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• The City | Long Island | Westchester: 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.
• Editorial: Trade and Prosperity
  A protectionist agenda would do little to protect American workers from the disruptions wrought by trade, technology and other economic forces.
• Editorial: Bested by the Brits
  No matter what Americans may think, the United States has long lagged behind other donors when it comes to doling out foreign assistance.
• Editorial: That ’70s Team
  Imagine this: it is now the fourth quarter, with two minutes to go, and the game is tied between the Miami Dolphins and the New England Patriots.
• Op-Ed Columnist: A Résumé Can’t Buy You Love
  No matter how much Hillary Clinton, John McCain or Rudy Giuliani brag about being tested and vetted, it’s not experience that will be decisive in determining the next president.
• Op-Ed Columnist: Savior or Saboteur?
  If voting for Barack Obama is a roll of the dice, as Bill Clinton suggests, voting for Billary is a sure bet: an endless soap opera.
• Op-Ed Columnist: In the Age of Noah
  We may be the first generation in human history that literally has to act like Noah — to save the last pairs of a wide range of species that are threatened with extinction.
• Op-Ed Contributors: As the World Warms
  The Op-Ed page asked four writers to report on the weather in their part of the world. Here are their dispatches.
• Op-Ed Contributor: Pakistan’s Tyranny Continues
  How long can the chief justice of Pakistan’s Supreme Court, Iftikhar Muhammad Chaudhry, and his colleagues be kept in confinement?
• Domestic Disturbances: Marketing Disorder
  An ad campaign about mental disorders hits a nerve.
• Zoom: Not Your Mom’s Apple Pie Chart
  How readers fared solving the "Which Came First?" mystery.
• Think Again: Two Aesthetics
  Reactions to a new film, the New Museum . . . and an old television show.
• Talk Show: When They Told Me Norman Wrote a Book…
  The author unearths a little-known book by Norman Mailer and finds himself in it.
• Domestic Disturbances: Marketing Disorder
  An ad campaign about mental disorders hits a nerve.
• Zoom: Not Your Mom’s Apple Pie Chart
  How readers fared solving the "Which Came First?" mystery.
• Think Again: Two Aesthetics
  Reactions to a new film, the New Museum . . . and an old television show.
• Talk Show: When They Told Me Norman Wrote a Book…
  The author unearths a little-known book by Norman Mailer and finds himself in it.
• Editorial: 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.
• Editorial: 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.
• Editorial: Slowing the Rise in Health Costs
  The good news is that many of the reforms analyzed by the Commonwealth Fund might improve the quality of health care delivered to Americans.
• Editorial: A Crisis Long Foretold
  When all the truth is out about the twin crises of the subprime lending mess, the Federal Reserve will have company in the hall of shame.
• Editorial: Disappointments on Climate
  A week that could have brought important progress on climate change ended in disappointment.
• Op-Ed Contributors: 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.
• Op-Ed Contributor: Gold in the Ivory Tower
  There’s a particularly corrosive shift taking place in higher education: the growing gap between super-wealthy colleges and universities — and the rest of the academic world.
• Op-Ed Contributor: Hell on Wheels
  Unless you are a deep-sea diver or, maybe, an iron-ore salesman, your luggage really shouldn’t necessitate load-bearing wheels.
• Op-Ed Contributor: The Vatican’s Relative Truth
  In Pope Benedict XVI’s trip to the U.N. next April, will he be able to find a language to ensure that what he pitches is also what people catch?
• Op-Ed Contributor: The Mourning After
  Widows and their children in many societies are shunned, abused and exploited.