For various reasons, including the end of the school year, the homeless population swells in the summer.

Summer Brings a Wave of Homeless Families

The sales raised the profile of a tactic once used primarily to shed failing plants or unneeded equipment, and was not considered until recently as a substitute for a complete restructuring.

Automakers’ Swift Cases in Bankruptcy Shock Experts

Sergey Aleynikov masterminded a dazzling bank theft, the authorities say, and he did it without brandishing a gun or cracking a vault.

Ex-Worker Said to Steal Goldman Code

A co-op near Seattle that has embraced a collaborative model of primary care has attracted interest in Congress.

Health Co-op Offers Model for Overhaul

The U.S. and Russia declared a rapprochement in part by agreeing to disagree on important issues.

Obama Resets Ties to Russia, but Work Remains

Reacting to swings in oil prices, regulators said they were considering limits on “speculative” energy traders.

U.S. Considers Curbs on Speculative Trading of Oil

In an advisory decision, a federal jury found that Maurice Greenberg, its former chief, did not wrongly take billions in A.I.G. stock.

Jury Decides for Greenberg in A.I.G. Case Over Shares

There was nothing cautious about Renée Fleming’s performance as Violetta in Verdi’s “Traviata” at the Royal Opera on Monday.

Casting Caution Aside as Violetta

In the time before the Internet and celebrity journalism, “American Top 40” was appointment listening that offered more musical variety than most local radio stations.

That Casey Kasem Show Was More Than Just Reaching for Stars

Dress ’em to the teeth, or strip ’em down to their skivvies. That’s how London is treating its musicals these days.

London’s Musicals: Intimate or Outsize

Italy’s biggest prize in the war against looting antiquities went on view recently at the Villa Giulia in Rome. Italians didn’t seem to care much.

Stolen Beauty: A Greek Urn’s Underworld

When it came to representing the sprawling nature of the foreclosure crisis in New York City, the artist Damon Rich figured out that the best thing to do was to shrink it down to size.

Mapping a Bird’s-Eye View of Foreclosure Misery

The potential perils of Washington’s staggering deficits are known, but trying to overcome them during a recession carries its own risks.

Staggering Budget Gap and a Reluctance to Fill It

A single block on West 134th Street offers a vivid illustration of just how cool the market and the mood have turned.

On a Harlem Block, Boarded-Up Buildings and a Changing Mood

With pornographic movies being sold online in chunks, moviemakers are now even less interested in story lines.

Lights, Camera, Lots of Action. Forget the Script.

Despite the collapse of Lehman Brothers, the wobbles of big banks and the scarcity of financing across the world, the investment banking business just keeps going.

Like Roaches, Wall St. Survives

An article in some editions on Thursday about a bill to extend mayoral control of New York City’s schools, which expired during a stalemate in the New York State Senate, thereby resurrecting a Board of Education, referred incorrectly to the jurisdiction that community school boards once had. They were in charge of elementary and middle schools, not middle and high schools. 

Corrections

A report in the “Arts, Briefly” column on Wednesday about the closing of the music magazine Vibe misstated the year another music magazine, Blender, closed. It was this year, not last year.

Because of an editing error, a report in the “Arts, Briefly” column on Friday about the results of an autopsy on the body of the actor David Carradine, conducted by a medical examiner hired by Mr. Carradine’s family, misstated the examiner’s description of Mr. Carradine’s body when it was found in his hotel room in Bangkok last month. He said that Mr. Carradine’s hands had been tied above his head, not behind his head.

The 36 Hours column on June 28 about Cork, Ireland, misidentified the managers of the cafe at the Crawford Art Gallery and Cafe. They are Ivan Whelan and his wife, Jean Manning; Fawn Allen is no longer the manager.

Correction: 36 Hours in Cork, Ireland

Many of the online radio stations had argued that the old rates were so high they were being forced out of business.

Music Labels Reach Online Royalty Deal

“The Ascent of Money,” which begins Wednesday on PBS, explores various monetary crises and financial instruments that altered history for better or worse.

Our Current Global Economic Crisis: The Prequel

Ramping up the publicity campaign for Dan Brown’s follow-up to “The Da Vinci Code,” the publisher released the jacket art for “The Lost Symbol” on Tuesday.

A Dan Brown Tease

A carriage house at the back of the Isabella Stewart Gardner Museum in Boston was demolished on Monday after a dispute between preservationists and museum officials.

July 7, 2009

Headlines from July 7, 2009

Summer Brings a Wave of Homeless Families

Automakers’ Swift Cases in Bankruptcy Shock Experts

Ex-Worker Said to Steal Goldman Code

Health Co-op Offers Model for Overhaul

Obama Resets Ties to Russia, but Work Remains

Billboard 200

Lines; Vines And Trying Times

The E.N.D.

Big Whiskey And The GrooGrux King

Relapse

Monuments And Melodies

Historical Context for July 7, 2009