Highlights from this Sunday's Times (2/14/10)

Marines in Marja. (Tyler Hicks/The New York Times)

- Chris Chivers on the inexperienced Marine Company K's surge through Marja, Afghanistan

- Dan Barry on people's struggles in Ciudad Juarez, which often cause moves across the border to El Paso
- Alex Witchel on the director David Cromer

Highlights from this Sunday's Times (5/10/09)

- Margalit Fox's obituary of Martha Mason, who spent most of her life in an iron lung
- David Segal's hilarious debut consumer-advocacy column, The Haggler (notice his perfect use of the third person when referring to himself)
- Tamar Lewin's American Album on Miles Woolley, a teacher at a Miami high school who is opposed to military recruitment there because of his experience in the Vietnam war