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12 arrested after Northwest Airlines turned back — Passengers 'looked into plastic bags, passed cell phones' — AMSTERDAM, Netherlands (CNN) — Dutch police said Wednesday that 12 passengers were in custody after a Northwest Airlines flight bound for Mumbai, India, returned to Amsterdam when several people on board aroused concern.
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Associated Press:
Bush: Katrina recovery will take time — WASHINGTON (AP) — President Bush on Wednesday cautioned against placing too much importance on the first anniversary of Hurricane Katrina's Gulf Coast strike, saying it will take a long, sustained effort to rebuild the area.
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Will / Attytood:
"Rockey I": If it sounds too good to be true... The good news is that CNN seems to have finally stop obsessing over John Mark Karr. Instead, they've found a new soap opera to go ga-ga over, Katrina survivor Rockey Vaccarella, who drove his FEMA trailer from his home in ravaged St. Bernard Parish …
Allahpundit / Hot Air:
E&P editor attacks bloggers over Reutersgate (Update: Zombie explodes the ambulance incident) — I was going to make the title, "E&P editor attacks bloggers over Reutersgate, misrepresents pretty much everything," but his article's only the first of two parts.
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Greg Mitchell / Editor and Publisher:
In Defense of War Photographers — With most others in the mainstream media silent, I rise here in support of the overwhelming number of press photographers in the Middle East who bravely, under horrid conditions, in recent weeks have sent back graphic and revealing pictures from the war zones …
Michael Noer / Forbes:
Don't Marry Career Women — Guys: A word of advice. Marry pretty women or ugly ones. Short ones or tall ones. Blondes or brunettes. Just, whatever you do, don't marry a woman with a career. — Why? Because if many social scientists are to be believed, you run a higher risk of having a rocky marriage.
Richard Cowan / Reuters:
Congress report faults U.S. intelligence on Iran — WASHINGTON (Reuters) - The U.S. intelligence community is ill-prepared to assess Iran's nuclear weapons capabilities and its intentions for developing weapons of mass destruction, a congressional report said on Wednesday.
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Jerusalem Post:
Report: Iran planning nuclear 'surprise' — A senior official in Teheran said Wednesday that in the next few days, a "surprise" was expected regarding Iran's nuclear program, Al-Jazeera reported. — Teheran's apparent refusal to suspend uranium enrichment set the stage for a showdown at the UN Security Council later this month.
Allahpundit / Hot Air:
Breaking: Group claims responsibility for Centanni abduction (Video added) (Update: An Al Qaeda connection?) — The "Holy Jihad Brigades"? Whose very first act of holy jihad is to kidnap a reporter and a cameraman? — That's a shrewd way to get press, but at the rather large expense …
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Jules Crittenden / Boston Herald:
Asking for it: why terrorism vs. Fox TV is not news — It's been over a week since Fox TV newsmen Steve Centanni and Olaf Wiig were abducted in Gaza. Until today's terrorist video by the Holy Jihad Brigade, showing them both alive and demanding the release of Muslim prisoners in America …
Associated Press:
Alaska Gov. Murkowski Concedes Defeat in GOP Gubernatorial Primary — ANCHORAGE, Alaska — Republican Gov. Frank Murkowski, whose perceived missteps over the past four years have turned him into one of the most unpopular governors in state history, soundly lost his bid for re-election …
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Anchorage Daily News:
Knowles, Palin in November — Former Wasilla mayor Sarah Palin knocked embattled incumbent Gov. Frank Murkowski out of office in the Republican primary race for governor Tuesday, setting the stage for a general election showdown with former two-term Democratic Gov. Tony Knowles and for a potential shake-up in her own party.
WWB / Blog P.I.:
L'Affaire GoldFrisch III: We All Knew This Was Coming — This post was co-written with Tim Dreier of The One-Handed Economist; both of us are graduates of the University of Oregon in Eugene, where Deb Frisch now lives. As a matter of full disclosure, we've had a few scrapes with Frisch of our own …
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spazeboy:
UAW Members Endorse Ned Lamont — Today, the UAW endorsed the Democratic Nominee for U.S. Senate, Ned Lamont, at a noon-hour press conference at their Region 9A headquarters in Farmington. Before the August 8 Primary, members had met with both Joe Lieberman and Ned Lamont and concluded …
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Jim VandeHei / Washington Post:
Comments Haunt Another Senator — In a moment of unusual candor for a veteran senator fighting for his political life, Conrad Burns (R-Mont.) offered this blunt self-assessment a few months ago: "I can self-destruct in one sentence," he told supporters. "Sometimes in one word."
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Inside Higher Ed:
What Your Freshmen Don't Know — Beloit College has released its latest "Mindset List," to help academics understand what freshmen know — and what they don't have a clue about. This list has been prepared each August since 1998 and past lists are available online. — Here is this year's list, for the Class of 2010:
Jennifer Medina / New York Times:
Lieberman Warns of Danger of the U.S. Pulling Out of Iraq — Suggesting that he sees parallels between the war in Iraq and the early struggle against fascism, Senator Joseph I. Lieberman said on Tuesday that the United States would create a dangerous world if it left Iraq too soon.
Simon Caldwell / Daily Mail:
Pope sacks astronomer over evolution debate — Pope Benedict XVI has sacked his chief astronomer after a series of public clashes over the theory of evolution. — He has removed Father George Coyne from his position as director of the Vatican Observatory after the American Jesuit priest …
Richard A. Posner / Wall Street Journal:
The Constitution vs. Counterterrorism — Last week a federal district judge in Detroit ruled that the National Security Agency's conduct of electronic surveillance outside the boundaries of the Foreign Intelligence Surveillance Act is illegal. As a judge I cannot comment on the correctness of her decision.
Eric Lichtblau / New York Times:
Conflict of Interest Is Raised in N.S.A. Ruling — The federal judge who ruled last week that President Bush's eavesdropping program was unconstitutional is a trustee and an officer of a group that has given at least $125,000 to the American Civil Liberties Union in Michigan, a watchdog group said Tuesday.
Norman Podhoretz / Opinion Journal:
Is the Bush Doctrine Dead? — The president's critics are wrong. That includes the neocons. — In recent months, we have been bombarded with reports of the death of the Bush Doctrine. Of course, there have been many such reports since the doctrine was first promulgated at the start …
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