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Associated Press:
Senator chosen to serve as jury foreman — BOSTON —Sen. John Kerry's public profile and prosecutorial past didn't spare him from performing that most mundane of civic responsibilities — jury duty. — Kerry was not only chosen this week to sit on a jury in Suffolk Superior Court, but also was elected foreman.
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Dave Wedge / Boston Herald:
Kerry reports for jury duty: Courtroom service a first for the senator — Sen. John F. Kerry has testified in some of the nation's most hallowed halls of justice and sat in many Bay State courtrooms as a prosecutor but he'd never been on a jury - until this week.
Kevin Maguire / mirror.co.uk:
LAW CHIEF GAGS THE MIRROR ON BUSH LEAK — THE Daily Mirror was yesterday told not to publish further details from a top secret memo, which revealed that President Bush wanted to bomb an Arab TV station. — The gag by the Attorney General Lord Goldsmith came nearly 24 hours …
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Craig Whitlock / Washington Post:
How a Town Became a Terror Hub — MAASEIK, Belgium — The phones at city hall began ringing nonstop one morning last year when several masked figures were spotted walking through the cobbled streets of this pastoral town. A small panic erupted when one of the figures …
Herb Keinon / Jerusalem Post:
US pressures UN to condemn Hizbullah — Following intense US pressure, the United Nations Security Council on Wednesday issued an unprecedented condemnation of Monday's Hizbullah attacks on northern Israel. — This condemnation - slamming Hizbullah by name for "acts of hatred" …
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Jacques Steinberg / New York Times:
War Zone 'It Girl' Has a Big Future at CBS News — Since joining CBS News as a correspondent in 2002, Lara Logan has been periodically told that her relentless knack for gaining access to dangerous places is reminiscent of a young Dan Rather or Mike Wallace.
Stephen R. Dujack / dailyprincetonian.com:
Alito needs to shed his CAP — Almost 20 years ago, the Concerned Alumni of Princeton (CAP) collapsed like a modern House of Usher, so rotten from within from its own deceptions and peculiar madness that it could no longer sustain its own weight. For Supreme Court nominee Judge Samuel Alito '72 …
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New York Times:
Shift on Suspect Is Linked to Role of Qaeda Figures — WASHINGTON, Nov. 23 - The Bush administration decided to charge Jose Padilla with less serious crimes because it was unwilling to allow testimony from two senior members of Al Qaeda who had been subjected to harsh questioning, current and former government officials said Wednesday.
George F. Will / Washington Post:
A Journalist for the Ages — In his 40th anniversary toast to his Yale class of 1950, William F. Buckley said, "Some of us who wondered if we would ever be this old now wonder whether we were ever young." Those who were not young 40 years ago, in 1965, can have no inkling of what fun …
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Steven Lee Myers / New York Times:
Kremlin Pushes Measure to Curb Private Groups — MOSCOW, Nov. 23 - Russia moved Wednesday to impose greater government control over charities and other private organizations, including some of the world's most prominent, in a move aimed at restricting foreign support for political activity in the country.
Laurie Goodstein / New York Times:
Priests Citing New Problem in Gay Policy — A day after the disclosure of a new Vatican directive that deters most gay men from joining the priesthood, some priests say they are shocked by one easily overlooked clause. It says that spiritual directors and confessors in seminaries …
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Donald Sensing / One Hand Clapping:
What the Dems are really up to — The attacks on the administration by the Democrats have consisted of two prongs. First the accusations that the president lied about the prewar intelligence in order to game the country into war. I wrote about that here.
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The Big Trunk / Power Line:
THE WAR THEY BELIEVE IN — The only war the Democrats really have their heart in is the war to undermine the Bush administration. Any incidental damage done to the national interest in furtherance of that war appears in their eyes to be for the greater good.
John Byrne / rawstory.com:
Freedom of Information logs shed light on media's military curiosity — A listing of all requests made of the Pentagon under the Freedom of Information Act since 2000, acquired by RAW STORY, provides new insight into the aggressiveness of American news agencies.
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Bob Geiger / Yellow Dog Blog:
Turkeys Refuse Ceremonial White House Pardon — WASHINGTON, D.C. - In yet another publicity blow to the beleaguered Bush administration, both National Thanksgiving Turkeys have refused the ceremonial pardon traditionally given by the president. The turkeys, named Marshmallow and Yam …
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Steve Kornacki / politicsnj.com:
Codey says no to U.S. Senate seat Corzine wasn't offering — NOVEMBER 23 - Jon Corzine's closest aides weren't returning phone calls today, so there's no official explanation why, in the three weeks since his election as governor, Corzine never once picked up the phone to ask Dick Codey to run for the U.S. Senate.
