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10:35 AM ET, July 6, 2006

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MSNBC:
NBC: N. Korea prepares 2nd missile test  —  The revelations from South Korean media follow Wednesday's confirmation by the United States that it had prepared its missile interceptors to meet a specific threat - North Korea's launch of a long-range missile said to be capable of reaching Alaska.
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Washington Post:
A Driven President Faces a World of Crises
Discussion: The Next Hurrah and AMERICAblog
David E. Sanger / New York Times:   NEWS ANALYSIS  —  Few Good Choices in Standoff
Financial Times:
Split over N Korea missile test response
Associated Press:
S.Korea media: More N. Korea rockets ready
Discussion: Liberty and Justice
Brendan Miniter / Opinion Journal:
Behind the Iron Curtain
Discussion: Dean's World and Fausta's blog
Allahpundit / Hot Air:
Breaking: Decision reached on Yale Taliban; Update: Talibanned  —  Just got an e-mail from Clinton Watson Taylor of the "Nail Yale" blog, which is currently offline while Town Hall works out the bugs.  A reporter from the New York Times called him this afternoon for reaction to the news …
Discussion: Liberty and Justice
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Alan Finder / New York Times:
A Taliban Past, and a Cloudy Yale Future  —  A student at Yale University who was once a roving ambassador for the Taliban regime in Afghanistan has been denied admission to a degree-granting program at Yale, one of the student's financial supporters said yesterday.
Andrew Miga / Associated Press:
Senate Colleagues to Help Lieberman  —  WASHINGTON — Embattled Democratic Sen. Joe Lieberman is getting a little help from his Senate friends as he tries to fend off an anti-Iraq war challenger in an intraparty fight.  —  Sens. Joe Biden of Delaware, Barbara Boxer of California and Ken Salazar …
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Dave Astor / Editor and Publisher:
UPDATE: Coulter's Syndicate Requests Report From Plagiarism Prober — As She Hits Back at 'NY Post'  —  NEW YORK Universal Press Syndicate has requested a copy of a report about Ann Coulter's alleged plagiarism, according to a post on the TPMmuckraker.com blog.
Discussion: The Carpetbagger Report and Gawker
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Henry Allen / Washington Post:
Ken Lay's Last Evasion  —  To Some, CEO Is Cheating Them One More Time  —  Ah, Kenneth Lay of Enron: America hardly knew you before your trial, but learned after your big-hammer jury conviction that you had left countless suckers broke, employees cheated and stockholders betrayed.
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Mark / Mark in Mexico:
Mexico election - liveblogging the District counts  —  The 300 federal election District Committees are reporting their vote package counts.  Remember, they are not counting vote by vote.  The votes from each casilla (poll) are sealed in "paquetes" and may not be opened except in 4 very special cases.
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Alistair Bell / Reuters:
Leftist has surprise lead in Mexico recount drama  —  MEXICO CITY (Reuters) - A leftist anti-poverty campaigner took a slim lead over his conservative rival in a dramatic recount of Mexico's presidential election vote on Wednesday and warned the country's stability was at stake.
Eric M. Weiss / Washington Post:
Consultant Breached FBI's Computers  —  Frustrated by Bureaucracy, Hacker Says Agents Approved and Aided Break-Ins  —  A government consultant, using computer programs easily found on the Internet, managed to crack the FBI's classified computer system and gain the passwords of 38,000 employees …
Ray Robison / Fox News:
Iraq How-to Manual Directed Arab Military Operatives In Afghanistan  —  An Arab regime, possibly Iraq, supplied how-to manuals for Arab operatives working throughout Afghanistan before 9/11, and provided military assistance to the Taliban and Al Qaeda.  —  That's the most likely conclusion drawn …
Discussion: Confederate Yankee
Sheryl Gay Stolberg / New York Times:
A Touchy Topic: Boomer in Chief Hits the Big 6-0  —  WASHINGTON, July 5 — Let us now peek into the psyche of America's most powerful baby boomer, George W. Bush.  —  He is not given to self-analysis — "George is not an overly introspective person," his wife, Laura, once said with dry understatement …
Discussion: Outside The Beltway and Wizbang
Shaila Dewan / New York Times:
Lady Liberty Trades In Some Trappings  —  MEMPHIS, July 4 — On Independence Day, Lady Liberty was born again.  —  As the congregation of the World Overcomers Outreach Ministries Church looked on and its pastor, Apostle Alton R. Williams, presided, a brown shroud much like a burqa was pulled away …
Michelle Malkin:
ONE-WAY TICKET TO VENEZUELA  —  I've done a little browsing on Expedia for Cindy Sheehan, who says she'd rather live under Venezuelan thug Hugo Chavez than in America (transcription below).  (Here's the video via Allah.)  Here are current one-way ticket prices from NYC to Caracas:  —  Fund-raiser, anyone?
Discussion: Scared Monkeys
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Suzanne Goldenberg / Guardian:
Bush told Cheney to discredit diplomat critical of Iraq policy  —  President George Bush directed his vice-president, Dick Cheney, to take personal charge of a campaign to discredit a former ambassador who had accused the administration of twisting prewar intelligence on Iraq, it emerged yesterday.
 
 
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