A Manhattan transfer?

A Lehman trader copes with the sudden onset of income shrinkage.

Checkbook scoop “sad.”

How Frederick Law Olmsted’s 843 acres of civilizing wilderness became a type-A battleground.

When students created Facebook pages that viciously attacked a teacher, and when their wealthy parents on the school’s board defended them, Horace Mann was forced to confront a series of questions: Is a Facebook page private, like a diary? Is big money distorting private-school education? And what values is a school supposed to teach?

They’d seen hard times, and knew more were coming. But no one at Bear Stearns expected to become Jamie Dimon’s trophy.