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Associated Press:
Israeli air force continue Lebanon strikes — JERUSALEM - The Israeli air force carried out strikes Monday in southern Lebanon despite an agreement to halt raids for 48 hours after nearly 60 Lebanese civilians were killed in an Israeli bombing, the army said.
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Guardian:
As the shells fall around them, Hizbullah men await the Israelis — Ghaith Abdul-Ahad, south of Tyre — Inside a well-furnished apartment in a village on the outskirts of Tyre, with shelves of books piled from floor to ceiling, a black turbaned cleric and three men sit sipping bitter coffee.
Peter Baker / Washington Post:
Crisis Could Undercut Bush's Long-Term Goals — The Israeli bombs that slammed into the Lebanese village of Qana yesterday did more than kill three dozen children and a score of adults. They struck at the core of U.S. foreign policy in the region and illustrated in heart-breaking images …
Richard / EU Referendum:
Milking it? — Certainly, the photographs are distressing, and indeed they are meant to be. As this piece tells us: … But the photographers, it seems, are not too fussy about how they go about "adding to the shock value". These two sequences illustrate the extent to which photographers …
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Michael J. Totten:
Hezbollah's Coup d'État — The fog of war makes it impossible for me or anyone else to determine whether or not Israel's war against Hezbollah is succeeding of failing militarily. But it's painfully obvious that Israel's attempt to influence Lebanese politics in its favor is an absolute catastrophe right now.
Neil MacFarquhar / New York Times:
Child Victims Incite Anger in Lebanon and Beyond — The images of the dead children in southern Lebanon played across the television screens on Sunday over and over again — small and caked in dirt and as lifeless as rag dolls as rescuers hauled them from the wreckage of several residential …
Associated Press:
U.S.: Israel OKs 48-Hour Air Activity Halt — JERUSALEM (AP) - Israel agreed Sunday to halt air attacks on south Lebanon for 48 hours in the face of widespread outrage over an airstrike that killed at least 56 Lebanese, mostly women and children, when it leveled a building where they had taken shelter.
Helene Cooper / New York Times:
From Carnage in Lebanon, a Concession
From Carnage in Lebanon, a Concession
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Katherine Shrader / Associated Press:
Rice to Seek Mideast Cease-Fire Through UN
Rice to Seek Mideast Cease-Fire Through UN
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Shmuel Rosner / Haaretz:
ANALYSIS: The moment of truth for the Bush administration
ANALYSIS: The moment of truth for the Bush administration
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Guardian:
'They found them huddled together' — More than 60 people, including 34 children, killed by Israeli attack on home where families were sheltering — Ghaith Abdul-Ahad, Jonathan Steele and Clancy Chassay in Qana; Rory McCarthy at the Israel-Lebanon border; Wendell Steavenson in Beirut and Julian Borger in Washington
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Jonathan Alter / Newsweek:
'The Putting of First Things First' — The revival of the romance of the antiwar left is a potential disaster for the Democrats. It's what gave the world Richard Nixon in 1968. — To the consternation of my children, I once spent an afternoon with Monica Lewinsky.
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Craig Howie / Scotsman:
Jewish groups call for hate-crime probe on Mel Gibson — JEWISH groups have demanded Mel Gibson be investigated for hate crimes after the Hollywood star allegedly made anti-Semitic comments to US police officers when he was stopped on suspicion of drink-driving and speeding.
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David Abel / Boston Globe:
Romney apologizes for use of expression — To some, `tar baby' is racial pejorative — Governor Mitt Romney yesterday apologized for using the expression ``tar baby" — a phrase some consider a racial epithet — among comments he made at a political gathering in Iowa over the weekend.
New York Times:
Men Not Working, and Not Wanting Just Any Job — ROCK FALLS, Ill. — Alan Beggerow has stopped looking for work. Laid off as a steelworker at 48, he taught math for a while at a community college. But when that ended, he could not find a job that, in his view, was neither demeaning nor underpaid.
Mark Pazniokas / Hartford Courant:
Slips Imperil Senate Career — As Sen. Joseph I. Lieberman flew home from Iraq last November, his wife urged him to sleep. But an energized Lieberman worked his Blackberry, typing an account of the progress he saw in Iraq. — His upbeat article would be published in the Wall Street Journal under …
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Pew Research Center:
Online Papers Modestly Boost Newspaper Readership — Maturing Internet News Audience Broader Than Deep — Overview — A decade ago, just one-in-fifty Americans got the news with some regularity from what was then a brand new source the internet. Today, nearly one-in-three regularly get news online.
Paul Farhi / Washington Post:
It Pays to Be a Print Journalist — in Films — In "Scoop," Woody Allen's latest film, Scarlett Johansson plays a cub newspaper reporter who teams with a bumbling magician (Allen) and the ghost of a dead journalist (Ian McShane) to catch a serial murderer. — Although we can't vouch …
Damien Cave / New York Times:
As a Tactic, Starving Is Found Wanting — SADDAM HUSSEIN ended his 19-day hunger strike last Wednesday with a meal of beef, rice and Coca-Cola, but he had little to show for his starvation. Iraqis in particular, living day-to-day with brutal sectarian violence, viewed Mr. Hussein's self-sacrifice as an insult.