Rising cries of pain are being heard from restaurateurs and bar owners facing the lengthiest liquor license application delays in memory.

Liquor License Delays Add to Restaurants’ Pain

A sudden spike in male rape cases is seen as a consequence of joint Congo-Rwanda military operations against rebels.

Symbol of Unhealed Congo: Male Rape Victims

In his first board meeting, Edward E. Whitacre Jr. left no doubt that he would be pushing the management team hard to reverse G.M.’s decades-long slide.

G.M. Chairman Vows to Defend Market Share

Court documents suggest a broad level of hidden industry influence on medical literature.

Medical Papers by Ghostwriters Pushed Therapy

The findings betrayed much of what had been known about what caused Diane Schuler to drive the wrong way on the Taconic State Parkway 10 days ago.

Tests Show Driver Was Drunk in Parkway Crash That Killed 8

The city claimed that Lehman underpaid taxes, and asked a bankruptcy court to allow a claim of $627 million.

New York Seeks Millions in Tax From Lehman

The S.E.C. chairwoman said she would push to eliminate a technique that enables some firms to peek at investors’ stock orders.

S.E.C. Starts Crackdown on ‘Flash’ Trading

The work of the industry’s chief lobbyist, Karen Ignagni, to reach agreements among insurers may be undercut.

For Health Insurers’ Lobbyist, Good Will Is Tested

The new head of the Bureau of Consumer Protection at the Federal Trade Commission has asked Congress for a bigger budget and for a streamlined way to create rules.

Fresh Views at Agency Overseeing Online Ads

Paula Abdul is leaving “American Idol” after the popular competition’s producers offered her a smaller pay raise than she wanted.

Abdul Walks Off Television’s Biggest Stage

Some of the most beleaguered financial stocks out there suddenly soared on Wednesday. A.I.G. was up 63 percent.

A Few Stocks Skyrocket, but Why?

Ghana, once the last stop for countless slaves headed across the sea, is now a welcoming tourist destination with abundant natural gifts and a vibrant culture.

The Two Faces of Ghana

Barnes & Noble’s e-book store has a lot of promise, but is saddled with filler, missing some top books and has some awkward details.

New Entry in E-Books Is a Paper Tiger

Kirstin Tobiasson created a garden right by the drawbridge to the Gowanus Canal in Brooklyn, where shuttered warehouses meet the cracked, treeless cement.

A Verdant Spot Springs Forth From Concrete

If the fast-rising French-Canadian conductor Yannick Nézet-Séguin was at all nervous about making his New York debut on Tuesday, he did not show it.

Conductor Embraces His New York Moment

Tarzan is the subject of a summer show in Paris that mixes old comics and film clips with action figures, a stuffed crocodile and the female robot from “Metropolis.”

A Loincloth to Set Parisians Aflutter

In a modest Hamptons house, industrial and schoolhouse elements stand up to abuse.

Low-Maintenance Living

Over the last 11 summers Don Imus and his wife have welcomed nearly 1,000 children with cancer to their ranch in New Mexico for stays intended to be more work than play.

Healing Amid the Herd

Ray Takeyh, an Iranian-American State Department adviser, has written a riveting and consistently insightful study of revolutionary Iran and its still troubled place in the world.

Into the Eye of a Storm

For baby boomers, the rock happening remains a community in the consciousness.

Woodstock: A Moment of Muddy Grace

An article on Monday about the shortage of volunteers for clinical trials in cancer research misstated the source of a finding that more than one trial in five sponsored by the National Cancer Institute failed to enroll a single subject, and only half reached the minimum needed for a meaningful result. It came from <a href="http://theoncologist.alphamedpress.org/cgi/content/abstract/13/9/925" title="An abstract of the editorial.">an editorial</a> in the September 2008 issue of The Oncologist, not from a review in that issue.

Corrections

An article on Monday about the Episcopal Church’s nomination of gay priests for promotion misstated the location of St. John the Evangelist Church, whose rector, the Rev. John L. Kirkley, is a candidate to become an assistant bishop. The church is in San Francisco, not San Jose, Calif.

An article on Monday about the Society for American Baseball Research’s annual trivia contest misstated the position played by Ed Konetchy, who was the answer to a question about the batter with the most career triples not in the Hall of Fame. He played first base, not third.

A picture caption on Saturday with a review about the Také Dance Company at Dance Theater Workshop misidentified the work being performed. It is “Shabon,” not “Footsteps in the Snow.”.

An article on Tuesday about challenges facing the Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change misstated the year and the setting of a meeting for which Neville Nicholls, an author of the panel’s last report, prepared a chart showing an increase in the number of published climate studies. It was in Budapest in 2008, not in Venice this year.

Budd Schulberg was an American screenwriter, television producer, novelist and sports writer. He was known for his novels What Makes Sammy Run? (1941) and The Harder They Fall (1947), as well as his screenplays for On the Waterfront (1954) and A Face in the Crowd (1957), receiving an Academy Award for the former.

August 5, 2009

Headlines from August 5, 2009

Liquor License Delays Add to Restaurants’ Pain

Symbol of Unhealed Congo: Male Rape Victims

G.M. Chairman Vows to Defend Market Share

Medical Papers by Ghostwriters Pushed Therapy

Tests Show Driver Was Drunk in Parkway Crash That Killed 8

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