With Electric Cars Slow to Gain Ground, BMW Focuses on Efficiency
MAISACH, GERMANY — Despite all the hype at car shows in the last few years, it has become clear that electric cars will not appear on roads fast enough to save the planet. As a result, when the Paris...
View Article9 Foreign Ministers Call for Greater E.U. Integration
LONDON — Testing the theory that it often takes a crisis to bring Europeans together, nine foreign ministers, led by Guido Westerwelle of Germany, have called for a big increase in economic,...
View ArticleArmstrong made excellence his mission
Before manned space flights began, officials pondered what background they should seek in the crew for this bizarre new venture: Danger lover? Bullfighter? Mountain climber? Should they search for...
View ArticlePoise and Passion: Keira Knightley on the October Cover of Vogue
» See The Slideshow « A dramatic heroine in haute couture and in costume as Anna Karenina, Keira Knightley talks about her upcoming marriage—and playing the role of a lifetime. Keira Knightley is...
View ArticleRolling Stones Doc Captures Young Band on Its Way to Superstardom
share Brian Jones and Mick Jagger onstage in "Charlie Is My Darling." "Charlie Is My Darling — Ireland 1965," which follows the group through the Emerald Isle in the wake of "Satisfaction," will have...
View ArticleMyanmar’s Opposition Leader Begins Visit to U.S.
WASHINGTON — Myanmar’s opposition leader, Daw Aung San Suu Kyi, began her first official visit to Washington on Tuesday, punctuating the remarkable thawing of tensions between the United States and...
View ArticleBen Folds goes from nightmares about reunion to making it happen on band’s...
NEW YORK — Until his epiphany in a photographer’s darkroom, Ben Folds used to have nightmares about a reunion with his old group, Ben Folds Five. Seriously. He’d dream of getting ready for a gig and...
View ArticleDesperately Trying to Stay Stuck in the Middle
A friendly suburban barbecue spirals into a delirious, dangerous bacchanal in the superb play “Detroit,” by Lisa D’Amour, which sizzled open at Playwrights Horizons on Tuesday night. A sharp X-ray of...
View ArticleProsecutors Deny Priest Was Urged to Lie in Abuse Case
PHILADELPHIA — The Philadelphia district attorney’s office on Tuesday challenged a claim by lawyers for a convicted Roman Catholic monsignor that prosecutors had persuaded another priest, now...
View ArticleLook in Your Mirror
On Monday, David D. Kirkpatrick, the Cairo bureau chief for The Times, quoted one of the Egyptian demonstrators outside the American Embassy, Khaled Ali, as justifying last week’s violent protests by...
View ArticleA Dance Festival Leader Focuses on Creation
LYON, France — Every two years for the last 28 years the Lyon Dance Biennial has arrived in mid-September in this busy, bustling city with a certain amount of fanfare. It begins with the Défilé, a...
View ArticleNot Your Father's Bono: Creed Singer Scott Stapp's Confession
A few dozen pages into his forthcoming autobiography, Sinner's Creed, (written with rock biographer David Ritz) the lead singer of Creed, Scott Stapp, begins kvetching about why artists like Bono and...
View ArticleMedia Chiefs Form Venture to E-Publish
Two powerful entertainment moguls, Scott Rudin, the film and theater producer, and Barry Diller, the chairman of IAC/InterActiveCorp, are joining together to enter the turbulent world of book...
View ArticleAshbel Green, Longtime Editor at Knopf, Dies at 84
Ashbel Green, a widely respected editor in the publishing industry who shepherded more than 500 books into print for Alfred A. Knopf, including detective novels, the autobiography of Walter Cronkite...
View ArticleChristie Rebuked as State’s Fiscal Outlook Is Called Weak
Gov. Chris Christie of New Jersey rose to stardom in the national Republican Party by promoting himself as a fiscal conservative willing to make the “hard choices” to restore sound budgeting to his...
View ArticleRomney Takes On 47% of America
To the Editor: Connect With Us on Twitter For Op-Ed, follow @nytopinion and to hear from the editorial page editor, Andrew Rosenthal, follow @andyrNYT. Re “In Video Clip, Romney Calls 47% ‘Dependent’...
View ArticleFrench Court Rebukes Magazine for Photos of Royal Couple
PARIS — A French court on Tuesday sharply rebuked the magazine Closer for publishing “particularly intrusive” photographs of the Duchess of Cambridge, the former Kate Middleton, and ordered its...
View ArticleCalifornia and the Fourth Amendment
On Wednesday, the United States Court of Appeals for the Ninth Circuit is scheduled to whether California violates the Fourth Amendment’s prohibition against searches and seizures by requiring police...
View ArticleNeil Young Divulges All In New Memoir
Posted: September 19, 2012 In his very telling memoir “Waging Heavy Peace,” Neil Young takes readers through “the snows of Ontario through the LSD-laden boulevards of 1966 Los Angeles to the...
View ArticleBrazil’s Pied Piper of Street Art
It was an odd sight for an industrial street in the Ridgewood section of Queens, so of course the delivery-truck drivers, the workers from nearby manufacturing plants and other curious passers-by felt...
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