October 18, 2008

Art is selling at this week’s fair in London, but there was a sense that the market was so precarious that a shake-out, when it came, would be far-reaching.

Now that the government has “saved” Wall Street, it needs to tackle the continuing decline of housing prices.

Cindy McCain is pursuing a return to Washington, “a harsh town” that she has said does not suit her.

At the Frankfurt Book Fair, editors from the United States are generally more likely to bid on other hyped American or British titles than to look for new literature in the international halls.

Accusations of executive excess, accounting fraud and lack of disclosure are becoming far more credible now.

The venerable Juilliard String Quartet has chosen a new first violinist: Nicholas Eanet, one of the Metropolitan Opera’s two concertmasters, will join the quartet at the end of the season.

Alumni of the Treasury chief’s old firm, Goldman Sachs, are key to the federal response to the financial crisis.

In the current global financial crisis, tycoons with Kremlin ties are shouldering a heavy burden as Russian markets fall.

For one night, the race to be the next president of the United States of America morphed into “Last Comic Standing.”

It is only fitting that restrictions on executive pay be part of any deal in which taxpayers rescue companies that helped drive the country into a ditch.

With the Rutgers football team struggling and funds to the university being cut, some are asking if investing in athletics is a wise move.

The National Collegiate Athletic Association has ordered manufacturers to make high-tech bats behave more like wood bats by 2011, calling for adjustments to virtually all the bats now in play.