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Susan Milligan / Boston Globe:
Democrats set to call for phased pullout — Congressional debate on war enters 2d week — WASHINGTON — Congressional Democrats, seizing on public discontent over the war in Iraq, will offer legislation this week calling for a phased withdrawal of troops from Iraq and a shifting of forces …
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The Strata-Sphere
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Associated Press:
Spokesman: Bush polls don't rule Iraq war — WASHINGTON - President Bush understands there is growing U.S. concern over his handling of the Iraq war but will not rely on polls to determine when to withdraw troops, his spokesman said Sunday. — "The president understands how a war can wear on a nation …
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Say Anything
Raymond Hernandez / New York Times:
Murtha, a War Critic, Assails Rove Over Speech — WASHINGTON, June 18 — Representative John P. Murtha, the Pennsylvania Democrat and Vietnam War veteran pushing for a quick withdrawal of American troops from Iraq, on Sunday mocked Karl Rove, the president's senior adviser, for championing the war while …
Jeremy Pelofsky / Reuters:
Senate Democrats want vote on Iraq withdrawal
Senate Democrats want vote on Iraq withdrawal
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The Democratic Daily
Stephanie Strom / New York Times:
A.C.L.U. Warned on Plan to Limit Members' Speech — A lawyer in the New York state attorney general's office informally warned the American Civil Liberties Union that his office had concerns about proposed standards that would limit the group's board members from speaking publicly about policies …
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Newsweek:
Doubts About Duke — The prosecutor insists his rape case is strong. One big problem: the facts thus far. — June 29, 2006 issue - The order had come, signed by a judge, requiring that the Duke lacrosse team give DNA samples. The prosecutor was trying to identify the three players …
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Associated Press:
Group Claims It Kidnapped U.S. Soldiers — An umbrella group that includes al-Qaida in Iraq claimed in a Web statement Monday that it had kidnapped two U.S. soldiers reported missing south of Baghdad. There was no immediate confirmation that the statement was credible …
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Blue Crab Boulevard
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Janine Zacharia / Bloomberg:
Zoellick Leaving State Department, to Join Goldman (Update1) — June 19 (Bloomberg) — Robert Zoellick resigned as deputy U.S. secretary of state and said he will take a job with Goldman Sachs Group, Inc., the world's biggest securities firm by market value.
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TAPPED
Lyle Denniston / SCOTUSblog:
Decisions: Clean Water Act reach limited — A pluarlity of the Supreme Court concluded on Monday that the Clean Water Act's protection of "waters of the United States" is limited to those bodies of water that are "permanent, standing or continously flowing," and thus does not embrace channels through …
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How Appealing
John Fund / Opinion Journal:
Trying to Get Even — Democrats keep betting on failure in Iraq. — During last week's congressional debate over the war in Iraq, critics of the Bush administration's policy made three arguments: that President Bush more or less lied when claiming Saddam Hussein was a threat to the U.S. …
Robert F. Worth / New York Times:
Mideast Analysis, Fast and Furious — WHEN an Iraqi insurgent group releases a new videotape or claims responsibility for an attack, Western reporters in Baghdad rarely hear about it firsthand. Nor do they usually get the news from their in-house Iraqi translators.
Ginia Bellafante / New York Times:
In 'The Devil Wears Prada,' It's Not Couture, It's Business (With Accessories) — IN one scene in the new movie "The Devil Wears Prada," the heroine, Andy Sachs, who serves as slave and coat rack for her boss, Miranda Priestly, receives a visit from her concerned Midwestern father.
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Carol Vogel / New York Times:
Lauder Pays $135 Million, a Record, for a Klimt Portrait — A dazzling gold-flecked 1907 portrait by Gustav Klimt has been purchased for the Neue Galerie in Manhattan by the cosmetics magnate Ronald S. Lauder for $135 million, the highest sum ever paid for a painting.
Opinion Journal:
Iraq and Congress — The Murtha withdrawal policy is a counsel of defeat. — American and Iraqi forces are on the offensive once again, deploying around the terrorist stronghold of Ramadi and beginning a drive to bring order to Baghdad. This is welcome news, not least because it underscores …
USA Today:
NBC's chief confident on 'Today,' Brian Williams vs. Couric — E-mail Peter Johnson at pjohnson@usatoday.com — Just two weeks after CBS Evening News-bound Katie Couric said a tearful goodbye to NBC's Today, her old boss now sings the praises of her successor, Meredith Vieira …
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The Heretik
CNN:
CNN RELIABLE SOURCES — Coverage of Rove's Role in Plame Leak Investigation; Interview With Jim Lehrer — THIS IS A RUSH TRANSCRIPT. THIS COPY MAY NOT BE IN ITS FINAL FORM AND MAY BE UPDATED. — HOWARD KURTZ, HOST: Rove's reprieve. After years of media speculation …
Examiner:
Freedom of speech and thought R.I.P. — The Washington DC Examiner Newspaper, The Examiner — WASHINGTON - Robert Smith, Roman Catholic and now-former Metro board member, believes homosexuality is a form of "deviancy." Jim Graham, District of Columbia Council member, believes Smith's beliefs are "ancient and archaic."