Since same-sex marriages became legal in Connecticut in November, couples, many from New York City, have been flocking to Greenwich to wed.

Gay New Yorkers Head to Greenwich for Weddings

Without the pressure of traffic or time, a self-guided bicycling tour includes unplanned detours, grueling climbs and scenes that can only be experienced on two wheels.

Seeing Provence From the Slow Lane

Kirk Kerkorian’s bets on MGM Mirage and Ford are not panning out at the moment, but companies in distress have always been his specialty.

Kerkorian’s Stakes May Be Down, but He Has Bounced Back Before

Changing the culture at General Motors is expected to be a significant challenge for the government.

U.S. Takes On the Insular G.M. Culture

Ali Akbar Hashemi Rafsanjani has helped define the race by his feud with President Mahmoud Ahmadinejad.

In Iran Race, Ex-Leader Works to Oust President

Kenneth R. Feinberg, appointed by the Obama administration as the compensation official for companies on federal assistance, has experience in mediating complicated disputes.

Overseer of Big Pay Is Seasoned Arbitrator

As other banks prepare to exit the bailout program, the government is tightening its grip on Citigroup, calling for change at the bank.

U.S. Pushes a Troubled Citigroup to Heal Itself

The diverging fortunes of the U.S. and Europe show the perils and upsides of the recovery plans of each.

Europe Lags as U.S. Economy Shows Signs of Recovery

Kenneth Lewis of Bank of America told a Congressional panel that he had considered pulling out of the deal but that regulators had pressured him to complete it.

Bank Chief Tells of U.S. Pressure to Buy Merrill Lynch

The bill would give the F.D.A. the power to impose potentially strict new controls on tobacco products.

Senate Approves Tight Regulation Over Cigarettes

“The Taking of Pelham 1 2 3,” an energetic updating of the 1974 mass transit thriller, takes account of how much the character of New York has changed.

Stand Clear of the Closing Doors

The confident and muscular new BMW Z4 is the most luxurious convertible this side of $100,000.

Always a Performer, Now Lettering in Looks

Mercedes and AMG have taken the V-8 version of the SL luxury sports car in a more aggressive direction.

Six Figures, but It’s Still Understated

The World Science Festival, a five-day event of performances, debates, celebrations and demonstrations, is back in New York.

Science, the Extravaganza

Stephen Colbert’s four-day broadcast from Baghdad, sponsored by the U.S.O., was unexpectedly charming.

Bob Hope’s Spirit, but No Cheesecake

The Kremlin’s plan to revamp the military will force tens of thousands of former officers to enter a bleak job market.

Russian Military Cuts Leave Soldiers Adrift

Some passengers are upset that A.I.G., US Airways’ insurer, has not compensated them for their losses so far.

A.I.G. Balks at Claims From Jet Ditching in Hudson

The musicians featured are all finding new ways to look at the drum set, and at jazz itself.

Five Drummers Whose Time Is Now

American officials say they are seeing evidence that a handful of Al Qaeda leaders are leaving Pakistan’s tribal areas for new havens.

Some in Qaeda Leave Pakistan for Somalia and Yemen

With polls now open in Iran, some say new democratic energies could affect the country’s politics whether or not President Mahmoud Ahmadinejad is defeated.

As Iran Votes, Talk of a Sea Change

A study found that small businesses, already burdened by high health care costs, could save money under a mandate to purchase coverage for employees.

Savings for Small Business in Health Plan

An article on Dec. 25, 2008, about Herbert and Marion Sandler, whose World Savings Bank marketed adjustable-rate mortgages called option ARMs, referred imprecisely to a decision after the bank’s sale to Wachovia was initiated in 2006 to get more customers for such mortgages by lowering to 1 percent the interest rate borrowers would have to pay. World Savings reduced the rate then from 2.85 percent to 1.5 percent, but it was Wachovia that lowered the rate to 1 percent, in 2007, according to data the Sandlers provided after the article was published.

Corrections

Because of an editing error, an article last Thursday about the expectations being set before President Obama’s speech in Cairo, which was meant to address American relations with the Muslim world, misstated the source of new tensions between the Obama administration and Israel concerning Israeli settlements. Senior Israeli officials have said that in their view Mr. Obama is rewriting old understandings by taking a harder line against growth within existing settlements, not against new settlements. (The rift was described correctly in a related article the same day.).

An article on Wednesday about the ascendance of the Hollywood agent Ariel Z. Emanuel misstated part of the name of an environmental group that he serves as a director. It is the Natural  not National  Resources Defense Council Action Fund.

An article last Thursday about the gloomy mood in the British government because of voter anger over an expense-account scandal misidentified the political affiliation of Nadine Dorries, a lawmaker who had written on her blog about the tense atmosphere in Parliament in the aftermath of the scandal. She is a member of the Conservative Party, not Labor.

June 11, 2009

Headlines from June 11, 2009

Gay New Yorkers Head to Greenwich for Weddings

Seeing Provence From the Slow Lane

Kerkorian’s Stakes May Be Down, but He Has Bounced Back Before

U.S. Takes On the Insular G.M. Culture

In Iran Race, Ex-Leader Works to Oust President

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