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Edward Wong / New York Times:
Iraqi Sunni Bloc to Rejoin Talks on Government — BAGHDAD, Iraq, Feb. 26 — Leaders of the main Sunni Arab political bloc have decided to return to suspended talks over the formation of a new government, the top Sunni negotiator said Sunday. The step could help defuse the sectarian tensions …
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Qassim Abdul-Zahra / Associated Press:
Sunnis Said Ready to End Boycott of Talks — BAGHDAD, Iraq - Sunni Arabs are ready to end their boycott of talks to form a new government if rival Shiites return mosques seized in last week's sectarian attacks and meet other unspecified demands, a top Sunni figure said Monday.
John Fund / Opinion Journal:
Jihadi Turns Bulldog — The Taliban's former spokesman is now a Yale student. Anyone see a problem with that? — Never has an article made me blink with astonishment as much as when I read in yesterday's New York Times magazine that Sayed Rahmatullah Hashemi, former ambassador-at-large for the Taliban …
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Chip Brown / New York Times:The Freshman — Talib in Luce Hall — Sometimes walking …
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Arianna Huffington / The Huffington Post:
Russert Watch: Meet the Republicans — Today on Meet the Press it was Meet the Republicans, as Russert's well-rounded lineup included Republican Senator John Warner, Republican Congressman Peter King and Republican Governor Arnold Schwarzenegger. Perhaps the phone lines are down on the other side of the political divide.
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Scott Collins / Los Angeles Times:
Don Knotts, star of 'The Andy Griffith Show,' dead at 81 — Knotts died Friday night of pulmonary and respiratory complications at Cedars-Sinai Medical Center in Beverly Hills. — Don Knotts, the saucer-eyed, scarecrow-thin comic actor best known for his roles as the high-strung small …
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Associated Press:
Stumbo wants justices appointed by Fletcher to step aside — FRANKFORT, Ky. - Kentucky Attorney General Greg Stumbo says two substitutes named to the state Supreme Court by Gov. Ernie Fletcher should disqualify themselves because they have contributed to Fletcher's political campaigns.
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John Marshall / Seattle Post-Intelligencer:
Octavia Butler, 1947-2006: Sci-fi writer a gifted pioneer in white, male domain — Her father was a shoeshine man who died when she was a child, her mother was a maid who brought her along on jobs, yet Octavia Butler rose from these humble beginnings to become one of the country's leading writers …
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Robert Pear / New York Times:
Bush Policies Weakening Guard, Governors Say — WASHINGTON, Feb. 26 — Governors of both parties said Sunday that Bush administration policies were stripping the National Guard of equipment and personnel needed to respond to hurricanes, floods, tornadoes, forest fires and other emergencies.
Michael R. Gordon / New York Times:
German Intelligence Gave U.S. Iraqi Defense Plan, Report Says — WASHINGTON, Feb. 26 — Two German intelligence agents in Baghdad obtained a copy of Saddam Hussein's plan to defend the Iraqi capital, which a German official passed on to American commanders a month before the invasion …
Clifford Krauss / New York Times:
As Canada's Slow-Motion Public Health System Falters, Private Medical Care Is Surging — VANCOUVER, British Columbia, Feb. 23 — The Cambie Surgery Center, Canada's most prominent private hospital, may be considered a rogue enterprise. — Accepting money from patients for operations …
Washington Post:
Bush's Response To the Ports Deal Faulted as Tardy — By the Time President's Political Team Took Notice, Controversy Was an Uproar — Sen. Charles E. Schumer, an outspoken liberal Democrat from New York, two weeks ago began publicly denouncing a deal to let a Middle Eastern firm take over terminal operations at six U.S. seaports.
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Elisabeth J. Beardsley / Courier-Journal:Frist says he's OK with ports deal
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James Glanz / New York Times:
Army to Pay Halliburton Unit Most Costs Disputed by Audit — The Army has decided to reimburse a Halliburton subsidiary for nearly all of its disputed costs on a $2.41 billion no-bid contract to deliver fuel and repair oil equipment in Iraq, even though the Pentagon's own auditors had identified …
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Drudge Report:
BUSH, ROVE SAY HILLARY WILL WIN DEM PRIMARY — BUT LOSE GENERAL ELECTION — President Bush and his top strategist, Karl Rove, say Sen. Hillary Rodham Clinton will be tough to beat in the Democratic presidential primaries of 2008 — but not in the general election!
unitedforpeace.org:
Storm the White House — Multi-Day Event, Beginning March 15, come when you can and stay as long as you can - we are taking over the White House until they leave. Torture, Occupation, Genocide - Must End Now. — Washington, DC USA — TAKE THE WHITE HOUSE BY STORM - Stop Genocide, Torture and Occupation
Washington Post:
'We Do Not Wish to Throw Them Into the Sea' — Since Hamas won control of parliament in the recent Palestinian elections, policymakers in Washington and Jerusalem have been faced with a dilemma: how to deal with a democratically elected government that is also on the State Department's list of foreign terrorist organizations.
Associated Press:
McGavin, 'A Christmas Story' father, dies at 83 — LOS ANGELES, California (AP) — Darren McGavin was painting a movie set in 1945 when he learned of an opening for a small role in the show, climbed off his ladder, and returned through Columbia's front gates to land the part.
