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Op-Ed Columnist: The Big Squander

By not extracting concessions from bankers during the rescue of A.I.G., policy makers undermined their own credibility ? and put the broader economy at risk.

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Op-Ed Columnist: What Geithner Got Right

Timothy F. Geithner, like others on the White House economic team, is pragmatic and responds flexibly to situations, and that approach has paid off during the economic crisis.

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Op-Ed Contributor: Addicted to Mammograms

The public has been led to believe that breast cancer tumors need to be found as early as possible, so convincing people that we are screening too much is an uphill battle.

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Op-Ed Contributor: The Wet Side of the Moon

We can finally begin to think seriously about establishing a self-sufficient settlement on the Moon because of NASA?s discovery of large quantities of water there.

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Editorial: The Controversy Over Mammograms

The recent recommendation on mammographies is guidance for women and doctors, and should not be injected into the partisan debate over health care reform.

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Editorial: Iraq?s Election Law Morass

American officials need to help resolve the impasse over election laws in Iraq, and Iraqis must learn how to forge reliable compromises.

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Editorial: A Gift to Credit Card Companies

A Senate bill to move up the effective date of the law protecting consumers from predatory actions by the credit card industry should have become law already.

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What the Law Commands

The surprising similarities between Chief Justice John Roberts and his newest colleague, Sonia Sotomayor.

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Western Men Are Doomed

Are certain groups of people, because of their culture or style of thinking, better suited to handling the problems of the future?

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iPols

Two women, both rich, accomplished, confident and full of ideas, are trying to become the fresh face of the G.O.P.

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Abstract City: Bio-Diversity

Turning autumn leaves take some strange turns indeed.

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Think Again: Can I Put You on Hold?

We're surrounded by maddening words and expressions, all of them seemingly designed to make us miserable, or at least grumpy.

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Home Fires: Scenes From a Marriage

A soldier with P.T.S.D. writes about his relationship with his wife, in sickness and health, in good times and bad.

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Letters: A Pill a Day to Keep Cancer Away?

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Letter: Iranian Dissidents in Iraq

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Letter: Breast Screening Advice

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Letter: Tehran States Its Case

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Letter: Confirming Judges

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Letters: Dimming Prospects for Mideast Peace?

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Editorial: Obama?s Judicial Nominations

The White House and the Senate should speed up judicial nominations and confirmations to restore balance to the federal courts.

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Editorial: Another Round of Regulatory Reform

If senators really want strong financial reform, they must not give into lobbies trying to weaken the plan as it makes its way through the legislative process.

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Editorial: Mr. Obama?s Task

To move forward in Afghanistan, President Obama needs to explain the stakes, the aim of the war, the costs and his definition of success.

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Editorial: President Obama in China

President Obama needs to encourage China to play an even stronger international role ? but also curb some of its darker instincts.

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Editorial: Reform and Medical Costs

The fundamental fix for health care reform is likely to be achieved only through trial and error and incremental gains.

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Op-Ed Contributors: The Senate?s Health Care Calculations

Lawmakers? opposition to reform generally has less to do with the views of their constituents and more to do with the issue of presidential popularity.

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Op-Ed Contributor: Why We Should Put Jihad on Trial

If the Khalid Shaikh Mohammed trial provides a propaganda platform for anybody, it will be for our side.

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Op-Ed Contributor: In the Wilderness, a New Frontier

With her political and tabloid prominence, Sarah Palin has given Alaska something it had never experienced: celebrity.

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Op-Ed Contributors: The Great Wallop

China and the United States, monsters of the global economy, must now take separate paths.

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Op-Ed Contributor: My Near Death Panel Experience

The ?death panel? episode shows how the news media, after aiding and abetting falsehood, were unable to perform their traditional role of reporting the facts.

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