Argentina: Swine Flu’s Spread Leads to School Closings

Authorities in Buenos Aires and the surrounding province announced Tuesday that they were canceling classes for hundreds of thousands of schoolchildren to try to contain a fast-spreading outbreak of swine flu that has killed at least 35 people locally. The two governments announced that they would start the school winter break on Monday, two weeks early, and that it would last four weeks. “I am asking kids to stay home and to not go to places with a large concentration of …

President’s Vacation: Not Much of a Secret

WASHINGTON — He does not own a sprawling Texas ranch, a family compound on the coast of Maine or a retreat tucked away in the Santa Ynez Mountains of California.

So President Obama, in this regard at least, is much like Bill Clinton: He has no vacation home to call his own.

With the summer getaway season in full swing, the White House is busy arranging the president’s …

Chamberlain Flops, but Yanks Get 10th Win in 11 Games

The Yankees have long grown weary of debating the possibility that they will shift Joba Chamberlain to the bullpen again. He is entrenched in the rotation, the Yankees keep saying, especially now that Chien-Ming Wang is injured. Next question, please.

But when Chamberlain labors the way he labored against the Toronto Blue Jays on Sunday, the …

Snaking Around the Torso

PARIS — The first sign of a serpent was a sinuous piece of hair curling at the nape. Then long, fitted suit jackets were caught at the waist by a snake belt. By the time Raf Simons had taken his snake charmer skills to sheer tops printed with a nest of vipers, the vision was clear: modern tailoring is about snaking around the body.

The Paris 2010 menswear season was soft in several senses: malleable materials, floppy, indeterminate shapes …