June 24, 2008

The Senate Majority Leader Joseph L. Bruno, the state’s top-ranking Republican, will not seek re-election.

Bernard Lagat, the runner from Kenya, is competing as a U.S. citizen and training under a Chinese-born coach.

Certain issues strike powerful chords among New Yorkers. One of them: Many stores’ wasteful habit of leaving their doors open while they run their air-conditioners.

The 19-hole playoff in San Diego between Tiger Woods and Rocco Mediate cast the sport’s giant against one of its jolly journeymen.

Visiting the New York Stock Exchange last year, Tom Wolfe, the author of “The Bonfire of the Vanities,” proclaimed that it was the end of capitalism as we knew it.