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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 …
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Fess Up, Mr. Armitage — Time to put the Plame conspiracy to its final rest. — From its very start, the ballyhooed case of who leaked the name of CIA analyst Valerie Plame to columnist Robert Novak has been drenched in partisan politics and media hypocrisy.
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Did Special Prosecutor Fitzgerald Lie? — Plamegate: Patrick Fitzgerald's three-year manhunt to track down who blew Valerie Plame's CIA "cover" has been exposed as a costly sham. He apparently knew all along that his man was not Scooter Libby. — When Fitzgerald, U.S. Attorney …
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The Tragedy of New Orleans — Katrina spending is five times larger than past disasters. — "New Orleans has suffered from the trauma of three crises," says Louisiana Congressman Bobby Jindal. "First was the hurricane, second was the levees breaking and third has been the widespread incompetence …
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Spencer S. Hsu / Washington Post:
First the Flood, Now the Fight
First the Flood, Now the Fight
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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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Associated Press:
CBS magazine slims down Couric in photo — NEW YORK - No, Katie Couric didn't suddenly lose 20 pounds. The incoming "CBS Evening News" anchor appears significantly thinner in a network promotional magazine photo thanks to digital airbrushing. — The touched-up photo of Couric dressed …
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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.
Dafna Linzer / Washington Post:
Iran Enriching More Uranium — U.S. Officials View the Act as Defiant As Deadline to Suspend Program Nears — Iranian nuclear specialists have begun enriching a new batch of uranium in an apparent act of defiance just days ahead of a U.N. Security Council deadline for Tehran to stop …
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Mark Tapscott / Tapscott's Copy Desk:
FEC Officially Votes to Silence Political Speech for Last Two Months of 06 Campaign — With a 3-3 vote featuring Democrat commissioners supporting the silencing of political speech against congressional incumbents and Republican commissioners in favoring of allowing it …
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Barney Frank / Boston Globe:
Afghanistan ignored — A WAR is missing. Sadly, it is not missing from the physical location in which it is taking place, and people continue to die as it is waged. But it has largely disappeared from our national debate, and that debate has been sorely distorted as a consequence.
Rick Lyman / New York Times:
Census Reports Slight Increase in '05 Incomes — The nation's median household income rose slightly faster than inflation last year for the first time in six years, the Census Bureau reported yesterday. — The rise, however, had little to do with bigger paychecks — in fact, both men and women earned less in 2005 than 2004.
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Kyl continues lead over Pederson; — Governor Napolitano is heavy favorite against Republican challengers; — Arizonans support initiative measures that "crack down" on illegal immigration; — Initiative to ban same-sex marriages lacks support — TEMPE, Ariz. - With only two months …
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For Congress in Maryland — Our choices: two worthy incumbents and one fresh face — REP. ALBERT R. WYNN has represented Maryland's 4th Congressional District since 1993, and in that time he has never faced a serious challenger. This year, in Donna Edwards , he does.
Justin Rood / TPMmuckraker:
Coburn: Stevens Blocked My Bill — Twelve days ago, at a town meeting in Sallisaw, Oklahoma, Sen. Tom Coburn (R-OK) accused Sen. Ted Stevens (R-AK) of obstructing his porkbuster-database bill with an anonymous hold. — That's according to an Aug. 18 article in the Fort Smith (Ark.) Times Record:
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Alex Beam / Boston Globe:
MIT's inconvenient scientist — Speech codes are rare in the industrialized, Western democracies. In Germany and Austria, for instance, it is forbidden to proselytize Nazi ideology or trivialize the Holocaust. Given those countries' recent histories, that is a restraint on free expression we can live with.
Mark Pazniokas / Hartford Courant:
Lieberman Ad Focuses On The `Good Stuff' — Sen. Joseph I. Lieberman's new media team wants voters to go to their happy place - and think about all that their client has done for them in 18 years in the Senate. — In a commercial that debuted Tuesday, the team Lieberman hired after losing …
R.G. Ratcliffe / Houston Chronicle:
Perry sets Nov. 7 as election day for DeLay's seat — AUSTIN — Gov. Rick Perry today officially set the special election to fill the unexpired term of U.S. Rep. Tom DeLay to coincide with the general election on Nov. 7. — Candidates wishing to run in the special election must file …
Bruce Kluger / USA Today:
Lieberman, 'Snakes' and the seductive mythology of the blogosphere — If ever America needed a wake-up call about the mythology of blogging, we got it this month. — On Aug. 8, Connecticut businessman Ned Lamont defeated U.S. Sen. Joe Lieberman in the Democratic primary …
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Venezuela to seize golf courses — The mayor of Venezuela's capital Caracas says he plans to expropriate two exclusive golf courses and use the land for homes for the city's poor. — Mayor Juan Barreto has said playing golf on lavish courses within sight of the city's slums is "shameful".
John D. McKinnon / Wall Street Journal:
Bush Speeches to Stress Stakes in Iraq — Bid to Boost War Support Will Emphasize — Adapting to Conflict, Not Gains on Ground — President Bush will launch another major public-relations offensive to strengthen support for the Iraq war — this time likely emphasizing the high stakes …
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Donald Rumsfeld / Real Clear Politics:
Facing the Central Questions of Our Time — (Note: Remarks as prepared for delivery by Secretary of Defense Donald H. Rumsfeld before the American Legion National Convention yesterday in Salt Lake City, Utah.) — Tom [American Legion Commander Tom Bock], I understand that your son is flying …
Rainer Buergin / Bloomberg:
Germans Leave in Record Numbers, Fleeing Unemployment (Update2) — Aug. 29 (Bloomberg) — Thomas Koerber, an engineering technician from Viernheim, Germany, was looking for a new job. He found it — 4,700 miles away, in Canada. — ``I looked around, found a job I liked in Canada …
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