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Today in Times Comment

• Camilla Cavendish: Credit crunch: learn from the US
• Matthew Parris: After the McCanns, pity Murat
• David Bolchover: Sickness at work: the big story
• Helen Rumbelow: No pain, no obituary
• Ross Clark: Back to the polling booth
• Bronwen Maddox: More security threats but individual risks seem smaller
• Ann Treneman: Gordon Brown is positively astonishing
• Peter Riddell: Could Budget gloom be Labour’s point of no return?

And from the rest of the papers...

• Iain Martin: (The Telegraph) - Credit where it's due to David Cameron
• Mary Riddell: (The Telegraph) - When Gordon Brown meets Nicolas Sarkozy
• George G Blakey: (The Telegraph) - The stock market in the 1970s and today
• Hans Blix: (The Guardian) - A war of utter folly
• Seumas Milne: (The Guardian) - There must be a reckoning for this day of infamy
• Timothy Garton Ash: (The Guardian) - Free countries must defy Chinese blackmail and greet the Dalai Lama
• Adrian Hamilton: (The Independent) - Why did so many people support the war in Iraq?
• Joan Smith: (The Independent) - Bullies love a weakling – and Heather fits the bill
• Steve Richards: (The Independent) - Public scrutiny of the intelligence services can only improve the quality of their work
• Quentin Letts: (The Daily Mail) - Cameron played around with Ed Balls like a cat with a vole
• John Gapper: (The Financial Times) - How Bear aided its own demise

And from around the world...

• Nicholas D. Kristof: (The New York Times) - Obama and race
• Roger Cohen: (The New York Times) - Beyond America’s original sin
• David S. Broder: (The Washington Post) - McCain's missed opportunity
• Daniel Henninger: (The Wall Street Journal) - David Mamet's revision
• Adam Clymer: (International Herald Tribune) - A movement, a plan, a canal
• Gwynne Dyer: (The Japan Times) - No Tibetan independence