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Glen Johnson / Associated Press:
Carroll Reunites With Family — After 82 Days as a Hostage in Iraq, Freed Journalist Is Home — BOSTON, April 2 — Journalist Jill Carroll was back on U.S. soil Sunday, tearfully embracing her parents and twin sister after 82 days as a hostage in Iraq that she said gave her a deep appreciation for the myriad simple joys of freedom.
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Francis Harris / Telegraph:
Right-wing bloggers attack freed hostage for 'treason' — The freed American hostage Jill Carroll arrived home after 83 days of captivity in Iraq yesterday - to a barrage of criticism from Right-wingers who accused her of showing too much sympathy for her kidnappers.
New York Times:
Iraq's Premier Is Asked to Quit as Shiites Split — BAGHDAD, Iraq, April 2 — Iraq's dominant Shiite political bloc fractured Sunday when its most powerful faction publicly demanded that the incumbent Shiite prime minister resign over his inability to form a unified government.
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Ellen Knickmeyer / Washington Post:
U.S. Plan to Build Iraq Clinics Falters — Contractor Will Try to Finish 20 of 142 Sites — BAGHDAD — A reconstruction contract for the building of 142 primary health centers across Iraq is running out of money, after two years and roughly $200 million, with no more than 20 clinics …
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Nazila Fathi / New York Times:
Iran Says It Test-Fired Underwater Missile — TEHRAN, April 2 — Iran said Sunday that it had test-fired what it described as a sonar-evading underwater missile just two days after it announced that it had fired a new missile that could carry multiple warheads and evade radar systems.
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George F. Will / Washington Post:
Let Cooler Heads Prevail — So, "the debate is over." Time magazine says so. Last week's cover story exhorted readers to "Be Worried. Be Very Worried," and ABC News concurred in several stories. So did Montana's governor, speaking on ABC. And there was polling about global warming, gathered by Time and ABC in collaboration.
John Fund / Opinion Journal:
Ivory Tower Stonewall — A 9/11 survivor asks Yale to explain why it admitted the Taliban Man. — Katherine Bailey and her sister, Margaret Pothier, have a bone to pick with Yale President Richard Levin over his university's admission of a former Taliban official as a student.
Kevin Drum / The Washington Monthly:
WHAT'S THE PLAN?....Glenn Reynolds suggests today that George Bush's difficulties are not so much with the people who were fair weather supporters of the war from the start, but rather with the people who were its most fervent fans: … Like most slogan-driven hawks, however …
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Sadly, No!
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Sheryl Gay Stolberg / New York Times:
Frist Is Treading a Perilous Path Leading to 2008 — WASHINGTON, April 2 — History does not bode well for Bill Frist, and he knows it. — "Coming into this job, everybody said if you, in your future, ever want to consider running for president of the United States, people said, 'Do not do it …
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cbc.ca:
Deadly blast in doughnut shop not a terrorist job: police — Police have ruled out terrorism as the cause of an explosion at a Tim Hortons doughnut shop that killed one man in a trendy downtown area of Toronto on Sunday. — The victim was likely an arsonist or attempting suicide …
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Daimnation!
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Cenk Uygur / The Huffington Post:
John McCain: The Sell-Out Express — John McCain spent over five years in a prisoner-of-war camp in Vietnam. He was given the choice to leave when the Vietnamese found out his dad was a senior Admiral in the US military. He declined to leave his men behind and stayed for many more years …
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Drudge Report:
LAURA BUSH SAYS HILLARY KEPT BAD HOUSE; WEST WING DECORATIONS WERE GAUDY, OUTDATED — First Lady Laura Bush believes Hillary Clinton did not keep good house during her time as first lady, a new book will charge. — Ron Kessler, a former investigative reporter for the WASHINGTON POST …
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Christina Hoff Sommers / Weekly Standard:
Being a Man — Harvey Mansfield ponders the male of the species. — Manliness by Harvey C. Mansfield — Yale, 304 pp., $27.50 — ONE OF THE LEAST VISITED memorials in Washington is a waterfront statue commemorating the men who died on the Titanic. Seventy-four percent …
Ian Cobain / Guardian:
Revealed: victims of UK's cold war torture camp — Archive pictures of German prisoners held by the British following the second world war. Photographs: Martin Argles — Photographs of victims of a secret torture programme operated by British authorities during the early days of the cold war …
Michele Greppi / tvweek.com:
Couric a Blink Away From Landmark Gig — 'Today' Host's Move to Eye Net Puts Rival NBC in Talent Bind — Katie Couric's deal to move to CBS News is completed in principle, and an announcement that she is leaving NBC might come as early as this week. — That's the quiet buzz among sources familiar …
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