EditorialAn undated photo provided by Nick Viorst of the journalist Milton Viorst, who synthesized shoe-leather reporting with scholarly insights into the Middle East, with his wife, the author Judith Viorst. (Nick Viorst via The New York Times)
EditorialPete Ventantonio, better known as Jack Terricloth, leader of the band World/Inferno Friendship Society, at Harefield Road, a bar in the Williamsburgh section of Brooklyn, on Dec. 30, 2008. (Damon Winter/The New York Times)