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Byron Calame / New York Times:
Can 'Magazines' of The Times Subsidize News Coverage? — A PERFUME critic? Yes, The Times now has one. Chandler Burr's Scent Strip column appears in the high-gloss T: The New York Times Style Magazine, where the often-fluffy lifestyle coverage is a world apart from the kind of journalism in the daily sections of the paper.
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Michelle Malkin:
NYTimes editor now admits: We were wrong to blab — Photoshop: Bob D. — Un. Freaking. Believable. The NYTimes ombudsman, Byron Calame, buried a bombshell mea culpa in his column today—reversing his prior defense of the Times' blabbermouth report on a once-secret terrorist banking …
Patterico / Patterico's Pontifications:
Byron Calame Should Resign — Byron Calame, the public editor of the New York Times, admits today that the paper made a mistake when it decided to run the Swift terrorist finance tracking story. (Via Michelle Malkin.) Calame had previously defended the decision in a column that …
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Tom Maguire / JustOneMinute:Times Public Editor - SWIFT Disclosure Was Wrong
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Yvonne Ridley / Washington Post:
How I Came to Love the Veil — I used to look at veiled women as quiet, oppressed creatures — until I was captured by the Taliban. — In September 2001, just 15 days after the terrorist attacks on the United States, I snuck into Afghanistan, clad in a head-to-toe blue burqa …
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Asra Q. Nomani / Washington Post:
Clothes Aren't the Issue — MORGANTOWN, W.Va. When dealing with a "disobedient wife," a Muslim man has a number of options. First, he should remind her of "the importance of following the instructions of the husband in Islam." If that doesn't work, he can "leave the wife's bed."
Beth Gardiner / Associated Press:
British watchdog warns on veil debate — LONDON - The heated debate over veils that cover the faces of some British Muslim women is growing ugly and could trigger riots, the head of Britain's race relations watchdog warned on Sunday. — Britons are becoming increasingly polarized along racial …
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Mark Pazniokas / Hartford Courant:
Lamont Donates $2 Million To Effort — Ned Lamont donated another $2 million to his Senate campaign Saturday - and questioned huge cash expenditures reported by the campaign of Sen. Joseph I. Lieberman. — The latest donation by Lamont, a wealthy businessman, brings his personal investment in the campaign to $12.7 million.
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Tim Tagaris / Ned Lamont for Senate:
Joe Lieberman's Slush Fund [18] — Joe Lieberman's Slush Fund — In the days of Jack Abramoff, Duke Cunningham, Bob Ney, and an entire army of lobbyists peddling legislation in return for campaign compensation ... it's part of the problem in Washington, D.C.
Associated Press:
Sen. Obama says he's weighing 2008 run — WASHINGTON - Sen. Barack Obama acknowledged Sunday he was considering a run for president in 2008, backing off previous statements that he would not do so. — The Illinois Democrat said he could no longer stand by the statements he made after his 2004 election …
Nico / Think Progress:
Bush: 'We've Never Been Stay The Course' — During an interview today on ABC's This Week, President Bush tried to distance himself from what has been his core strategy in Iraq for the last three years. George Stephanopoulos asked about James Baker's plan to develop a strategy for Iraq that is …
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Marie Colvin / Times of London:
US in secret truce talks with insurgency chiefs — AMERICAN officials held secret talks with leaders of the Iraqi insurgency last week after admitting that their two-month clampdown on violence in Baghdad had failed. — Few details of the discussions in the Jordanian capital Amman …
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CNN:
Diplomat: U.S. arrogant, stupid in Iraq … (CNN) — A senior U.S. State Department diplomat told Arab satellite network Al Jazeera that there is a strong possibility history will show the United States displayed "arrogance" and "stupidity" in its handling of the Iraq war.
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Reuters:
Newsweek poll puts Democrats far ahead in Congress —Text+WASHINGTON (Reuters) - More than half of Americans, 55 percent, would like to see Democrats take control of Congress, according to a poll by Newsweek magazine released on Saturday. — The poll of 1,000 likely voters found …
TBlumer / Bizzyblog:
Harold Ford's Disruptive Behavior Is Nothing New (See Update re 'Early Voting') — Current Tennessee Congressman and US Senate candidate Harold Ford Jr. is getting a lot of unwanted attention this week for this (there is video at the site, but I couldn't get it to work; Allah at Hot Air has a vid that definitely will):
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