EditorialKevin Czinger, now president and chief executive of Czinger, stands next to a car from Coda, a Chinese-backed electric car company he helped found and lead, in New York, June 2, 2010. (Dan Neville/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)