The Federal Reserve is scheduled to write rules for debit card fees in April, and lobbyists for merchants and the banking industry are determined to sway the outcome.

Debit Card Fees Prompt a Push Near Deadline

In a fight for listings, the Nasdaq and the New York Stock Exchange are stealing companies from one another as the number of companies listing on the two exchanges dwindles.

Exchanges Duel for Customers

Brigitte Gabriel, who is from Lebanon, is getting strong reactions for warning that America is under threat from radical Islam.

Drawing U.S. Crowds With Anti-Islam Message

Nearly three weeks after Libya erupted in what may now turn into a protracted civil war, the politics of military intervention grow more complicated each day.

Discord Fills Washington on Possible Libya Intervention

Mog, a streaming music service, will be incorporated into Internet-ready TVs and other devices made by LG, Samsung and Vizio, as well as in BMW’s Mini car line.

Mog, the Digital Music Service, Takes Aim at the TV and the Car

A suit over a bicycle path incorporates criticism of the city’s overall approach in carrying out the initiatives of the transportation commissioner.

Lawsuit Seeks to Erase Bike Lane in New York City

Migrant workers, many of them illegal immigrants from Ghana and Nigeria, live amid piles of garbage and face persecution from all sides of the Libyan conflict in a makeshift camp near Tripoli’s airport.

Libyan War Traps Poor Immigrants at Tripoli’s Edge

A new trend in dieting has women injecting themselves with a pregnancy hormone and consuming only 500 calories a day.

Diet Plan With Hormone Has Fans and Skeptics

President Nicolas Sarkozy’s plan to open a history museum in Paris has stoked a debate over what it means to be French in a multicultural nation.

‘Cultural Revolt’ Over Sarkozy’s Museum Plans

If it can prove that rare earth metals can be processed safely, Malaysia thinks it can reap rewards by breaking China’s market dominance.

Taking a Risk for Rare Earths

Museums around the country have been campaigning to acquire one of the three space shuttles from NASA after they are retired this spring.

On Eve of Retirement, Space Shuttles Capture Museums’ Hearts

Adapted from the indie movie, this musical at the La Jolla Playhouse in California is chipper and polished but oppressively cute.

Taking Dysfunction on a Road Trip, by Van, to California

Even in Bronxville, N.Y., where typical income is high, a look at the property tax trajectory has residents worried.

Even a Wealthy Suburb Faces Pressure to Curb School Taxes

The racial and ethnic variety in Marcus Samuelsson’s latest restaurant is rivaled only by the range of ages present within it.

Red Rooster Harlem

The depression that the poet Les Murray suffered, detailed with self-effacing honesty in his memoir, “Killing the Black Dog,” informs the humor in his new collection, “Taller When Prone.”

Bits of Humor From a Life of Torment

Clues about the departure of the executive director, Andrew D. Hamingson, point to anger about costly show transfers.

Some Clues to Hasty Exit at the Public Theater

True to the stated mission of TullyScope at Alice Tully Hall, Tyondai Braxton provided a textured commingling of ideas from overlapping musical domains.

It All Comes Through in the Mix, Even the Kazoos

Until K.K.R. can accelerate growth and show that it is more than just a buyout shop, the company’s shares will struggle.

In the Shadow of Blackstone

Corrections appearing in print on March 8, 2011.

Corrections

The lawsuit argues that changes in late 2008 meant that surviving spouses not named on the mortgage must pay the full balance to keep the home, even if it is worth less.

AARP Sues U.S. Over Effects of Reverse Mortgages

For the first time this season Fox attracted the most viewers on Monday.

A Monday Win for Fox

“Something Ventured” is an admiring look at those who took a risk to back upstarts in past decades.

A Film About Capitalism, and (Surprise) It’s a Love Story

For each breakfast photo that is uploaded to a Web site, Kellogg will donate a breakfast to a child who might go without.

Taking Photos of Breakfast and Giving Meals to Children

A recital on Monday at the Austrian Cultural Forum honored Gyorgy Kurtag, who recently turned 85. His music, with its intense emotions and controlled austerity, can be bracing.

Astringent Modernist Meets Instrument of Old

At Zankel Hall on Monday evening, the Akademie für Alte Musik Berlin shifted from the rough-hewn to the serene effortlessly.

March 8, 2011

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Debit Card Fees Prompt a Push Near Deadline

Exchanges Duel for Customers

Drawing U.S. Crowds With Anti-Islam Message

Discord Fills Washington on Possible Libya Intervention

Mog, the Digital Music Service, Takes Aim at the TV and the Car

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