After Senator Hillary Rodham Clinton helped a developer, her husband’s foundation was given a $100,000 donation.

A Donor’s Gift Soon Followed Clinton’s Help

The Cardinals clinched the win when Kurt Warner completed a 23-yard pass to tight end Stephen Spach on third-and-16 at the two-minute warning.

Hosts at Last, Cardinals Show Falcons the Door

Darren Sproles scored on a 22-yard run on the Chargers’ first possession of overtime to end the Colts’ nine-game winning streak and their season.

Surging Chargers Knock Off the Colts

Witnesses said that Israeli forces pushing into Gaza had taken over certain strategic areas as Hamas continued to launch rockets into southern Israel.

Israeli Attack Splits Gaza; Truce Calls Are Rebuffed

Gov. Bill Richardson of New Mexico withdrew as the commerce nominee amid a grand jury inquiry.

Richardson Won’t Pursue Cabinet Post

The pleasures of the new series “The City” are greater than any attempted in “Bromance,” a completely unwatchable reality show.

West Coast Fashionista Takes On Manhattan, Manolos in Tow

New releases from Glasvegas, Scarface, Erin McCarley and the Joe Morris Bass Quartet.

New CDs

The pianist Nadia Reisenberg is a good example of dedicated artists with lower profiles who influence classical music from within and enjoy productive and important careers.

Reopening a Pianist’s Treasury of Chopin

Amid a relentless string of layoffs and pay-freeze announcements, book publishers are clamping down on some of the business’s most glittery and cozy traditions.

Puttin’ Off the Ritz: The New Austerity in Publishing

The Cuban saxophonist, clarinetist and composer Paquito D’Rivera performed a first-time run of shows with his new band.

Hamming It Up With a Cuban Accent

Squandering a 20-point lead at the break after holding No. 8 Tennessee to its lowest point total during any half in its history, No. 15 Rutgers fell apart in the final 20 minutes of the game.

Facing Their Largest Halftime Deficit, the Lady Vols Rally to Stun Rutgers

The Irish became the highest-ranked opponent to fall to the Red Storm in Coach Norm Roberts’s tenure and the first ranked team St. John’s had beaten in almost two years.

Red Storm Breaks Through to Top No. 7 Irish

An article on July 13 about a small helicopter chartering service at the Westchester County airport for business executives and other people short on time, and a picture caption with the article, misspelled the name of one of the customers last summer. He was Eugene V. Lyandres, not Landres. Mr. Lyandres only recently brought the misspelling to the editors’ attention.

Correction

The BBC has announced its new Dr. Who: the 26-year-old actor Matt Smith.

Who’s This New Who?

The Magic Theater in San Francisco, a 42-year-old institution, may be on the verge of closing.

San Francisco Theater in Dire Straits

The producers of “Reasons to Be Pretty,” the Neil LaBute play, are looking for people for an advertising campaign.

Footnotes

When IFC Films releases the Italian crime drama “Gomorrah” in the United States on Feb. 13, it will come with a new endorsement in the credits: “Martin Scorsese Presents.”

Scorsese Signs On

Horton Foote’s “Dividing the Estate” will be produced in the spring at Hartford Stage.

Encore for Comedy by Horton Foote

The Alvin Ailey American Dance Theater, the puppeteer Basil Twist and the Westminster Choir are among the participants in the 2009 Spoleto Festival.

Spoleto Lineup Is Announced

”Waltz With Bashir,” the animated documentary about Israeli soldiers and their memories of Israel’s 1982 war with Lebanon, was chosen best picture of 2008 by the National Society of Film Critics, Variety reported.

Society of Film Critics Names ‘Bashir’ Best Picture

Treasury’s schedule of financing this week.

Treasury Auctions Set for This Week

The sale of Rogue Pictures, a maker and distributor of lower-cost films, to Relativity Media signifies further reordering in Hollywood’s specialty movie business.

Universal Sells Rogue for $150 Million

The comedy “Marley & Me” and other Christmas films continued strongly at the box office.

‘Marley’ Is Leader at Box Office

There was not much magic in the New York Philharmonic’s performance of the “Brandenburg” Concerto No. 2.

A Hefty Sound for Bach and a Piano-Centric Strauss and Szymanowski

Donald Brown rambled for 261 yards on 29 carries with a touchdown in his final college game and won most valuable player honors for Connecticut at the International Bowl.

UConn Star Runs to Record, Then Keeps Right On Going

Gert Friedrich Jonke was an Austrian poet, playwright and novelist.

January 4, 2009

Headlines from January 4, 2009

A Donor’s Gift Soon Followed Clinton’s Help

Hosts at Last, Cardinals Show Falcons the Door

Surging Chargers Knock Off the Colts

Israeli Attack Splits Gaza; Truce Calls Are Rebuffed

Richardson Won’t Pursue Cabinet Post

Billboard 200

Fearless

A Different Me

Intuition

Circus

I Am...Sasha Fierce

Notable Deaths

Historical Context for January 4, 2009