White House Office of Social Innovation was created to help nonprofits, but it is facing challenges before doling out any money.

Outreach in the Age of Pullback

Today’s popular men’s styles have their roots in the late 19th century.

This Just in From the 1890s

A catwalk master puts model hopefuls through their paces.

It Was No Walk in the Park

Very few women make it inside the writing rooms for late-night television hosts, despite the fact that women make up a larger proportion of their audience than men.

Among Late-Night Writers, Few Women in the Room

As ship owners confront plummeting charter rates from a 25 percent drop in global trade, fears have increased about the recovery of European banks with large shipping industry portfolios.

As Shipping Slows, Banks and Carriers Fear Loan Defaults

At the center of President Obama’s Afghanistan strategy review is the question of how much leverage the U.S. has over President Hamid Karzai.

In Leaning on Karzai, U.S. Has Limited Leverage

Lou Dobbs, the CNN anchor whose views on immigration made him a lightning rod, is leaving the network.

Lou Dobbs Abruptly Quits CNN

Peter W. Galbraith, a former U.S. ambassador, could earn millions as a result of his ties to the Iraqi Kurds and a Norwegian oil company.

U.S. Adviser to Kurds Stands to Reap Oil Profits

A witness disputed the Army’s initial version of how a shooting spree at Fort Hood, Tex., was brought to an end.

At Fort Hood, Witness Credits Second Officer

Goldman Sachs has set aside $200 million to nearly double the size of its main foundation, which has placed a lot of its money in hedge funds and trades heavily in futures contracts.

In Charity Tax Filing, a Glimpse of Goldman

Advanced Micro Devices, a rival maker of computer chips, had accused Intel of strong-arm tactics to pressure PC makers to buy Intel products.

A.M.D.-Intel Settlement Won’t End Their Woes

The government stopped short of saying the F.H.A. might need a direct bailout, but critics were less sure that help wasn’t needed.

Housing Agency’s Cash Reserves Down Sharply

“Fantastic Mr. Fox” is in some ways Wes Anderson’s most fully realized and satisfying film.

Don’t Count Your Chickens

Baghdad’s first trade fair since the invasion six years ago attracted 396 companies, but only a few from the United States.

Rebuilding Its Economy, Iraq Shuns U.S. Businesses

Oren Moverman’s sober and satisfying drama shows how the wars in Afghanistan and Iraq have created a fissure in American society.

Delivering Bad News and Truths About War

The bond insurer’s standing has suffered as lax due diligence has come to light in suits it has filed against Wall Street firms.

A Lack of Rigor Costs MBIA

A festival of theater, dance, music and film examines how the performing arts contributed to the fall of Communism in Warsaw Pact countries.

When Courageous Artists Ripped Holes in the Iron Curtain

Robert Benmosche denied a report that he was about to leave American International Group over government restrictions on pay, but said he was “frustrated” over how long it was taking to resolve the issue.

A.I.G. Chief’s Mission: Save Executive Pay

A bankruptcy case shows that annuity payments and contributions to donor-advised funds are only as safe as the financial health of the sponsoring charity.

Charity Bankruptcy Leaves Many Donors in Distress

Foundations that spend down their endowment and then close are proving to be a boon to charities in the short run, but the trend is also causing anxiety about the future.

As Foundations Close, Anxiety for Charities

An article last Thursday about a possible severe shortage of seasonal flu vaccine in the United States misattributed an assertion that Bush administration officials pressed Congress for money to develop vaccine technology but never got as much as they sought. The comment was by Michael T. Osterholm, director of the Center for Infectious Disease Research and Policy at the University of Minnesota — not by William Hall, a spokesman for the Department of Health and Human Services.

Corrections

An article on Wednesday about plans by the New Museum of Contemporary Art in Manhattan to present an exhibition of art owned by one of its trustees, Dakis Joannou, referred imprecisely, in citing similar arrangements, to a collector whose old master drawings were exhibited by the Metropolitan Museum of Art this year. The collector, Jean Bonna, is an honorary trustee of the Met, not a trustee.

A Political Memo article on Saturday about the effect of last week’s elections on the health care debate in Congress misstated the middle initial for the Republican who is the governor-elect of Virginia. He is Robert F. McDonnell, not Robert H.

An article on Friday about the election defeat of New Jersey’s Democratic governor misspelled his surname at one point and misstated, in some copies, the number of political campaigns in which he spent more than $130 million of his own fortune. As noted elsewhere, he is Jon S. Corzine, not Cozine, and that sum was spent over three campaigns, not two — one for United States Senate in 2000, and two for governor, in 2005 and this year.

A picture caption on the Itineraries page on Nov. 3 with an article about travel management companies’ negotiating rates for the coming year referred incorrectly to the Peninsula Hotel in Shanghai. It is a new hotel; it is not newly renovated.

November 12, 2009

Headlines from November 12, 2009

Outreach in the Age of Pullback

This Just in From the 1890s

It Was No Walk in the Park

Among Late-Night Writers, Few Women in the Room

As Shipping Slows, Banks and Carriers Fear Loan Defaults

Billboard 200

Michael Jackson's This Is It (Soundtrack)

Full Circle

Fearless

Soulbook

Night Castle

Historical Context for November 12, 2009