Headlines from December 6, 2005

New York's currently: looking for a tree
Sept. 11 commission gives U.S. failing grades at terrorism-prevention.
CIA shuts down secret European prisons and ships al Qaeda suspects to North Africa.
Op: Rice's linguistic jujitsu isn't fooling anyone: according to our own rules, we can and do torture abroad.
No one can explain how a cryptic pro-Bush poem was printed in a Pakistani textbook.
Exxon wanted its boy to represent U.S. climate policy; White House happy to comply.
Our image abroad: The U.S. invaded Iraq in order to harvest organs from cadavers.
Want to skip airport lines? Prepare to sign up for a Clear card.
Middle-aged Manhattanites seek roommates to share rent. Also, Long Islanders needed to defend the Canadian border.
Park Avenue's annual tree lighting is a memorial for the dead.
The G train gets no respect--now it gets no conductors either.
Contemporary piano works festival tonight and Thursday.
The origins of Tuba Christmas concerts. (Is there Tuba Christmas near you this year?)
Make sure your end of the year "best albums" list is ultra hip.
The Red Cross has nightmarish branding problems.
Jihadists host web design competition; winner gets to fire remote-controlled missiles at Americans.
Fox News wants Christmas in your face, but Christians aren't buying it.
The 12 days of Kitschmas.
The Forbes Fictional 15. See also, the 20 best food books of the year.
Story of a drug predator seeking super trip.
The new cure for depression: dolphins.