The IHT site received a lot of attention for its front-end code, but John Weir also put thoughtful work into the layout. Check out his case study on Smoking Gun (no permalink, click on the map of the world). It hurts that he strived to avoid scrolling and now IHT has two banner ads that push the article navigation below the fold, even on 1024×768.

Update: The editor was kind enough to write in to say they are working on the problem and in the meantime it’s possible to use the entire right column to link to the next page. Although there’s no perceivable affordance, it’s a pretty neat form of navigation.