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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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Don Kaplan / New York Post:
WEIGHING ANCHOR — CBS PHOTO TRICKERY TAKES A LOAD OFF — 'SLIMMER' COURIC
WEIGHING ANCHOR — CBS PHOTO TRICKERY TAKES A LOAD OFF — 'SLIMMER' COURIC
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Brian / TVNewser:
Katie's Extreme Makeover?
Katie's Extreme Makeover?
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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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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.
Opinion Journal:
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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Investor's Business Daily:
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 …
Paul Farhi / Washington Post:
Tomlinson Cited For Abuses at Broadcast Board — CPB Ex-Chief Put Friend On Payroll, State Dept. Says — A year-long State Department investigation has found that the chairman of the agency that oversees Voice of America and other government broadcasting operations improperly used his office …
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Stephen Labaton / New York Times:
Broadcast Chief Misused Office, Inquiry Reports
Broadcast Chief Misused Office, Inquiry Reports
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Brian Williams / MSNBC:
President Bush talks to Brian Williams — An exclusive conversation on the one-year anniversary of Katrina landfall … BRIAN WILLIAMS: You have apologized for the damage, but what about the damage to your presidency? And Mr. President, here's what I mean, most call it your low point.
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Scarce / My Left Nutmeg:
The Lieberman Effect — Foxnews asks "Will Connecticut senator's independent run help embattled GOP candidates?" — Joe's response? "Well, they should have thought of that before they had the primary." — Utter gall.
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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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Rebecca Carr / Palm Beach Post:
STEVENS IS SMOKED OUT — After much speculation, a staffer to Sen. Ted Stevens, R-Alaska, admitted to Cox Newspapers today that the senator is the lawmaker who placed a "secret hold" on legislation that would open up the obscure world of government contracting to public scrutiny.
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.
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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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 …
kaet.asu.edu:
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 …
Washington Post:
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.
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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 …
USA Today:
Gasoline prices could keep falling — Gasoline prices are falling fast and could keep dropping for months. — "The only place they have to go is down," says Fred Rozell, gasoline analyst at the Oil Price Information Service (OPIS). "We'll be closer to $2 than $3 come Thanksgiving."
Fox News:
Kidnapped Journalists Recall Chilling Abduction — Two kidnapped FOX News journalists freed by gunmen last Sunday described in chilling detail how their abductors calmly discussed killing one of them. — "Unfortunately for you, you were with an American," camerman Olaf Wiig said his captors told him.
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.
Ynetnews:
Journalists blame Israel for war coverage — International journalists discuss Lebanon war coverage; NYT bureau chief: Israel 'not interested in Lebanese deaths' — Yaakov Lappin — A number of journalists claimed during a convention in Jerusalem Monday evening that Israel and the IDF …
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 …
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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Mark Steyn / macleans.ca:
Call me crazy. I blame terrorists. — Who is A. K. Dewdney? He's an adjunct professor of biology at the University of Western Ontario, and he has pieced together the truth about what happened on 9/11. You may be familiar with the official version: "To account for the events of Sept. 11 …