The former president will disclose the names in a deal to clear the way for Senator Hillary Rodham Clinton to become secretary of state.

Bill Clinton to Name Donors as Part of Obama Deal

With Oklahoma, Texas and Texas Tech winning this week, the three teams finish the regular season in a three-way tie for first place in the dizzying Big 12 South.

Oklahoma’s Dizzying Win Adds Intrigue to the B.C.S.

The top domestic security official resigned in disgrace on Sunday for the failure to thwart or quickly contain the horrific terrorist attacks in Mumbai last week.

Cabinet Minister Resigns in Wake of India Attacks

Giants receiver Plaxico Burress will be charged with criminal possession of a handgun, his lawyer said.

Burress Will Surrender to Authorities on Monday

Oklahoma came out on top in the B.C.S. standings, giving the team a chance to clinch the Big 12 title and a spot in the national championship game.

Oklahoma Wins Where It Matters, Off the Field

Clinton Portis was held to 22 yards rushing, and the Giants put aside the Plaxico Burress mess with another dominating performance over the Redskins.

Driven to Success, Not Distraction, Giants Get Seventh Straight Victory

The Academy of Motion Picture Arts and Sciences is becoming more artsy and indie-minded just as much of the Hollywood establishment hoped to make it more commercial.

Honor Just to Be Asked In, as Film Academy Tightens Its Ranks

Many argue that the city’s Landmarks Preservation Commission has not done enough to protect churches from the overheated real estate market.

Houses of Worship Choosing to Avoid Landmark Status

Watching New York City Ballet’s “George Balanchine’s ‘The Nutcracker,’” I marveled anew at its sheer mastery of stagecraft.

Reveling in Winter in All Its Warmth

Michael Wolff has written a supercilious yet star-struck portrait of Rupert Murdoch, the planet’s most notorious press baron.

A Media Mogul With Relentless Moxie

To create jobs, Barack Obama must reverse the economy’s implosion, not just stop it.

Squeezing the Most From a Stimulus Plan

Ray Mortenson’s photographs of the South Bronx in the early 1980s are featured in a new exhibition at the Museum of the City of New York.

Crumbling South Bronx as a Muse

Cellphone makers and carriers hope that touch screens will bolster sales this holiday season.

Hoping to Draw Market Share With Touch Screens

The Devils had lifted themselves out of their funk by winning five in a row before a 4-1 loss Saturday night to the Penguins in Pittsburgh.

Second Scoring Line Helps Turn Devils Around

An article last Sunday about strategies for obtaining a car loan misspelled the surname of the chief auto industry analyst at Edmunds.com, an auto information site. He is Jesse Toprak, not Torpak.

Correction

An article on Nov. 16 about locally grown food for the holidays misstated the name of one of the wine stores where a 2006 dry riesling from Hermann J. Wiemer Vineyard could be purchased. It is Cross River Wine Merchant, not Cross River Wines.

In the N.H.L., a team with a two-goal lead almost never lost. But not this season. Now it seems almost no lead is safe.

Rules Make Leads More Fragile

The 28th installment of an annual show remembering John Lennon is being planned for Sunday, even though corporate backing has evaporated and ticket sales are sluggish.

A Tribute to John Lennon Keeps to Its Quixotic Path

Fans of George Michael will get a Christmas present from him this year: a free download of his new recording “December Song (I Dreamed of Christmas).”

George Michael’s Gift

Rosie O’Donnell’s homage to television variety shows of the 1970s, “Rosie Live,” seems destined to be a one-night-only event.

That’s All, She Wrote

Anne Steele, above, who triumphed at the first MetroStar Talent Challenge at the Metropolitan Room, will soon collect her prize: a fully produced, prime-time engagement at the club. Out of 70 contestants, Ms. Steele won the cabaret singing competition, which ran for seven weeks last summer, and now her show, “Strings Attached,” is scheduled for Feb. 18-22. It will include a number of reimagined pop tunes backed by string orchestrations and opening acts by Stearns Matthews and Nesha Ward, the runners-up from the competition.

Metrostar Sets Dates

Tickets go on sale Monday for the Tap Legacy Foundation’s Feb. 14 screening of “Tap,” starring Gregory Hines. The date represents the 20th anniversary of the film, the 7th anniversary of the foundation’s formation and Hines’s birthday. Hines, who died in 2003, helped start the organization, dedicated to the preservation and advancement of tap dance. ... The Australian cabaret diva Meow Meow, who performs what she calls “kamikaze kabaret exotica,” will present the holiday concert “Meow to the World” at the Highline Ballroom on Dec. 17, 20, 21 and 22 (highlineballroom.com).

Footnotes

The new national tour of “Rent” will include seven performances at the New Jersey Performing Arts Center in February.

In the Wings

The organizers of an annual festival devoted to the 1939 film “The Wizard of Oz” have decided that the 2008 festival was the final one, The Associated Press reported.

‘Oz’ Fest Is No More

“Humor Abuse,” a world premiere solo show, has been added to Manhattan Theater Club’s spring schedule.

Clown’s Son Has Show Added to Season

Munetaka Higuchi  was a Japanese musician and record producer. He is best known as the original drummer of the heavy metal band Loudness, but first rose to prominence as a member of Lazy in the 1970s.

November 30, 2008

Headlines from November 30, 2008

Bill Clinton to Name Donors as Part of Obama Deal

Oklahoma’s Dizzying Win Adds Intrigue to the B.C.S.

Cabinet Minister Resigns in Wake of India Attacks

Burress Will Surrender to Authorities on Monday

Oklahoma Wins Where It Matters, Off the Field

Billboard 200

Fearless

David Archuleta

NOW 29

Thr33 Ringz

Twilight

Notable Deaths

Historical Context for November 30, 2008