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Michael A. Fletcher / Washington Post:
With Tribute To King, Bush Reaches Out — NAACP Chief Praises President for Appearance — President Bush paid honor to the life of Coretta Scott King from the pulpit of a Baptist church in suburban Atlanta yesterday, recalling that "as a great movement of history took shape …
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New York Times:
At Mrs. King's Funeral, a Mix of Elegy and Politics — LITHONIA, Ga., Feb. 7 — Coretta Scott King was laid to rest Tuesday, after a funeral where white-gloved ushers welcomed 15,000 people, including four presidents, three governors, three planeloads of Congress members, celebrities …
Gina Kolata / New York Times:
Study Finds Low-Fat Diet Won't Stop Cancer or Heart Disease — The largest study ever to ask whether a low-fat diet keeps women from getting cancer or heart disease has found that the diet had no effect. — The $415 million federal study involved nearly 49,000 women aged 50 to 79 who were followed for eight years.
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Gina Kolata / New York Times:
Low-Fat Diet Does Not Cut Health Risks, Study Finds — The largest study ever to ask whether a low-fat diet reduces the risk of getting cancer or heart disease has found that the diet has no effect. — The $415 million federal study involved nearly 49,000 women ages 50 to 79 who were followed for eight years.
Michael Kimmelman / New York Times:
A Startling New Lesson in the Power of Imagery — They're callous and feeble cartoons, cooked up as a provocation by a conservative newspaper exploiting the general Muslim prohibition on images of the Prophet Muhammad to score cheap points about freedom of expression. — But drawings are drawings, so a question arises.
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Amir Taheri / Opinion Journal:
Bonfire of the Pieties — Islam prohibits neither images of Muhammad nor jokes about religion. — "The Muslim Fury," one newspaper headline screamed. "The Rage of Islam Sweeps Europe," said another. "The clash of civilizations is coming," warned one commentator.
Forkum / Cox & Forkum Editorial Cartoons:
Western Dhimmitude — NOTE: The Danish cartoons and caricatures of the Prophet Mohammed can be seen at MohammedCartoons.com. Our other related cartoon are: Image Problem and A Right to Blasphemy. — CNN continues to add a caveat to its coverage of the Cartoon Jihad …
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Washington Post:
Boehner Rents Apartment Owned by Lobbyist in D.C. — Rep. John A. Boehner (R-Ohio), who was elected House majority leader last week, is renting his Capitol Hill apartment from a veteran lobbyist whose clients have direct stakes in legislation Boehner has co-written and that he has overseen …
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David Hammer / Associated Press:Boehner Aide Tied to Trip Set by Abramoff
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Andrew C. Revkin / New York Times:
A Young Bush Appointee Resigns His Post at NASA — George C. Deutsch, the young presidential appointee at NASA who told public affairs workers to limit reporters' access to a top climate scientist and told a Web designer to add the word "theory" at every mention of the Big Bang, resigned yesterday, agency officials said.
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New York Times:
Some Democrats Are Sensing Missed Opportunities — WASHINGTON, Feb. 7 — Democrats are heading into this year's elections in a position weaker than they had hoped for, party leaders say, stirring concern that they are letting pass an opportunity to exploit what they see as widespread Republican vulnerabilities.
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Eric Lichtblau / New York Times:
Republican Who Oversees N.S.A. Calls for Wiretap Inquiry — WASHINGTON, Feb. 7 — A House Republican whose subcommittee oversees the National Security Agency broke ranks with the White House on Tuesday and called for a full Congressional inquiry into the Bush administration's domestic eavesdropping program.
Dafna Linzer / Washington Post:
Strong Leads and Dead Ends in Nuclear Case Against Iran — Iranian engineers have completed sophisticated drawings of a deep subterranean shaft, according to officials who have examined classified documents in the hands of U.S. intelligence for more than 20 months.
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The New York Observer Politicker:
NY Press Kills Cartoons; Staff Walks Out — The editorial staff of the alternative weekly New York Press walked out today, en masse, after the paper's publishers backed down from printing the Danish cartoons that have become the center of a global free-speech fight.
Andrew Higgins / Wall Street Journal:
How Muslim Clerics Stirred Arab World Against Denmark — Newspaper Cartoons Unite — Religious, Secular Forces; — Dossier Fans the Flames — COPENHAGEN - When Flemming Rose, the cultural editor at Denmark's leading newspaper, published cartoons of the prophet Muhammad late last September …
Morton H. Halperin / democracyarsenal.org:
Not Telling the Truth — Leon Sigal begins his essential book on the government and the press (Reporters and Officials: The Organization and Politics of Newsmaking) by quoting from a high official of the Foreign Office (and I paraphrase): If you think we lie to the public you are mistaken …
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David Espo / Associated Press:
Bush Plan Would Trim Survivor Benefits — WASHINGTON - President Bush's budget calls for elimination of a $255 lump-sum death payment that has been part of Social Security for more than 50 years and urges Congress to cut off monthly survivor benefits to 16- and 17-year-old high school dropouts.
