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Wiping the nervous sweat off his brow, Adam Nagourney at the New York Times tries to figure out who misplaced the emperor’s clothes.

New York City is frequently referred to by its slogan, "the Big Apple." But if some in city government have their way, New York may soon be known as the town to "get some." "Get Some" is the 2008 slogan for New York City's taxpayer-funded condom distribution program. Robert Peters, with Morality in Media, objects to the program both for its promotion of promiscuous sex and its false promise of safety. "I think it will be perceived by many people -- young people, in particular -- not just to get condoms but to get promiscuous sex," he remarks. "It's like...

Senator Hillary Rodham Clinton made a star turn this morning at former President Bill Clinton’s conference on global challenges, calling for a concerted attack on the “feminization of poverty” by destroying cultural, political, and economic barriers that trap women and children in desperate conditions. Before a standing-room-only audience in a ballroom of the Sheraton hotel in midtown Manhattan, Mrs. Clinton gave opening remarks at the conference session “Women and the Power of Economic Opportunity” then moderated a panel that included President Bush’s former secretary of agriculture and three leaders in the development and anti-poverty fields. “Far too many women are...

"The most meticulous estimates by demographers who have researched the famine toll are mostly lower than this book's: Judith Banister estimated 30 million; Basil Ashton also came up with 30 million; and Xizhe Peng suggested about 23 million. Simply plucking a high-end estimate out of an article and embracing it as the one true estimate worries me; if that is stretched, then what else is?"

The good news for President Bush in the latest CBS News/New York Times poll is the razor-thin lead he gets in the horserace. The bad news in the poll is that his approval rating is in the low 40s, more Americans feel the country is on the wrong track and more voters dislike him than like him. John Kerry also has higher "unfavorable" than "favorable" ratings. The question is whether Kerry's marks matter in a campaign that is largely about Mr. Bush's performance. In the CBS/NYT survey, Mr. Bush leads Kerry 47-45 among likely voters, with Ralph Nader taking 2...

As everyone who reads these Conning Towers already knows, Ding the NYTimes is dead. Still publishing, sure, but undeniably dead.Zombie-like, the corpse bestirred itself and aimed a fusillade of blanks at Sinclair Broadcasting Group and its affiliated TV stations. What had Sinclair done to enrage the panjandrums at the Times including, no doubt, Prince Sulzberger, last and least of the Ochs-Sulzberger dynasty? Well, Sinclair declared its intention to broadcast a documentary, Stolen Honor, concerning the post-Vietnam adventures of Space Cadet John Kerry. The Times does not want the film broadcast because it's a "... propaganda film ... that labels Senator...

NEW YORK - Across America on Thursday the headline rang out on Broadcast Networks, CNN, and the front pages of some newspapers. It was the most glaring attempt I have ever seen to deliberately manipulate the information the public has the right to know. I am talking of course about the findings of the 9/11 commission staff as they reported to the commission on the different investigative efforts that they had undertaken. And there in the first sentence of the first paragraph on the front page of the supposed "Paper of Record" the great lie was told. The headline...