February 27, 2009

Witty, obsessed and almost inhumanly brave, Flannery O’Connor was peculiar, her work even more so. But Brad Gooch’s biography strives to make it all quite normal — under the circumstances, of course.

The Nobel Peace Prize laureate and Holocaust survivor lost his life savings to Bernard Madoff, and his charity lost $15.2 million.

Though they were led to believe that the second wave of money released by the Treasury would help some of them, insurers are now uncertain what if any relief might come their way.

The charges would move the case of the only enemy combatant to be held on U.S. soil, Ali Saleh Kahlah al-Marri, into a civilian criminal court.

The new traffic rules would bar vehicles from Broadway at public plazas in Times Square and Herald Square.