Zenyatta ran her record to 14-0 and put an exclamation point on a great year for fillies by coming from way back to win the Breeders’ Cup Classic.

A Classic Ending to Zenyatta’s Perfect Season

Investigators believe that Maj. Nidal Malik Hasan acted under emotional, ideological and religious pressures.

Little Evidence of Terror Plot in Base Killings

After weeks of stalemate, lawmakers approved a law to administer a critical election that could determine how quickly U.S. combat forces leave.

Iraq Passes Crucial Election Law

As described in this autobiography, Andre Agassi’s life is lively but narrow, since his curiosity does not extend far beyond tennis.

Agassi Basks in His Own Spotlight

The slim margin in the House suggests greater challenges in the Senate, where the majority leader, Harry Reid, is struggling to hold on to all 58 Democrats and two independents.

Obama Presses Senate to Pass Its Health Bill

A soon-to-be published book has revived the long-running debate about whether the German philosopher Martin Heidegger can be separated from his philosophy.

An Ethical Question: Does a Nazi Deserve a Place Among Philosophers?

“Fox NFL Sunday,” which was broadcast from Bagram Air Field in Afghanistan, glorified fake warriors and their game, and played to a crowd of real warriors locked in an eight-year-old conflict.

Gridiron Gladiators: Block That Metaphor!

With the New York City Opera’s production of Hugo Weisgall’s “Esther,” this essential company announced it was back, exuding purpose and confidence.

Reborn: Neglected Work and City Opera

Some of the musicians who played in ostracism during the last gray years of Communist rule gathered for a festival in New York.

Musicians Who Poked at the Iron Curtain

Even as Nelson Mandela fades from view, he retains a vital place in South Africa’s public consciousness.

At 91, Mandela Endures as South Africa’s Ideal

As major news erupted in Texas, a new 12-person Web-based newsroom had its debut as a nonprofit covering state government.

News Erupts, and So Does a Web Debut

An article last Sunday about Zac Goldsmith, a multimillionaire environmentalist and Conservative Party candidate for Parliament in Britain, referred incorrectly to his campaign finances. Over the last 30 months, Mr. Goldsmith has spent £248,000, or about $400,000; he has not raised £248,000 this year.

Correction

Oxford University will open its first online collection of Siegfried Sassoon’s manuscripts, Armistice Day, the university’s press office has announced.

World War I, Online

An expensive six-month marketing push helped “Disney’s A Christmas Carol” open at No. 1 at North American theaters over the weekend.

A Soft No. 1 for ‘Disney’s a Christmas Carol’

Morgan Freeman has reached an out-of-court settlement with his passenger over a lawsuit revolving around an August 2008 single-car crash, Reuters reported.

Morgan Freeman Settles in Mississippi Car Crash

Joe Jackson argued that the administrators of his son’s estate should set up a monthly allowance for him, The Los Angeles Times reported.

Michael Jackson’s Father Asks for Allowance

Shakespeare on the Sound in Norwalk, Conn., announced that its summer 2010 production would be “Othello,” and more theater news.

In the Wings

After canceling performances because of an illness caused by E. coli and influenza, Elton John has left the London hospital where he was recuperating, Reuters reported.

Footnotes

The 109-year-old Honolulu Symphony announced on Friday that it would cancel this year’s remaining concerts and file for bankruptcy protection, The Associated Press reported.

Honolulu Symphony Cancels Concert Calendar

An article last Sunday about a deadly attack in October at a United Nations guesthouse in Kabul, Afghanistan, misstated the number of Afghan suspects arrested by that day. It was six, not eight.

Corrections

An art review in some editions last Sunday about “Bold, Cautious, True: Walt Whitman and American Art of the Civil War Era,” at the Katonah Museum of Art in Westchester County, misidentified the institution that loaned two paintings by Sanford Gifford to the museum. It is the New York State Military Museum and Veterans Research Center, not the Metropolitan Museum of Art.

An article in some editions last Sunday about the Long Island Latino International Film Festival misstated, using information from Rolando Sanchez, one of the participating directors, the year he saw the film “Saving Private Ryan,” which he credits with inspiring his interest in film. He saw the film in 1998, the year it was released, not 1996. The article also omitted the original source of a comment by Mr. Sanchez: “I don’t make movies for Latinos. I make films with Latinos in them.” Mr. Sanchez said he was repeating the words of another director, Franc Reyes.

An art review in some editions last Sunday about an exhibition of works by Avital Oz at Art Sites in Riverhead, on Long Island, referred incorrectly to the artist’s birthplace. Mr. Oz was born in 1942 in what was then the British mandate of Palestine, not Israel. (The modern state of Israel did not exist until 1948.).

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November 8, 2009

Headlines from November 8, 2009

A Classic Ending to Zenyatta’s Perfect Season

Little Evidence of Terror Plot in Base Killings

Iraq Passes Crucial Election Law

Agassi Basks in His Own Spotlight

Obama Presses Senate to Pass Its Health Bill

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The Twilight Saga: New Moon

Southern Voice

Crazy Love

The Blueprint 3

The Time Of Our Lives (EP)

Notable Deaths

Historical Context for November 8, 2009