When Super Saver and Calvin Borel crossed the finish line ahead of Ice Box, the trainer Todd Pletcher beamed a smile that he had waited a lifetime to unloose.

With Super Saver, Pletcher Ends Derby Drought

A crude bomb of propane, gasoline and fireworks began to detonate but did not explode on Saturday, prompting the evacuation of tourists and theatergoers.

Police Find Car Bomb in Times Square

Leaders of the school choice movement have come to recognize that raising student achievement for poor urban children is difficult and often expensive.

Despite Push, Success at Charter Schools Is Mixed

Officials offered a more detailed description of the bomb’s makeup and were reviewing surveillance footage of a man walking away from the area where the S.U.V. had been parked.

Police Seek Man Taped Near Times Sq. Bomb Scene

BP prepared to install a shutoff valve on one of three leaks gushing from an oil spill in the Gulf of Mexico.

BP Moves to Fix a Leak as Obama Warns of Damage

The airlines agreed to a $3 billion merger that creates the world’s biggest airline, people familiar with the talks said.

United and Continental Said to Agree to Merge

Paul Berman gives two reasons for the chill in the intellectual climate: terrorism and the growth of the Islamist movement.

In Pursuit of Prey, Carrying Philosophy

Original backers of “The Fantasticks,” which celebrates its 50th anniversary on Monday, have reaped about a 24,000-percent return on their investments.

‘Fantasticks’ Pays Back for 50 Years

“Bill Moyers Journal,” a PBS program dedicated to public affairs, ended Friday, with a warning to viewers that “plutocracy and democracy don’t mix.”

A Breather for Moyers; Next Step Is Unclear

“Moby-Dick,” which opened at the Margot and Bill Winspear Opera House in Dallas on Friday night, is a taut, two-act adventure yarn.

A Role for the Roiling Sea as Ahab Hunts His Whale

A small group of theater professionals selects the nominees who compete for the Broadway accolades that can translate to box-office success.

Gatekeepers of the Tony Awards: They’ve Seen It All

A picture caption on April 18 with an article about prix fixe bargains in Paris misidentified one of two restaurants shown in a grouping of eight pictures. The photograph showing a patron at a sidewalk table was of La Gazzetta  as its awning said; it was not of Frenchie. (An inside view of Frenchie was shown in the picture under La Gazzetta.)

Corrections

Shahar Peer’s trip to the site of a concentration camp with her grandmother, a Holocaust survivor, showed her that identity is not always a matter of choice.

An Israeli Player Continues a Political Education

Roman Polanski released a statement about efforts to extradite him from Switzerland to Los Angeles to face sentencing in his 1977 sex-crime case.

Polanski Breaks Long Silence on His Extradition

Jamal Crawford had 22 points as Atlanta proved too deep for short-handed Milwaukee in Game 7 of their first-round Eastern Conference series.

Hawks Slam Door on the Bucks’ Run

The Swiss duo Zimmermann & de Perrot bring their distinctive blend of mime, physical theater and silent-movie-style comedy to New York in “Gaff Aff.”

Theater of Invention, Evolving as the World Turns

The Play Company, an Off Broadway troupe dedicated to producing new writing for the stage, has been awarded a $135,000 grant from the Andrew W. Mellon Foundation.

Mellon and Fisher Grants Awarded

Producers for “The Addams Family,” the Broadway musical based on characters created by the cartoonist Charles Addams, have announced that it will undertake a national tour next year.

In the Wings

The Mystery Writers of America announced the winners of their prestigious Edgar Awards for the best crime and mystery writing.

Mysteries Resolved: Edgar Awards Given

The New York Drama Critics’ Circle named “The Orphans’ Home Cycle” the best play of the year.

New York Critics Honor ‘Home Cycle’

Interviews with President John F. Kennedy and Gen. William C. Westmoreland are just some of the rare archival footage included in “The Vietnam Collection,” a new online video library.

Rare Interviews Tell Vietnam’s Story Online

With a new album to promote, Ozzy Osbourne will headline the 14th Ozzfest tour this summer.

Ozzfest Returns

Fear trumped fur at the box office, with “Nightmare on Elm Street” ending the weekend in the No. 1 spot and “Furry Vengeance” landing in fifth, according to Team Screenline.

‘Nightmare’ Beats ‘Vengeance’

The Russian American Foundation in New York has announced that it will send 10 high school dancers from the United States to Russia this summer to train with the Bolshoi Ballet.

Bolshoi Summer for Young Americans

Lynn Rachel Redgrave was a British and American actress. During a career that spanned five decades, she won two Golden Globe Awards and was nominated for two Academy Awards, four British Academy Film Awards, two Emmy Awards, two Screen Actors Guild Awards, three Tony Awards, and a Grammy Award.

May 2, 2010

Headlines from May 2, 2010

With Super Saver, Pletcher Ends Derby Drought

Police Find Car Bomb in Times Square

Despite Push, Success at Charter Schools Is Mixed

Police Seek Man Taped Near Times Sq. Bomb Scene

BP Moves to Fix a Leak as Obama Warns of Damage

Billboard 200

My World 2.0

Congratulations

Need You Now

Raymond V Raymond

Year Of The Black Rainbow

Notable Deaths

Historical Context for May 2, 2010