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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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rawstory.com:
Full transcript: Feingold announces he will move to censure President — RAW STORY — ABC'S "THIS WEEK WITH GEORGE STEPHANOPOULOS" / MARCH 12, 2006 — STEPHANOPOULOS: Good morning, everyone. President Bush is coming off a week that one top GOP strategist called the worst of his presidency.
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.
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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.
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 …
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Tom Curry / MSNBC:
And the winner is Frist, the home state favorite
And the winner is Frist, the home state favorite
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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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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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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.
Reuters:
FACTBOX-Developments in Iraq, March 12 — March 12 (Reuters) - Following are security incidents and political developments in Iraq as of 1610 GMT on Sunday. — U.S. and Iraqi forces have been battling a Sunni Arab insurgency against the Shi'ite- and Kurdish-led government since U.S. troops toppled Saddam Hussein in 2003.
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 …
Nicholas Wade / New York Times:
The Twists and Turns of History, and of DNA — Charles Brewer-Carias/Associated Press, left; Hulton Archive/Getty Images, middle; Fox Photos/Getty Images — ADAPTATION The Yanomamo, left, and Ashkenazi Jews, center, may be examples of a society's genetic response to circumstances.
BREITBART.COM:
Hecklers harass families of US soldiers killed in Iraq — Five women sang and danced as they held up signs saying "thank God for dead soldiers" at the funeral of an army sergeant who was killed by an Iraqi bomb. — For them, it was the perfect way to spread God's word: America was being punished for tolerating homosexuality.
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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 …
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Elephants in Academia
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 …
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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.
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.
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 …