Economic fear continued to spread as the European Central Bank, Germany and the rest of the Continent fail to get on the same page.

It Shouldn’t Take a Panic to Spur Responsibility

For many products, the lowest prices tend to come at other times of the year, despite all the ads that suggest otherwise.

Friday’s Deals May Not Be the Best

A number of foundations are making investments to connect with profit-making ventures that jibe with their missions.

To Advance Their Cause, Foundations Buy Stocks

Mexicans, the fastest-growing major immigrant group in the city, have the highest dropout rate: about 41 percent of Mexicans ages 16 to 19 have dropped out of school.

In New York, Mexicans Lag in Education

Mitt Romney’s longtime stylist says his customer prefers a “very controlled” look for his his most distinctive physical feature.

Image Expert Shapes Romney (His Hair, Anyway)

The efforts of its troops have put the African Union in the driver’s seat of an intensifying international effort to wipe out Somalia’s Shabab militants, once and for all.

African Union Force Makes Strides Inside Somalia

Hit shows like “Hugh Jackman: Back on Broadway” and “The Book of Mormon” use the supply-and-demand strategy of dynamic pricing to raise ticket prices for the best seats.

Broadway Hits Make Most of Premium Pricing

Shoppers on their initial Black Friday excursions found good deals, but many did not seem to think it was worth braving the crowds.

For Black Friday First-Timers, Not a Night of Conversion

Michael C. Woodford, who remains a director of the company but who left Japan after he was fired, returned this week to meet with investigators looking into the scandal surrounding the company.

Banks’ Ties to Olympus Scrutinized

Peter Gelb, the Metropolitan Opera’s general manager, has made big promises, but his spotty performance as de facto director of productions indicates it may be time for him to relinquish that role.

At the Met, One Role Too Many for Its Boss

Kurt Vonnegut died in 2007, but one gets the sense from Charles J. Shields’s sad, often heartbreaking biography, “And So It Goes,” that he would have been happy to depart this vale of tears sooner.

How It Went

Energy companies that drill for natural gas have spent unprecedented amounts of money lobbying the Cuomo administration as environmentalist groups have struggled to be heard.

Millions Spent in Albany Fight to Drill for Gas

Anthony Hardwick wanted to spend Thanksgiving with his fiancée and future in-laws. Then Target told him he’d have to show up for work.

A Voice Suggests Door-Busters Can Wait

The sense of loss that accompanies neighborhood change is especially acute for residents of a special building in Queens who lived through collective horror.

A Community of Survivors Dwindles

The Elder Scrolls V: Skyrim is modern fantasy role-playing of the highest order, a “Game of Thrones” of video games: sweeping in scope, richly realized and fully able to absorb fans.

It’s Your (Virtual) World. Feel Free to Roam or Slay.

The writer traveled with players from the Eastern Massachusetts Senior Softball League to play teams in Cuba, the league’s fourth such visit since 2009.

The Slow-Pitch Ambassadors to Cuba

The 2012 edition of the 4-cylinder Buick LaCrosse with eAssist uses a small electric motor to help this entry-level luxury sedan achieve 25 m.p.g. in the city and 36 m.p.g. on the highway.

Smugness Comes Standard

“The Adventures of Tintin” is about to be released, and like the book that the film is based on, it takes automobiles seriously. The artist behind “Tintin” was an avid driver, and there are about 150 clearly identifiable cars in the books.

‘Tintin’ Film Casts Cars Among Star Performers

Companies’ compensation budgets remain tight, so workers need to gather information before approaching the boss.

How to Make the Case for Higher Pay

Buildings are now hiring people to encourage residents to make use of costly amenities like gyms and playrooms with classes and events.

Homebody? Not in This Building

European leaders say there’s no reason to prepare for the unthinkable: the breakup of the euro zone. But some big banks are no longer so sure.

Banks Build Contingency for Breakup of the Euro

The actress is coming into her own with her new film, “My Week With Marilyn.”

For Michelle Williams, an Unfamiliar Role: The Star

Performa, which has gone from 80 events in 16 days in 2005, to 130 packed into 21 now, has gotten so large that its mission seems blurred.

So Big, Performa Now Misses the Point

The ethnographic Quai Branly, immigration and patrimony museums in Paris show new relationships between the French and other cultures.

French Museums Atone for a Colonial History

The post-punk band Fugazi has been on hiatus since 2002, but it will release tapes of more than 800 shows from its archives.

Fugazi Rises Again, in Online Archive

Vasily Ivanovich Alekseyev was a Soviet weightlifter. He set 80 world records and 81 Soviet national records in weightlifting and won Olympic gold medals at the 1972 and 1976 games.

Vasily Alekseyev, Russian weightlifter and coach (born 1942)

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Curtis John Arceneaux better known by the name Coco Robicheaux, was an American blues musician and artist, from Ascension Parish, Louisiana, United States.

Coco Robicheaux, American singer-songwriter and guitarist (born 1947)

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Jawayd Anwar was a Pakistani poet and writer. He is considered a leading figure of nazms and ghazals in Urdu poetry and his works include five books.

November 25, 2011

Headlines from November 25, 2011

It Shouldn’t Take a Panic to Spur Responsibility

Friday’s Deals May Not Be the Best

To Advance Their Cause, Foundations Buy Stocks

In New York, Mexicans Lag in Education

Image Expert Shapes Romney (His Hair, Anyway)

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Blue Slide Park

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The Twilight Saga: Breaking Dawn: Part 1

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