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Michelle Roberts / Associated Press:
Nagin Wins Re-Election as Big Easy Mayor — NEW ORLEANS - Mayor Ray Nagin, whose shoot-from-the-hip style was both praised and scorned after Hurricane Katrina, narrowly won re-election over Lt. Gov. Mitch Landrieu on Saturday in the race to oversee one of the biggest rebuilding projects in U.S. history.
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New Orleans Mayor Ray Nagin Wins Re-Election — NEW ORLEANS — Mayor Ray Nagin, whose shoot-from-the-hip style was both praised and scorned after Hurricane Katrina, narrowly won re-election over Lt. Gov. Mitch Landrieu on Saturday in the race to oversee one of the biggest rebuilding projects in U.S. history.
Keith Morelli / TBO.com:
Saudi Men Who Rode School Bus Arrested — TAMPA - Two Saudi men were arrested Friday after they boarded a school bus and rode to Wharton High School in New Tampa. — Students on the bus became alarmed, as did the bus driver, who called ahead. Hillsborough County sheriff's deputies met the bus at the school and detained the men.
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Nina Shea / Washington Post:
This is a Saudi textbook. (After the intolerance was removed.) — This is a Saudi textbook. (After the intolerance was removed.) — S audi Arabia's public schools have long been cited for demonizing the West as well as Christians, Jews and other "unbelievers."
Mark Leibovich / New York Times:
Plea of the Democratic Pariah: Forgive My Defeat — IN so much as the term "rehabilitation" applies to Al Gore, he is enjoying a nice little run of late. — Mr. Gore — the former vice president, would-be president, almost-president and, in some circles, should-be president …
David Cay Johnston / New York Times:
Despite Pledge, Taxes Increase for Teenagers — The $69 billion tax cut bill that President Bush signed this week tripled tax rates for teenagers with college savings funds, despite Mr. Bush's 1999 pledge to veto any tax increase. — Under the new law, teenagers age 14 to 17 with investment income …
David Montero / Rocky Mountain News:
For soldiers, gratitude and praise from an Iraqi mayor — COLORADO SPRINGS - An Iraqi mayor stood before troops lined up on the lawn at Fort Carson on Friday morning and said only two words in English. — But those two words brought the crowd to its feet. — "Thank you."
Marie Colvin / Times of London:
Reunited: boys saved from slavers — A SENIOR member of an Islamic organisation linked to Al-Qaeda is funding his activities through the kidnapping of Christian children who are sold into slavery in Pakistan. — The Sunday Times has established that Gul Khan, a wealthy militant who uses …
Philip Shenon / New York Times:
F.B.I. Searches Congressman's Office in Ethics Inquiry — WASHINGTON, May 20 — The F.B.I. raided the Congressional offices of Representative William J. Jefferson, Democrat of Louisiana, on Saturday night as part of a corruption investigation focused on the lawmaker and on a Kentucky businessman …
John Berman / ABCNEWS:
Baghdad's Lionel Richie Obsession — American Pop Star Is an Iraq Obsession — May 19, 2006 — I have been to Iraq nine times since the American invasion three years ago, for a total of about 10 solid months. (My wife is counting.) During that time, I have seen bombs and blood …
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Hartford Courant:
Kevin Rennie — Lieberman's In Trouble — From the start of the Democratic state convention Friday night, there was something different from past gatherings of the faithful. Even U.S. Sen. Christopher J. Dodd, always a crowd favorite, could not work his usual magic with a speech nominating …
Richard A. Viguerie / Washington Post:
Bush's Base Betrayal — As a candidate in 2000, George W. Bush was a Rorschach test. Country Club Republicans saw him as another George H.W. Bush; some conservatives, thinking wishfully, saw him as another Ronald Reagan. He called himself a "compassionate conservative," which meant whatever one wanted it to mean.
Washington Post:
Religious Liberals Gain New Visibility — The religious left is back. — Long overshadowed by the Christian right, religious liberals across a wide swath of denominations are engaged today in their most intensive bout of political organizing and alliance-building since the civil rights …