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Judging Jerry's judgment WILLIAM E. SARACINO The Republican nominee for California attor ney general, state Sen. Chuck Poochigian, is exceptionally well qualified for the office through both experience and temperament. That being said, his electoral success largely depends not so much on his ability to convince voters that he'd make a good attorney general, but to convince them that his opponent, Jerry Brown, would be a disaster. If Poochigian can focus Califor nian's attention on one straightforward point — that the A.G.'s job all comes down to judgment — the door will be open for him to show that, in...

How good is good enough? That's a question you have plenty of time to ponder when you're sitting in your fossil-fueled automobile, stewing in traffic and watching other cars zoom by in High Occupancy Vehicle lanes. The reason those cars can use the lane is that they are carrying two or three passengers (depending on the highway). Maybe the drivers come from a big family. Or maybe they are among the small group of commuters who actually changed their behavior by carpooling in earnest in order to qualify for the carpool lane. Or maybe, as happens in the Bay Area,...