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Viveca Novak / Time:
What Viveca Novak Told Fitzgerald — It was in the midst of another Washington scandal, almost a decade ago, that I got to know Bob Luskin. He represented Mark Middleton, a minor figure in the Democratic campaign-finance scandals of 1996. Luskin kept Middleton out of the spotlight and never told me much.
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Empty Wheel / The Next Hurrah:
What Vivnovka Tells Us — I don't know whether Rove and Libby will ever go to jail for outing Valerie Plame. But the investigation has already done one important thing—it has demonstrated in stark terms the pathetic state of political journalism. Judy Miller has been exposed as a sycophantic liar.
Greg Mitchell / Editor and Publisher:
Viveca Novak: Another Plame Journo Kept Her Editor in the Dark — Where will it end, and when will reporters pay with their jobs? First we learn that Bob Woodward failed to tell his editor for years about his role in the Plame/CIA leak case. Today, we find out that Time reporter Viveca Novak …
Tom Maguire / JustOneMinute:
Viveca Novak's Tale — Viveca Novak, reporter for TIME and casual confidante of Karl Rove's lawyer, Don Luskin, tells her side of the story that may have saved Rove from indictment. Let's say this - Matt Cooper of TIME has expressed an aspiration to be a professional comic; maybe he could take Viveca into his act.
ReddHedd / firedoglake:
The Penitent — Vivaca Novak's article is up at Time. There are a number of aspects about the article that I find troubling and puzzling, not the least of which is the substantial lack of any solid factual detail on precise dates and items discussed. — In my mind a reporter actively working …
Jane Hamsher / firedoglake:Vivac — Well I will give Viveca Novak one thing.
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Roger L. Simon / OSM:
Remembering Richard — Some time in 1979, shortly after I had done The Big Fix for Universal, the studio called to ask if I would like to write a movie for Richard Pryor. I thought I had died and gone to heaven. Pryor was at the top of his game then, acknowledged by many to be possibly the greatest standup comic of all time.
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Joe Gandelman / The Moderate Voice:Groundbreaking And Trendsetting Comedian Richard Pryor Dies
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Newsweek:
Bush in the Bubble — He has a tight circle of trust, and he likes it that way. But members of both parties are urging Bush to reach beyond the White House walls. How he governs-and how his M.O. stacks up historically. — Dec. 19, 2005 issue - Jack Murtha still can't figure out why the father and son treated him so differently.
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Michael Crowley / New York Times:
Conservative Blogs are More Effective — When the liberal activist Matt Stoller was running a blog for the Democrat Jon Corzine's 2005 campaign for governor, he saw the power of the conservative blogosphere firsthand. Shortly before the election, a conservative Web site claimed …
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Reuters:
Iraqi insurgents urge Sunnis to vote, warn Zarqawi — FALLUJA/RAMADI Iraq (Reuters) - Saddam Hussein loyalists who violently opposed January elections have made an about-face as Thursday's polls near, urging fellow Sunni Arabs to vote and warning al Qaeda militants not to attack.
Times of London:
Israel readies forces for strike on nuclear Iran — Uzi Mahnaimi, Tel Aviv, and Sarah Baxter, Washington — ISRAEL'S armed forces have been ordered by Ariel Sharon, the prime minister, to be ready by the end of March for possible strikes on secret uranium enrichment sites in Iran, military sources have revealed.
Ron Fournier / Associated Press:
Democrats Test Themes for `06 and `08 — LAKE BUENA VISTA, Fla. - To hear Democrats tell it, an anxious and isolated public craves a sense of national community and would galvanize behind a leader who asks people to sacrifice for the greater good. John Edwards says he's that leader.
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Condoleezza Rice / Washington Post:
The Promise of Democratic Peace — Why Promoting Freedom Is the Only Realistic Path to Security — Soon after arriving at the State Department earlier this year, I hung a portrait of Dean Acheson in my office. Over half a century ago, as America sought to create the world anew …
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New York Times:
Death of an American City — We are about to lose New Orleans. Whether it is a conscious plan to let the city rot until no one is willing to move back or honest paralysis over difficult questions, the moment is upon us when a major American city will die, leaving nothing but a few shells for tourists to visit like a museum.
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Catherine Seipp / Los Angeles Times:
Where, you overpaid fools, was Little Green Footballs? — Outside the Tent is an occasional column in which The Times invites outside critics to wag a finger at a Southern California newspaper that has a big globe in its lobby. — KINDER-HEARTED people than me have been fretting lately …
Associated Press:
Frist Says He's Ready to Block Filibuster — WASHINGTON - Senate Majority Leader Bill Frist said Sunday he is prepared to strip Democrats of their to ability to filibuster if they try to stall Samuel Alito's nomination to the Supreme Court. — "The answer is yes," Frist said when asked …
Henry A. Kissinger / San Diego Union-Tribune:
Moving toward a responsible exit strategy in Iraq — Since every turning point occurs in some finite time period, a key test of policy-making is when to schedule the seminal decisions. The debate over withdrawal from Iraq hinges on such a question. The administration and its critics seem …
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