Highlights from this Sunday's Times (12/20/09)

Bart Scott. (Sarah Simonis for The New York Times)

- Greg Bishop on New York Jet Bart Scott's trash talking

- Kathryn Shattuck on the evolution of Susan Orlean and John Gillespie's marriage

- Stephanie Rosenbloom on her day as an employee at a Wal-Mart store in New Jersey

Highlights from this Sunday's Times (12/13/09)

Pema Sherpa. (Ozier Muhammad/The New York Times)

- Corey Kilgannon on two Nepalese taxi drivers in New York who lived differently and died differently, albeit on the same night

- Rebecca Cathcart on a night in the life of Mario Lopez, who played the A. C. Slater character on "Saved by the Bell"

- Douglas Martin on Giorgio Carbone, the late prince of Seborga

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

Highlights from this Sunday's Times (11/29/09)

Texas Hold 'em at the rec center. (Katie Orlinsky for The New York Times)

- N. R. Kleinfield on the recreation center for patients — no doctors or nurses allowed — at the Memorial Sloan-Kettering Cancer Center

- Douglas Martin on Lino Lacedelli, one of the first climbers to reach K2's summit

- Fred Kaplan on previously unreleased recordings of Ella Fitzgerald performing in a small club