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Deepti Hajela / Associated Press:
ABC's Woodruff, Cameraman Injured in Iraq  —  ABC News Co-Anchor Bob Woodruff and a Cameraman Injured in IED Attack in Iraq  —  NEW YORK Jan 29, 2006 — ABC News anchor Bob Woodruff and a cameraman were seriously injured Sunday in an explosion while reporting from Iraq, the network said Sunday.
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ABCNEWS:
ABC News' Bob Woodruff and Cameraman in Stable Condition After Iraq Attack  —  'World News Tonight' Co-Anchor and Cameraman Slammed by Explosive device While Traveling With Iraqi Forces  —  Jan. 29, 2006 — "World News Tonight" co-anchor Bob Woodruff and his cameraman …
ABCNEWS:
ABC News' Bob Woodruff and Cameraman Injured in Iraq  —  'World News Tonight' Co-Anchor and Cameraman Slammed by IED While with Iraqi Army  —  Jan. 29, 2006 — "World News Tonight" anchor, Bob Woodruff and his cameraman, Doug Vogt, were injured and are in serious condition after their convoy …
Howard Kurtz / Washington Post:
Two for the Road  —  ABC's Elizabeth Vargas and Bob Woodruff, On the Job but Often Away From Their Desk  —  The familiar music swells, the prompter rolls, and Elizabeth Vargas is ready at the anchor desk, framed by a massive video wall.  —  She begins with breaking news — Ford's 30,000 layoffs …
Discussion: Blinq, mediabistro and Poynter Online
CNN:   ABC anchor, cameraman in Iraq seriously wounded
Cori Dauber / Rantingprofs:
Embedding, No Silver Bullet
Discussion: A Blog For All
Hope Yen / Associated Press:
Sen. Obama criticizes filibuster tactic  —  WASHINGTON - To more effectively oppose Supreme Court nominees in the future, Democrats need to convince the public "their values are at stake" rather than use stalling tactics to try to thwart the president, said a senator who opposes Samuel Alito's confirmation.
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Joan Vennochi / Boston Globe:
Tilting at Alito  —  IN MASSACHUSETTS, old liberals never die.  They just keep tilting at windmills.  —  At the last minute, Senator John Kerry called for a filibuster to stop the Supreme Court nomination of Samuel A. Alito Jr. Senator Edward M. Kennedy joined the fight.
Bob Geiger / BobGeiger.com:
Democrats Give Bush Ammunition For Use Against — Other Democrats
Discussion: The Sideshow
Newsweek:
Palace Revolt  —  They were loyal conservatives, and Bush appointees.  They fought a quiet battle to rein in the president's power in the war on terror.  And they paid a price for it.  A NEWSWEEK investigation.  —  Khue Bui for Newsweek  —  The White House  —  By By Daniel Klaidman, Stuart Taylor Jr. and Evan Thomas
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Faiz / Think Progress:
Hagel Echoes Bipartisan Criticism of White House
Discussion: The Left Coaster and firedoglake
Associated Press:
Cindy Sheehan Considering Senate Run  —  CARACAS, Venezuela — Cindy Sheehan, the peace activist who set up camp near President Bush's Texas ranch last summer, said Saturday she is considering running against Sen. Dianne Feinstein to protest what she called the California lawmaker's support for the war in Iraq.
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Gateway Pundit:
More Democrats Speak Out, Rally Around Cindy, Bash Bill Clinton
Discussion: Roger L. Simon
Yuki Noguchi / Washington Post:
Google Hits Glitches Over Video Site, China  —  After a run-up in stock price, good press and public accolades, Google Inc. hit a rough patch this week.  —  The popular Internet company acknowledged a design flaw in its recently launched video service and released a version of its search engine …
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Dan Balz / Washington Post:
Bush's Midterm Challenge  —  Rebuilding Public Support May Bolster GOP Candidates  —  President Bush's State of the Union address on Tuesday night marks the opening of a midterm election year eagerly anticipated by Democrats and fraught with worries for Republicans, whose hopes in November …
Will Dunham / Reuters:
Army forces 50,000 soldiers into extended duty  —  WASHINGTON (Reuters) - The U.S. Army has forced about 50,000 soldiers to continue serving after their voluntary stints ended under a policy called "stop-loss," but while some dispute its fairness, court challenges have fallen flat.
Jeff / Caerdroia:
A Bit of a Stretch  —  Glenn Reynolds notes: … A bit of a stretch is right!  But that's not even the problem with the article: Derakshan fundamentally does not understand democracy.  In order to demonstrate, I'm going to take a bunch of quotes without context.
Discussion: Centerfield
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Hossein Derakhshan / New York Times:
Democracy's Double Standard
Discussion: NewsHog and Editor: Myself
New York Times:
Mixed U.S. Signals Helped Tilt Haiti Toward Chaos  —  PORT-AU-PRINCE, Haiti — As his plane lifted off the runway here in August 2003, Brian Dean Curran rewound his last, bleak days as the American ambassador in this tormented land.  —  Haiti, Mr. Curran feared, was headed toward a cataclysm …
Marshall Grossman / The Huffington Post:
A Letter to the Senate: Filibuster  —  Forwarding, cutting, pasting permitted and encouraged.  —  Dear Senator:  —  Will you vote no on Senator Frist's cloture resolution to cut off debate on the Alito nomination?  I feel strongly that you should.  Everything about Judge Alito …
Steve Clemons / The Washington Note:
Washington Whispers: Under Secretary of State Robert Joseph Refers to Germans and the French as "Surrender Monkeys" — Needs to Go Back to Diplomacy School  —  John Bolton's successor at the Department of State as Under Secretary of State for Arms Control and International Security is Robert "Bob" Joseph.
Mitch Stacy / Associated Press:
Blogger gains following with Iraq reports  —  WINTER HAVEN, Fla. — He didn't have to go, it wasn't his job and nobody paid him to do it.  But Michael Yon says he went to Iraq because he wanted to see for himself what was going on.  —  The 41-year-old former Army Green Beret …
New York Times:
Corporate Wealth Share Rises for Top-Income Americans  —  New government data indicate that the concentration of corporate wealth among the highest-income Americans grew significantly in 2003, as a trend that began in 1991 accelerated in the first year that President Bush and Congress cut taxes on capital.
Discussion: Prometheus 6

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