Paul A. Volcker, the former Federal Reserve chairman, was told that the Obama administration’s new proposals to rein in Wall Street firms could derail negotiations over financial regulations.

Dodd Calls Obama Plan Too Grand

By June, about 5.1 million people will own a home whose value is below 75 percent of what is owed.

No Help in Sight, More Homeowners Walk Away

The giant insurer and recipient of the biggest government bailout in history agreed to cut its next round of bonuses by $20 million.

$100 Million Bonus Plan at A.I.G. Draws Fire

Senator Kirsten E. Gillibrand and Harold E. Ford Jr. are wooing and pressuring titans of finance to pick sides.

Senate Race in New York Is a Tug of War Over Donors

Rather than being the Chevrolet of the skies, the F-35 has turned into the Pentagon’s biggest budget-buster.

Gates Tries to Get F-35 Program Back on Course

Debarking, a procedure to quiet noisy dogs, is falling out of favor with veterinarians and animal rights advocates.

Heel. Sit. Whisper. Good Dog.

A bankruptcy judge is acting as King Solomon over an issue that will require him to hurt some victims of Bernard Madoff’s Ponzi scheme.

In Court, Impassioned Challenges of Madoff Trustee’s Plans

The presence of U.S. soldiers, mainly for intelligence and training, has been handled with discretion.

Soldier Deaths Draw Focus to U.S. in Pakistan

Many Haitians in the region see the disaster as an opening to talk about the direction of their community.

N.Y. Haitians See Chance for Clout

Tuesday night’s season premiere of “Lost” seemed to be trying to strike a balance between the show’s convoluted mythology and its more human, character-driven dimension.

‘Lost,’ Nearing End, Nods to the Beginning

As Japanese officials ordered an inquiry into problems with the brakes on the 2010 Prius, Toyota’s stock price dropped about 3.5 percent in early trading Thursday.

Prius Adds to Toyota’s Woes as Stock Drops in Tokyo

As a theater director, Diane Paulus is a proud populist. But will her kind of theater instruct and transform? Or simply entertain?

High Art Meets High Jinks Onstage

Buckfast Tonic Wine is a symbol of Scotland’s drinking problems at a time when it is debating how to address them.

For Scots, a Scourge Unleashed by a Bottle

A tour across Europe by the Tehran Symphony Orchestra had the faint echo of an earlier era of cultural diplomacy.

The Sour Notes of Iran’s Art Diplomacy

An experiment begun in 2001 continues: Which camera offers the most bang for relatively few bucks?

Best Cameras for $300 or Less

Two new devices target love handles without surgery, but it is too early for consumers to know how effectively either device works.


Zap or Chill? Targeting Fat Without Surgery

Jenny Sanford’s account of Gov. Mark Sanford’s headline-making extramarital adventure is a surprisingly energetic exemplar of the “little did I know” genre.

Facing Scandal, Keeping Faith

Experts said a finding could raise ethical questions about consulting severely disabled patients on care.

Trace of Thought Is Found in ‘Vegetative’ Patient

A new black box theater, designed by Hugh Hardy, will be perched on the roof of the Beaumont Theater with a terrace overlooking Lincoln Center.

New Theater: Lincoln Center Raises the Roof

At $104.3 million with fees, an Alberto Giacometti bronze broke the world record price for a work of art at auction.

At London Sale, a Giacometti Sets a Record

Don DeLillo got the idea for his new book, “Point Omega,” when he happened upon Douglas Gordon’s video installation “24 Hour Psycho” at the Museum of Modern Art.

Don DeLillo, a Writer by Accident Whose Course Is Deliberate

Buoyed by “Avatar,” the highest-grossing movie to date, News Corporation’s adjusted second-quarter earnings were 25 cents a share, a nickel above the average expectations of analysts.

‘Avatar’ Bolsters News Corp.’s Earnings

An article in some editions on Saturday about testimony in the federal corruption trial of Leona Beldini, the former deputy mayor of Jersey City, misspelled the given name of the mayor of Jersey City, who appears in videos that were introduced as evidence. He is Jerramiah T. Healy, not Jeremiah.

Corrections

An article on Monday about lingering aviation safety problems a year after the fatal crash of a commuter plane near Buffalo misidentified the airline for which Randy Babbitt, the administrator of the Federal Aviation Administration, was once a captain. It was Eastern, not Northwest. 

An article on Monday about the absence of the multimedia software Flash in Apple’s new iPad tablet computer referred incorrectly to the Web language HTML5. While HTML5 can support video, it is not itself a video format. The article also misstated the ownership of HTML5 patents. HTML5, like other versions of Hypertext Markup Language, is open source; it is not owned by a group of companies, including Apple. (Many Web sites that are starting to use HTML5 are using a particular video encoding program called H.264, which has shared patent pool, of which Apple is a part.)

Richard Joseph McGuire was an American professional basketball player and coach. McGuire was one of the premier guards of the 1950s, playing 11 seasons in the NBA (1949–60), eight with the New York Knicks and three with the Detroit Pistons. He was inducted into the Naismith Memorial Basketball Hall of Fame in 1993. His number 15 jersey was retired by the Knicks in 1992.

Dick McGuire, American basketball player and coach (born 1926)

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Frances Reid was an American dramatic actress. Reid acted on television for nearly all of the second half of the 20th century. Her career continued into the early 2000s.

February 3, 2010

Headlines from February 3, 2010

Dodd Calls Obama Plan Too Grand

No Help in Sight, More Homeowners Walk Away

$100 Million Bonus Plan at A.I.G. Draws Fire

Senate Race in New York Is a Tug of War Over Donors

Gates Tries to Get F-35 Program Back on Course

Billboard 200

Hope For Haiti Now

I Dreamed A Dream

The Fame

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2010 Grammy Nominees

Notable Deaths

Historical Context for February 3, 2010