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Nancy Trejos / Washington Post:
U.S. Report Rejected By Iraqi President — Iraqi President Jalal Talabani on Sunday strongly rejected a bipartisan U.S. panel's report on U.S. war strategy in Iraq, calling some of its recommendations "dangerous" and a threat to his country's sovereignty. — "The report does not respect …
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Kirk Semple / New York Times:
Iraqi President Denounces U.S. Strategy on Security — President Jalal Talabani said Sunday that the American program to train Iraq's security forces had been a repeated failure and he denounced a plan to increase the number of American advisers working with the Iraqi Army, saying it would subvert the country's sovereignty.
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Christine Hauser / New York Times:Rumsfeld, in Iraq, Bids Farewell to U.S. Troops
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Washington Post:An Unlikely Offensive — THE IRAQ Study Group's recommendations …
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Katherine Kersten / Minneapolis Star Tribune:
Suspicion about imams grows as terror links pile up — The grounded imams incident at the Minneapolis-St. Paul International Airport has been a public relations coup for the imams, their supporters and their claims that the group's only suspicious activity was saying evening prayers.
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Adam Nagourney / New York Times:
Obama Offers Flavor of Potential Campaign — Senator Barack Obama came to New Hampshire for the first time in his life on Sunday, selling a message of hope while proclaiming himself wary of the wave of hype that surrounded his visit. — His visit gave Democrats in two sold-out halls …
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Jonathan Alter / Newsweek:
2008: The Contenders—The Shadow-Boxing Begins — Here come the heavyweights. Sources inside the Hillary Clinton camp who insist on anonymity for fear of being frozen out say it is "99 percent certain" she will get into the presidential race early next year.
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John Dickerson / Slate:Barack Star — FOLLOWING OBAMA THROUGH NEW HAMPSHIRE
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Washington Post:
Ex-Dictator Of Chile Dies at 91 — Gen. Augusto Pinochet, 91, the former Chilean dictator whose government murdered and tortured thousands during his repressive 17-year rule, died yesterday at a Santiago military hospital of complications from a heart attack, leaving incomplete numerous court cases …
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Associated Press:
Talks under way to replace Iraq PM — BAGHDAD, Iraq - Major partners in Iraq's governing coalition are in behind-the-scenes talks to oust Prime Minister Nouri al-Maliki amid discontent over his failure to quell raging violence, according to lawmakers involved.
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Geoffrey Lean / Independent:
Cow 'emissions' more damaging to planet than CO2 from cars — Meet the world's top destroyer of the environment. It is not the car, or the plane,or even George Bush: it is the cow. — A United Nations report has identified the world's rapidly growing herds of cattle as the greatest threat to the climate, forests and wildlife.
Ynetnews:
Lebanon deal in works after mass Beirut rally — Arab League envoy due in Beirut Monday after announcing he received positive response from Hizbullah-led pro-Syrian opposition to proposals aimed at ending political crisis which paralyzed government and raised fears of return to civil strife
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Associated Press:
Arab states study shared nuclear program — RIYADH, Saudi Arabia - The oil-rich Arab states on the Persian Gulf said Sunday that they will consider starting a joint nuclear program for peaceful purposes. — The announcement comes as the U.S. and its allies allege Iran is developing atomic weapons …
Times of London:
Holocaust deniers ban dissenting voice — An outspoken Palestinian lawyer was hoping to challenge Holocaust deniers during a provocative conference that opens in Iran today. The international gathering will question whether six million Jews were actually slaughtered by the Nazis in the Second World War.
Lawrence Solum / Legal Theory Blog:
Legal Theory Lexicon: The Rule of Law — Introduction This installment of the Legal Theory Lexicon provides a very short introduction to the idea of "the rule of law," aimed as usual at law students (especially first year law students) with an interest in legal theory. — What is the Rule of Law?
Jessica Heslam / Boston Herald:
Plagiarist reporter back in business — After a humiliating plagiarism scandal that rocked the New York Times [NYT], Jayson Blair is quietly resurrecting his journalism career by writing about the very subject he says brought him down: Bipolar disorder. — Blair, 30, has been lending …
Audrey Hudson / Washington Times:
Imams seek to settle with airline — A group of Muslim imams is seeking an out-of-court settlement with US Airways, saying they should not have been removed from a Minnesota-to-Phoenix flight last month and were not behaving suspiciously. — Five of the six Islamic religious leaders …
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John Hawkins / Right Wing News:
The Fifth Annual Warblogger Awards (For 2006) — In order to recognize the excellent work some of our fellow bloggers have been doing, RWN has put together the "5th Annual Warblogger Awards". More than 235 bloggers were invited to vote for their favorite blog in numerous categories and 41 responded.
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Noel Sheppard / NewsBusters.org:
Media Ignore Foley E-mail Leaker and Possible Connection to Rahm Emanuel — The House Committee on Standards of Official Conduct released its report concerning the Mark Foley page scandal on Friday, and the media banged the predictable drum about this all being a Republican cover-up.
New York Times:
Taliban and Allies Tighten Grip in North of Pakistan — PESHAWAR, Pakistan — Islamic militants are using a recent peace deal with the government to consolidate their hold in northern Pakistan, vastly expanding their training of suicide bombers and other recruits and fortifying alliances …
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