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(The Times publishes an Op-Ed piece by Barack Obama, spelling out his plan for Iraq. John McCain submits his own column on the subject — a direct response to Obama — and The Times demands a total rewrite, so that McCain would be laying out his own plan, not attacking his opponent. Instead of being rewritten, the McCain draft is leaked to Drudge, and "The Liberal New York Times" takes a beating. It's an unforced error by The Times)

(The longer versions of reader letters referenced in a follow-up column on Times coverage of Acorn)

(Readers complain when The Times posts Olympics results on its web page before they are shown on NBC's tape-delayed TV coverage. Should the paper wait until fans can see the action before reporting on it? The answer is no)

(It turned out to be a "bombshell" after all, just not what was being rumored. Instead, Gov. Patterson's closest confidant was accused of violently assault a woman. Patterson ends his re-election campaign)

(The White House and some readers react angrily to a Times article examining President Bush's role in helping to inflate the housing bubble that finally burst. They claim the paper is putting all the blame on Bush. But the piece was the 16th part of a deeply reported series delving into all the varied causes of the crisis, involving Republicans, Democrats, regulators, Wall Street financiers and the Federal Reserve, among others)

(An exchange between Editorial Page Andy Rosenthal and a reader wanting to know if two Op-Ed columnists are receiving payments from outside sources)