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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: 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: Down Payment on Mideast Peace
  This week’s international pledging conference to aid the Palestinian Authority was a huge success. But it will need to be matched by diplomatic progress.
• Editorial: Too Costly for Even the Well-to-Do
  Governors and legislators ought to be ashamed if their flagship public universities charge more than a high-priced private school like Harvard.
• Editorial: Bad Bill Now, Bad Bill Later
  While trying to shove a bad bill on electronic spying through the Senate, Majority Leader Harry Reid ended up doing the country a favor.
• Op-Ed Columnist: What Was That All About?
  I still don’t know what the Bali climate agreement was about, but I do know that it was incremental, not transformational.
• Op-Ed Columnist: Rush to Judgment
  Since this is the first time we’ve had a woman who was a serious contender for president, it’s been an adjustment to watch her more changeable looks.
• 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?
• 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.
• 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.
• 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.
• 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.
• 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.
• 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: 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.
• 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.
• Op-Ed Contributor: The Mourning After
  Widows and their children in many societies are shunned, abused and exploited.
• 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 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.