Dr. Desiree Pardi, a leading practitioner in palliative care, counseled patients about accepting death, until cancer spread in her body, and she chose to fight it.

Helping Patients Face Death, She Fought to Live

Fifth-seeded Butler advances to the title game with a 52-50 win. Butler could be the lowest seed to win a national title since Kansas did it as a No. 6 seed in 1988.

Already Home, Butler Rounds Third

Duke won 78-57 against a West Virginia team that never seemed able to get its momentum going. They will face Butler in the N.C.A.A. final on Monday night. 

Duke Returns to Final, but With a Different Style

The attacks, at a delicate moment in talks to form a new government, were an attempt by insurgents to retake the initiative after years of retreat.

Bombs Hit Hub of Diplomacy in Baghdad

A prominent cardinal stood before Pope Benedict XVI and delivered a show of support in the face of growing anger over the church’s sex abuse scandal.

Easter Support for Pope, and Some Apologies

New books by John Banville, one written under the pseudonym Benjamin Black, show his two sides: one convolutedly clever, the other more blunt.

Gods Are in Their Heaven, but All’s Not Right With World

What is a Verdian maestro? Toscanini, Giulini, Kleiber and generations of Met pit conductors all offered their versions.

Verdi Chops Are Tested by ‘Traviata’

The heady ether of prime farce never materializes in the labor-intensive but laugh-deficient revival of “Lend Me a Tenor.”

It’s Not Over Till the Zonked Guy Flings

The Ford Foundation is to announce a $100 million plan to develop art spaces nationwide over the next decade.

Grants Nurture Arts Spaces and Housing

Actions speak louder than words to an art critic watching “Red,” the play about Mark Rothko now on Broadway.

What’s True in Art Studios and Onstage

An article last Sunday about low-profile attractions in Paris referred incorrectly to Louis XV’s connection to the Louvre in describing Ô Chateau, which offers wine tastings in that monarch’s private cellar. Louis XV lived at Versailles, not at the Louvre. (He oversaw additions to the Louvre.)

Correction

The Evening Hours column last Sunday misidentified a guest shown at the Asia Society reception on March 22. She is Chiu-Ti Jansen, not Elizabeth Han.

The “In the Region” article in New York and New Jersey copies last Sunday about redevelopment efforts in East Orange, N.J., misstated the street number on Evergreen Place for the sales office of a new development called Evergreen Crossings. It is at No. 33 Evergreen Place, not No. 22.

“Clash of the Titans,” released in 3-D, was No. 1 at the box office, but almost half its business came from conventional screenings.

‘Clash of the Titans’ Rules Box Office

The conductor James Levine will not be on the podium for the Metropolitan Opera’s coming productions of “Tosca” and “Lulu,” the company announced on Sunday.

More Surgery for Levine Means Met Cancellations

“Rescue Me (A Postmodern Classic With Snacks),” the Ma-Yi Theater’s irreverent update of “Iphigenia in Tauris,” melds the serious and the silly.

Featuring Iphigenia, Videos and In-Jokes

An unidentified citizen of Britain donated a bronze statue by Edgar Degas in place of more than $265,000 of inheritance tax, BBC News reported.

Bartering Art for Taxes

Bob Dylan canceled a leg of his Asian tour after the Chinese government refused him permission to play scheduled performances in Shanghai and Beijing this month, Agence France-Presse reported.

The Tour, It Is A-Changin’

The avant-garde director, choreographer, artist and playwright Robert Wilson will receive this year’s Jerome Robbins Award, Playbill reported.

Footnotes

A merger of two New York dance organizations would combine the Bill T. Jones/Arnie Zane Dance Company and Dance Theater Workshop, Crain’s New York Business reported.

Two Dance Groups Negotiate Merger

A rare copy of Jane Austen’s “Emma,” signed by the author, has sold for almost $500,000, according to the BBC News.

A Match for ‘Emma’

Erykah Badu will receive a citation for disorderly conduct for stripping naked while filming a video in the Dallas plaza where John F. Kennedy was assassinated, The Associated Press reported.

Fine for Public Nudity at Dealey Plaza, Dallas

A news analysis article last Sunday about coming elections in Britain, where the opposition Conservatives hope to end the Labour Party’s 13 years in power, misstated the age of Labour’s leader, Prime Minister Gordon Brown. He is 59, not 57.

Corrections

An article in some editions last Sunday about the Composers of the Future program for children, held in a school behind St. Gabriel’s Roman Catholic Church in New Rochelle, N.Y., misidentified the entity that runs the program together with the Westchester Chamber Orchestra. It is Songcatchers, an after-school music group, not the church itself.

An article last Sunday about the Charedim Shmurah Matzah Bakery in Borough Park, Brooklyn, which makes its matzo by hand, misstated part of the Web address where a photographer, Judah S. Harris, has posted pictures of the bakery. It is judahsharris.com/matzah-bakery.

The 2010 Baja California earthquake occurred on April 4 with a moment magnitude of 7.2 and a maximum Mercalli intensity of VII. The shock originated at 15:40:41 local time south of Guadalupe Victoria, Baja California, Mexico.

A magnitude 7.2 earthquake hits south of the Mexico-USA border, killing at least two and damaging buildings across the two countries.

April 4, 2010

Headlines from April 4, 2010

Helping Patients Face Death, She Fought to Live

Already Home, Butler Rounds Third

Duke Returns to Final, but With a Different Style

Bombs Hit Hub of Diplomacy in Baghdad

Easter Support for Pope, and Some Apologies

Billboard 200

Need You Now

Here I Am

Battle Of The Sexes

The Edge

The Fame

Historical Events

Historical Context for April 4, 2010