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David D. Kirkpatrick / New York Times:
Alito File Shows Strategy to Curb Abortion Ruling — WASHINGTON, Nov. 30 - As a lawyer in the Reagan Justice Department, the Supreme Court nominee Samuel A. Alito Jr. played an integral role in devising legal strategy to pare back the landmark abortion rights case Roe v. Wade, documents disclosed Wednesday show.
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Linda Greenhouse / New York Times:
For New Court, Abortion Case Takes Old Path — WASHINGTON, Nov. 30 - Well before the argument in a New Hampshire abortion case was over, the question that had drawn the crowds to the Supreme Court on a crisp Wednesday morning had an answer. No, abortion law was not about to undergo …
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Fred Barbash / Washington Post:Memo: Alito Urged Government to Challenge Roe v. Wade
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New York Times:
Plan: We Win — We've seen it before: an embattled president so swathed in his inner circle that he completely loses touch with the public and wanders around among small knots of people who agree with him. There was Lyndon Johnson in the 1960's, Richard Nixon in the 1970's, and George H. W. Bush in the 1990's.
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New York Times:
For Once, President and His Generals See the Same War — BAGHDAD, Iraq, Nov. 30 - For anyone who has spent time in the field with American officers here, President Bush's speech on Wednesday was a watershed: for the first time in the two years since the conflict here turned brutal …
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U.S. Is Said to Pay to Plant Articles in Iraq Papers — WASHINGTON, Nov. 30 - Titled "The Sands Are Blowing Toward a Democratic Iraq," an article written this week for publication in the Iraqi press was scornful of outsiders' pessimism about the country's future.
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CNN:
Poll: Most doubt plan for Iraq victory — (CNN) — As President Bush launched a new effort Wednesday to gain public support for the Iraq war, a new poll found most Americans do not believe he has a plan that will achieve victory. — But the CNN/USA Today/Gallup poll released Wednesday night …
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Elisabeth Bumiller / New York Times:
Gaining Control in Iraq, and Regaining Support at Home — WASHINGTON, Nov. 30 - The political calculation behind President Bush's speech in Annapolis on Wednesday is that Washington, not Baghdad, is the battlefront that will decide the ultimate outcome of the war in Iraq …
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Peter Baker / Washington Post:
An Offering of Detail But No New Substance — Thirty-two months after U.S. forces invaded Iraq, President Bush's advisers concluded that his message of "stay the course" has been translated by a weary American public as "stay forever." And so yesterday the president tried to reassure …
Rick Pearson / Chicago Tribune:
Topinka joins crowded field — GOP leader hints list should shrink — Even as state Treasurer Judy Baar Topinka formally joined the Republican race for governor Wednesday, the state party chairman was pushing the crowded field of contenders to take a hard look at their chances to win the GOP nomination.
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Washington Post:
Terrorist Cells Find Foothold in Balkans — SARAJEVO, Bosnia — The raid netted explosives, rifles, other arms and a videotape pledging vengeance for the "brothers" killed fighting Americans in Afghanistan and Iraq. Police found the cache in an apartment occupied by an underground group …
Sarah Kershaw / New York Times:
Hooked on the Web: Help Is on the Way — THE waiting room for Hilarie Cash's practice has the look and feel of many a therapist's office, with soothing classical music, paintings of gentle swans and colorful flowers and on the bookshelves stacks of brochures on how to get help.
David S. Broder / Washington Post:
A Pox on Both Parties — To understand why the level of public disillusionment with politics is so high in this country right now, it helps to go back a dozen years. — The Democrats took power in 1993 with a young and obviously talented Bill Clinton succeeding George H.W. Bush …
John Seigenthaler / USA Today:
A false Wikipedia 'biography' — "John Seigenthaler Sr. was the assistant to Attorney General Robert Kennedy in the early 1960's. For a brief time, he was thought to have been directly involved in the Kennedy assassinations of both John, and his brother, Bobby. Nothing was ever proven."
Anthony Browne / Times of London:
Western white woman a suicide bomber — MIREILLE, who was born in Belgium to a white, middle-class Christian family, blew herself to pieces last month in a suicide attack against American troops near Baghdad. — In one of the most extraordinary tales of Islamic radicalisation …
