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George Bisharat / Los Angeles Times:
Should Israel give up its nukes? — IN A SUDDEN ATTACK of common sense, a Pentagon-commissioned study released in mid-November suggests an approach to nuclear nonproliferation in the Middle East that might actually be accepted by the people of the region. What is this breakthrough idea?
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Associated Press:
Iran leader's remarks draw ire from Saudis — TEHRAN, Iran - Saudis fumed Friday that Iran's hard-line president marred a summit dedicated to showing Islam's moderate face by calling for Israel to be moved to Europe, and the chief U.N. nuclear inspector said he was losing patience with the Tehran regime.
New York Times:
Lieberman's Iraq Stance Brings Widening Split With His Party — WASHINGTON, Dec. 9 - Five years after running as the vice-presidential nominee on the Democratic ticket and a year after his own presidential bid, Senator Joseph I. Lieberman of Connecticut has become an increasingly unwelcome figure within …
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Howard W. French / New York Times:
20 Reported Killed as Chinese Unrest Escalates — SHANGHAI, Dec. 9 - Residents of a fishing village near Hong Kong said that as many as 20 people had been killed by paramilitary police in an unusually violent clash that marked an escalation in the widespread social protests that have roiled the Chinese countryside.
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Atrios / Eschaton:
Wankosphere — Obviously one can't fully comment until the full article is out, but I'm worried Michael Crowley may have missed an important point. — E&P preview: … In a sense conservative blogs are more effective because both the massive right wing media and the mainstream media …
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Meghan Clyne / nysun.com:
Treasury Department Tars Alamoudi, Founder of the Islamic Society of Boston — WASHINGTON - Concern is mounting over the connections between a Boston Islamic group and a high-profile Muslim activist, Abdurahman Alamoudi, after a recent statement by the federal government that Mr. Alamoudi had a …
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Associated Press:
Subway Rider Busted for Selling a Token — ATLANTA - Transit police handcuffed and cited a man who sold a $1.75 subway token to another rider who was having trouble with a token vending machine. Transit authority spokeswoman Jocelyn Baker said Friday that the officer "acted within the law" …
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Doug Thompson / Capitol Hill Blue:
Bush on the Constitution: 'It's just a goddamned piece of paper' — Last month, Republican Congressional leaders filed into the Oval Office to meet with President George W. Bush and talk about renewing the controversial USA Patriot Act. — Several provisions of the act …
Joel Mowbray / Washington Times:
Polling a pollster — When the national press devoured a new union-sponsored poll released last week by uber-pollster John Zogby claiming that a majority of Americans believe that "Wal-Mart is bad for America," not reported were serious ethical issues which call into question the integrity of the much-ballyhooed survey.
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Bill Nienhuis / PunditGuy:The Cost of POLL$ — The Washington Times released a story today …
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Andrew C. Revkin / New York Times:
U.S. Delegation Walks Out of Climate Talks — MONTREAL, Dec. 9 - Two weeks of treaty talks on global warming neared an end today with the world's current and projected leaders in emissions of greenhouse gases, the United States and China, still refusing to take any mandatory steps to avoid dangerous climate change.
Associated Press:
Senate Democrats Ask Alito For Another Round of Papers — Senate Democrats yesterday called for Supreme Court nominee Samuel A. Alito Jr. to provide them with more information about his time as a federal judge and a government lawyer, citing "questions that seem to have incomplete answers."
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Edward Wong / New York Times:
Iraq's Powerful Shiite Coalition Shows Signs of Stress as Parliamentary Elections Loom — NAJAF, Iraq - As the debate got under way in a hotel assembly hall here recently, the governor of this Shiite holy city tried to stay on message when asked about his party's position on the hottest …
Sarah Lyall / New York Times:
Britain's Top Court Rules Information Gotten by Torture Is Never Admissible Evidence — LONDON, Dec. 8 - Britain's highest court thrust itself into the middle of a roiling international debate on Thursday, declaring that evidence obtained through torture - no matter by whom - was not admissible in British courts.
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Los Angeles Times:
Paramount Buys DreamWorks in Billion-Dollar Deal — Paramount Pictures has agreed to buy the live-action unit of DreamWorks SKG in an estimated $1.5 billion deal, people familiar with the deal said today. — The agreement between DreamWorks and Paramount, a division of New York-based Viacom Inc. …
T.R. Reid / Washington Post:
Spanish At School Translates to Suspension — KANSAS CITY, Kan., Dec. 8 — Most of the time, 16-year-old Zach Rubio converses in clear, unaccented American teen-speak, a form of English in which the three most common words are "like," "whatever" and "totally."
Larisa Alexandrovna / The Huffington Post:
Open Letter to Bill O'Reilly: It's Bill of Rights, Not Bill's Rights! — Dear Mr. O'Reilly: — We all know that you make a living selling the "victimization of hate" concept, a not entirely new genre in scapegoating. Germany in the 1930's, for example, already had a horrifically successful run at it.
Peter H. Schuck / New York Times:
Fighting on the Wrong Front — THE Supreme Court is now considering whether to uphold the Solomon Amendment, a federal law barring federal funds to universities that deny the military the same access that civilian employers enjoy to recruit students. — The universities are uneasy …
Scott Helman / Boston Globe:
Romney says no hospitals are exempt from pill law — He reverses stand on Plan B — Governor Mitt Romney reversed course on the state's new emergency contraception law yesterday, saying that all hospitals in the state will be obligated to provide the morning-after pill to rape victims.
