New York Times Week In Review

The legendary editor Robert Giroux, who died Friday at age 94, narrowly lost the chance to publish “The Catcher in the Rye.”

As Bogotá revives, reminders of distant carnage dare to intrude.

New Orleans was spared great damage, forcing experts to warn against complacency.

Venus and Serena have outside lives, and win. Cause and effect?

A McGovern-era peacenik finds, in Georgia, a fear that Russia is no longer contained.

Memo to the elite: Thicken that skin of yours and develop a good sense of humor.

Convention dramas aside, vision has its limits. Compromise has its opportunities.

Sarah Palin’s selection unleashes gender as a live issue again, just when Democrats thought they had it under control.

The gross domestic product is all well and good, but as a stand-in gauge for the nation’s overall well-being, this supernumber is less than perfect.

Scottish nationalists are pushing for a divorce from England.

Cigarette taxes and court settlements have made the government a financial stakeholder in smoking, some would argue, even as officials warn about its deadly consequences.

Or so goes the theory that exactitude can ruin a good argument.

Journalists are turning to the public for ideas and the money to do their investigative reporting.

Few celebrity divorces have been as inevitable, and perhaps as piercing, as the one between Mike and the Mad Dog.

The wind turbine excels aesthetically. Perhaps economically, too.

Rootlessness, the label that sticks to stories like Barack Obama’s, is a national trait that both attracts and repels.

As her tenure winds down, the Russia expert faces a personal test.

To understand the conflict in Georgia, listen to how people speak in the Caucasus.

In 1973, the race was shorter to assist runners weakened by the Cultural Revolution.

An ick is a yuk is a buck, and today’s taboo is tomorrow’s box-office bonanza.