December 4, 2010

Natalie Mendoza, who plays Arachne, was standing offstage at the first preview performance on Sunday night when a rope holding a piece of equipment struck her in the head.

Big department stores may have gone the way of Main Street, but Fifth Avenue’s windows are still an annual expression of how designers think the nation wants to celebrate.

“The art market is back!” was the chorus this week among most of the major dealers at Art Basel Miami Beach.

Weight matters in a ballet dancer’s performance, except when it doesn’t.

With public colleges reeling from budget reductions, instruction in foreign languages, particularly European ones, is on the chopping block.

Lilla Roberts fell behind on her mortgage for a while over a paying history of around 20 years. But her modification was so sloppily handled, she could have lost her home.

Bill Gates is financing research by dozens of social scientists and thousands of teachers to develop a better system for evaluating classroom instruction.

Current guidelines say weight-loss surgery is appropriate for people who have failed to lose weight through diet and exercise and have a body mass index of 40 and above.

To begin to understand how a struggling nation like Serbia managed to reach its first Davis Cup final, look no further than three tennis courts at the ski resort Kopaonik, where Novak Djokovic got his start.

The WikiLeaks cables suggest that President Obama’s diplomacy is a mixture of openness to negotiation, constantly escalating pressure and a series of deadlines.

Negotiators are discussing a deal to extend all of the Bush-era tax cuts, perhaps for two years, after an Obama plan to let rates rise for top incomes failed in the Senate.

China has engaged in attacks aimed at American military and political data, and its leaders have been obsessed with Google’s role in its country, cables say.