CBS is cutting deals with stations to distribute new shows, like Nancy Grace’s, that it hopes will help fill the void when Oprah Winfrey moves to cable.

CBS Strains to Give Show a Head Start

President Obama will call for a three-year freeze in spending on many domestic programs, in a move meant to signal seriousness about cutting the budget deficit.

Obama to Seek Spending Freeze to Trim Deficits

Efforts to rein in the world financial system will be no better than parochial without a global authority.

Still Needed: A Sheriff of Finance

The U.S. is developing a strategy to deal with cyberspace attacks, a task complicated by the problem of identifying the enemy.

In Digital Combat, U.S. Finds No Easy Deterrent

Apple is expected to market its tablet computer not just as a way to read news and books, but also as a way for companies to charge for content.

With Apple Tablet, Print Media Hope for a Payday

A special inspector general shows a willingness to stand up to powerful institutions of Washington and Wall Street.

An Investigator Presses to Uncover Bailout Abuse

The ambassador in Kabul offered a bleak accounting of the Afghan leadership and the risks of sending more troops.

U.S. Envoy’s Cables Show Worries on Afghan Plans

Even if Democratic leaders get the votes necessary to surmount a threatened filibuster, the Fed’s reputation appears to have been tarnished.

Bernanke Is Gaining Supporters

Lifting a page from the playbook of credit card companies, some colleges are sending applications that cut fees.

Colleges Market Easy, No-Fee Sell to Applicants

The growth was spurred by a federal stimulus package, but the advance could slow this year as the effects of the 2009 recession kick in.

Wind Power Grows 39% for the Year

Sending pupils out to play before eating might make a difference in their health and behavior.

Play, Then Eat: Shift May Bring Gains at School

A plan for a bipartisan commission to press for tax increases and spending cuts failed in the Senate, but President Obama may establish a similar panel by executive order.

President Plans Own Panel on the Debt

The three short dramas that make up “The Story of a Family” are both the starkest and most sentimental of Horton Foote’s lovingly painted “Orphans’ Home Cycle.”

Life, Death and Family in Foote’s Texas

Biting cold at times threatens to smother the biting wit in Sam Mendes’s tough-minded, wintry new production of “As You Like It.”

Cold Snap Hits the Forest of Arden: Lovebirds Are Shivering

A study argues that a widely invoked symbol on a colonial-era African coffin uncovered at the African Burial Ground in Manhattan probably does not have African origins at all.

Coffin’s Emblem Defies Certainty

James Cameron’s science-fiction epic “Avatar” has passed his “Titanic” to become history’s highest-grossing film.

He Doth Surpass Himself: ‘Avatar’ Outperforms ‘Titanic’

An argument once seen as an academic debate is now gaining traction among policy makers.

British Central Banker Favors Splitting Big Banks

Amid a worldwide economic crisis, La Tour d’Argent and Taillevent, both fixtures on the city’s high-end dining scene, have been passed on to third-generation heirs.

In Paris, Two Family Affaires

Food culture is infiltrating yoga, and not everyone is happy about it.

When Chocolate and Chakras Collide

Toyota Motor Company will temporarily stop selling and building eight models for the U.S. market while it tries to resolve a problem with accelerator pedals.

Toyota Halts Sales of 8 Models in U.S. for Pedal Flaw

Ramen, a simple concoction of broth and noodles, has inspired passion among Japanese and foreigners alike, and allows for a deeper understanding of the city itself.

One Noodle at a Time in Tokyo

An article on Monday about President Obama’s planned State of the Union proposals intended to help middle-class families described incorrectly nonrefundable tax credits, like the expanded child care credit Mr. Obama is expected to propose for families earning less than $85,000. Nonrefundable credits are those that do not result in cash payments for people who pay no income tax. They reduce the tax liability, and therefore may increase the refund, of households that do pay taxes.

Corrections

An article on Friday about the housing crisis in Haiti caused by the Jan. 12 earthquake misspelled, in some copies, the middle name of a quake victim in the city of Jacmel. She is Charles Mary René, not Charles Marie René.

An article on Monday about a debate in Massachusetts, following Martha Coakley’s loss in last week’s Senate race, over whether a glass ceiling exists there for women in politics, misstated, in some copies, the number of women that Massachusetts has sent to the United States House of Representatives through the years. There have been four, not three.

An article on Thursday about a report’s finding that more than one-third of Manhattan’s public school buildings have hazardous code violations referred incorrectly to the School of the Future on East 22nd Street, which has 10 open violations. It is a traditional public school, not a charter school.

Louis Stanton Auchincloss was an American lawyer, novelist, historian, and essayist. He is best known as a novelist who parlayed his experiences into books exploring the experiences and psychology of American polite society and old money. His dry, ironic works of fiction continue the tradition of Henry James and Edith Wharton. He wrote his novels initially under the name Andrew Lee, the name of an ancestor who cursed any descendant who drank or smoked.

January 26, 2010

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CBS Strains to Give Show a Head Start

Obama to Seek Spending Freeze to Trim Deficits

Still Needed: A Sheriff of Finance

In Digital Combat, U.S. Finds No Easy Deterrent

With Apple Tablet, Print Media Hope for a Payday

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