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Robert Barnes / Washington Post:
A Triumph For Warner, And a Guide For His Party — Virginia's quadrennial search for a governor featured neither charismatic personalities nor dominant policy initiatives. But Democrat Timothy M. Kaine's resounding victory over Republican Jerry W. Kilgore nonetheless provided important political lessons …
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James Dao / New York Times:
Democrat Wins Race for Governor in Virginia — RICHMOND, Va., Nov. 8 - Lt. Gov. Timothy M. Kaine, a Democrat, won the race for governor on Tuesday night, scoring a major political victory for his mentor, Gov. Mark Warner, and sending a powerful message that President Bush's political standing …
Robin Toner / New York Times:
Defeats for G.O.P. Come at a Sensitive Time — WASHINGTON, Nov. 8 - After months of sagging poll ratings, scandal and general political unrest, the Republicans badly needed some good news in Tuesday's elections for governor. What they got instead was a clear-cut loss in a red state …
Amy Sullivan / The Washington Monthly:FAITH INDEED....The post-mortems of yesterday's elections will continue …
Joe Gandelman / The Moderate Voice:A Bad Night For GOP As Voters Send Angry Message
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Los Angeles Times:
Voters Reject Schwarzenegger's Bid to Remake State Government — The governor's four ballot proposals, the foundation of his sweeping plans for change in Sacramento, are halted at the polls. — In a sharp repudiation of Gov. Arnold Schwarzenegger, Californians rejected all four …
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Laurie Goodstein / New York Times:
Evolution Slate Outpolls Rivals — All eight members up for re-election to the Pennsylvania school board that had been sued for introducing the teaching of intelligent design as an alternative to evolution in biology class were swept out of office yesterday by a slate of challengers who campaigned against the intelligent design policy.
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Norman Podhoretz / Commentary:
Who Is Lying About Iraq? — Among the many distortions, misrepresentations, and outright falsifications that have emerged from the debate over Iraq, one in particular stands out above all others. This is the charge that George W. Bush misled us into an immoral and/or unnecessary war in Iraq …
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Jonathan Weisman / Washington Post:
GOP Leaders Urge Probe in Prisons Leak — Congress's top Republican leaders yesterday demanded an immediate joint House and Senate investigation into the disclosure of classified information to The Washington Post that detailed a web of secret prisons being used to house and interrogate terrorism suspects.
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New York Times:
C.I.A. Asks Criminal Inquiry Over Secret-Prison Article — WASHINGTON, Nov. 8 - The Central Intelligence Agency has asked the Justice Department to open a criminal investigation to determine the source of a Washington Post article that said the agency had set up a covert prison network …
Louise Chu / Associated Press:
San Francisco Voters Approve Handgun Ban — SAN FRANCISCO - Voters approved ballot measures to ban handguns in San Francisco and urge the city's public high schools and college campuses to keep out military recruiters. — The gun ban prohibits the manufacture and sale of all firearms …
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Reuel Marc Gerecht / Opinion Journal:
I Spy With My Little Eye . . . . . . something beginning with the letter S. (Answer: Sloppy spooks.) — "And they [CIA employees] have to expect that when they do their jobs, that information about whether or not they are affiliated with the CIA will be protected. …
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Jim Rutenberg / New York Times:
A Mayor Unleashed, Poised to Offer an Even Broader Agenda — With a huge re-election victory giving Mayor Michael R. Bloomberg what his supporters described last night as a sweeping mandate, the Democrats who oppose him are girding for a sequel at City Hall that might best be called "Bloomberg Unleashed."
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Joel Kotkin / Opinion Journal:
Why Immigrants Don't Riot Here — France's rigid economic system sustains privilege and inspires resentment. — The French political response to the continuing riots has focused most on the need for more multicultural "understanding" of, and public spending on, the disenchanted mass in the country's grim banlieues (suburbs).
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Douglas Jehl / New York Times:
Classified Report Warned on C.I.A.'s Tactics in Interrogation — WASHINGTON, Nov. 8 - A classified report issued last year by the Central Intelligence Agency's inspector general warned that interrogation procedures approved by the C.I.A. after the Sept. 11 attacks might violate some provisions …
Glenn Greenwald / Unclaimed Territory:
Reminder of French Lectures to the U.S. — It is, of course, unseemly, and even arguably disturbed, to take pleasure in another country's riots. — Nonetheless, it is worth reminding ourserlves of the pious, pompous, condescending lectures about social order, racial and economic inequalities …
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