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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: Disappointments on Climate
  A week that could have brought important progress on climate change ended in disappointment.
• Editorial: Flawed Media Plan
  It is hard to understand the logic behind the way Kevin Martin, the chairman of the Federal Communications Commission, wants to relax the 32-year-old ban on newspaper-broadcast cross-ownership.
• Editorial: The Election Watchdogs Going Missing
  The Senate is ducking its responsibility to keep the Federal Election Commission stocked with qualified appointees to police the already booming election season.
• Editorial: A Lesson From New Jersey
  New Jersey’s experience with racial profiling offers an important lesson for police departments across the country.
• The Public Editor: A Semi-Nude Minor? In The Times?
  Even a brilliant idea such as T, the fashion magazine of The New York Times, can present difficult issues for the newspaper.
• Op-Ed Columnist: Big Table Fantasies
  There are large differences among the serious contenders for the Democratic nomination in their beliefs about what it will take to turn a progressive agenda into reality.
• Op-Ed Columnist: A Surreal State
  For more than a half-year Belgium has been unable to form a government because its citizens can’t decide what the state is for.
• 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.
• 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: 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.
• Editorial: Justice in Sentencing
  The Supreme Court’s latest rulings on sentencing guidelines strike us as a positive development, one with much potential for advancing justice.
• 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.
• Op-Ed Contributor: Postpartum Impression
  Under the French health-care system, routine care for new mothers includes an astonishing perk: perineal re-education, which can also be described as making mothers as good as new.