Health Ills Abound as Farm Runoff Fouls Wells

Alternate Plan as Health Option Muddies Debate

Published: August 17, 2009

WASHINGTON — The White House has indicated that it could accept a nonprofit health care cooperative as an alternative to a new government insurance plan, originally favored by President Obama. But the co-op idea is so ill defined that no one knows exactly what it would look like or how effectively it would compete with commercial insurers.

Woodstock: More Than Just the Music

By MIKE HALE

Published: August 12, 2009

In a career marked by documentaries that have won Oscars (“Harlan County U.S.A.,” “American Dream”) or deserved to (“Wild Man Blues,” “Shut Up & Sing”) Barbara Kopple has pursued a lesser-known sideline: Woodstock films. “Woodstock ’94” and “My Generation” covered the concerts that marked the 25th and 30th anniversaries of the world’s most famous rock festival. Now, for the 40th, Ms. Kopple has gone back upstate to complete a trilogy of sorts with “Woodstock: Now & Then,” a history of the original event that will be shown Friday night on VH1.

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Huge Bonus Hangs Over Pay Review

By STEPHEN LABATON and ERIC DASH

WASHINGTON —Citigroup is planning to claim that an energy trader who is due to receive compensation of $100 million this year should be exempt from review by a federal authority given responsibility for setting pay packages at financial companies that received taxpayer bailouts, executives at the bank said Wednesday.