The Harlem School of the Arts was on a path to ruin years before its recent decision to close.

Tax Files Show Harlem Art School’s Path to Ruin

The deaths of at least 25 miners have not affected the pride, resignation and economics that define a miner’s life.

Miners’ Lives: Security, but Never Peace of Mind

Glenn F. Tilton is seeking once more to find salvation for his company in a tie-up with a competing airline. But is he just trying to make the best of a weak hand?

United Chief on 3rd Verse of Old Tune

Rescue workers failed to find any survivors after a huge explosion on Monday left 29 dead in the worst U.S. mine disaster in decades.

No Survivors Found After West Virginia Mine Disaster

The Hyundai Genesis Coupe is the kind of rear-drive, road-flogging, date-snaring car that makes young people want to take on a second job to get one.

A Frisky Korean Colt in the Pony Car Corral

When Jackie Saril got to buy the vintage car she’d wanted for years, she chose a mechanical oddity: a 1961 Pontiac with a slant-4 engine.

When Half a V-8 Is Enough

The proposal was in response to a scandal over a boy who was sent back to Moscow by his adoptive mother in Tennessee.

Russia Calls for Halt on U.S. Adoptions 

An E.U. official confirmed reports that an accord had been struck on the technical details of a possible loan for Greece.

Europe Said to Firm Up Terms of Greek Loans

The leading candidates to replace Justice John Paul Stevens present a spectrum of ideological reputations, and the choice will shape the Senate confirmation battle.

Stevens’s Retirement Is Political Test for Obama

Justice Stevens may be the last justice deemed qualified for his independence rather than perceived ideology.

The End of an Era, for Court and Nation

Obama administration officials admit privately that the president’s tough-love approach may have been a mistake.

U.S. Now Trying Softer Approach Toward Karzai

Upscale lice consultants are handling a job that anxious, busy parents hesitate to take on themselves.

One Louse, Ick. Two Lice, Call for Help!

Best sellers, a late-night show, stand-up sell-outs. A little respect, please.

I’m Chelsea Handler. And You’re Not.

The cable channel’s shows seem to be all about disharmony.

VH1: Where Love Hurts

Starting this summer, tenants will have the chance to correct any inaccuracies in reports landlords use for screening purposes.

Tackling the Tenant Blacklist With New Legislation

Open houses offer free lessons in design dos — and don’ts.  Sometimes they even result in the sale of a property.

Looking, or Just Looking

While more states are beginning to require personal finance instruction, there aren’t enough that do, experts say, and the quality is inconsistent.

Working Financial Literacy in With the Three R’s

Ellie Kendrick stars in this BBC adaptation of the Anne Frank story, arriving on Sunday night on PBS as part of “Masterpiece Classic.”

Revisiting Adolescence in the Secret Annex

“Phantom Sightings,” an exhibition of work by Mexican-Americans at El Museo del Barrio, prompts the question: Is an identity-based show still necessary?

They’re Chicanos and Artists. But Is Their Art Chicano?

After an arrest in 1975, Kurt Seidl wrote and lived under the pen name Gerald Conteh. In November 2009, after a health scare, he decided to come clean.

Hiding in Plain Sight as Chef, Nanny, Author

A show at Acquavella Galleries may be enough to rehabilitate the reputation of Robert and Ethel Sculls, a flamboyant couple who kicked off the market for Pop Art.

Showing a Couple’s Eye for Art (and Money)

The size of the sovereign debt burden is not everything when it comes to keeping up with interest payments.

A Math Primer on Sovereign Debt

An article on Thursday about the possibility of a merger of United Airlines and US Airways erroneously attributed a distinction to Southwest Airlines. Several airlines posted a profit for 2009; Southwest was not the only major airline to do so. The article also misstated the middle initial of an industry analyst who commented on the merger talks. She is Betsy R. Snyder, not Betsy J.

Corrections

The This Land column on March 25, about efforts by the city clerk of the small Florida community of San Antonio to make sure all of its residents are counted in the 2010 federal census  unlike 2000, when only 684 of 842 were counted  misstated the budget for this year’s census. It is approximately $15 billion, not $14 billion, following the addition of $1 billion in stimulus funds. 

Because of an editing error, an article and a picture caption on April 1 about the costly rescue of a historic brownstone in Stuyvesant Heights, Brooklyn, misspelled, in some editions, the name of the street on which it is located. It is MacDonough Street, not McDonough.

Zoltán Varga was a Hungarian footballer who played in the 1960s and 1970s.
He was an Olympic gold medalist at the 1964 Summer Olympics in Tokyo. He played for Ferencvárosi TC when they won the Inter-Cities Fairs Cup in 1965, beating Juventus 1–0 in the final. He also played for Ajax Amsterdam.

April 9, 2010

Headlines from April 9, 2010

Tax Files Show Harlem Art School’s Path to Ruin

Miners’ Lives: Security, but Never Peace of Mind

United Chief on 3rd Verse of Old Tune

No Survivors Found After West Virginia Mine Disaster

A Frisky Korean Colt in the Pony Car Corral

Billboard 200

My World 2.0

Still Standing

NOW 33

Need You Now

My World (EP)

Notable Deaths

Historical Context for April 9, 2010