New York Times Top Online Stories: Wed 9/08/10

The New York Times lead headline online early Wednesday morning says "Obama Against a Compromise on Extension of Bush Tax Cuts." The paper says President Obama’s decision not to extend tax cuts for the rich adds a populist twist to an election-season economic package designed to entice support from big businesses and their Republican allies.

It says President Hamid Karzai, his brother and another prominent set of brothers struck agreements that have publicly backfired.

The paper says American plays and musicals have been in starring roles this season in London.

The Times says the old Giants Stadium carries about $110 million in debt, or nearly $13 for every New Jersey resident.

It says religious leaders held an “emergency summit” to denounce bigotry toward Muslim Americans, while the imam behind a planned Islamic center finally spoke out about the controversy.

And the most read story says every September, millions of parents try a kind of psychological witchcraft, to transform their summer-glazed campers into fall students, their video-bugs into bookworms.