Montana could become the first state to declare medical aid in dying to be a right under the State Constitution.

Montana Court to Rule on Assisted Suicide Case

Therapists say Jaycee Dugard’s biggest challenge may prove to be shaking the influence of her abductors.

For Longtime Captives, a Complex Road Home

Khosla Ventures has raised $1.1 billion in two funds that will invest in green technology and information technology start-ups.

Venture Firm’s ‘Green’ Funds Top $1 Billion

Japan’s opposition party returned to power on a pledge to a shift away from deregulation and market-led growth.

Japan’s Victors Set to Abandon Market Reform

When Leydi Mendoza returned from duty with the National Guard, she was restricted from seeing her child.

Soldier’s Service Leads to a Custody Battle at Home

A small film for Welsh teenagers has been viewed millions of times. That may not mean changed behavior.

Doubts About Scare Tactics on Drivers Who Text

The Obama administration is adding staff and directing the division back to more traditional efforts on behalf of minorities after a shift by the Bush administration.

Justice Department to Recharge Civil Rights Enforcement

The government’s plan to tighten limits on the production and export of so-called rare earth elements would force more manufacturers to make their wares in China.

China Tightens Grip on Rare Minerals

The $1.9 billion deal values Skype, the Internet calling service, at $2.75 billion, higher than many analysts had expected.

In a Sale, Skype Wins a Chance to Prosper

As businesses begin to place orders to rebuild depleted inventories, factories stir to life again.

Manufacturing Grows After 18 Weak Months

Like the basketball free throw, the tennis serve involves foot placement, body balance and, often, mental anguish.

Toss the Ball. Hit the Ball. Oops! Oops!

Industry sales increased 1 percent during the month compared with August 2008, and rose 26 percent from July.

Clunker Program Spurred August Sales

Allegations by tribal elders in a southern Afghan district represent the most serious claims publicized against Hamid Karzai.

Tribal Leaders Say Karzai’s Team Forged 23,900 Votes

A marketing plan showed how Forest Laboratories planned to spend millions to get doctors to promote a brand name over generics.

Document Details Plan to Promote Costly Drug

The story of a young medical student from Burundi who escapes civil war and genocide and manages to flee to New York City, where he finds both hardship and charity.

Surviving in the City, Against All Odds

The female duo that best captures the pop moment is Colbie Caillat and Ingrid Michaelson. The nice girls are back in control — how did this come to pass?

Singing a (Very) Simple Song

“Unmade Beds” is a lovely, somewhat messy movie about lovely, messy young lives.

Looking for a Way In (and Out)

Lorrie Moore described her new book, “A Gate at the Stairs,” as a meditation on “what it meant to be in this town in the Midwest in this particular time in contemporary America.”

Hate, Love, Chores: Lorrie Moore’s Midwest Chronicle

The Beatles: Rock Band reinterprets an essential symbol of one generation in the medium and technology of another.

All Together Now: Play the Game, Mom

A front-page article on Sunday about a re-argument in a Supreme Court campaign finance case described the unsuccessful efforts of Fred Wertheimer, a veteran advocate of tighter campaign regulations, to persuade the Reporters Committee for Freedom of the Press to change its position that the government should not have the power under the First Amendment to limit the distribution of “Hillary: The Movie,” a polemical documentary. The article quoted the committee’s executive director, Lucy Dalglish, as saying that Mr. Wertheimer “called a couple of people who were donors, and he cost us some money.”.

Editors’ Note

An article on Saturday about Senator Edward M. Kennedy’s widow, Victoria, misidentified a relative of the senator who praised the way she dealt with Mr. Kennedy’s battle with cancer. He is Joseph P. Kennedy II, a nephew  not Joseph P. Kennedy Jr., who was the senator’s oldest brother.

Corrections

An article on Sunday about the funeral of Senator Edward M. Kennedy misstated the year his brother Joseph was killed while on a Navy air mission. It was in 1944, not 1942.

An article on Saturday about a memorial service for Senator Edward M. Kennedy at the John F. Kennedy Presidential Library and Museum erroneously attributed a distinction to the senator’s nephew Joseph P. Kennedy II, who spoke at the event. He is the second eldest child of Robert F. Kennedy, not the eldest. (Kathleen Hartington Kennedy is the eldest.).

A picture caption on Saturday with an article about 1,800 teaching jobs in New York City that remain unfilled just days before the school year begins  apparently because principals are resisting orders to fill vacancies from within  referred incorrectly to Timothy Goettelmann, who was at a job fair at Citi Field. He is a teacher on the hiring committee at a high school in the Bronx, the Holcombe L. Rucker School of Community Research  not a principal.

An article on Wednesday about a cutback in hiring by law firms misstated several firms’ recruitment decisions involving Yale Law School. Two firms  Baker & McKenzie and Milbank, Tweed, Hadley & McCloy  did not register for the program in 2009; another, White & Case, registered but dropped its registration before scheduling any interviews. None of the firms “canceled interviews in New Haven.”.

September 1, 2009

Headlines from September 1, 2009

Montana Court to Rule on Assisted Suicide Case

For Longtime Captives, a Complex Road Home

Venture Firm’s ‘Green’ Funds Top $1 Billion

Japan’s Victors Set to Abandon Market Reform

Soldier’s Service Leads to a Custody Battle at Home

Billboard 200

Twang

Hot August Night/NYC: Live From Madison Square Garden

The E.N.D.

Hot Mess

Only By The Night

Historical Context for September 1, 2009