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• The Office Pool, 2008
  This is the 34th annual office pool in this space, a New Year’s tradition that has become the most excruciating multiple-choice prediction test in world media.
• The Year in Questions 2007: Answer Key
  Here are the answers to the year-end quiz featured on Sunday.
• Looking at America
  We hope that American voters will have the wisdom to grant the powers of the presidency to someone who has the integrity and principle to use them honorably.
• About That Peace Process
  Next week President Bush will make his first trip since taking office to Israel and the Palestinian territories. He should use this visit to get real work started.
• New Year’s Eve
  There is something deeply gratifying about joining the horses in their pasture a few minutes before the clock strikes 12 at the turn of a new year.
• The Great Divide
  The leading Republican presidential contenders have gone out of their way to assure voters that they will not deviate from the Bush path. Why?
• On America’s Watch
  The assassination of Benazir Bhutto has given the coup de grâce to the botched American attempt to manage a nuclear-armed Islamic state.
• Will More Eyes Make Us Safer?
  How well-trained can the personnel charged with identifying “high-risk passengers” possibly be?
• Selections From Opinion Online
  Readers respond to Jet Lagged, Think Again and Domestic Disturbances blog posts.
• New Hampshire’s Stealth Candidate?
  Ron Paul can lose next week and still win.
• War for the Holidays
  As most Americans enjoy the holidays, several nations in Africa are preparing for the onslaught of war.
• With Readers Like Y’All…
  Dick Cavett sifts through comments from readers.
• No Mundane Madness
  The madness of the holidays gets trumped by a larger insanity.
• Bound for Academic Glory?
  A new report on higher education raises questions about how public universities can improve.
• Not Your Mom’s Apple Pie Chart
  How readers fared solving the "Which Came First?" mystery.
• Rescuing Gateway
  Though about two million people visit parts of the Gateway National Recreation Area every year, it is in need of help from the local and federal government.
• Immigration and the Candidates
  Even by the low standards of presidential campaigns, the issue of immigration has been badly served in the 2008 race.
• Cash-Strapped Consumers
  The ease of borrowing has made it possible for many people to live beyond their means. But the end of easy money is now exposing Americans’ vulnerability.
• After Benazir Bhutto
  Ms. Bhutto’s death leaves the Bush administration with the principled, if unfamiliar, option of using American resources to fortify Pakistan’s battered democratic institutions.
• State Without Pity
  Texas’s governor, Legislature, courts and voters should reassess their addiction to executions.
• The Work Remaining
  A halfway resolution of the United States attorneys scandal is not enough. It needs to be investigated vigorously and completely.
• When Christmas Morning Comes
  Christmas is imbued with a recognition that the transition from sleep to waking always carries with it the immeasurable gift of a new day.
• A Lifesaving Checklist
  Washington is blocking research on a promising medical tool.
• The Hangover That Lasts
  The more we have binged on alcohol — and the younger we have started to binge — the more we experience significant, though often subtle, effects on the brain and cognition.
• Clocking the Candidates
  The front-running Democrats, thanks mostly to a smaller field, got a lot more time to speak than the front-running Republicans in the televised debates of 2007.
• A Colony With a Conscience
  This republic owes its enduring strength to a fragile, scorched and little-known document called the Flushing Remonstrance.
• You Must Remember This
  A look at the important news that most of us have forgotten from 2007.
• Mortgage Meltdown
  Is there a remedy to the mortgage crisis?