As regional powers battle for influence, the June elections for Parliament may be the most corrupt in decades.

Foreign Money Seeks to Buy Lebanese Votes

In the debate over extending mayoral control of New York City schools, an oversight group’s role is under scrutiny.

Schools Panel Is No Threat to the Mayor’s Grip

Some drug makers are backing up their products with discount deals or promises to pay if the drugs don’t work.

Drug Deals Tie Prices to How Well Patients Do

Oil markets have shown resilience, as investors seek a refuge and OPEC cuts output to match lower demand.

Oil Prices Resist the World’s Recession Trend

Bartlett Sher, a Tony Award-winner, is the first white director to revive an August Wilson play on Broadway.

Race an Issue in Wilson Play, and in Its Production

Chrysler is approaching a deadline on its reorganization plan, and new agreements with the United Automobile Workers union are crucial to its survival.

U.A.W. Grapples With Fate

The fall of a district near Pakistan’s capital to Taliban fighters has raised alarm about the ability of the government to fend off the militants’ advance.

U.S. Questions Pakistan’s Will to Stop Taliban

Matt Cavenaugh and his girlfriend, Jenny Powers, wanted to find a new apartment together, but decided that Ms. Powers’ $2,500-a-month apartment in the East Village was too good of a deal to lose.

Suppers at Midnight

At least 15 states are in various stages of considering or implementing furloughs.

To Save Money, States Turn to Furloughs

The Treasury Department has reached an agreement in principle with the autoworkers union in the event that Chrysler, which is negotiating with Fiat, files for bankruptcy.

U.S. Said to Seek a Chrysler Plan for Bankruptcy

For Livingston Taylor, who began writing songs at age 16 and has recorded 14 albums, this tiny Martha’s Vineyard house provides enough silence for him to hear his muse.

A Quiet Place to Make Music and Putter

There could be new life at Flushing Airport, an overgrown 70-acre parcel next to the Whitestone Expressway in College Point, Queens.

Where Planes Once Droned, Eagles Soar

The company’s revenue dropped 6 percent and its profits by 32 percent compared with the same quarter last year.

Microsoft Profit Falls for First Time in 23 Years

From glacier-scoured landscapes in Adirondack Park to prairies on the Great Plains, a 4,600-mile trail is opening vistas for hikers and day-trippers.

Northern Exposure: Hiking the North Country Trail

Few guidebooks navigate the highways that stretch from Birmingham to Selma, Ala., and it can seem as if little has changed since Mr. Evans photographed the area in 1936.

On the Path of Walker Evans

Some of the lost souls in “The Soloist,” a big studio movie about a one-man rescue mission, look as thin as the crack pipes clamped between their lips.

Struggle and Rescue, a Duet in Sharps and Minors

Mike Tyson describes the murderous clarity he carried into the ring in “Tyson.”

Violence Embodied in a Boxer’s Rise and Fall

New Jersey voters passed three in every four school budgets in the 549 districts, according to a preliminary tally.

Despite Voters’ Fears, School Budgets Fare Well

The topping, London-born revival of Alan Ayckbourn’s “Norman Conquests” cripples you with laughter that shakes the body and, more subversively, fractures the soul.

Unrequited Lust, in Triplicate

In reworking their signature pickup trucks, which are crucial to their ongoing success, Ford and Dodge took very different approaches.

Carrying a Load for 2 Automakers

John Sharpe James, son of Newark’s towering yet controversial former mayor, campaigns for a spot on the Newark City Council.

In Newark, Another James Campaigns

Corrections

An article on April 12 about immigration policies that are hindering efforts by technology companies to hire foreign-born engineers overstated the number of Google employees who were born abroad and work at the company on temporary visas. The number ranges from 1,200 to 1,800; it is not 2,000.

Correction

Because of an editing error, an article on Tuesday about an order by a top Iranian judicial official to consider an appeal in the case of Roxana Saberi, an Iranian-American journalist sentenced to eight years in jail for spying, conflated references to two courts. The courts that have issued death sentences by stoning are criminal courts; they are not the same as the courts that try security-related charges.

April 23, 2009

Headlines from April 23, 2009

Foreign Money Seeks to Buy Lebanese Votes

Schools Panel Is No Threat to the Mayor’s Grip

Drug Deals Tie Prices to How Well Patients Do

Oil Prices Resist the World’s Recession Trend

Race an Issue in Wilson Play, and in Its Production

Billboard 200

Unstoppable

Hannah Montana: The Movie

The Last Kiss

Wide Open

NOW 30

Historical Context for April 23, 2009