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1:00 PM ET, August 22, 2006

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Ali Akbar Dareini / Associated Press:
Iran ready for 'serious' nuclear talks  —  TEHRAN, Iran - Iran's top nuclear negotiator said Tuesday that Tehran was ready to enter "serious negotiations" over its disputed nuclear program but did not say whether it was willing to suspend uranium enrichment — the West's key demand.
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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.
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.
Edmund Blair / Reuters:
Iran hands over nuclear response
Dafna Linzer / Washington Post:
Iran Rejects Offer For Nuclear Talks
Allahpundit / Hot Air:
Breaking: Iran issues formal response to European nuclear offer …
Robin Wright / Washington Post:
Former President of Iran Invited to Speak in D.C.
Discussion: Vital Perspective
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
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
Chris Bowers / mydd.com:
CT-Sen: New Rasmussen Poll Shows Closer Race  —  I became a subscriber to Rasmussen reports yesterday in order to increase the amount of information I have available to make Senate and Governor forecasts.  They may be a Republican firm, but I am already finding the information worth it.
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Associated Press:
Connecticut Groups Push to Remove Lieberman From Ballot  —  Critics of Sen. Joseph I. Lieberman's independent run to keep his job attacked on two fronts Monday, with one group asking an elections official to throw him out of the Democratic Party and a former rival calling on state officials to keep his name off the November ballot.
Paul Bass / New Haven Independent:
City Asked To Un-"Democrat" Lieberman
Discussion: Firedoglake and Sirotablog
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.
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 …
Christy Hardin Smith / Firedoglake:
A Case for Accountability  —  (White House photo by David Bohrer, under the header "President Bush, Secretary Rumsfeld Discuss Progress in Iraq," from August 2003.)  —  That was then: … This is now: … What we have here, ladies and gentlemen, is a President who has had to face …
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 …
Jay Mathews / Washington Post:
Too Few Overachievers  —  Academically Stressed Students Aren't the Country's Norm  —  Be careful when you visit Walt Whitman High School in Bethesda.  It is full of unhappy, overworked teenagers.  Julie went into a tailspin when her private admissions advisertold her she had no chance of getting into Stanford.
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 …
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
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 …
Bill Clinton / New York Times:
How We Ended Welfare, Together  —  TEN years ago today I signed the Personal Responsibility and Work Opportunity Reconciliation Act.  By then I had long been committed to welfare reform.  As a governor, I oversaw a workfare experiment in Arkansas in 1980 and represented the National Governors Association …
Discussion: BrothersJudd Blog
 
 
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Ezra Klein / Los Angeles Times:
The Job Sen. Clinton Should Want  —  Skip the presidential rat race …
Aluf Benn / Haaretz:
UN envoy to Livni: IDF raid near Baalbek violated cease-fire
Tim Butcher / Telegraph:
Israeli soldiers attack 'dithering' leadership
Richard Goldstein / New York Times:
Joe Rosenthal, Photographer at Iwo Jima, Dies
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Hezbollah Sinks Australian Ship (Fauxtography)
Julian Glover / Guardian:
Tories open nine-point lead as Labour drops to 19-year low
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Cornelia Dean / New York Times:
A Man, a Plan, a Dam. Then, an F.B.I. Call.
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Eric Lipton / New York Times:
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Alan Cowell / New York Times:
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Josh Gerstein / New York Sun:
Judge Orders Justice Department Investigation of Leak to CBS Report
Marc Kaufman / Washington Post:
Scientists Offer Proof of 'Dark Matter'
Mike Collett-White / Reuters:
Smoking cuts for classic cartoons after UK complaint
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Richard Willing / USA Today:
1 in 8 murderers halted their appeals to speed execution
Discussion: Althouse and TalkLeft
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