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Adam Liptak / New York Times:
Issues and (Possible) Answers: A Primer on the Alito Hearings — WASHINGTON, Jan. 8 - When Judge John G. Roberts Jr. appeared before the Senate Judiciary Committee in September for hearings on his nomination to the Supreme Court, all of the participants were largely improvising.
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Charles Babington / Washington Post:
Democrats Ready to Go After Alito — High Court Nominee's Memos Opposing Abortion Likely to Be Focal Points at Hearings — Senate Democrats are expected to attack Supreme Court nominee Samuel A. Alito Jr. on multiple fronts at the confirmation hearing that opens at noon today …
Jesse J. Holland / Associated Press:Senate Hearings to Begin for Samuel Alito
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Jane Roh / Fox News:Democrats Hit Possible Snag Ahead of Alito Hearings
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John W. Suthers / Rocky Mountain News:Speakout: Experienced Alito ideal for Supreme Court
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David S. Broder / Washington Post:Alito's Challenge — The two names uppermost on the minds …
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Jonathan Weisman / Washington Post:
Hastert Moves to Tighten Rules on Lobbyists — With Rep. Tom DeLay (R-Tex.) formally removed from congressional leadership, House Speaker J. Dennis Hastert (R-Ill.) took the next step yesterday in Republican efforts to distance the party from a growing corruption scandal …
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MSNBC:
Transcript for January 8 — MR. TIM RUSSERT: Our issues this Sunday-with ethical charges swirling, Congressman Tom DeLay will not return as House majority leader. Washington lobbyists and fund-raiser Jack Abramoff pleads guilty to fraud, conspiracy and tax evasion.
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Los Angeles Times:
A Donor Who Had Big Allies — DeLay and two others helped put the brakes on a federal probe of a businessman. Evidence was published in the Congressional Record. — WASHINGTON — In a case that echoes the Jack Abramoff influence-peddling scandal, two Northern California Republican congressmen used …
Nedra Pickler / Associated Press:
Cheney Hospitalized, Then Released — WASHINGTON - Vice President Dick Cheney was taken to George Washington Hospital early Monday experiencing shortness of breath, a spokeswoman said. He was released four and a half hours later. — Cheney spokeswoman Lea Anne McBride said Cheney was taken …
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Daniela Deane / Washington Post:
Cheney Briefly Hospitalized Monday Morning — Vice President Dick Cheney went to George Washington University Hospital in the middle of night Monday experiencing shortness of breath, which doctors found was unrelated to his recurring heart problems, a White House statement said.
Richard A. Oppel Jr / New York Times:
12 Feared Dead as Army Copter Crashes in Iraq — BAGHDAD, Iraq, Jan. 8 - Twelve Americans were believed to have been killed late on Saturday night when an Army UH-60 Black Hawk helicopter crashed in northern Iraq between the restive cities of Tal Afar and Mosul.
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CNN:
CNN LATE EDITION WITH WOLF BLITZER — Interview With Shimon Peres; Interview With Benjamin Netanyahu — THIS IS A RUSH TRANSCRIPT. THIS COPY MAY NOT BE IN ITS FINAL FORM AND MAY BE UPDATED. — WOLF BLITZER, HOST: It's 11:00 a.m. in Washington, 8:00 a.m. in Los Angeles, 6:00 p.m. here in Jerusalem and 7:00 p.m. in Baghdad.
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Ian James / Associated Press:
In Caracas, Belafonte Calls Bush Terrorist — Belafonte Calls Bush 'Greatest Terrorist in World,' Praises Chavez in Venezuela — CARACAS, Venezuela Jan 8, 2006 — The American singer and activist Harry Belafonte called President Bush "the greatest terrorist in the world" …
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Mary Williams Walsh / New York Times:
More Companies Ending Promises for Retirement — The death knell for the traditional company pension has been tolling for some time now. Companies in ailing industries like steel, airlines and auto parts have thrown themselves into bankruptcy and turned over their ruined pension plans to the federal government.
Time:
How to Stay Out of Power — Why liberal democrats are playing too fast and too loose with issues of war and peace — House minority leader Nancy Pelosi, the California Democrat, engaged in a small but cheesy bit of deception last week. She released a letter, which quickly found …
Washington Post:
N.Y. Times Editor-Reporter Dies After Attack in NW — David E. Rosenbaum, a longtime editor and reporter in the Washington bureau of the New York Times, died yesterday after being beaten and robbed Friday night near his home in upper Northwest Washington. — Rosenbaum, 63 …
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New York Times:
Lobbyist's Firm Escapes Fallout From a Scandal — WASHINGTON, Jan. 8 - Greenberg Traurig was a politically well-connected law firm long before Jack Abramoff, the disgraced lobbyist who pleaded guilty last week to conspiracy, fraud and tax evasion, joined it about six years ago.
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Paul Caron / TaxProf Blog:
Blogging: Scholarship or Distraction? — Here is a report on Friday's panel at the AALS annual meeting sponsored by the Section on Scholarship on Blogging: Scholarship or Distraction? The program described the session as follows: … After moderator Dennis M. Patterson (Rutgers-Camden) …
MSNBC:
His year in Iraq — Some say Paul Bremer's service laid the groundwork for possible democracy in the Middle East, others see him as a poster child for America's mismanagement of the war … Raging fires, looting, chaos, and destruction: That was the scene when Ambassador L. Paul Bremer III first laid eyes on Baghdad.
