Highlights from this Sunday's Times (12/6/09)

A crowd at a Pape Diouf performance in Dakar. (Michael Kamber for The New York Times)

- Seth Sherwood on Dakar's fledgling music scene in Dakar

- Peter Baker on the evolution of Obama's latest decision on Afghanistan

- Robin Finn on Len Chenfeld, 18, a Jewish kid from Manhattan who wants to make it in basketball