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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: 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: Wanted: A Defender of the Census
  At his confirmation hearing, senators will need to figure out if Steve H. Murdock, President Bush’s nominee to be the next director of the Census Bureau, has the political fortitude for the job.
• Editorial: Fair Pay for Judges
  There is at last a chance that the state’s woefully underpaid judiciary will get a raise this year. But that will require Sheldon Silver, the Assembly speaker, to step up and make it happen.
• Editorial: Real Winter
  A real winter, like the one we’re having this week, means capitulating to the weather.
• Op-Ed Columnist: The Obama-Clinton Issue
  With the presidency, character and self-knowledge matter more than experience. There are reasons to think that, among Democrats, Barack Obama is better prepared for this madness.
• Op-Ed Contributor: Iowa’s Undemocratic Caucuses
  The news media need to quit tolerating the practice of denying the public access to factual information about how much support each Democratic candidate actually has on caucus night.
• Op-Ed Contributor: The Mourning After
  Widows and their children in many societies are shunned, abused and exploited.
• Think Again: Two Aesthetics
  Reactions to a new film, the New Museum . . . and an old television show.
• Domestic Disturbances: Holier Than They
  For all the presidential candidates’ talk about religion, few are asking what it means to be truly Christian in spirit.
• Zoom: Cartesian Blogging, Part One
  Replies to reader mail - and then some.
• 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.
• Think Again: Two Aesthetics
  Reactions to a new film, the New Museum . . . and an old television show.
• Domestic Disturbances: Holier Than They
  For all the presidential candidates’ talk about religion, few are asking what it means to be truly Christian in spirit.
• Zoom: Cartesian Blogging, Part One
  Replies to reader mail - and then some.
• 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: 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.
• Editorial: A Long Time Coming
  New Jersey’s renunciation of the death penalty could inspire officials in other states to muster the courage to revisit their own laws on capital punishment.
• Editorial: Notes From the Global War on Terror
  Americans need to know what President Bush knew on both Iraq and Iran, and when he knew it. Anything less is unacceptable.
• Editorial: The Tax Debate That Isn’t
  More difficult than tax reform may be the search for a presidential candidate with the courage to speak frankly to Americans about the nation’s budget problems.
• 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.
• Op-Ed Contributor: Static on the Dream Phone
  The race is on for competitive advantage in the truly open cellular phone network of the future.
• Op-Ed Contributors: I Am Not a Health Reform
  How sad that the leading Democrats are still kicking around Richard Nixon’s discredited ideas for health reform.
• Op-Ed Contributor: Locavore, Get Your Gun
  Hunters need to push a new public image based on deeper traditions: we are stewards of the land, hunting on ground that we love, collecting food for our families.