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David Brown / Washington Post:
Study Claims Iraq's 'Excess' Death Toll Has Reached 655,000 — A team of American and Iraqi epidemiologists estimates that 655,000 more people have died in Iraq since coalition forces arrived in March 2003 than would have died if the invasion had not occurred.
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New York Times:
Iraqi Dead May Total 600,000, Study Says — A boy at his father's coffin in Baghdad yesterday. Death rates were higher outside the capital, the study said. — A team of American and Iraqi public health researchers has estimated that 600,000 civilians have died in violence across Iraq since …
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Malcolm Ritter / Associated Press:
Study: 655,000 Iraqis die because of war — NEW YORK - A controversial new study contends nearly 655,000 Iraqis have died because of the war, suggesting a far higher death toll than other estimates. — The timing of the survey's release, just a few weeks before the U.S. congressional elections, led one expert to call it "politics."
Neil King Jr / Wall Street Journal:
Iraqi Death Toll Exceeds 600,000, Study Estimates — WASHINGTON — A new study asserts that roughly 600,000 Iraqis have died from violence since the U.S.-led invasion in March 2003, a figure many times higher than any previous estimate. — The study, to be published Saturday …
Kevin Drum / Political Animal:THE DEATH RATE IN IRAQ....A team at Johns Hopkins has done another study …
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Decision '08
Captain Ed / Captain's Quarters:
Guest Post: Senator John McCain On North Korea — Please welcome Senator John McCain as a guest poster at Captain's Quarters. He delivers a tough, no-nonsense reponse to the latest provocation from North Korea. — Time for Decisive Action on North Korea — Korea doubts the world's resolve.
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New York Times:Rice Asserts U.S. Plans No Attack on North Korea
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Times of London:Wary neighbours shy away from punishing nuclear North Korea
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Washington Post:China Says It Will Back Sanctions On N. Korea
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Jonathan Weisman / Washington Post:
History of Foley Messages' Release Clarified by Players — 2 Sources Explain Motives, Citing Concern for Hill's Pages — Two of the news media's sources of Mark Foley's sexually explicit instant messages to former House pages said this week that they came forward to expose …
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AJStrata / The Strata-Sphere:
Washington Post Acknowledges Democrats Role In Foleygate — Welcome: Welcome Hugh Hewitt and Townhall readers. For those interested in this subject I have compiled a Timeline of Events that has been developed from many bloggers following this story. All my posts on Foleygate can be found here.
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The Jawa Report
New York Times:
Across Europe, Worries on Islam Spread to Center — Europe appears to be crossing an invisible line regarding its Muslim minorities: more people in the political mainstream are arguing that Islam cannot be reconciled with European values. — "You saw what happened with the pope," …
Rasmussen Reports:
Rhode Island Governor: Carcieri Up Three — Carcieri (R) 47% Fogarty (D) 44% — Incumbent Donald Carcieri's (R) lead has been extended by a single point in Rhode Island's gubernatorial race. The latest Rasmussen Reports election survey shows Carcieri leading Lt. Governor Charles Fogarty (D) 47% to 44% (see crosstabs).
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Margaret Webb Pressler / Washington Post:
Researchers See a Downside as Keyboards Replace Pens in Schools — Researchers See a Downside as Keyboards Replace Pens in Schools — The computer keyboard helped kill shorthand, and now it's threatening to finish off longhand. — When handwritten essays were introduced on the SAT exams …
John Pomfret / Washington Post:
Fence Meets Wall of Skepticism — Critics Doubt a 700-Mile Barrier Would Stem Migrant Tide — CALEXICO, Calif. — Legislation passed by Congress mandating the fencing of 700 miles of the U.S. border with Mexico has sparked opposition from an array of land managers, businesspeople …
Mark Pazniokas / Hartford Courant:
Poll: Lieberman Leads Lamont — Sen. Joseph I. Lieberman leads Ned Lamont by eight percentage points in the Senate race, although a majority of voters agree with Lamont on the war in Iraq and the need for change in Washington, a Courant/University of Connecticut poll says.
Glenn Harlan Reynolds / TCS Daily:
Beam Me Up, Osama — Last week I looked at a potential technological revolution in jet travel. I still hope that happens, but I was struck by a news item this week that promises even faster transportation via teleportation. That's been done with individual atoms before, but now things are looking up:
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Natalie Solent
Dan Eggen / Washington Post:
FBI Agents Still Lacking Arabic Skills — Five years after Arab terrorists attacked the United States, only 33 FBI agents have even a limited proficiency in Arabic, and none of them work in the sections of the bureau that coordinate investigations of international terrorism, according to new FBI statistics.
USA Today:
Jury awards $11.3M over defamatory Internet posts — A Florida woman has been awarded $11.3 million in a defamation lawsuit against a Louisiana woman who posted messages on the Internet accusing her of being a "crook," a "con artist" and a "fraud." — Legal analysts say the Sept. 19 award …
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