivals to Renew Their Ties

Bona Fide or a Bust? Don’t Rush to Judgment

For Obama, a Struggle to Win Over Key Blocs

How to Live Longer Without Really Trying

Bullies, Addicts and Losers: A Poet Loves Them All

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Troubadour

Sunset Man

NOW 27

Accelerate

Notable Deaths

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