Mir Hussein Moussavi is in some ways an accidental leader, a moderate anointed to represent a popular upwelling.

An Insider Turned Agitator Is the Face of Iran’s Opposition

With the rise of Facebook and Twitter, registering a simple Web address is no longer enough to plant one’s flag firmly in the online terrain.

Keeping a True Identity Becomes a Battle Online

The Obama plan -- and its overall effect on Wall Street’s modus operandi -- is not even close to what President Franklin Roosevelt accomplished during the Depression.

Only a Hint of Roosevelt in Financial Overhaul

Banks fear they could lose billions of dollars because of an agency proposed to ensure that consumers are protected.

Banks Brace for Fight Over an Agency Meant to Bolster Consumer Protection

The jump is partly because of new drilling technologies, and raises the possibility of the resource becoming an important transition fuel.

Estimate Places Natural Gas Reserves 35% Higher

As another day of defiance, concessions and ominous threats transfixed Tehran, the situation had all the hallmarks of a standoff.

As Confrontation Deepens, Iran's Path Is Unclear

Soaring fuel prices and too-rapid expansion contributed to the financial difficulties of Kingfisher and other carriers.

In Indian Airline’s Troubles, a Cautionary Tale

An analysis of homicide data provides insights about who is killed, by whom, where the murders occur and why.

In New York, Number of Killings Rises With Heat

Convicts do not have a right under the Constitution to obtain DNA testing to try to prove their innocence long after being found guilty, the Supreme Court ruled.

Justices Reject Inmate Right to DNA Tests

The Treasury secretary said the Federal Reserve’s powers would not expand greatly under a planned reform of financial regulation.

Senators Skeptical of Financial Regulation Plan

The president’s promise to change Washington is colliding with the realities of money, influence and governance.

Obama’s Pledge on Donations Faces Reality

My problem with “Whatever Works” is not that the premise is a wee bit familiar. Rather, it’s that the delivery is off.

Kvetch Your Enthusiasm

Harold Ramis’s “Year One” is a thoroughly, sometimes gaggingly broad and sly conceptual laugh-in.

In the Beginning, God Created Yuks

The refined and comfortable Fusion Hybrid offers stellar fuel economy, and it may well be the most well-rounded hybrid yet.

A Detroit Hybrid That Hums

The standard Malibu is an impressive family sedan, but the Malibu Hybrid is a major disappointment.

A G.M. Hybrid That Misses the High Notes

Broadway, out of economic necessity, is embracing rock, country and pop-soul music. Here’s a look at some of the original cast albums of the season.

Broadway Musicals Sing a Different Tune

“Merlin,” a lighthearted, medieval adventure series beginning Sunday on NBC, is tailored to the age of Obama.

Once and Future Sorcerer

A request from Beijing that local governments “Buy China” is worrying — and hypocritical.

Lesson for China in Smoot-Hawley

An article on Wednesday about a prison in Victorville, Calif., that could eventually hold prisoners transferred from Guantánamo Bay misidentified the facility that currently holds Ahmed Khalfan Ghailani, the first Guantánamo detainee to be transferred to the United States for trial. It is the Metropolitan Correctional Center in Manhattan  not the Metropolitan Detention Center in Brooklyn.

Corrections

A headline on Tuesday with an article about Russia’s veto of a United Nations resolution extending the United Nations mission that monitors Abkhazia and South Ossetia, the separatist enclaves that Russia says it liberated from Georgian control in the war last August, referred incorrectly to the mission’s location. It is in Abkhazia  not “near Georgia.” (While Russia considers Abkhazia a sovereign nation, Georgia and most other countries do not.).

An article on Tuesday about a lawsuit that is seeking access to New York City Board of Educationfiles on teachers investigated during the anti-Communist purges of the 1950s misstated, in some editions, the outcome of a legal challenge to the state’s Feinberg Law, which made it illegal for teachers to advocate the overthrow of the government by force. The United States Supreme Court upheld the Feinberg Law in 1952; it did not declare it unconstitutional. (That came 15 years later, in a decision on another lawsuit.).

Because of an editing error, an article on Wednesday about the Obama administration’s decision not to provide federal stimulus money to California to help it with its $24.3 billion budget deficit misstated the given name of the communications director of California’s governor, Arnold Schwarzenegger. He is Matt David, not Mike.

An article on Wednesday about contenders to win the United States Open golf tournament this weekend omitted the name of a player who won the event four times and referred incorrectly to Tiger Woods’s place in history should he win his fourth Open. In addition to Jack Nicklaus, Bob Jones and Willie Anderson, Ben Hogan also won the tournament four times. With a victory, Woods would become the second golfer, not the first, to win four in the same decade  a distinction that belongs to Anderson, who won in 1901, 1903, 1904 and 1905. And Woods would become the seventh golfer  not the third  to defend his title successfully.

An article on Monday about the search for summer jobs along the Jersey Shore misidentified the location of Jenkinson’s Pier, an entertainment complex on the boardwalk. It is in Point Pleasant Beach — not Point Pleasant, as the dateline indicated. Because of an editing error, the article also misstated the location of the boardwalk where Laura Rozamus, a former Blue Cross employee, said she had been seeking work after arriving from Albany. It is in Atlantic City; there is no boardwalk in Absecon.

A picture caption on Sunday with an article about hill-climb cycling competitions misidentified one rider and omitted the name of another shown competing in the Mount Washington Auto Road Bicycle Hillclimb. The cyclist on the left — not the right — was John Sutton, No. 723. The rider on the right, No. 413, who was not named in the caption, was Jonathan Calvert. (The rider in the middle, Hannah Sullivan, was identified correctly.).

The Lunar Reconnaissance Orbiter (LRO) is a NASA robotic spacecraft currently orbiting the Moon in an eccentric polar mapping orbit. Data collected by LRO have been described as essential for planning NASA's future human and robotic missions to the Moon. Its detailed mapping program is identifying safe landing sites, locating potential resources on the Moon, characterizing the radiation environment, and demonstrating new technologies.

The Lunar Reconnaissance Orbiter (LRO), a NASA robotic spacecraft is launched.

June 18, 2009

Headlines from June 18, 2009

An Insider Turned Agitator Is the Face of Iran’s Opposition

Keeping a True Identity Becomes a Battle Online

Only a Hint of Roosevelt in Financial Overhaul

Banks Brace for Fight Over an Agency Meant to Bolster Consumer Protection

Estimate Places Natural Gas Reserves 35% Higher

Billboard 200

Big Whiskey And The GrooGrux King

Relapse

Uplifter

Chickenfoot

21st Century Breakdown

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