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• 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.
• State Without Pity
  Texas’s governor, Legislature, courts and voters should reassess their addiction to executions.
• Fuel for Bushehr
  President Bush did the diplomatic thing and said that it is good that Russia finally delivered fuel for Iran’s Russian-built nuclear power reactor at Bushehr. Don’t believe it.
• Protection for Endangered Whistle-Blowers
  Congress is finally ready to stand up to the Bush administration and for those courageous federal workers who dare to reveal waste and abuse in government.
• Throwing the Book at Them
  The library needs to find ways to ensure that its materials are available when other users need them. But going after a book borrower’s credit score feels a little too cowboy.
• Beyond Conspiracy, Progress
  Conspiracy theory is the refuge of the feeble-minded; that has not stopped it becoming rampant in an age where every voice has a digital loudspeaker.
• On Our Own Ignorance (and That of Many Others)
  A Gallup poll on the most admired man and woman in America.
• War for the Holidays
  As most Americans enjoy the holidays, several nations in Africa are preparing for the onslaught of war.
• The Greatest Christmas Present: An Easy Flight
  In terms of air travel, Christmas Day is the calm eye of the holiday travel storm.
• Bound for Academic Glory?
  A new report on higher education raises questions about how public universities can improve.
• Marketing Disorder
  An ad campaign about mental disorders hits a nerve.
• Not Your Mom’s Apple Pie Chart
  How readers fared solving the "Which Came First?" mystery.
• When They Told Me Norman Wrote a BookÂ…
  The author unearths a little-known book by Norman Mailer and finds himself in it.
• Protecting a $155 Billion Pot
  Thomas DiNapoli has moved forward in trying to make the state comptroller’s office more accountable to the public. He should keep aiming in that direction.
• 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.
• Broken Polls
  Election officials in other states should follow Ohio’s and Colorado’s lead in promoting fair and honest elections.
• Weakening Pakistan
  Pakistanis need to turn out in force on Election Day to ensure that everybody — not just Pervez Musharraf — can have a say in Pakistan’s future.
• Arrogance and Warming
  President Bush’s decision to deny California permission to regulate global warming emissions from cars can only be explained as the product of ideological blindness.
• Mortgage Meltdown
  Is there a remedy to the mortgage crisis?
• St. Nick in the Big City
  The modern Santa may be happy, but does he still care about the poor?
• ‘Ode to Joy,’ Followed by Chaos and Despair
  While Beethoven’s work may seem an innocuous choice for the official anthem of the European Union, it actually tells much more than one would expect about Europe’s predicament today.
• A Dessert With a Past
  How America narrowly escaped Christmas pudding.
• A License for Local Reporting
  The outcome of Federal Communications Commission policy that matters most to us is not who owns what, but how much news gathering goes on.