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11:45 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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David E. Sanger / New York Times:
NEWS ANALYSIS  —  Few Good Choices in Standoff  —  The Bush administration has tried to ignore North Korea, then, reluctantly, to engage it, and then to squeeze its bankers in a manner intended to make the country's leader, Kim Jong Il, personally feel the pinch.  —  Yet none of these steps in the past six years has worked.
Examiner:
Where are 'Star Wars' critics now?  —  The Washington DC Examiner Newspaper, The Examiner  —  WASHINGTON - North Korea's threatening spate of missile launches — including an unsuccessful try with an advanced version of its Taepodong 2 Inter-Continental Ballistic Missile that is capable …
Washington Post:
A Driven President Faces a World of Crises  —  From deteriorating security in Afghanistan and Somalia to mayhem in the Middle East, confrontation with Iran and eroding relations with Russia, the White House suddenly sees crisis in every direction.  —  North Korea's long-range missile test Tuesday …
Brendan Miniter / Opinion Journal:
Behind the Iron Curtain
Discussion: TigerHawk and Dean's World
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 …
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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.
Patrick Healy / New York Times:
N.Y. Court Says Lawmakers Should Consider Gay Marriage  —  The New York Court of Appeals ruled this morning that the state Constitution does not guarantee a right to marriage for same-sex couples, and that state lawmakers, not the courts, are better suited to consider the issue.
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Newsday:
NY court rules against gay marriage
Manuel Roig-Franzia / Washington Post:
Mexican See-Saw Tips Towards Calderón  —  Trailing by 100th of a Percent, Obrador Stirs Fears of Violence  —  MEXICO CITY, July 5 — It took all night, but Felipe Calderón is back on top in Mexico's see-saw of a presidential race.  —  Calderón, a free-trade booster …
Discussion: Majikthise and Blue Crab Boulevard
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Justin Rood / TPMmuckraker:
Plagiarism Expert: "If I Never Read Coulter Again, It Will Be Too Soon"
Discussion: The Rude Pundit
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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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 …
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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Brian Lockhart / Hartford Courant:
Farrell Vows To Support Winner Of Primary
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 and Iowa Voice
Michael M. Grynbaum / Boston Globe:
Bloggers battle old-school media for political clout  —  Online journals gaining greater influence, scrutiny  —  WASHINGTON — When a writer for The New Republic, the 92-year-old doyen of elite Washington opinion journals, accused the nation's most prominent political blogger of using …
Discussion: Blue Crab Boulevard and Eschaton
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: Wizbang and Outside The Beltway
Editor and Publisher:
'Stars and Stripes' Lands Exclusive, and Revealing, Bush Interview  —  NEW YORK When Stars and Stripes nabbed anexclusive interview with President Bush on July 4 — aboard Air Force One — it devoted most of the questions to ones submitted by service members.
Discussion: MyDD, Blue Crab Boulevard and Truthdig
 
 
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