At New York’s elite schools, membership in the youngest Girl Scouts troops more than doubled this year.

Girls in Private Schools Ask, Thin Mints or Samoas?

An interfaith group of clergy members from the city are urging state officials to pressure banks to change their onerous credit card rates.

When Pizza Becomes Predatory

A sweeping bill from Senator Blanche Lincoln goes beyond the administration’s goals on regulating derivatives, and has met with strong resistance from Senate Republicans.

Veto Threat Raised Over Derivatives

 Printed or sent to cellphones, the coupons look standard, but they can contain a startling amount of data.    

Web Coupons Know Lots About You, and They Tell

The new health care law will have varying effects on three people whose stories helped lead to its passage. 

Faces of Health Debate Point to Law’s Complexity

Thurman Munson, a Yankees catcher who died at 32 in 1979, is memorialized by a narrow road in the Bronx between a rail-yard bed and a housing complex. To many, it hardly seems a fitting tribute.

Paltry Tribute to a Yankee Lost Too Soon

The Pennsylvania state police are investigating whether state trooper Edward Joyner violated regulations on off-duty work and if he breached its code of conduct.

Trooper’s Role in Helping Roethlisberger Is Investigated

The costs for reverse mortgages have declined, but that still doesn’t make them cheap.

Reverse Mortgages Still Costly, but Less So

Masked marvels simultaneously pronounce their sexual identity and their devotion to comic books.

Out of the Closet and Up, Up and Away

John A. Paulson had a role in the instrument that caused $1 billion in losses for Goldman Sachs customers.

Investor Who Made Billions Is Not Target of Suit

Josh Selby, the nation’s most explosive high school guard yet to commit to a college, will announce his decision in his characteristically outsize way, on national television.

Colleges Wait to Hear Their Name Called by Elite Recruit

In the absence of financial instruments known as synthetic C.D.O.’s, the subprime crisis might have been more easily contained.

A Wall Street Invention Let the Crisis Mutate

This weekend, 16 teams will begin their march toward the N.B.A. finals — and, perhaps, will provide some clues about the wild free-agent summer to come.

For Free Agents, Playoffs Could Be a Tipping Point

After an arrest, a factory job, a stint in the Marines and a role at Ball State, Brandon Crawford, 33, may achieve his dream this week when the N.F.L. holds its draft.

Marine Stayed Faithful to Dream of Playing Football

Residents say drug gangs have laid waste to El Porvenir, Mexico, and those who can are fleeing to the U.S.

Fleeing Drug Violence, Mexicans Pour Into U.S.

Accusations that Goldman defrauded customers who bought investments tied to risky mortgages have only just begun to reverberate in the financial world. 

For Goldman, a Bet’s Stakes Keep Growing

Behind the celebrations of the U.S. Ski and Snowboard Association’s success at the Vancouver Olympics, discontent is simmering among athletes about the organization’s budget cuts and high pay to top executives.

Ski Team Pinched Everywhere but Top

The contemporary Supreme Court nominee’s résumé yields so much valuable information, legal scholars say, that unexpected judicial decisions are much less likely.

Why Newer Appointees Offer Fewer Surprises

Despite outward signs of ethnic unity, the earthquake has exposed stubborn tensions between Beijing and Tibetans.

After Quake, Tibetans Distrust China’s Help

Rules expanding coverage to the already sick — a key part of the health overhaul — have led to skyrocketing rates. 

New York Offers Costly Lessons on Insurance

The Tea Party movement, with its educated, middle-class supporters, can trace its roots to ’60s-era conservatives.

Tea Party Supporters Doing Fine, but Angry Nonetheless

In the fast-moving world of high-tech start-ups, the number of women has been slow to change.

Out of the Loop in Silicon Valley

The Obama administration’s push for financial reform has three front-line generals who handle the day-in, day-out bargaining and drudgery that such efforts entail.

Trench Warfare: Send In the Deputies

The coming months will feature two intellectual gladiators in a great  struggle over the role of government in American society. Their Coliseum is the Supreme Court of the United States.

Obama v. Roberts: The Struggle to Come

There is talk that the price tag on Wall Street’s bailout will be relatively inexpensive. Too bad that leaves out many of the real costs.

April 17, 2010

Headlines from April 17, 2010

Girls in Private Schools Ask, Thin Mints or Samoas?

When Pizza Becomes Predatory

Veto Threat Raised Over Derivatives

Web Coupons Know Lots About You, and They Tell

Faces of Health Debate Point to Law’s Complexity

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