Actually, reading the NYT over the last few months, the only positive thing I can say about Sept. 11 is that it prompted the NYT to reexamine some of its knee-jerk liberal attitudes. The Times has done some incredible reporting on 9/11, more than deserving of a Pulitzer, and I have detected large gusts of common sense blowing through areas that had been, up to now, seriously air-conditioned against them.