New York’s currently: through fields of cattle, through fields of cane

 Amid intense G.O.P. criticism, White House nominates Gen. Michael Hayden for CIA director role.

 Over the weekend in Baghdad, 43 bodies were found, each shot at close range; series of car bombs kills 14.

 White House to Dept. of Agriculture: Find new ways to work strategy for victory in Iraq into all of your speeches.

 Iran to U.N.: If you tell us we can’t continue our nuclear program, we’re not listening.

 Iranian president sends letter to Bush, proposing “new solutions” to the current international discord.

 Rove riles Republicans with rumblings about losing control of Congress, though the chances of that kind of shift are slim compared to 12 years ago.

 National Guard duty in Iraq has been greatly downsized, less than half as many are deployed as a year ago.

 Go-Betweens singer Grant McLennan, 48, died in his sleep on Saturday.

 Judge rules in favor of Computer over Corps in Apple vs. Apple trademark case.

 Video: Thug-loving Jesus.

 Fred Flintstone never made a lot of money. His name was never in the tablets. He was not the finest cartoon character ever drawn. Flintstone, through the pages of history.

 TMN’s David Leite and Linda Avery, proprietors of Leite’s Culinaria, win 2006 James Beard Award for Food Website.

 Chinese village gets divorces to get free apartments; Spanish town can’t get a date to save its life—but it will have to.

 Consider this man armed and married.

 Man whose heart has already been removed awaits transplant, and waits, and waits.

 Boy’s eating habits spark protests, accusations of racism.

 “The sound of the tuba—I could relate to it. I remember one of my first solos: the Rocky theme. The secret lives of the National Symphony Orchestra.

 Last American Titanic survivor, Lillian Gertrud Asplund, dies at 99.

 Video: Tom Cruise tries to dance, cannot move feet.