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 (5/31/09)

- Michael Brick on water safari in Texas
- Peter Baker on Bill Clinton, who has now spent more time out of the White House than he did in there, and how his legacy has changed since Barack Obama became president
- Lizette Alvarez and Michael Wilson on New York City projects in the old days, as Sonia Sotomayor, Obama's Supeme Court justice nominee, remembers them — before they got their bad rap