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San Francisco Chronicle:
Up to 14 hurt in SF hit-and-run spree 7 critical; driver believed to have struck, killed a man in Fremont earlier — (08-29) 15:56 PDT SAN FRANCISCO — As many as 14 people were injured this afternoon by a motorist who drove around San Francisco running them down before he was arrested, authorities said.
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Bookworm Room:
Horror on San Francisco streets — A madman ran amok all over San Francisco today, targeting pedestrians with his car and deliberately running them over: … There is, of course, a substantial likelihood that Popal is just a homicidal maniac of the type that crops up occasionally.
Mercury News:
Relatives: Rampage suspect may have been stressed over wedding — Relatives of a Fremont man connected to Tuesday's deadly driving rampage said he may have been distraught after returning recently from Afghanistan without his newlywed wife who iswaiting for a visa.
Spencer S. Hsu / Washington Post:
First the Flood, Now the Fight — Critics Say FEMA Is Impeding Gulf Coast Rebuilding As Disputes Hold Up Nearly $1 Billion in Relief Funds — Someone had to pay to remove 3,000 dead trees in New Orleans. The trees, insisted the Federal Emergency Management Agency, couldn't have been killed …
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John Schwartz / New York Times:
For Harry Anderson, the New Orleans Magic Is Gone — NEW ORLEANS — In New Orleans these days, even a magician can run out of tricks. — Harry Anderson, the illusionist, comic and former star of sitcoms like "Night Court" and "Dave's World," has lived in New Orleans since 2000 …
Bryan / Hot Air:
The Buses of New Orleans — It was a year ago yesterday …
The Buses of New Orleans — It was a year ago yesterday …
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Neil A. Lewis / New York Times:
First Source of C.I.A. Leak Admits Role, Lawyer Says — Richard L. Armitage, a former deputy secretary of state, has acknowledged that he was the person whose conversation with a columnist in 2003 prompted a long, politically laden criminal investigation in what became known as the C.I.A. leak case …
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Christopher Hitchens / Slate:
Plame Out — THE RIDICULOUS END TO THE SCANDAL THAT DISTRACTED WASHINGTON.
Plame Out — THE RIDICULOUS END TO THE SCANDAL THAT DISTRACTED WASHINGTON.
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The Strata-Sphere, Political Mavens, Flopping Aces, Wizbang, BLACKFIVE, USS Neverdock, Daily Pundit, The Anchoress, Decision '08 and Cold Fury
Ann Scott Tyson / Washington Post:
Rumsfeld Assails Critics of War Policy — Defense Secretary Donald H. Rumsfeld warned yesterday that "moral and intellectual confusion" over the Iraq war and the broader anti-terrorism effort could sap American willpower and divide the country, and he urged renewed resolve to confront extremists waging "a new type of fascism."
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Stephen Labaton / New York Times:
Broadcast Chief Misused Office, Inquiry Reports — State Department investigators have found that the head of the agency overseeing most government broadcasts to foreign countries has used his office to run a "horse racing operation" and that he improperly put a friend on the payroll …
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Romenesko
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David Ignatius / Washington Post:
Ahmadinejad's High-Stakes Game — TEHRAN — Drivers here play a high-risk game of chicken at every intersection. They barge into the frantic stream of traffic and you think there's going to be a crash for sure. But at the last moment someone usually gives way, and a collision is avoided.
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Max Blumenthal / The Nation:
Beyond Macaca: The Photograph That Haunts George Allen — Barnstorming around Virginia in the re-election campaign that Republican Senator George Allen hopes will provide the impetus for his 2008 run for the presidency, he has suddenly been forced on the defensive.
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The Political Pit Bull, Jesus' General, Alabama Liberation Front and skippy the bush kangaroo
Paul J. Gough / Reuters:
CNN sorry for Bush speech gaffe — NEW YORK (Hollywood Reporter) - CNN apologized Tuesday after an open mike transmitted an anchor's bathroom conversation with another woman live over the network as it was carrying President Bush's speech in New Orleans. — "Live From" anchor Kyra Phillips …
Stuart Taylor Jr / Slate:
Witness for the Prosecution? — THE NEW YORK TIMES IS STILL VICTIMIZING INNOCENT DUKIES. — Imagine you are the world's most powerful newspaper and you have invested your credibility in yet another story line that is falling apart, crumbling as inexorably as Jayson Blair's fabrications …
Linda Greenhouse / New York Times:
Women Suddenly Scarce Among Justices' Clerks — Everyone knows that with the retirement of Justice Sandra Day O'Connor, the number of female Supreme Court justices fell by half. The talk of the court this summer, with the arrival of the new crop of law clerks, is that the number of female clerks has fallen even more sharply.
Robin Wright / Washington Post:
Carter Agrees to Hold Talks With Khatami — Ex-President of Iran to Visit U.S. Amid Tensions Over Tehran's Nuclear Program — For an event that would turn a page in American history, former president Jimmy Carter has agreed in principle to host former Iranian president Mohammad Khatami …
Brian / TVNewser:
Katie's Extreme Makeover? — "Talk about a waistline touch-up," an e-mailer says: — The left photo is the official first-pic-of-Katie released by CBS at this year's upfront. (TVNewser posted it in May.) The right photo is an edited version of the same photo, from the September issue of Watch magazine, which is owned by CBS.