Is it just the mood I’m in, or was there a particular richness in today’s New York Times? Blinking to Times articles kept me busy all morning; sort of like the old days when my family would curl up with the print edition of the Sunday Times most of the morning…

The Cleanup: “There are Israelis who disagree with this rapid-recovery policy, who argue that the lack of memorials to the victims of terrorism, the speed with which the physical scars are plastered over, have the effect of minimizing the horror, of robbing each event of its awful specificity. But the policy is designed to deliver a message to Israelis as well, one both subtle and disturbing. In a land caught in a seemingly ceaseless cycle of revenge and counterrevenge, where the attacks of one side beget an immediate response from the other, the cleanup crews at sites like the Park Hotel send an implicit warning: Don’t mourn too long for this attack; gird yourself for those to come.” NY Times Magazine