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1:25 PM ET, March 12, 2006

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Washington Post:
Arrest of Ex-Bush Aide Shocks Associates  —  Once-Soaring GOP Career Man Said to Be Devoted to His Family and Church  —  Claude A. Allen has said his mother warned him that as a black man he risked ruining his life, or at least his career, by becoming a Republican.
Discussion: MyDD, Brilliant at Breakfast and PBD
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New York Times:
Former Aide's Arrest Surprises Friends and Colleagues  —  WASHINGTON, March 11 — The arrest on theft charges of Claude A. Allen, who until recently was President Bush's top adviser on domestic policy, was an apparent fall from power that surprised and mystified his friends and former colleagues.
Tom Curry / MSNBC:
And the winner is Frist, the home state favorite  —  But the big surprise is Massachusetts' Gov. Mitt Romney's showing … MSNBC TV  —  MEMPHIS, Tenn. -  —  Tom Curry  —  And the winner is Senate Majority Leader Bill Frist.  —  The climax of a three-day gathering of Republican activists …
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Dan Balz / Washington Post:
McCain Tests New Road to Nomination  —  2000's GOP Rebel Incorporates Support for Bush Into Quest for Change  —  MEMPHIS, March 11 — No one stole the show at the Southern Republican Leadership Conference here this weekend, but Sen. John McCain (Ariz.) demonstrated why every …
Adam C. Smith / St. Petersburg Times:
Harris adds more uncertainty to race
Discussion: Daily Kos
Anthony Deutsch / Associated Press:
Autopsy Performed on Milosevic's Remains  —  THE HAGUE, Netherlands (AP) — Dutch pathologists performed an autopsy on Slobodan Milosevic's remains Sunday amid claims by the former Yugoslav leader's supporters that he was poisoned and a statement by the chief U.N. war crimes prosecutor raising the possibility he committed suicide.
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New York Times:   Milosevic Is Found Dead in Cell, U.N. Officials Say
Robert Farley / Lawyers, Guns and Money:
Brief Thoughts on Slobodan
Ed O'Keefe / ABCNEWS:
Feingold Calls for Bush's Censure  —  Wisconsin Democrat Asks Senate to Rebuke the President for NSA Wiretaps  —  March 12, 2006— In an exclusive interview on "This Week with George Stephanopoulos," Democratic Sen. Russ Feingold called on the Senate to publicly admonish President Bush …
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Nico / Think Progress:   VIDEO: Feingold Will Introduce Resolution To Censure President Bush
John Crewdson / Chicago Tribune:
Internet blows CIA cover  —  It's easy to track America's covert operatives.  All you need to know is how to navigate the Internet.  —  WASHINGTON — She is 52 years old, married, grew up in the Kansas City suburbs and now lives in Virginia, in a new three-bedroom house.
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Ann Scott Tyson / Washington Post:
Army Guard Refilling Its Ranks  —  The Army National Guard, which has suffered a severe three-year recruiting slump, has begun to reel in soldiers in record numbers, aided in part by a new initiative that pays Guard members $2,000 for each person they enlist.
David J. Rothkopf / Washington Post:
Look Who's Running the World Now  —  The Dick Cheney era of foreign policy is over.  —  From 2001 to 2005, the vice president's influence over U.S. foreign policy may have been greater than that of any individual other than the president since Henry A. Kissinger held the positions …
Adam Cohen / New York Times:
Bloggers at the Gates: What Was Good for EBay Should Be Good for Politics  —  After the disastrous 2004 election, prominent Democrats gathered in Monterey, Calif., to discuss what to do next.  The organizers scheduled a session on coalition building, but each special interest complained that its issue was being slighted.
Independent:
Donald Rumsfeld makes $5m killing on bird flu drug  —  Donald Rumsfeld has made a killing out of bird flu.  The US Defence Secretary has made more than $5m (£2.9m) in capital gains from selling shares in the biotechnology firm that discovered and developed Tamiflu …
Editor and Publisher:
Days of DeWine and Ruses?  Reporters May Be Exempt from Eavesdropping Bill  —  WASHINGTON Reporters who write about government surveillance could be prosecuted under proposed legislation that would solidify the administration's eavesdropping authority, according to some legal analysts …
Mark Steyn / Chicago Sun Times:
Media shockingly ignorant of Muslims among us  —  This week's Voldemort Award goes to the New York Times for their account of a curious case of road rage in North Carolina:  —  "The man charged with nine counts of attempted murder for driving a Jeep through a crowd at the University …
Jeff Jarvis / BuzzMachine:
Gatekeeper v. amateurs  —  The powerful — the rich and the elected — used to be the gatekeepers to information.  Then, with the advent of mass media, journalists took over that role.  They were the gatekeepers to the public.  A few decades ago, for reasons I'll go into in a moment …
Matt Bai / New York Times:
The Fallback  —  If you harbor serious thoughts of running for the presidency, the first thing you do — long before you commission any polls or make any ads, years before you charter planes to take you back and forth between Iowa and New Hampshire — is to sit down with guys like Chris Korge.
 
 
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David Warren / realclearpolitics.com:
Revisitation  —  The Americans went into Afghanistan and Iraq …
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Sean Rayment / Telegraph:
SAS soldier quits Army in disgust at 'illegal' American tactics in Iraq
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SRLC Day One: Mitt Romney
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How Islamic inventors changed the world
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Patriot Act Partly Blamed in Madrid Case
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Associated Press:
Stem Cell Proposal Splits Missouri G.O.P.
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Reuters:
Washington Post to cut 80 newsroom positions
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Reuters:
US hostage in Iraq killed after torture: police
Discussion: JunkYardBlog
Greg Mitchell / Editor and Publisher:
Preview of 'Vanity Fair' Article on Plamegate: Too Much of Nothing?
Discussion: firedoglake and THE NEWS BLOG
Editor and Publisher:
John Burns, Back from Baghdad: U.S. Effort In Iraq Will Likely Fail
Joseph Kahn / New York Times:
A Sharp Debate Erupts in China Over Ideologies
 

 
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Mandy Dalugdug / Music Business Worldwide:
UMG, ABKCO, and Concord sue Believe, a music distributor in 50+ countries, and its subsidiary TuneCore for $500M+, accusing Believe of copyright infringement

Reuters:
French judicial source: investigators searched Netflix's offices in France and the Netherlands as part of a preliminary investigation into tax fraud laundering

Alexandra Steigrad / New York Post:
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