We believe it was the editor of the Sun who growled at us one day that the problem with President Bush is that he is too quick to admit his mistakes. So it is not easy for us to concede the point, but we are starting to come around in respect of the gates that Christo is erecting in Central Park. The wonderful saffron tone is the color wheel opposite of the greenish tinge to the park this time of year, meaning the colored walkways will contrast beautifully with their surroundings as they weave and flap their serpentine trail through the hills, walkways, and dales of what has always been one of the dozen or so most beautiful square miles of land on the planet. We don’t know whether what the Christos have achieved is art, but we’re starting to get the opinion that it is extraordinarily beautiful and will make these next two weeks of walking through Central Park memorable, something parents will tell their children about for years – indeed, something children will be telling each other and their friends about for years. We’ll no doubt buy a copy of the book when it comes out and if it is on our coffee table, out-of-town guests will ask them and us what it was like. And we’ll actually feel good that we were there. This is – confound it – the second correction we’ve had to run in respect of Central Park. On its recent anniversary, we forsook the Sun’s opposition, voiced 150 years ago, to the establishment of the park to begin with. So our hat’s off to Mayor Bloomberg, who backed the Gates after years of skepticism, and to the Christos. New York is full of surprises, which is one of the things we’ve always liked about it.