With slightly more than a minute left in the Knicks game against the Denver Nuggets last night at Madison Square Garden, a brawl erupted near the Nuggets basket, giving the image-conscious N.B.A. another...
EAST RUTHERFORD, N.J., Dec. 16 The Nets are 23 games into the season and still proving that they are anything but an elite team. With only one victory against a team with a winning record entering the...
Mikki Moore, a reserve forward for the Nets, may be the only N.B.A. player who can talk about snakes using the words only and bite in the same sentence. Growing up in Gaffney, S.C., Moore, a self-professed...
CINCINNATI, Dec. 14 Situation. Marvin Lewis hates that word, as in We have a situation, a phrase Lewis, the coach of the Cincinnati Bengals, has heard in too many off-hours phone calls this year. Thats...
Danielle Tauro did not break a record yesterday at the 53rd annual Bishop Laughlin Games, the biggest indoor high school track and field meet in the United States. But Tauro, 17, one of the nations best...
BAGHDAD In a cavernous room that once displayed gifts given to Saddam Hussein, eight men in yellow prison garb sat on the floor facing the wall, guarded by two American soldiers. Among them was Abdulla...
JERUSALEM, Dec. 16 The Palestinian Authority president, Mahmoud Abbas, on Saturday ordered early presidential and parliamentary elections in a direct challenge to the authority of Hamas, the Islamic movement...
The drug maker Eli Lilly has engaged in a decade-long effort to play down the health risks of Zyprexa, its best-selling medication for schizophrenia, according to hundreds of internal Lilly documents and...
A newborn boy, squirming in a blanket with his umbilical cord still attached, was found in a Bronx park yesterday, the police said. The infant, believed to be just hours old, was taken to St. Barnabas...
Marvin Margolis, an 80-year-old Manhattan financial consultant, is looking for investors willing to bet on when he will die. Two years ago, Mr. Margolis bought a large life insurance policy. Now, hes...
One was born to money; the other is a self-made billionaire. They live just a block apart on the Upper East Side, and through the serendipitous sidewalk encounters that can make Manhattan seem like a small...
