The Broadway musical “The Addams Family” has used a shrewd formula to defy those nitpicking critics.

Critics May Rant, but ‘Addams Family’ Rakes It In

Uncertain how many applicants will accept admission offers, many colleges are placing more on waiting lists.

For Students, a Waiting List Is Scant Hope

For the first time in decades, there has been a significant drop worldwide in deaths from pregnancy and childbirth.

Maternal Deaths Decline Sharply Across the Globe

An official at JPMorgan Chase said mortgage reductions could reward households for taking on more debt than they could afford and was simply unworkable.

Banks Resist Plans to Reduce Mortgage Balances

With the bank’s first-quarter income up 55 percent, its chief raised his outlook on the broader economy.

JPMorgan Upbeat as It Posts Profit

Closing the Korangal Outpost after four years was a tacit admission that setting up a base in the isolated valley was a mistake.

U.S. Forces Close Post in Afghan ‘Valley of Death’

The very forces of globalism that were expected to erode local cultures are helping to preserve them.

D.I.Y. Culture

The president and Democrats virtually dared Republicans to side with Wall Street by opposing a bill to tighten regulation of the financial industry.

White House and Democrats Join to Press Case on Financial Controls

Defaults nearly doubled in March, continuing a troubling trend that threatens to undermine the federal program.

Defaults Rise in Loan Modification Program

Now that hard-drive video storage has become so cheap, taped memories can be moved into a computer with a minimum of fuss.

Moving Taped Past to Hard-Drive Future

“Knight and Day” achieved the near- impossible: it made it through the Hollywood development maze.

Out of the Labyrinth and Onto the Screen

The Oscar-winning “Secret in Their Eyes” is both a detective story and a tale of unrequited love.

Argentine Film: Action, History, Love ... and an Oscar

A deal by the Corcoran Gallery of Art to sell a large piece of property in southwest Washington is facing some obstacles.

Museum’s Deal Raises Hope and Eyebrows in Washington

Tea Party supporters are wealthier and more well-educated than the general public and tend to be Republican, white, male and married, according to the latest New York Times/CBS News poll.

Poll Finds Tea Party Backers Wealthier  and More Educated

A lively and idiosyncratic biography of Pierre Bernard, a headline-making swami-entrepreneur who helped popularize yoga in America in the first decades of the 20th century.

Iowa Swami Who Beguiled the Jazz Age

Despite the bruised economy, music fans have signaled that they are willing to splurge on big summer festivals and tours.

At Coachella, Strong Start to Season of Festivals

A compromise deal would limit and ultimately end whale hunting by Japan, Norway and Iceland.

U.S. Leads New Bid to Phase Out Whale Hunting

Mushroom-growing kits are selling rapidly, signaling an increasing interest in raising your own.

Do-It-Yourself Mushrooms

Some people seek the kind of isolation found only by living in the remotest locations.

Embracing a Life of Solitude

The muralist Matthew Willey has painted his small apartment with mythic figures. 

In the East Village, a Muralist’s Tiny Sanctuary

The profusion of colors and patterns on New York streets suggests a new buoyancy, as women shake off the constraints of a lingering recession.

Bull Market? Try Peacock

Some companies are getting ahead of the due date of their debt by refinancing now, while investors are eager.

Chipping Away at the Corporate Debt Wall

A headline in some copies on Tuesday about China’s position on possible sanctions against Iran if it does not curb its nuclear program overstated a promise that President Hu Jintao of China made to President Obama in a meeting in Washington on Monday. As the article noted, Mr. Hu said that his country would join negotiations over the sanctions. He did not say that China supports such sanctions.

Corrections

An article on Tuesday about Lehman Brothers’ relationship with a smaller company, Hudson Castle, referred incorrectly to the status of a California property developer, SunCal, which had joint investments with Lehman. SunCal’s and Lehman’s investments collapsed; SunCal itself did not.

The Osthammar Journal article on April 6, about efforts by the town of Osthammar, Sweden, to win a competition to host a permanent storage site for the country’s nuclear power plant waste, which proponents say would create jobs and keep townspeople from leaving, misstated Sweden’s unemployment rate. It is 9.1 percent, not “around 2 percent.”

Israr Ahmad was a Pakistani Islamic scholar, orator and theologian. He developed a following in Pakistan and the rest of South Asia but also among some South Asian Muslims in the Middle East, Western Europe, and North America.

Israr Ahmed, Pakistani theologian and scholar (born 1932)

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Alice Miller was a Polish-Swiss psychologist, psychoanalyst and philosopher of Jewish origin, who is noted for her books on parental child abuse, translated into several languages. She was also a noted public intellectual.

Alice Miller, Polish-French psychologist and author (born 1923)

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Peter Thomas Ratajczyk, known professionally as Peter Steele, was an American musician, best known as the lead vocalist, bassist and composer of the gothic metal band Type O Negative. Before forming Type O Negative, Steele had formed the heavy metal group Fallout and the thrash metal band Carnivore.

April 14, 2010

Headlines from April 14, 2010

Critics May Rant, but ‘Addams Family’ Rakes It In

For Students, a Waiting List Is Scant Hope

Maternal Deaths Decline Sharply Across the Globe

Banks Resist Plans to Reduce Mortgage Balances

JPMorgan Upbeat as It Posts Profit

Billboard 200

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My World 2.0

NOW 33

NEW AMERYKAH: Part Two: Return Of The Ankh

Need You Now

Notable Deaths

Historical Context for April 14, 2010