In the midst of an article about subway advertising related to Middle East politics and American policy comes this:
Pamela Geller, the executive director of the American Freedom Defense Initiative, said in an e-mail last month that the group had spent "well over" $100,000 on advertising in New York's transit system. She said in December that the group had spent about $70,000 on one purchase alone: ads placed beside each of the subway station's roughly 220 clocks.
Maybe the Times should skip the article on the Middle East-related advertising and instead report a story on why a subway station would need 220 clocks. No wonder they keep raising the fares. It's to pay for all those clocks! Maybe they mean the subway system's 220 clocks?