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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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David E. Sanger / New York Times:
Review of Port Deal Will Leave Decision to Bush — WASHINGTON, Feb. 26 — The Dubai company seeking to take over some terminal operations at six American ports formally asked the Bush administration on Sunday to conduct a deeper investigation into security concerns surrounding the deal.
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Elisabeth J. Beardsley / Courier-Journal:Frist says he's OK with ports deal
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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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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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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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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 …
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 …
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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Kevin Sites / Reuters:
Saddam Hussein ends hunger strike: lawyer — AMMAN (Reuters) - Toppled Iraqi leader Saddam Hussein has ended on health grounds a hunger strike he began earlier this month to protest against the conduct of his trial, his chief lawyer said on Monday. — "The president maintained his hunger strike …
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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 …
Marc Cooper / The Nation:
My Dinner With Ashcroft — I spent this past weekend bunkered in with 350 movement conservatives and some of their favorite pols and strategists - from John Ashcroft to Tom Tancredo to Jim Woolsey —and let me tell you, even many of these folks are openly worried about Republican chances in the Fall.
Marc Kaufman / Washington Post:
Plan B Battles Embroil States — Filling a void left by the Food and Drug Administration's inability to decide whether to make the "morning-after" pill available without a prescription, nearly every state is or soon will be wrestling with legislation that would expand or restrict access to the drug.
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
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