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Obama Expected to Hit Milestone in Tuesday’s Votes
By JEFF ZELENY and PATRICK HEALY
Barack Obama is poised to have a majority of pledged delegates after balloting in Kentucky and Oregon, but the situation is delicate as he tries to unify his party.
South Africans Take Out Rage on Immigrants
By BARRY BEARAK and CELIA W. DUGGER
The violence continued to rage on Monday, as police fired rubber bullets and made arrests to try to quell the violence in and around Johannesburg.
McCain Finds a Thorny Path in Ethics Effort
By BARRY MEIER and KATE ZERNIKE
The messy process of trying to purge John McCain’s campaign of conflicts of interest has so far focused only more attention on the backgrounds of his advisers.
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QUOTATION OF THE DAY
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"They came at night, trying to kill us, with people pointing out, ‘this one is a foreigner and this one is not,’ It was a very cruel and ugly hatred."
CHARLES MANNYIKE,
an immigrant from Mozambique on violence in South Africa.
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WORLD
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Many Hands, Not Held by China, Aid in Quake
By JIM YARDLEY and DAVID BARBOZA
Thousands of Chinese have streamed into the quake region or donated record sums of money in an unscripted public response.
One Week Later, a Nation Pauses to Share Its Mourning and Grief
By DAVID BARBOZA
Thousands of people tried to evacuate the Sichuan provincial capital after a televised warning of a possible severe aftershock.
War Takes Toll on Baghdad Psychiatric Hospital
By ERICA GOODE
Once considered a jewel of the country’s medical system, Ibn Rushid hospital has only four psychiatrists left.
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U.S.
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4 Philadelphia Police Officers in Videotaped Beatings Will Be Fired
By JON HURDLE
Four police officers who were caught on video beating three suspects in a drug-related triple shooting will be fired.
Landmark Hotel Among Sites Seen as in Peril
By SARAH ABRUZZESE
The National Trust for Historic Preservation is announcing the 11 sites that have made its 2008 list of the country’s most endangered historic places.
Girls’ Gains Have Not Cost Boys, Report Says
By TAMAR LEWIN
A new report says the largest disparities in educational achievement are not between boys and girls but between those of different races, ethnicities and income levels.
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WASHINGTON
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Supreme Court Upholds Child Pornography Law
By LINDA GREENHOUSE
The Supreme Court upheld the latest Congressional effort to curb the spread of child pornography on the Internet.
NEWS ANALYSIS
Reaching Well Beyond the Farm
By DAVID M. HERSZENHORN
Few pieces of legislation generate the level of public scorn heaped upon the farm bill, but few pieces of major legislation get such overwhelming bipartisan support.
House Conservatives to Offer Ideas for G.O.P. Message
By CARL HULSE
A proposal mixes antispending initiatives and tighter restrictions on benefits as the party seeks a fresh message after a string of defeats.
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BUSINESS
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Economic Tide Is Rising for Repo Man
By DAVID STREITFELD
The recreational boating industry has faltered amid the housing slump, leading to a boom in repossessions.
Senate Leaders Agree on Housing Aid
By DAVID M. HERSZENHORN
Senate leaders reached a deal on housing legislation that might meet Bush administration approval.
Air Taxis Fly Into Financial Turbulence
By JOE SHARKEY
The development of the air taxi business, built upon the proposal that commercial air service has become increasingly unreliable for business travel, is threatened by the credit crunch.
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TECHNOLOGY
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Former AOL Executives Sued in Ad-Revenue Case
By TIM ARANGO
The S.E.C. filed fraud charges against eight former AOL executives over an accounting procedure that caused the company to overstate its advertising revenue by more than $1 billion.
DEALBOOK
A Gamble, but What if He Wins?
By ANDREW ROSS SORKIN
Carl Icahn, the corporate raider turned activist investor, is gambling to bring Microsoft back to the bargaining table and buy Yahoo.
Google Offers Personal Health Records on the Web
By STEVE LOHR
The Internet search giant joins other companies, all hoping to capitalize on the potential of Internet tools to help consumers manage their own health care.
