Watchful eyes.

• Author: Peters, Charles
• Position: TILTING at windmills - Ratings given by Standard and Poor - Brief article

If the Times erred in not putting Obama's Knox College speech on its front page, it earned gold stars by leading with Goldman Sach's aluminum warehouses. And it deserves credit for another lead story about how Standard & Poor's has gone back to dishing out overly generous ratings to the securities it evaluates, just as it and other ratings agencies did to help us get into the economic mess of 2008. "Of half of the deals that it rated since last September," according to Nathaniel Popper of the Times, "S&P has given at least a portion of the deal a...