December 28, 2008

With the death toll in Gaza rising to nearly 300, a furious reaction spread across the Arab world, raising fears of greater instability in the region.

Hewlett-Packard has a tiny presence in the data warehousing business dominated by Teradata, I.B.M., Oracle and Microsoft, but is hoping to change the equation.

For Norbert Leo Butz, the vacancy at the Broadway revival of “Speed-the-Plow” represented a role he might never have been offered.

The Minnesota Vikings beat the Giants on a last-second field goal by Ryan Longwell to win the N.F.C. North championship.

Carol O’Connell has populated a small, sinister California town with enough suspects, motives and implements to create a “Clue”-style murder scheme on every corner.

NBC and its sister cable channels in the NBC Universal family are the only reliable purveyors of true Webisodes.

A new release from Brandy and the “Slumdog Millionaire” soundtrack.

An unusual alignment of top stars brightened Hollywood’s holiday box office.

In 2008, the best-laid marketing plans of mice and men — or “Mad Men” with mice — proved no match for a historic presidential race and an enormous financial crisis.

The BMW X6, Ford Flex and Infiniti EX35, all offshoots of existing platforms, seem to present different ways of flirting with the concept of a station wagon.

The Treasury’s schedule of financing this week.

The cast of the current London production of Harold Pinter’s “No Man’s Land” honored Mr. Pinter, who died on Wednesday.