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The Things Their Families Carried HBO?s ?Section 60,? named for the part of Arlington National Cemetery where the war dead from Iraq and Afghanistan are being buried, is full of stark vignettes. Couric Rebounds With Web and Palin By getting some of their best election coverage online, Katie Couric and the team behind ?CBS Evening News? may have seized on a template for the not-so-distant future. Video Game Review | Warhammer Online: Age of Reckoning: A Fantasy Universe Raises Its Broadsword Against World of Warcraft Warhammer Online: Age of Reckoning is the best new massively multiplayer game since World of Warcraft, which was released in 2004. Theater Review | Chekhov Lizardbrain: For a Solitary Soul, Memories Are Raucous Company ?Chekhov Lizardbrain,? at the Ohio Theater through Oct. 19, is a peculiar, hypnotic and unexpectedly moving new show from Philadelphia?s venturesome Pig Iron Theater Company. Decades on the Trail of a Shadowy Agency The latest book by James Bamford, an expert on the National Security Agency, reconstructs the agency?s recent history. Music Review | Maxwell: Selling Anticipation, With Buyers Galore After having been all but invisible for seven years, Maxwell, the Brooklyn-born soul singer, turned in an exquisite and at times impressively powerful show at Radio City Music Hall on Thursday. Dance Review | OtherShore: A Smorgasbord of Movement in a Company?s Debut Performance OtherShore presented three works that delve into the nature of human communication at the Baryshnikov Arts Center on Thursday. Movie Review | 'Quarantine': Infection?s Bad Symptoms ?Quarantine,? yet another pseudo-documentary horror movie, delivers the heebie-jeebies with solid acting and perfectly calibrated shocks. Television Review | 'The Chef Jeff Project': Amid Roasts and Recipes, Rehabilitation ?The Chef Jeff Project,? a new series beginning Sunday on the Food Network, feels like reality TV giving back and compensating for a hundred prior sins. Music Review | John Martyn: A Smooth Scotch Blend of Folk and Jazz John Martyn, an idiosyncratic Scottish singer and songwriter, made his first New York appearance in more than a decade with a brief yet heartening set at Joe?s Pub on Thursday night. Music Review | Muhal Richard Abrams and Amina Claudine Myers, the Wet Ink Ensemble: Conversations, Free-Flowing Yet Precise Muhal Richard Abrams, Amina Claudine Myers and the Wet Ink Ensemble performed at the Kitchen on Thursday to honor the Association for the Advancement of Creative Musicians. Dance Review | Kitt Johnson: Her Back Like a Fossil, a Dancer Evolves ?Rankefod,? performed on Thursday at Danspace Project, is the second in a series of works by Danish choreographer Kitt Johnson that concentrate on the body, anatomy and choreography. Television Review | 'The Trial of Saddam Hussein': The Backstage Intrigues at a Show Trial ?The Trial of Saddam Hussein,? part of the series ?America at a Crossroads,? is a useful summary of the trial that resulted in Mr. Hussein?s hanging in late 2006. YouTube to Offer TV Shows With Ads Strewn Through YouTube said it would start offering full-length episodes of some television shows on its sprawling Web site. Eileen Herlie, Actress of TV and Stage, Dies at 90 Ms. Herlie was for 32 years the wise matron Myrtle Fargate on the ABC soap opera ?All My Children? and earlier an acclaimed performer on Broadway and the London stage. Nadia Nerina, Royal Ballet Dancer, Is Dead at 80 Ms. Nerina was a principal ballerina for the Royal Ballet known for her technical virtuosity, lightness afoot, effortless-seeming jumps and joyful charm onstage, especially in comedic roles. Bridge: A Dummy Reversal Helps Bring a World Title BEIJING ? Five of the six American teams qualified here Friday for Saturday?s start of the knockout stage at the World Mind Sports Games. Arts, Briefly: Copland?s House Named a National Landmark Aaron Copland?s house in Cortlandt Manor, N.Y., has been declared a national historic landmark by the National Park Service. Arts, Briefly: Release of Medina Delayed in Britain A British publisher said it would delay the publication of the novel ?The Jewel of Medina,? by Sherry Jones, according to the British Web site TheBookseller.com. Arts, Briefly: Italy Questions Items in Antiquities Auction A former Italian culture minister says he is trying to stop Bonhams auction house in London from selling several archaeological artifacts that he contends may have been looted in Italy.