Highlights from this Sunday's Times (6/7/09)

- Ellen Barry on Sergei Kanev, a crime reporter in Moscow whose life is punctuated by death threats
- Alan Feuer on the fall of the great New York law firms
- Deborah Sontag on two divergent Muslim artists in New York

And here's a bonus: my mother's recommendation.

- Scott Malcomson on Shakira's efforts to improve early-childhood education in South America