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Mission not accomplished
As of tomorrow, it will be three years and counting. The United States' mission in Iraq has not been accomplished - not yet - and it is unclear if it ever will be.

A disappointment for Tankleff
A judge's decision not to grant a new trial to Martin Tankleff, after months of hearings and new witnesses, will not make this case go away.

LETTERS
Dubai no conflict for Clintons

A bad bet in Bethpage
BY ROBERT X. CRINGELY
How much can Long Island depend on the market for homeland security products to drive its future economy?

NOTEBOOK
From the staff, lessons for the boss
BY STEPHANIE CLAGNAZ
I began my doctoral research in literacy education thinking that I would help change how sixth-grade teachers teach reading at my school. What's happened, however, is that the teachers have changed me, their principal, in unexpected and unimagined ways.

Preventive war grasps at straws
Les Payne
The preventive war strategy of President George W. Bush was entrenched last week with his doctrine of shoot first - don't worry about aiming - and ask questions later. Apropos of this president, the updated security plan is, alas, a cowboy doctrine drafted not by a fair-minded sheriff but by an hombre outside the law.

A focus on bird flu misses the big issue
BY DR
Avian flu is gradually circling the globe, carried by migratory birds. It has caused the death of thousands of domestic fowl and the culling of millions more, and will almost certainly reach the United States in the relatively near future. As of this writing, there were 175 confirmed human infections and 95 deaths, mainly in China and Southeast Asia.

From the Past 7 Days

Saturday, March 18

• For kids to soar, parents have to let them fly

• LETTERS

Friday, March 17

• Hybridization of America

• Is war in Iran next?

• Wang wins

• Asides

• James Klurfeld: Those war drums have a familiar beat

• Local need for school aid grows more intense

• Resist the pressure: Just say no to having sex

• Censoring student papers not right

• LETTERS

Thursday, March 16

• Luxury for Patchogue

• The State of the County

• Lobby reform, we hardly knew ye

• Short takes

• James P. Pinkerton: Intelligence quotient a policy problem

• A Taliban at Yale: Poison ivy

• Punchlines

• Letters to the Editor (Long Island Edition)

Wednesday, March 15

• Short takes

• Property tax help

• Suozzi-PBA showdown

• The Moussaoui mess

• Lawrence C. Levy: Doors open to a better way to help those in need

• Women are Africa's political hope

• LETTERS

Tuesday, March 14

• Assault on DWI

• Time for schoolwork

• Short takes

• Death of a butcher

• State drug reform law needs to reform ... itself

• James P. Pinkerton: McCain: Juggernaut or juggernot?

• Letters to the Editor (Long Island Edition)

Monday, March 13

• The housing harangue

• Midterm aid

• LETTERS

• 'Fortunate sons' should have to serve

• Raymond J. Keating: North Hills golf plan is fairway robbery

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• No decisive end to war

• Exit strategy remains elusive