Headlines from December 31, 1969

What stopped the Depression was a worldwide bloodbath. The bailout is about the past, not the future.
Zakaria: "What she has to say is often, quite frankly, gibberish...a vapid emptying out of every catchphrase about economics that came into her head."
Few noticed, but yesterday the Justice Dept. revealed political partisan interests helped fire the U.S. attorneys.
Following double battery by Gustav and Ike, gasoline shortages persist across the South, lines may last another two weeks.
Track the election with Kevin Guilfoile and John Warner in our new blog.
Buffalo has a maritime border with Canada, as Ms. Palin noted Alaska has with Russia. New York has a foreign policy, too.
Ecuador has a new leftist constitution--nature, environment gets rights too.
Video: Illegal logging keeps Wal-Mart's toilet seats cheap, Russian forests clear of trees, mafia in business.
"Special restaurants have even been set up to prepare food for the crews of the hijacked ships." From Somalia's pirate town.
Video: Scientists create an outdoor laboratory--Monkey Island.
Last chance to get in your entries for this month's Of Recent Note feature.
In those darkened theaters, we escaped bad news, personal and national. A gem of a letter to the New York Times.
In case you need to hope or panic about the economy: the best-case scenario and the worst-case scenario.
Bush: People, you just don't get it; people: You're damn right--and we'll drain our savings to prove it!
Video: McCain's consistent hammering on America's strong economy.
List of the bailout's biggest losers.
How the U.S. banking system is going through a decade's worth of consolidation in a matter of weeks.
We are now in a generalized panic mode and back to the risk of a systemic meltdown of the entire financial system.
Op: Protecting Palin from a press conference is sexist bullshit.
"A bunch of spivs ran it into the ground." It's not only Americans who are feeling the banking collapse.
"'Is My Money Safe?' and other Questions to Ask."
The answer when you get sick is to find the right M.D., not become one.
John Hodgman on why becoming a minor celebrity is better than anything you could imagine.
Parisian looks on fashion week spectators, and on the models.
Print for the commute: Franco-friendly Franklin as America's first urbanist, with lots in common with Giuliani.
New York buildings ugly enough to be demolished.
Woody Allen on his Manhattan of the mind.