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7:00 AM ET, August 31, 2006

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Bradley Burston / Haaretz:
Nasrallah for Prime Minister - of Israel

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Bryan / Hot Air:
UN: Israel's Lebanon strategy "immoral"

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Rachael Ray / KIRO-TV:

National Guardsman Brutally Attacked In Pierce County — PARKLAND, Wash. — The Pierce County Sheriff's Department is searching for five people who allegedly attacked a uniformed National Guardsmen walking along 138th Street in Parkland Tuesday afternoon. — The soldier was walking …

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Washington Post:

Bush Team Casts Foes as Defeatist — President Bush and his surrogates are launching a new campaign intended to rebuild support for the war in Iraq by accusing the opposition of aiming to appease terrorists and cut off funding for troops on the battlefield, charges that many Democrats say distort their stated positions.

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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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Jeff Jacoby / Boston Globe:

Sacrificing truth on the altar of diversity — YOU'RE A publisher of children's textbooks, and you have a problem. Your diversity guidelines — quotas in all but name — require you to include pictures of disabled children in your elementary and high school texts, but it isn't easy …

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Jennifer Loven / Associated Press:

Taxpayers pay for Bush's campaign travel — WASHINGTON - Bankrolled almost entirely by taxpayers, President Bush is roaming far and wide on Air Force One to help Republicans retain control of Congress and capture statehouse contests in high-stakes midterm elections.

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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 …

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David Lat / Abovethelaw.com:

Letter from the Editor: Welcome to Above the Law — Back when we practiced law, and we'd tell people what we did for a living, they'd have different reactions. Sometimes they'd say "Oh, really?", in an impressed, you-must-make-six-figures sort of way. But sometimes their eyes would glaze over …

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."

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Lindsay Murdoch / The Age:

UN acts to stamp out sex abuse by staff in East Timor — FOR years the United Nations attempted to cover up perverted and outrageous behaviour by uniformed and civilian personnel who have served in East Timor since 1999. — But as a new wave of more than 2000 UN-employed police and staff prepare …

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