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• The City | Long Island | Westchester: The Governor’s Nose Dive
  There is a lot of important business facing Gov. Eliot Spitzer and the New York State Legislature. It is time to put Troopergate among the footnotes in the history books.
• 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: Decongesting the Skies
  As helpful as is the Bush administration’s short-term remedy for the nation’s congested skies, Washington needs to aggressively consider longer-term solutions.
• Editorial: Slavery’s Place in the Capitol
  The House and Senate have set an encouraging standard by naming the main welcoming chamber of the Capitol’s mammoth new visitors’ center Emancipation Hall.
• Editorial Observer: Changes à la Russe: Vladimir Putin and Echoes From the Past
  From our view in the West, it is dismaying that so many Russians are prepared to overlook how Vladimir Putin has achieved order in the current political transition.
• Op-Ed Columnist: Blindly Into the Bubble
  So where were the regulators as one of the greatest financial disasters since the Great Depression unfolded? They were blinded by ideology.
• 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.
• 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: 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: Blazing Arizona
  On Jan. 1, Arizona intends to become the first state to try to muscle its way out of its immigration problems on its own.
• Editorial: Disappointments on Climate
  A week that could have brought important progress on climate change ended in disappointment.
• Editorial: Plenty of Blame for Afghanistan
  Unless the United States and Europe come up with a better strategy — and invest more money and troops — the “good war” in Afghanistan will go irretrievably bad.
• 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.
• Op-Ed Contributor: The Office I Left Giuliani
  Rudolph W. Giuliani’s claim to have turned around the Manhattan United States attorney’s office is an insult to the outstanding men and women who have served in that office over the last 50 years.
• Op-Ed Contributor: Clause and Effect
  The best way to make sense of the Second Amendment is to take away all the commas.