New York Times

On Oct. 12, New York Times editorial writer Adam Cohen penned a hit piece masquerading as a profile of Bobby Jindal, the remarkable Republican gubernatorial candidate in Louisiana. Cohen began by noting that while Jindal's primary night victory celebration was attended by a diverse mix of whites and Indian-Americans, "there was scarcely a black reveler there. " How many "black revelers" were in attendance at Democratic rival Kathleen Blanco's election night gathering Cohen did not see fit to print.

There's a newspaper battle brewing in Happy Valley. In one corner is the Centre Daily Times, hometown newspaper of State College, its pages sprinkled with stories from the state's heartland: farming, growth and local government mixed with Little League, church bingo and Penn State football. Full-page ads cost $2,000, the news staff numbers 40 and many of its 25,000 loyal readers don't take kindly to MTV awards splashed across its front page. But can this small, but respectable community newspaper go toe to toe with the mighty newspaper of all newspapers?

The New York Times will buy the company that owns the Boston Globe for $1.1 billion under an agreement approved yesterday by the boards of both companies, the New York paper reported in today's issues. The largest in newspaper history, the sale would end family control at one of the last major independent papers in the country. It was to be announced in today's Globe as well. For now, terms of the sale ensure that the two newspapers will remain separate. According to sources at the Globe, the negotiations included contracts guaranteeing the employment of senior management.

It's simply not true that Maureen Dowd eats men for breakfast. I know because I had breakfast with her recently at the Four Seasons Hotel in Manhattan, and she didn't even poke me with a fork. Here's what happened: When the waitress came, Dowd ordered a sensible raspberry yogurt. "I'm in the mood for something manly," I said. So I ordered two eggs sunny-side up and a side of corned beef. "That sounds really good," Dowd said. "Can I switch to that, too?" I knew then that Dowd was my kind of woman.

Despite a clear sense of unease about the risk to newspapers of becoming the target of future blackmailers, most scholars and editors interviewed yesterday said they thought the Washington Post and New York Times had acted properly in printing the 35,000-word tract to placate the mail-bomber known as the Unabomber. "Every professional instinct within me believes that it was the wrong decision," said Marvin Kalb, the former NBC and CBS reporter who now directs the Shorenstein Center on the Press, Politics and Public Policy at Harvard University.

You don't really want to like Anna Quindlen, the Pulitzer Prize-winning New York Times columnist, bestselling novelist, and devoted wife and mother of three whose achievements seem to suggest that women can, indeed, have it all. It doesn't help that Quindlen, 42, recently turned down a shot at a top managerial job at the Times - perhaps, in time, the top job - in order to plunge full time into a promising literary career. Who among us even has such a choice? Where, one can't help wondering, have the rest of us gone wrong?

Correction: A story Thursday on novelists Ashley and JaQuavis Coleman gave their age incorrecly. They are 25. JaQuavis and Ashley Coleman, both 25, are likely one of the youngest married couples to hit the New York Times best-seller list. And they owe all to their very colorful past. His as a drug dealer. Hers as his ride-or-die chick. He was pushing product. She was counting up the money. And that's what they do, still. Only now the product is literary instead of illegal, and the money comes as royalty checks instead of crumpled dollar bills from the hands of a crackhead looking for a hit. The Colemans are among a group of authors who write Street Lit, a genre that many considered a bastardization of African American literature when it first hit the bookshelves a dozen years ago. Street Lit is urban fiction but written in a grittier style, focusing on a subculture of drugs, prostitution, and street violence.

It is entirely possible that somewhere, somehow, there is a jazz joint Peter Nero never played, a TV show or variety hour on which he did not banter, a belter or hoofer with whom he never shared the stage, or a pops orchestra he failed to lead. Possible, but not likely. In Philadelphia, he has been known as the suave personification of the Philly Pops, and if Philadelphia is a town that likes its maestros long-lived, Nero's local popularity is easily explained. He has been artistic chief of the Philly Pops for nearly 31/2 decades - since its start.

At last we know why our illustrious mayor doesn't know what is going on in Philadelphia. He's off somewhere reading the New York Times. B. L. Lockridge-Bluitt Philadelphia.

The way Jim Hamilton tells it, he's a bit fearful of his daughter for good reason. Once rebuked, twice shy, or something like that, says the man behind Hamilton's Grill Room, a Lambertville, N.J., landmark for more than two decades. The daughter who generates quakes is his youngest, Gabrielle, 46, best known as the chef/owner of the acclaimed restaurant Prune in lower Manhattan and now starring in her own nonfiction. Her memoir, Blood, Bones & Butter , The Inadvertent Education of a Reluctant Chef (Random House, March, 2011)

Leonard Marsh, 80, cofounder of the Snapple beverage brand, died Tuesday. The Dr. Pepper Snapple Group Inc. of Plano, Texas, which now owns Snapple, on Thursday confirmed Mr. Marsh's death. He died at his home in Manhasset, N.Y., the New York Times reported. Snapple began in New York in 1972 as Unadulterated Food Products, which sold natural fruit juices to health-food stores. Mr. Marsh, a window washer who would later serve as chief executive officer of Snapple, launched the business on the side with his brother-in-law Hyman Golden and childhood friend Arnold Greenberg.

