The pressure on companies, and even governments, to reduce costs means that many outsourcing businesses are booming.

India Feels Less Vulnerable as Outsourcing Presses On

Millions of homeowners appear to qualify for mortgage assistance from the government but aren’t getting help.

Promised Help Is Elusive for Some Homeowners

The carmaker, which has lost significant market share over the last three decades, projects in its bankruptcy filing that the slide will taper off.

Even Under a Cloud, G.M. Is Predicting Sunshine

Auto suppliers, which employ more workers than the car companies themselves, find their fortunes directly tied, for better or worse, to the automakers.

Detroit’s Woes Wound an Army of Suppliers

Zach Brooks is the founder and editor of Midtown Lunch, a Web site that serves those who toil in Midtown and hope to find something decent and reasonably priced to eat on their lunch breaks.

A Tour Guide Tames Lunch in Midtown

Makers of dry-cured hams in Virginia, Kentucky, Tennessee and Iowa are determined to revive country ham and to develop American versions of European classics.

Bringing Flavor Back to the Ham

Christopher J. Christie will face the incumbent, Gov. Jon S. Corzine, in what could be a fierce and expensive race.

Ex-Prosecutor Wins G.O.P. Primary in New Jersey

Aventura’s blend of bachata with R&B, hip-hop and big-city attitude has created a swaggering, distinctly New York style.

Crossover Dreams of a Bronx Bachatero

Michael Bastian’s agenda is so modest it’s almost radical: to get guys into all-American clothes they love, that flatter them and get better with age.

Michael Bastian: That Thing He Does

The sale at the Barneys shoe department is part roller derby, part Easter egg hunt, part war zone. 

Choose a Shoe, Any Shoe, and Hold On

Some plastic surgeons worry that the basic standards of care and consultation are being compromised in brand name face-lifts like the “Quick Lift” and the “Lifestyle Lift.”

A Face From an Infomercial

Over the next six months in Venice, the artist Ragnar Kjartansson will be relentlessly painting the portrait of a man who poses before him in a Speedo.

Over and Over: Art That Never Stops

President Obama intends to nominate Jim Leach, a former Republican congressman from Iowa, as the next chairman of the National Endowment for the Humanities.

Obama Names a Republican to Lead the Humanities Endowment

“Controversies: A Legal and Ethical History of Photography,” a show at the Bibliothèque Nationale in Paris, squandered our mercy for a rambling survey.

When a Picture Is Worth a Thousand Debates, Give or Take

Geoffrey Naufft’s play is an artful, thoughtful and very moving story of a gay couple agonizing over differences in their religious faiths.

Love With a Proper Atheist and Other Leaps of Faith

Craig Johnson has built a career writing cowboy mystery novels, and a 2,500-square-foot log house, in Wyoming.

In Wyoming, the Pieces Fall Into Place

If investors in New York and London are seeing the green shoots of economic recovery, their counterparts in developing countries are witnessing a full-on spring.

Investors in Developing Markets See Optimism

Affecting a curmudgeonly stance, Michael Lewis writes of how he deigned not just to let a woman into his life, but also three children.

Reluctant Dad Fesses Up to Becoming Smitten Softy

The chief executive of General Motors, Fritz Henderson, told Congress that “it’s our obligation to be open and transparent in all we do to reinvent G.M.”

G.M.’s Chief Promises Full Details of Restructuring

No longer content in the background, companies from Taiwan are seeking the higher profits of a global brand.

Taiwan Tech Firms Strive to Be Global

While the Obama administration and some institutions have pushed for a single federal regulator, it may make sense to have many, more effective ones.

One Watchdog, or a Whole Pack?

Dining Calendar

A mother attempts to reignite her creativity in middle age.

A Play Date With My Imagination

An article on Tuesday about a task force that is to recommend ways to reveal more information about decision-making at the Food and Drug Administration referred incorrectly to a 2000 paper on the painkiller Celebrex in The Journal of the American Medical Association. After learning that the paper omitted data suggesting that the drug did not protect against ulcers, the journal published a clarification from the authors. The paper was not retracted.

Corrections

Because of an editing error, an article on Saturday about a new government plan to fight cyberattacks gave an incorrect attribution for a statement about the differences between the strategy of the United States and that of other countries, including Russia and China. It was Mark Gerencser, a cybersecurity executive, who noted that the United States had separated defense and offense in the cybersecurity arena, while other countries had a more fluid strategy. The statement was not by “Mr. Hamilton.” (Mr. Gerencser is an executive with Booz Allen Hamilton, a consulting firm that deals extensively in the government’s cybersecurity strategy.).

David Carradine was an American actor, director, and producer, whose career included over 200 major and minor roles in film, television and on stage. He was widely known to television audiences as the star of the 1970s television series Kung Fu, playing Kwai Chang Caine, a peace-loving Shaolin monk traveling through the American Old West.

David Carradine, American actor (born 1936)

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Koko Taylor was an American singer whose style encompassed Chicago blues, electric blues, rhythm and blues and soul blues. Sometimes called "The Queen of the Blues", she was known for her rough, powerful vocals. Over the course of her career, she was nominated for 11 Grammy Awards, winning 1985's Best Traditional Blues Album for her appearance on Blues Explosion.

June 3, 2009

Headlines from June 3, 2009

India Feels Less Vulnerable as Outsourcing Presses On

Promised Help Is Elusive for Some Homeowners

Even Under a Cloud, G.M. Is Predicting Sunshine

Detroit’s Woes Wound an Army of Suppliers

A Tour Guide Tames Lunch in Midtown

Billboard 200

Relapse

21st Century Breakdown

Greatest Hits II

ISolated INcident

Back On My B.S.

Notable Deaths

Historical Context for June 3, 2009