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Lebanese Christian politician killed — BEIRUT, Lebanon (AP) — Prominent anti-Syrian Christian politician Pierre Gemayel was assassinated in a suburb of Beirut on Tuesday, his Phalange Party radio station and Lebanon's official news agency reported. — His fatal shooting will certainly heighten …
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Lebanon Daily Star:
Pierre Gemayel's assasination — Prominent Christian politician Pierre Gemayel was assassinated in a suburb of Beirut on Tuesday his death will heighten the political tension in Lebanon, where Hezbollah has threatened to topple the government if it does not get a bigger say in Cabinet decision making.
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Michael Young / Opinion Journal:Murder Update — Don't let Syria get away with killing Rafik Hariri.
worldpublicopinion.org:
Baghdad Shias Believe Killings May Increase Once U.S.-led Forces Depart but Large Majorities Still Support Withdrawal Within a Year — Shias in the Capital—Unlike Those in the Rest of Iraq—Oppose Disarming Militias — Most Shia Arabs living in Baghdad have shifted in recent months …
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Kevin Drum / Political Animal:
IRAQ TO AMERICA: GET OUT.... PIPA has released a new poll of Iraqi attitudes toward the U.S. occupation, and the takeaway is very, very clear: they want us to leave. 74% of Shiites and 91% of Sunnis want us to leave within a year (the number is 80% for Shiites in Baghdad).
Rick Klein / Boston Globe:
Pelosi team tries to steer Democrats to the center — Wary of plans by House liberals — WASHINGTON — Anxious to chart a centrist course with Democrats' new majority in Congress, incoming House Speaker Nancy Pelosi and her top deputies are busily working in private and public to rein …
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Los Angeles Times:
Pelosi-Harman friction strains Democrats' unity — WASHINGTON — When Jane Harman left Congress in 1998 to run for governor of California, her colleague Nancy Pelosi threw her a party — a chocolate-fudge sundae "social" in the House members' dining room. — Two years later …
David S. Cloud / New York Times:
U.S. Considers Raising Troop Levels in Iraq — Pentagon officials conducting a review of Iraq strategy are considering a substantial but temporary increase in American troop levels and the addition of several thousand more trainers to work with Iraqi forces, a senior Defense Department official said Monday.
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Steven Erlanger / New York Times:
Israeli Map Says West Bank Posts Sit on Arab Land — An Israeli advocacy group, using maps and figures leaked from inside the government, says that 39 percent of the land held by Israeli settlements in the occupied West Bank is privately owned by Palestinians.
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Yair Sheleg / Haaretz:Forty percent of settlements built on Arab land, study finds
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Paul Farhi / Washington Post:
'Seinfeld' Comic Richards Apologizes for Racial Rant — Michael Richards, who played the quirky Cosmo Kramer on "Seinfeld," apologized yesterday for using racist language in an angry exchange with an African American man at a comedy club on Friday. — Richards, 57, appeared on …
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Joe Gandelman / The Moderate Voice:Seinfeld's Kramer Ruins Career With Racial Insults (UPDATED)
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New York Times:
Clinton Won Easily, but Bankroll Shows the Toll — She had only token opposition, but Senator Hillary Rodham Clinton still spent more on her re-election — upward of $30 million — than any other candidate for Senate this year. So where did all the money go?
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Spengler / Asia Times:
Jihadis and whores — Wars are won by destroying the enemy's will to fight. A nation is never really beaten until it sells its women. — The French sold their women to the German occupiers in 1940, and the Germans and Japanese sold their women to the Americans after World War II.
Jonathan Weisman / Washington Post:
Democrats Plan Series of Votes on Ethics Reforms — Despite divisions among Democrats over how far to go in revising ethics rules, House leaders plan a major rollout of an ethics reform bill early next year to demonstrate concern about an issue that helped defeat the Republicans in the midterm elections.
KSTP-TV:
Federal investigators questioning six Middle Eastern men removed from flight at MSP — 5 EYEWITNESS NEWS has learned that federal investigators and airport police are questioning six Middle Eastern men who had to be escorted off of a plane Monday afternoon at Minneapolis/St. Paul International.
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Katharine Q. Seelye / New York Times:
Washington Post Reporters to Join Politics Web Site — The Washington Post, which has long prided itself on the depth and breadth of its coverage of national politics, lost two of its top political reporters yesterday to a fledgling multiplatform news organization, albeit one with deep pockets.
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Jennifer Glaudemans / Los Angeles Times:
Has Gates learned his lesson? — Robert Gates' nomination as defense secretary will give him a chance to prove he knows better than to politicize intelligence. — FIFTEEN YEARS AGO, the Senate Select Committee on Intelligence asked me to testify at the confirmation hearings for Robert M. Gates …
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