The news media is brimming with those proverbial "year end" stories that recap the highs, lows, challenges, victories and defeats across a wide spectrum of subjects. At the moment, the favorite theme of the coverage appears to be the state of the stock market -- and things appear a little jittery.
The man who stabbed two teenage girls at Grand Central Station on Christmas Day was charged with hate crimes, transit police announced Wednesday. The two girls, ages 14 and 16, were seated in the station’s dining concourse with their parents when they were attacked just before 11:30 a.m. Monday. The girls’ injuries were not life-threatening,...