WEST Philadelphia-born and -raised, Colman Domingo makes no pretense of passing as a prince of Bel-Air. No need to; at 43, he's more a poobah of film and stage. And he's got the credits to prove it, from Steven Spielberg's recent, Oscar-winning "Lincoln" to Spike Lee's "Passing Strange," a 2009 film based on a play that Domingo appeared in and won an off-Broadway Obie Award for. You'll also see him this fall in Lee Daniels' "The Butler," about White House butler Eugene Allen.

It is entirely possible that somewhere, somehow, there is a jazz joint Peter Nero never played, a TV show or variety hour on which he did not banter, a belter or hoofer with whom he never shared the stage, or a pops orchestra he failed to lead. Possible, but not likely. In Philadelphia, he has been known as the suave personification of the Philly Pops, and if Philadelphia is a town that likes its maestros long-lived, Nero's local popularity is easily explained. He has been artistic chief of the Philly Pops for nearly 31/2 decades - since its start.

NEW YORK - The Denver Post won a Pulitzer Prize on Monday for its coverage of the movie-theater massacre in Aurora, Colo., while the New York Times captured four awards for reporting on the rise of a new aristocracy in China, the business practices of Apple and Wal-Mart and a harrowing avalanche. The Associated Press received the award in breaking news photography for its coverage of the civil war in Syria. In awards that reflected the rapidly changing media world, the online publication InsideClimate News won the Pulitzer for national reporting for its reports on problems in the regulation of the nation's oil pipelines.

Bob Teague, 84, a former news anchor, reporter, and producer and one of New York City's first black television journalists, died Thursday, WNBC said. His widow, Jan, told the New York Times that he suffered from T-cell lymphoma. Mr. Teague was a veteran newspaper reporter who had worked at the Milwaukee Journal and the New York Times when he joined New York's NBC affiliate in 1963. Mr. Teague often subbed on NBC network news and sports programs, but he was critical of the industry that employed him. "How can you make the decisions about your lives, your family, your business if what you are getting is information about what the beautiful people are doing?"

"I think it will take a little while for this to work its way to the manufacturing sector, but it will be a stimulus. " - David J. Rosenberg, vice president, Langhorne-based Gamesa USA, which makes wind turbines, on extension of a wind-power tax credit. "I will not have another debate with this Congress over whether or not they should pay the bills they have already racked up through the laws that they passed. " - President Obama, on the next financial crisis, raising the debt limit.

Judith J. Thompson, 79, a longtime resident of Chestnut Hill, who served as a volunteer and fund-raiser for several nonprofit organizations in Philadelphia, died of cancer Sunday, Oct. 21, at the Hill at Whitemarsh. Mrs. Thompson raised money for various organizations and projects, especially ones in Chestnut Hill, where she had lived since the 1960s. She was on the boards of directors at Chestnut Hill Academy, Chestnut Hill Hospital, and the Pennsylvania School for the Deaf in the city's Germantown section.

NEW YORK - Former New York Times publisher Arthur Ochs Sulzberger, who led the newspaper to new levels of influence and profit while standing up for press freedom during some of the most significant moments in 20th-century journalism, died Saturday. He was 86. Sulzberger, who went by the nickname "Punch" and served with the Marine Corps before joining the Times staff first as a reporter and then - following his father and grandfather - as publisher, died at his home in Southampton, N.Y., after a long illness, his family announced.

NEW YORK - Lincoln Rocha had just taken some photos of his wife while they visited Times Square on a hot summer day when he saw a man nearby start to back away from police officers who were talking to him. When they reached out to try to grab hold of the man, Rocha said, "he just went for his knife. " The officers went for their guns. Rocha went for his camera. "When I saw the officers draw their guns, I was sure they would kill him," the Brazilian tourist said Sunday, the day after Darrius Kennedy, 51, was shot to death by police, who said he had lunged at officers with an 11-inch kitchen knife.

Jon Lord, 71, the keyboardist of the pioneering British hard-rock band Deep Purple, died Monday in London. The cause was a pulmonary embolism, said his manager, Bruce Payne. Mr. Lord announced last year that he had cancer. In songs from the late 1960s and early '70s such as "Smoke on the Water," "Hush," and the epic "Child in Time," Deep Purple laid much of the groundwork for heavy metal, drawing a blunter and fiercer sound out of the blues-based riffs common in the British invasion's first wave.