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• 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.
• 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.
• Time and the Dictator
  The verdict by an Indonesian court ordering Time magazine to pay Suharto a judgment in a libel case should not be allowed to stand.
• Help for House Cleaning
  A long-promised independent Office of Congressional Ethics, intended to put some spine and sunlight into the chamber’s own notorious ethics process, is a significant improvement.
• A Lesson in Giving
  How the Community Service Society of New York, a beneficiary of The New York Times Neediest Cases Fund, helped one man.
• The Airport Security Follies
  Our approach to airport screening since 9/11 has been wrongheaded.
• Red States Looking in the Pink?
  Do certain recent trends bode well for the GOP in the next election?.
• War for the Holidays
  As most Americans enjoy the holidays, several nations in Africa are preparing for the onslaught of war.
• 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.
• 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.
• 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.
• Broken Polls
  Election officials in other states should follow Ohio’s and Colorado’s lead in promoting fair and honest elections.
• 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?
• St. Nick in the Big City
  The modern Santa may be happy, but does he still care about the poor?