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Government officials in New York are preparing for what could be the biggest single-year decline in pay on Wall Street in history and with it a vexing shortfall in city and state revenues. Skip to next paragraph ... [full story]

Everen T. Brown is trying to break his Olympic record. Skip to next paragraph Interactive Schedule Olympics Tracker Follow the schedules of your favorite sports, day by day and event by event. var so = new SWFObject('http://graphics7.nytimes.com/packages/flash/sports/olympics/OLYMPICS_TRACKER/promo190.swf','nytSWF',190,99,9,'#FFFFFF'); so.addParam('BASE','http://graphics7.nytimes.com/packages/flash/sports/olympics/OLYMPICS_TRACKER/'); so.addParam('allowScriptAccess','always'); so.write('olyvuPromoDiv190'); #olyvuPromoDiv190{visibility:visible !important;} Times ... [full story]

On Sept. 7, 2006, Nouriel Roubini, an economics professor at New York University, stood before an audience of economists at the International Monetary Fund and announced that a crisis was brewing. In the coming months and years, he warned, the ... [full story]

A Ferrari salesman wouldn't drive a 1985 Yugo to work. And you wouldn't expect the cable guy to install rabbit ears in his own home. So perhaps it is not surprising that Cook & Fox ... [full story]

A RAILWAY motorcar, or railcar, is a peculiar, no-frills, gasoline-powered vehicle not much bigger than a golf cart and not much more powerful than a riding mower. The seats do not have much padding, if any, so the rider ... [full story]

Correction Appended One afternoon in April, six dozen wealthy Americans were entertained at a luncheon party in Midtown Manhattan, along with a special guest from Paris: Henri Loyrette, the director of the Louvre. Skip to next paragraph ... [full story]

BEIJING — Chinese officials have thrown an almost smothering blanket of security across this capital of 17 million in preparation for the start of the Olympic Games on Friday. Above all else, Chinese leaders say, these Olympics will be “safe.” ... [full story]

In the days before the Indiana and North Carolina primaries, the Op-Ed page asked writers from each state to report on the race. Here are their final dispatches. Skip to next paragraph Enlarge This Image Fogelson-Lubliner ... [full story]

ROME Skip to next paragraph Multimedia Slide Show Italy's Contemporary Art Scene YOU wouldn’t know it from wandering around the crowded art fair in Bologna a few weeks ago, or from seeing Larry Gagosian’s ... [full story]

BLADE in hand, his arm raised and ready to throw, Jamie Zaugg squinted toward a wood target balanced on a log. A step, a whip of the wrist, and his knife was flying, blade and handle a blur, whirring 20 ... [full story]