Puzzle No. 3151 Puzzle No. 3151

ACROSS

 1 and 15 and 17 down Throw in a few more chips! (7,3,3)

Dec 16, 2008 / Frank W. Lewis

The People in Charge The People in Charge

The people in charge of the bailout attempts
Now constantly change how the effort is skewed.
They're titans of Wall Street and finance and such.

Dec 16, 2008 / Column / Calvin Trillin

A Teamster Apart: Ron Carey Remembered A Teamster Apart: Ron Carey Remembered

Two colleagues remember Ron Carey, the reformer and Teamsters Union president, who weathered controversy and won battles on his own terms.

Dec 16, 2008 / Feature / Steve Early and Rand Wilson

Cornel West and Peter Singer in ‘Examined Life’ Cornel West and Peter Singer in ‘Examined Life’

Cornel West and Peter Singer explain the great importance of an "examined life" at this particular historic moment.

Dec 16, 2008 / Astra Taylor

Gone With the Wind Gone With the Wind

The film of Margaret Mitchell's bestselling saga of the ante- and post-bellum South set box office records that still stand.

Dec 16, 2008 / Books & the Arts / Franz Hoellering

Bonnie and Clyde Bonnie and Clyde

In the era of the antihero, few were more antiheroic than Clyde Barrow and Bonnie Parker.

Dec 16, 2008 / Books & the Arts / Robert Hatch

Bush’s Nightmare Before Christmas Bush’s Nightmare Before Christmas

Bush is giving the American people a lump of coal this year in the form of last minute measures attacking the environment, women's rights and more.

Dec 16, 2008 / Brave New Films

All the President’s Men All the President’s Men

No one could put Richard Nixon back together again after Woodward and Bernstein got through with him.

Dec 16, 2008 / Books & the Arts / Robert Hatch

Rising Above Rising Above

An anecdotal history of New York City street art.

Dec 16, 2008 / Books & the Arts / Nick Stillman

Chinatown Chinatown

There's corruption in Los Angeles's water department and private detective Jake Gittes sticks his nose where he shouldn't-literally.

Dec 16, 2008 / Books & the Arts / Robert Hatch