Articles by Geraldine Baum

Mona Mond had a plan – and it didn’t include Wall Street going haywire and giving up a three-bedroom house with a half-acre yard for a small apartment. Read more

Canadians stuck with their ruling party in parliamentary elections Tuesday, as Conservative Prime Minister Stephen Harper overcame opposition attempts to tether him to “Bush-style policies” that would allow the financial crisis in the United States to spread to Canada. Read more

So many world leaders have converged on the United Nations over the last week that at one point billionaire Bill Gates was left cooling his heels on East 46th Street in a “pedestrian freeze” while a presidential motorcade whizzed the wrong way down 1st Avenue. Read more

At a black-tie gala to help poor kids, a woman had champagne splashed on her Oscar de la Renta gown. Read more

NEW YORK – Gloom and uncertainty fell over Wall Street today as the staffs of two major investment banks tried to absorb the twin blows that hit the U.S. financial sector over the weekend. Read more

Naomi Kerongo choked with emotion in a U.N. conference hall Tuesday as she recounted her country’s version of Sept. Read more

Georgian President Mikheil Saakashvili, a U.S.-trained attorney regarded by Washington as a pro-democracy wunderkind, has made a political career of brinkmanship with neighboring Russia. Read more

A young teacher was leading her class in a “good morning” song in a run-down suburb when a couple of 6-year-olds began flailing their arms in herky-jerky motions, swiping their hands around their heads and pretending to claw up and down their faces. Read more

From prime ministers to college students, Europeans want to cloak Barack Obama in a warm embrace when he arrives on the continent next week. Read more