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ARTS
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No Rescue, Yet, for Airport That Saved Berlin
By MICHAEL KIMMELMAN
On the eve of the 60th anniversary of the historic, American-led airlift to supply a besieged capital, the mayor is planning to close the airport by year’s end.
Huntington Hartford, A. & P. Heir, Dies at 97
By DANIEL LEWIS
Mr. Hartford inherited a fortune from the A. & P. grocery business and lost most of it chasing his dreams as an entrepreneur, arts patron and man of leisure.
MUSIC REVIEW
A Dark and Stormy Night, Played for All Its Drama
By ALLAN KOZINN
If you want to hear the players of the Met Orchestra in music that howls, roars and drags you through one or two dark nights of the soul, Valery Gergiev is your man.
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NEW YORK/REGION
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As Term Wanes, Bloomberg’s Temper Boils Up
By DIANE CARDWELL
Mayor Michael R. Bloomberg is often a polite man in public. But recent setbacks have changed things.
Fossella Is Said to Be Ending Re-election Bid
By JONATHAN P. HICKS
Mired in scandal, Representative Vito J. Fossella of Staten Island has decided not to seek another term in Congress.
New Developer Signs $1 Billion Deal to Transform West Side Railyards
By CHARLES V. BAGLI
Less than two weeks after the collapse of a billion-dollar deal to develop the railyards on Manhattan’s Far West Side, a new developer has agreed to salvage the plan.
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SCIENCE
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Who Is the Walrus?
By NATALIE ANGIER
Odobenus rosmarus is a magnificent creature, scientists say, and is behaviorally, anatomically, acoustically and taxonomically in a category all its own.
FINDINGS
Comfort Food, for Monkeys
By JOHN TIERNEY
New research suggests that eating fatty snacks may be a coping strategy for low-status primates.
Phoenix Lander Is Ready for Risky Descent to Mars
By WARREN E. LEARY
NASA’s Phoenix Mars Lander is aiming for a touchdown on Sunday in the unexplored northern regions of Mars.
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HEALTH
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SCIENTIST AT WORK | CLAUDIUS CONRAD
A Musician Who Performs With a Scalpel
By DAVID DOBBS
Claudius Conrad is investigating whether there is a hormonal parallel to music’s power to both stimulate and soothe.
Screening for Abuse May Be Key to Ending It
By ERIN N. MARCUS, M.D.
Screening for domestic abuse in seemingly healthy women is nowhere near as widespread among doctors as testing for breast cancer or high cholesterol.
WELL
Finding the Best Way to Cook All Those Vegetables
By TARA PARKER-POPE
Are there ways to get more from the vegetables you already eat?
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EDITORIALS
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Mr. Bush’s Travels
The next president will have to appoint a skilled and creative team of advisers on the Middle East and be a more honest broker than President Bush has been.
Concerns About BPA Plastic
Until the Food and Drug Administration rules on bisphenol-a, consumers would be wise to avoid it for babies and young children and use BPA-free alternatives.
A Second Chance
Congress must obtain the promised funds for the Second Chance Act so that states can develop their own reintegration programs for newly released prisoners.
EDITORIAL NOTEBOOK
Sailing the Waters of New York Harbor
By VERLYN KLINKENBORG
Accustomed to looking down on New York Harbor from the map in my office, sailing in the harbor becomes for me a problem of perspective.
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OP-ED
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Let’s Be Serious
By BOB HERBERT
There is growing evidence that the election may yet be undermined by the wholesale trivialization of matters that are not just important, but extremely complex.
Talking Versus Doing
By DAVID BROOKS
Barack Obama’s vote for a recent farm bill may help him win Iowa, but it will lead to higher global food prices and more hunger in Africa.
Little Orphan Artworks
By LAWRENCE LESSIG
The problem of “orphan works,” those works whose owners cannot be found, is real, but the solution before Congress is both unfair and unwise.
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ON THIS DAY
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On May 20, 1961, a white mob attacked a busload of "Freedom Riders" in Montgomery, Ala., prompting the federal government to send in United States marshals to restore order.
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