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Peggy Noonan / Opinion Journal:
They Should Have Killed Him — The death penalty has a meaning, and it isn't vengeance. … Excuse me, I'm sorry, and I beg your pardon, but the jury's decision on Moussaoui gives me a very bad feeling. What we witnessed here was not the higher compassion but a dizzy failure of nerve.
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Neil A. Lewis / New York Times:
Moussaoui Given Life Term by Jury Over Link to 9/11 — ALEXANDRIA, Va. May 3 — A federal jury rejected the death penalty for Zacarias Moussaoui on Wednesday, with some jurors concluding that he played only a minor role in the Sept. 11, 2001, terrorist attacks.
Marc Santora / New York Times:
9/11 Verdict Draws Mixed Reactions — For the families of those killed on Sept. 11, there are many things they agree on when it comes to Zacarias Moussaoui. — That he is an unrepentant horror of a person is not much in question. They are quick to call his behavior during his trial and sentencing hearing abominable and painful.
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Will / Attytood:Why won't the government try the real criminals of 9/11?
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Dahlia Lithwick / Slate:Complex Martyr — The Zacarias Moussaoui jurors split the difference.
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Bill Arthur / Bloomberg:Zacarias Moussaoui to Get Life Sentence for Sept. 11 (Update2)
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Richard Cohen / Washington Post:
So Not Funny — First, let me state my credentials: I am a funny guy. This is well known in certain circles, which is why, even back in elementary school, I was sometimes asked by the teacher to "say something funny" — as if the deed could be done on demand.
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Sheryl Gay Stolberg / New York Times:
Lobbying Bill Passes Narrowly in House — WASHINGTON, May 3 — The House narrowly passed a bill on Wednesday intended to restore public trust in Congress by reshaping the relationship between lawmakers and lobbyists. But Democrats denounced the measure as a sham, and 20 Republicans voted against it.
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Jeffrey H. Birnbaum / Washington Post:
House Lobbying Rules Call for More Disclosure — The House narrowly approved ethics legislation yesterday that would expand the amount of information that lobbyists must disclose about their interactions with lawmakers and would also rein in big-money political groups that spent heavily in the last presidential election.
Rachel L. Swarns / New York Times:
Growing Unease for Some Blacks on Immigration — WASHINGTON, May 3 — In their demonstrations across the country, some Hispanic immigrants have compared the Rev. Dr. Martin Luther King Jr.'s struggle to their own, singing "We Shall Overcome" and declaring a new civil rights movement …
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Under U.S. Pressure, Mexico President Seeks Review of Drug Law — MEXICO CITY, May 3 — After intense pressure from the United States, President Vicente Fox has asked Congress to reconsider a law it passed last week that would decriminalize the possession of small amounts of drugs as part …
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Juan Cole is 10th rate...he is the embodiment of the mediocre...his sentences are syntactical train wrecks...it's illiteracy, simply. - Christopher Hitchens — HH: Christopher Hitchens, welcome back to the Hugh Hewitt Show. — CH: Nice to be back. — HH: Now I don't even know how to raise this …
Richard Morin / Washington Post:
The Fox News Effect — We report. You decide. Does President Bush owe his controversial win in 2000 to Fox cable television news? — Yes, suggest data collected by two economists who found that the growth of the Fox cable news network in the late 1990s may have significantly boosted …
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Ken Silverstein / Harper's:
Follow-up 2: Red Lights on Capitol Hill — More details on Shirlington Limousine — A few days ago I wondered aloud exactly how Shirlington Limousine of Arlington, Virginia, owned by Christopher Baker—a man with a lengthy history of illegal activity—got millions of dollars in federal contracts …
Jim Stratton / orlandosentinel.com:
Contractor's deal was Harris priority, former staffers say — Former senior members of U.S. Rep. Katherine Harris' congressional staff say they initially rejected a defense contractor's $10 million appropriation request last year but reversed course after being instructed by Harris to approve it.
Jonathan Weisman / Washington Post:
Tax Deal Sets Day of Reckoning — Tough Choice on Deficit in Store for President, Congress in 2011 — With this week's hard-fought agreement on a $70 billion tax-cut extension, President Bush and congressional Republicans have effectively set a date for a fiscal day of reckoning …
New York Times:
Newark Candidate Runs Against His Own Fame — When Richard Whitten, a former Newark postal worker, met Cory Booker at a charity event downtown in 1996, his first impression was that Mr. Booker seemed too polished to be sincere. — With degrees from Stanford, Oxford and Yale Law School …
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Allan Lengel / Washington Post:
Businessman Pleads Guilty To Bribing Rep. Jefferson — A Louisville man pleaded guilty yesterday in federal court to bribing Rep. William J. Jefferson (D-La.) with more than $400,000 in payments, company stock and a share of the profits to promote the Kentucky firm's high-tech business ventures in Africa.
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