The municipalities hosting two New York City-area marathons Sunday will add police and clamp new security measures on runners and spectators following last month's bombing at the Boston Marathon.
One of the other things that has been a steep learning curve for us - painfully so, I may add -is that we have come to have unanimity on the fact that security is a precondition not only for the political progress that we have just been talking about the last 15 or so minutes, but also for economic and social progress.