Highlights from this Sunday's Times (8/30/09)

Ted Kennedy's coffin inside The Basilica of Our Lady of
Perpetual Help in Boston. (Damon Winter/The New York
Times)

- Dan Barry on Ted Kennedy's final farewell
- Sheri Fink, a ProPublica reporter, on what happened inside Memorial Medical Center in New Orleans as floodwaters approached*
- Robbie Brown on young New Yorkers who summer in the South because their family roots lie there

*See Stephanie Detillier's post on this article.

Highlights from this Sunday's Times (5/24/09)

- Sara Corbett and photographer Gillian Laub on the segregated proms for students of Montgomery County High School in Mount Vernon, Georgia
- Lynn Hirschberg on Conan O'Brien's move from New York to L.A.
- N. R. Kleinfield on the Rev. A. R. Bernard, who leads the Christian Cultural Center in Brooklyn