To prepare its students for test questions with rural settings, a Harlem school hauls its students to a farm museum.

A Moo-Moo Here, and Better Test Scores Later

The newspaper is offering buyouts, but layoffs will follow if an insufficient number fail to sign up, employees were told on Monday.

New York Times Moves to Trim 100 in Newsroom

Only a half-dozen donors from big financial firms that received bailouts are attending a fund-raiser on Tuesday.

Wall St. Giants Reluctant to Donate to Democrats

Wall Street’s relentless quest for an edge in trading stocks has complex boundaries, making insider trading allegations difficult to prove.

Thin Line Separates Insider Trading and Research

In this excerpt from a new book, Lehman’s chairman reaches out in several directions to find relief for his sinking firm.

The Race to Save Lehman Brothers

A formal structure would oversee the conversion to Roman Catholicism of Anglicans uncomfortable with their church’s acceptance of female priests and openly gay bishops.

Vatican Bidding to Get Anglicans to Join Its Fold

In the contentious world of New York City schools under Mayor Rudolph W. Giuliani, William C. Thompson Jr. stayed in the background.

In Schools Post, Thompson Was a Conciliator

The artist E.V. Day has been given free rein to rummage through New York City Opera’s considerable costume closets to create an installation in the David H. Koch Theater.

For City Opera Costumes, Lofty New Roles

Broadway’s unusual financial success this fall is being driven by the star-studded productions of three plays, obscuring challenges facing several other shows.

A Few Star-Studded Hits Obscure Broadway’s Challenges

William Clay Ford Jr. talks about the future of Ford vehicles. Ten years from now, he expects cars to be smaller and lighter but with engines that have greater horsepower.

Ford Looks to the Future

“Rembrandt’s J’Accuse” is a generally absorbing if sometimes fog-inducing investigation into the mysteries of the Rembrandt painting “The Night Watch.”

The Man Who Watched the Watchers

Sherman Alexie has followed the success of his young-adult novel, “The Absolutely True Diary of a Part-Time Indian,” with a volume of short stories and poetry.

In His Own Literary World, a Native Son Without Borders

The area of Pakistan where David Rohde, a Times reporter, and two Afghan colleagues were held for months was frequently hit by missiles fired from American drones.

A Drone Strike and Dwindling Hope

It is difficult to fathom at first why Norman Foster would personally want to take on a sliver of a building on the Bowery.

Architect’s Challenge: A Sliver of a Space

With five restaurants in New York already and plans for as many as 10 more, the chef Michael Huynh has capitalized on the city’s infatuation with Vietnamese cuisine.

Chef Do-It-All, the Master Builder

If Citigroup’s ownership of the Mexican bank Banamex is threatened, the bank should be prepared to put up more of a fight than it did for Phibro.

Time for Citigroup to Take a Stand

The “On Religion” column on Saturday, about the Rev. Dr. Luis Barrios, a leftist who is a tenured professor at John Jay College of Criminal Justice, misstated the surname of a scholar whose writings introduced him to liberation theology. She is Rosemary Radford Ruether, not Rutherford.

Corrections

An article on Wednesday about Research in Motion, the cellphone maker, referred incorrectly to the sales of one of its handsets, the BlackBerry Storm. The company said it sold one million in the first two months after its introduction, not over the year it has been available. (R.I.M. has not released the subsequent sales figures for the phone.)

Because of an editing error, an article on Monday about New Orleans’s 48-27 victory over the Giants erroneously attributed a distinction to Saints quarterback Drew Brees. Entering Sunday’s game, his passer rating was the third best in the N.F.L., not the best.

Two photographs with “Living Here” in the Escapes pages on Oct. 9 were published in error. While two of the featured homes are in San Miguel de Allende, Mexico, and were accompanied by photographs of them, the descriptions of homes in Hermosa Beach, Calif., and Seattle were also accompanied by photos of a three-bedroom home in San Miguel de Allende, not of the homes described. 

A picture caption last Sunday with the cover article about biking in Vermont to see fall foliage misstated the location of the Morgan Horse Farm. As the article noted, it is in Weybridge  not in Middlebury, which is two miles away.

Correction: Pedal Peepers in Vermont

The 36 Hours column on Oct. 11, about Berlin, referred incorrectly to the location of Arcotel John F. It is in the former East Berlin, not the former West Berlin. 

Corrections: 36 Hours in Berlin

Growth of its soft drinks was strong in emerging markets and sales rose slightly.

Profit Edges Up at Coke, but Sales Stall in North America

Opening with a scrupulous fanfare and closing with an outbreak of anarchy, the Brooklyn Big Band Bonanza fulfilled much of its promise at the Bell House on Monday.

October 20, 2009

Headlines from October 20, 2009

A Moo-Moo Here, and Better Test Scores Later

New York Times Moves to Trim 100 in Newsroom

Wall St. Giants Reluctant to Donate to Democrats

Thin Line Separates Insider Trading and Research

The Race to Save Lehman Brothers

Billboard 200

Love Is The Answer

Brand New Eyes

Memoirs Of An Imperfect Angel

Dear Agony

Black Gives Way To Blue

Historical Context for October 20, 2009