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Jeremiah Marquez / Associated Press:
Pathbreaking Comedian Richard Pryor Dies — LOS ANGELES - Richard Pryor, the caustic yet perceptive actor-comedian who lived dangerously close to the edge both on stage and off, died Saturday. He was 65. — Pryor died shortly before 8 a.m. of a heart attack after being taken to a hospital …
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Associated Press:
Comedian Richard Pryor dies at 65 — LOS ANGELES (AP) — Richard Pryor, the caustic yet perceptive actor-comedian who lived dangerously close to the edge both on stage and off, has died, his ex-wife said Saturday. He was 65. — Pryor died of a heart attack at his home …
CNN:
Comedian Richard Pryor dies at 65 — (CNN) — Groundbreaking Comedian Richard Pryor died Saturday of a heart attack, his wife told CNN. He was 65. — Pryor, who had been ill with multiple sclerosis, died at Encino Hospital near Los Angeles, at 7:58 a.m. PT. Jennifer Lee Pryor tried …
Frederic J. Frommer / Associated Press:
Former Sen. Eugene McCarthy, who challenged LBJ, dies at 89 — WASHINGTON - Former Minnesota Sen. Eugene J. McCarthy, whose insurgent campaign toppled a sitting president in 1968 and forced the Democratic Party to take seriously his message against the Vietnam War, died Saturday. He was 89.
Captain Ed / Captain's Quarters:
Our New Bestest Buddy ... Joe Lieberman? — In the zero-sum game that has consumed our national politics in general and the Democrats specifically over the last month, Joe Lieberman has arisen as a new prize to be claimed — or shunned. The Washington Post reports on the political damage …
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Timothy Egan / New York Times:
Credit Card Offers Stacking Up at Homes of the Newly Bankrupt — TACOMA, Wash., Dec. 9 - As one of more than two million Americans who rushed to a courthouse this year to file for bankruptcy before a tough new law took effect, Laura Fogle is glad for her chance at a fresh start.
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Jeff Gerth / New York Times:
Military's Information War Is Vast and Often Secretive — The media center in Fayetteville, N.C., would be the envy of any global communications company. — In state of the art studios, producers prepare the daily mix of music and news for the group's radio stations or spots for friendly television outlets.
Stephen F. Hayes / Weekly Standard:
Down the Memory Hole — FOR THE SECOND TIME IN recent weeks the Department of Defense has denied a request from The Weekly Standard to release unclassified documents recovered in postwar Iraq. These documents apparently reveal, in some detail, activities of Saddam Hussein's regime in the years before the war.
dailysouthtown.com:
'Help! Help! My kids are pinned in there!' — Six-year-old Leroy, Ind., boy killed when Southwest plane, car collide — It was a family moment — mom and dad in the front seat, three young sons tucked in the back eating McDonald's goodies. The Indiana family was heading to grandma's house …
Dan Eggen / Washington Post:
Staff Opinions Banned In Voting Rights Cases — Criticism of Justice Dept.'s Rights Division Grows — The Justice Department has barred staff attorneys from offering recommendations in major Voting Rights Act cases, marking a significant change in the procedures meant to insulate …
Meghan Daum / Los Angeles Times:
Shouldn't men have 'choice' too? — FOR PRO-CHOICERS like myself, Supreme Court nominee Samuel A. Alito Jr.'s position regarding spousal consent for abortion seems like one more loose rock in the ongoing erosion of Roe vs. Wade. Even those of us who are too young to remember the pre-Roe era often …
Adam Entous / Reuters:
Top Bush aides test bird flu preparedness — WASHINGTON (Reuters) - Warning an outbreak may be inevitable, the White House on Saturday conducted a test of its readiness for a feared bird flu pandemic and said federal agencies fared "quite well" without offering any details.
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Lauren / Feministe:
A Love Letter to Teh Feminists — This is one of those temptations I'm not built to resist, apparently. When blinkered stupidity bends this far over and paints that bright a red target circle on its ass, I can't help wanting to kick it. Flame war, ahoy! — Oh look, it's the "she asked for it" defense!
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Washington Post:
Schroeder Accepts Russian Pipeline Job — BERLIN, Dec. 9 — Former German chancellor Gerhard Schroeder landed a job Friday as board chairman for a Russian-German gas pipeline that he championed while in office, a post that deepens his already close relationship with the Russian government and President Vladimir Putin.
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Shankar Vedantam / Washington Post:
Psychiatry Ponders Whether Extreme Bias Can Be an Illness — The 48-year-old man turned down a job because he feared that a co-worker would be gay. He was upset that gay culture was becoming mainstream and blamed most of his personal, professional and emotional problems on the gay and lesbian movement.
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Glenn Reynolds / Instapundit.com:FROM HOMOSEXUALITY AS MENTAL DISEASE to "extreme bias" …
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Steven R. Weisman / New York Times:
U.S. Rebuffs Red Cross Request for Access to Detainees Held in Secret — WASHINGTON, Dec. 9 - The United States said Friday that it would continue to deny the International Committee of the Red Cross access to "a very small, limited number" of prisoners who are held in secret around the world …
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