The postmaster general expects a $7 billion deficit this year, up from a projection of $6 billion just months ago.

Increasing Postal Deficits Intensify Talks on Solution

Some homeowners are embracing so-called “cool roofs” that reflect heat as an affordable tool against climate change.

White Roofs Catch On as Energy Cost Cutters

Ford’s chief executive, Alan R. Mulally, figured the Taurus name still had value, even though it had become a staple of rental car fleets.

Once-Mothballed Taurus Is Back on Stage at Ford

Many mortgage companies that make big profits on late fees are reluctant to give strapped homeowners a break.

Lucrative Fees May Deter Efforts to Alter Loans

A major source of campaign contributions for Senate Democrats is a physician-owned hospital that is trying to soften health care legislation.

Texas Hospital Flexing Muscle in Health Fight

Exxon’s report caps a week of lower earnings in the energy industry after the tumble of oil prices since last year.

Profit Dropped 66% at Exxon Mobil

A senior American military adviser says that the Iraqi forces suffer from deeply entrenched deficiencies, but that extending the stay of U.S. forces won’t help.

U.S. Adviser’s Blunt Memo on Iraq: Time ‘to Go Home’

Manny Ramirez and David Ortiz were among the baseball players who tested positive, lawyers said.

Ortiz and Ramirez Said to Be on ’03 Doping List

Wall Street’s million dollar club had nearly 5,000 members in 2008, New York’s attorney general reported.

Bankers Reaped Lavish Bonuses During Bailouts

Albert Maysles, one of the protean figures in documentary film, lives with his family in a brownstone in Harlem.

A Life in Pictures: Albert Maysles

Cary Grant made more than 50 movies as a leading man, but the only thing that ties them together is that they starred Cary Grant.

Once Upon a Time, a Real Leading Man

There’s something irritatingly self-satisfied about “Funny People,” which explains why, though it glances on the perils of fame, it mostly affirms its pleasures.

Stand Up and Deliver

Communities are haunted by the huge empty buildings — which find few takers — that have been left behind by the automakers.

When Auto Plants Close, Only White Elephants Remain

For the designer Harry Allen, a 1964 Willys Jeep truck exemplifies form following function.

Appreciation for a Simple Pickup

The New York area has not been kind to multiday rock shows. The organizers of All Points West in Jersey City hope to break the curse.

Fighting the Ghost of Festivals Past

A tent community for the homeless under a freeway overpass in downtown Providence, R.I., has written rules to live by.

Living in Tents, and by the Rules, Under a Bridge

The Volkswagen Tiguan isn’t a bad little vehicle, but it highlights the silliness of the faux-S.U.V. genre.

A Wagon, More or Less

An article on July 12 about strategies that Judge Sonia Sotomayor might employ in her confirmation hearings misspelled the surname of an advocate who urged Democrats to question the judge on abortion, and misidentified her advocacy group. She is Nancy Northup, not Northrop, and she is president of the Center for Reproductive Rights, not the Center for Reproductive Freedom.

Corrections

The listing of lottery results in some editions on Wednesday misstated Tuesday’s winning New Jersey Mega Millions numbers in some copies. They are 4, 17, 24, 25 and 48; the mega ball number is 34.

An article in some editions last Thursday about the fatal shooting of a Cadillac driver by a police officer following a chaotic chase in Manhattan paraphrased incorrectly from comments by a witness and misstated the condition of a motorcyclist and a pedestrian hit by the driver. The witness referred to the dead man as the driver, not the “gunman. ” (The police have said no weapon was found in the car.) And the motorcyclist and pedestrian had minor injuries; they did not escape injury entirely.

Because of an editing error, an article on Tuesday about the ominous signs that preceded a wrong-way crash on the Taconic Parkway in Westchester County that killed eight people misidentified, in some editions, the grandfather of Rich Guzzo, a relative of two of the three men who were killed. Mr. Guzzo’s grandfather was Michael Bastardi  not Guy Bastardi, who was Mr. Guzzo’s uncle.

An article on Sunday about the rise and fall of the New York artist Dash Snow, who died of a drug overdose on July 13 at the age of 27, referred incorrectly to another addict, the novelist William S. Burroughs. He was born into a wealthy family; he was not “working class.”.

An obituary on Tuesday about the tobacco executive and arts administrator George Weissman gave an incorrect name for the school from which he received his business degree. At the time of his graduation in 1953, it was the business school of the City College of New York  not Baruch College of the City University of New York, which later became its name.

An article last Thursday about the Brimfield Antique Show, a group of antiques markets in Brimfield, Mass., misidentified the market that set off a stampede by the crowd at its gate. It was the New England Motel and Antique Market, not Quaker Acres.

Mohammed Yusuf, also known as Ustaz Mohammed Yusuf, was a Nigerian militant who founded the Islamist militant group Boko Haram in 2002. He was its leader until he was killed during the 2009 Boko Haram uprising.

Mohammed Yusuf, Nigerian militant leader, founded Boko Haram (born 1970)

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Peter Zadek was a German director of theatre, opera and film, a translator and a screenwriter. He is regarded as one of the greatest directors in German-speaking theater.

July 30, 2009

Headlines from July 30, 2009

Increasing Postal Deficits Intensify Talks on Solution

White Roofs Catch On as Energy Cost Cutters

Once-Mothballed Taurus Is Back on Stage at Ford

Lucrative Fees May Deter Efforts to Alter Loans

Texas Hospital Flexing Muscle in Health Fight

Billboard 200

Leave This Town

BLACKsummers'night

Hannah Montana 3

NOW 31

The E.N.D.

Notable Deaths

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