Americans tend to believe more health care is better care. But to cut costs, we’ve got to learn how to say no.

In Medicine, the Power of No

The Palestinian Authority is trying to build a virtual state and body politic through nonviolent resistance.

Palestinians Try a Less Violent Path to Resistance

Former Mayor Sharpe James of Newark was released from federal prison and boarded a Greyhound bus home.

From a Seat of Power to One on Greyhound

The surge in interest rates on Greek bonds is expected to make it more difficult for the country to borrow.

Greek Bond Yields Soar in Sell-Off

Terrorist watch lists are likely to expand as officials recalibrate standards for identifying potential threats.    

Ensnared by Error on Growing U.S. Watch List

A flaw in the most recent version of TurboTax, the tax-preparation software, may have caused thousands of retired federal employees to unwittingly underpay the Internal Revenue Service.

Taxpayer Could Have Kept the $600, but He Put His Country First

New figures show healthy sales growth last month, with Americans starting to buy clothes, jewelry and even cars.

Upbeat Signs Revive Consumers’ Mood for Spending

Protests appear to have overthrown the government, calling into question the fate of a U.S.  air base that supports the war in Afghanistan.

Upheaval in Kyrgyzstan Could Imperil Key U.S. Base

As the committee examining the causes of the financial crisis began three days of hearings, a review was released that showed problems going back as far as 2005 in the Federal Reserve’s supervision of Citigroup.

Fed Reviews Find Errors in Oversight of Citigroup

Dennis Hopper, a man of contradictions and a legendary career, has proved he is a survivor.

Madman, Perhaps; Survivor, Definitely

This study of President Obama, by the editor of The New Yorker, has many additions and corrections to make to our reading of “Dreams From My Father.”

Behind Obama’s Cool

China is poised to play a role in supplying the technology  to build high-speed rail lines in California.

China Is Eager to Bring High-Speed Rail Expertise to the U.S.

It’s been scarcely two years since Eliot Spitzer resigned as governor of New York. Now he is emphatically back.

Spitzer’s Long Road to Redemption

Rocco Landesman, Mr. Broadway, is busy transforming himself into Mr. Bureaucracy as chairman of the National Endowment for the Arts.

Mr. Broadway Storms Capitol Hill

Judith Blazer and Heidi Blickenstaff star in “Inner Voices,” a program devoted to cultivating the solo musical form.

Unhappy Medium Searches for Clarity

What separates Kim Hastreiter from the run of ordinary power people is that no imaginary velvet rope cordons off her cohort of acquaintances and friends.

Paper Magazine Editor Is Powerful, but No Power Snob

Battlefield: Bad Company 2 is sophisticated and funny. Will it end the stranglehold on today’s shooter fan by the Call of Duty series?

In This Electronic War, Momentum Shifts to the Underdog

Cisco introduces the Valet, a stripped-down router that won’t frustrate a non-engineer who tries to set it up. Sounds perfect, yes? Well...

Hot Spot Shortcut, in the Weeds

The Cocoon, a new area of the Darwin Center at the Natural History Museum in London, seems to define a new approach to science museums.

Enjoy the Bugs, but Don’t Feed the Scientists

Susan Rothenberg’s paintings show the influence of the rugged New Mexico that inspired Georgia O’Keeffe.

Another Painter in O’Keeffe Territory

James Levine’s medical problems provide a window into orchestras’ deals with megastars.

Maestro’s Pay Hangs on Unsigned Deal

Under the preliminary deal, the United States will modify an export loan program for cotton.

U.S. and Brazil Reach Agreement on Cotton Dispute

In a share exchange, John Malone’s voting power in DirecTV will drop to 3 percent. He will come out about $162 million richer.

Malone Trims DirecTV Stake

An article last Wednesday about an apparently coordinated hacking assault on the Yahoo e-mail accounts of a dozen rights advocates, academics and journalists who cover China included three errors. A 2005 transaction between Yahoo and Alibaba, a Chinese e-commerce company, that gave Alibaba control of Yahoo’s China operations was a sale  not a merger. The year that Yahoo turned over data that Chinese officials used to help prosecute several dissidents was 2004, not 2006. And local Chinese service providers  not Yahoo  maintain the servers in China used to store e-mail sent through Yahoo’s Chinese domain, which are considered relatively vulnerable to intrusions and have driven privacy-conscious Chinese away.

Corrections

An article on Saturday about an effort to replace the likeness of President Ulysses S. Grant on the $50 bill with that of President Ronald Reagan referred incorrectly to Parker Poling, whose boss, Representative Patrick T. McHenry, Republican of North Carolina, is leading the effort. Parker Poling, Mr. McHenry’s chief of staff, is a woman.

April 7, 2010

Headlines from April 7, 2010

In Medicine, the Power of No

Palestinians Try a Less Violent Path to Resistance

From a Seat of Power to One on Greyhound

Greek Bond Yields Soar in Sell-Off

Ensnared by Error on Growing U.S. Watch List

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