1.   New York City is notching provocative successes.

2.   All tangible successes have been notched in Northern Afghanistan where the alliance of Uzbeks, Tajiks and Hazaras captured Mazar-e-Sharif.

3.   Yet the White House has signaled that it does not need Republican cooperation to notch policy successes.

4.   A senior police official said the government was planning to resume the military offensive against the ethnic Albanian insurgents after notching successes over the past few days.

5.   By its conclusion Tuesday, the two-day summit called by the Conference on Security and Cooperation in Europe notched modest successes.