New York’s currently: putting leg-warmers on the dancing girls

 Putin’s party wins landslide in Russian parliament elections (with aid from state-controlled television, reporting on Putin’s dog instead of opposition parties).

 U.S. drafts principles with South Korea and Japan for dealing with North Korea’s nuclear amibitions, though the White House’s script for action has many writers but few pens.

 History of art in activism, change, and rage as AIDS continues its slaughter.

 Is the U.S. the world’s boldest environmentalist?

 Commanders from four U.S. Army divisions answer email wondering why they think they’re winning, and what’s being used as measures of success.

 American love for lynching memorialized in Duluth, focusing on three young black men hung before a mob of thousands.

 Give: AIDS Service Center.

 Safire says: Want Hillary for President in 2008? Vote Bush.

 Q&A on Mugabe’s decision to yank devastated Zimbabwe from the Commonwealth.

 NYC Christmas: South Street Seaport’s Chorus Tree, Darlene Love’s Solid Gold, Train Show at the Botanical Garden.

 Roy Cohn’s personal driver remembers tanning jaunts, tepid Barbara Walters, tides of fear.

 Bruegel’s beguiling ‘Landscape with the Fall of Icarus,’ and responses by Auden and Williams.

 British films by the decade.

 First column by Times laundrist/public editor Okrent.

 They think that subliminally I was born in 1922, when my father was born. I nevertheless wrote Lucky Jim when I was seven and I am now in my eighties and yet I am only 54. Birnbaum interview with Martin Amis.

 Photos of London by Matt Stuart.

 Religious frothing for now fashionable-to-love Groundhog Day.

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Jazz hands and high kicks for this week’s first TMN-supporter