Push Comes to Shove in Egypt
Thousands of anti-government protesters confronted police officers in Cairo on Friday. Stones were met by rubber bullets, tear gas and water cannons.
Victoria Hazou/Associated Press
Week in Review
Spotlight Again Falls on Web Tools and Change
By SCOTT SHANE
By cutting off Egypt’s Internet access, the president betrayed his fear that his weakness could be exposed.
Week in Review
With Egypt, Diplomatic Words Often Fail
By HELENE COOPER
The chaos in Egypt is laying bare a stark fact, Middle East experts say: In the Arab world, American words may not matter.
Also in the Week in Review
The Ripped and the Righteous
By FRANK BRUNI
Jack LaLanne left us more than health clubs and infomercials. He also gave us guilt. Hit the gym lately?
Graphic: An American Fitness Timeline
Remembering David Kato, a Gay Ugandan and a Marked Man
By JEFFREY GETTLEMAN
Looking back on a meeting with the “most out” gay Ugandan, the country’s leading gay rights crusader, before his death.
And Now, the Cheerleader in Chief
By SHERYL GAY STOLBERG
Optimism about the state of the union is all well and good, but presidents can’t risk appearing ignorant of reality.
For Medvedev, From Davos to Reality
By CLIFFORD J. LEVY
A bombing in Moscow yanks Russia’s president back from efforts to seek a bright future with the West.
Timeline: Trying to Whip Us Into Shape
Jack LaLanne opened his first health club in 1936, but mass fitness really took off after he began appearing on television.
Quick Hits
Fighting Words
Scientists and government officials involved in studying gun use say the influence of the National Rifle Association has all but choked off money for such work.
Back Then: 1986
Twenty-five years ago on Friday, on an unusually cold morning, the space shuttle Challenger exploded shortly after liftoff, killing all seven astronauts.
Prime Number
11,500: The average annual number of people treated in hospital emergency rooms from 1990 to 2006 for injuries suffered while shoveling snow.
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