Mr. Escalante was the high school teacher whose ability to turn out high-achieving calculus students from a poor Hispanic neighborhood in East Los Angeles inspired the 1988 film “Stand and Deliver.”
Dr. Sackler was a doctor who made his fortune with the company behind OxyContin. He was also known for his lavish gifts to New York museums.
Mr. Mills was a former journalist who explored race relations and racial tensions as an Emmy-winning television writer for dramas like “NYPD Blue,” and “The Wire.”
Producing new drugs and adjusting to the changing health care system are two of the tests facing the drug giant.
In Wolford, N.D. — a speck of a town surrounded by fields of wheat, barley, soybeans and flax — every person who received a census questionnaire has sent it back.
The recovery of big banks did not benefit just the bankers. It also created huge paydays for hedge fund managers.
The Blue School has held to its progressive roots, but it has taken on trappings familiar to New York private school parents.
Thursday is the day by which the Census Bureau wants every resident to complete the 10-question form.
When Royce Waltman was fired as the coach at Indiana State, he observed that it is better to get fired for cheating than for losing. He has not been rehired as a head coach.
A branch leader of the Michigan Militia helped lead the police to a group of Christian militants arrested in a plot to kill a police officer and foment violence.
In proposing oil and gas development, President Obama set out to attract bipartisan support while increasing oil production. It is not clear that the plan will do either.
Professional thieves are stealing ever-greater quantities of prescription drugs, many of which end up being degraded or contaminated, and sold to unsuspecting Americans.
Americans have a powerful interest in supporting an unfiltered Internet in China.
Obamacare is really only law today thanks to the good work of Mitt Romney, who led the way with basically the same thing in Massachusetts.
The case of Rev. Lawrence C. Murphy is more striking because of the number and vulnerability of the victims and the availability of documents revealing how church officials handled the matter.
The love of hockey lures the N.C.A.A. Frozen Four to Detroit
At least 30 survivors of the earthquake in Haiti are prisoners of the United States immigration system, locked up since their arrival in detention centers in Florida.
Hulu has brought television watching on the Web into the mainstream, but it is coming under increasing pressure from the companies that supply its content.
Apple’s iPad (coming soon) seems to be hated by technical types and loved by everyone else. Here are separate reviews for the two audiences.
In trying to speed reinforcements into Afghanistan while reducing forces in Iraq, U.S. commanders are orchestrating one of the largest troop and matériel movements since World War II.
The governor wants to cut aid to schools across New Jersey, but he has not been run out of Trenton by liberals with pitchforks.
