Opinion: Hetch Hetchy, 424, and More: A Prelude to the Weekend

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Friday’s page:

Rosa Brooks:Bush’s Burned Bridges
The Middle East cataclysm is the last gasp of America’s wasted post-9/11 opportunity.

Jennifer Washburn: Universities for Sale
Academics are exploiting weak conflict-of-interest policies and cashing in on their research.

Chris Ayres: The Area-Code Plot to Kill L.A.’s Housing Market
The Fed’s interest-rate hikes couldn’t do it, but three little digits might. Would you pay L.A. prices to live in the 424?

Irshad Manji: Moderate Islam on the March
Intolerance is grabbing the Middle East spotlight, but there’s good news from Muslim reformers too.

Editorials

Keep Hetch Hetchy Underwater
Price is too high to restore Yosemite valley to its 19th-century state.

Bush Makes Nice With the NAACP
If that’s all he had to say, what took so long?

Googling the Feds
Make the federal bureaucracy searchable and transparent.