The NYT's Frank Rich on the controversy over white, blond Nicollette Sheridan's bared back (and then jumping into the arms of a black football player!!!)  in the recent Desperate Housewives promo on ABC's Monday Night Football.

This was posted on CAJ-L, an e-mail discussion group for journalists. It's a protection-of-a-source's-confidentiality case:

The NYT's Bob Herbert has written belatedly about the Program on International Policy Attitudes study on Bush and Kerry supporters -- and how the Bushies had their heads up their asses (my words, not Herbert's) on many key issues.

Read this excerpt from what I think will become known as a seminal article on Dubya by Ron Suskind in the Oct. 17 NYT Magazine: