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11:50 AM ET, August 22, 2006

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Allahpundit / Hot Air:
Breaking: Iran issues formal response to European nuclear offer (Update: "A new formula"?)  (Update: Ready for "serious negotiations")  —  Just across at Fox via Reuters.  They've handed the envelope to UN envoys.  Will it be "GoodFellas"?  Or "Dances with Wolves"?  —  Standby for the exciting conclusion.
Discussion: protein wisdom
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Dafna Linzer / Washington Post:
Iran Rejects Offer For Nuclear Talks
Times of London:   Iran concocts 'new formula' to dissolve nuclear stand-off
Washington Post:
Iran Reportedly Rejects Demands to Halt Nuclear Efforts
Discussion: Gates of Vienna and FP Passport
CBS News:
Ayatollah Vows Iran To Continue Nukes
Discussion: Hot Air
Edmund Blair / Reuters:
Iran hands over nuclear response
Associated Press:
Iran 'fires on Romanian oil rig'  —  BUCHAREST, Romania (AP) — A Romanian oil rig off the coast of Iran came under fire from an Iranian warship and was later occupied by Iranian troops, a company spokesman said.  —  The Iranians first fired into the air and then fired at the Orizont rig, said GSP spokesman Radu Petrescu.
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Bloomberg:
Iran's Navy Attacks and Boards Romanian Rig in Gulf (Update3)  —  Aug. 22 (Bloomberg) — Iran attacked and seized control of a Romanian oil rig working in its Persian Gulf waters this morning one week after the Iranian government accused the European drilling company of ``hijacking'' another rig.
Michelle Malkin:
Missing Fox News crew: Blogburst  —  Fox News Channel reporter Steve Centanni and freelance cameraman Olaf Wiig are still missing.  It has now been more than a week since their kidnapping at gunpoint in Gaza by unknown terrorists.  FNC top management, the journalists' families …
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stuff.co.nz:
Diplomat admits no progress in Wiig's kidnapping
Discussion: Captain's Quarters
USA Today:
Poll: GOP up after terror arrests  —  WASHINGTON — The arrest of terror suspects in London has helped buoy President Bush to his highest approval rating in six months and dampen Democratic congressional prospects to their lowest in a year.  —  In a USA TODAY/Gallup Poll taken Friday through Sunday …
Paul Bedard / US News:
Washington Whispers  —  Don't laugh, but a loaner training kayak in the pool of the House of Representatives gym made the difference in President Bush's House victory for a pork-busting line-item veto.  "That's spot on," says Colorado Rep. Mark Udall, who helped talk 34 other Democrats into backing the measure 247 to 172.
WUSA-TV:
Exclusive Poll Results Show Allen Losing Ground  —  GOP Allen's Once Large Lead Evaporates: In an election for the United States Senate in Virginia today, 8/21/06, incumbent Republican George Allen edges Democrat challenger James Webb 48% to 45%, according to an exclusive SurveyUSA poll conducted for W*USA-TV in Washington, DC.
Josh Gerstein / New York Sun:
Judge Orders Justice Department Investigation of Leak to CBS Report  —  A federal judge has ordered a Justice Department probe into how CBS News obtained a story two years ago disclosing an FBI investigation into a pro-Israel lobbying group, the American Israel Public Affairs Committee.
Arthur C. Brooks / Opinion Journal:
The Fertility Gap  —  Liberal politics will prove fruitless as long as liberals refuse to multiply.  —  The midterm election looms, and once again efforts begin afresh to increase voter participation.  It has become standard wisdom in American politics that voter turnout is synonymous …
Associated Press:
Calendars show Armitage met reporter  —  WASHINGTON - Then-Deputy Secretary of State Richard Armitage met with Washington Post reporter Bob Woodward in mid-June 2003, the same time the reporter has testified an administration official talked to him about CIA employee Valerie Plame.
Examiner:
Who's the senator who wants spending kept secret?  —  The Washington DC Examiner Newspaper, The Examiner  —  WASHINGTON - A Senate staffer — who shall remain nameless here — must have awakened on the wrong side of the bed Monday morning.  Said staffer exploded in response …
Discussion: Outside The Beltway and The Corner
Daily Mail:
Obsessed Bin Laden wanted to kill Whitney Houston's husband  —  Terror mastermind Osama bin Laden is so obsessed with singer Whitney Houston he thought about killing her husband, Bobby Brown, it was claimed last night.  —  The suggestion is made by Sudanese poet and novelist Kola Boof …
Richard Goldstein / New York Times:
Joe Rosenthal, Photographer at Iwo Jima, Dies  —  Joe Rosenthal, the Associated Press photographer who captured the enduring image of the American fighting man in World War II with his depiction of five Marines and a Navy corpsman raising a huge American flag over the Japanese island of Iwo Jima, died Sunday in Novato, Calif. He was 94.
Marc Kaufman / Washington Post:
Scientists Offer Proof of 'Dark Matter'  —  Analysis of Galactic Collision Said to Reveal Mysterious Substance  —  For decades, many scientists have theorized that the universe is made up of nearly undetectable mysterious substances called dark matter and dark energy.
Eugene Robinson / Washington Post:
President on Another Planet  —  For a moment there, I was almost encouraged.  George W. Bush, the most resolutely incurious and inflexible of presidents, was reported last week to have been surprised at seeing Iraqi citizens — who ought to be grateful beneficiaries of the American occupation …
Inside Higher Ed:
Throwing in the Towel  —  The constant calls, the people frightening his children, and the demonstrations in front of his home apparently became a little too much.  —  Dario Ringach, an associate neurobiology professor at the University of California at Los Angeles, decided this month to give …
 
 
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