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Will New York lose its best medical minds to the lure of unfettered research and the promise of biotech billions?

Here’s the real agony: New York money, sweat, and political muscle played more of a role in this election than in any in recent memory�and even that wasn’t enough.

To the Harvard-obsessed parents of Roslyn, New York, Frank Tassone appeared to be the ideal schools chief. Then $8 million went missing, Tassone became a prime suspect, and the details of his secret double life began to emerge.

The NYPD’s crowd-control and arrest tactics kept the convention largely violence-free. But is preemption’s civil-liberties cost too high?

Yesterday, Hordes Marched Peacefully. Tonight, Rudy Puts On the Gloves.

Scared? Don’t be, says Corey Robin, whose new book, Fear: The History of a Political Idea, argues that trepidation is an �instrument of repression.� Robert Kolker talked to the Brooklyn College professor.

How old is too old? The Manhattan D.A. gears up for the race of his very long life.

Lynne Stewart’s self-defense.

Why Bloomberg’s social-promotion ban’s bark is worse than its bite.

Sure, it’s possible to go from the sprawling madness of the city’s public schools to Yale. But only if you’ve got the single-mindedness and marketing savvy of an M.B.A.