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11:45 AM ET, December 24, 2006

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Libby Copeland / Washington Post:
From Thong to Thesis: Monica Lewinsky Flashes Her Intellect  —  There are moments that make you question your fundamental assumptions about the world.  One of them took place a few days ago, when news emerged that Monica Lewinsky had just graduated from the London School of Economics.  —  She did not!!
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Jeralyn / TalkLeft:
Monica.  We Hardly Knew You  —  Congratulations to Monica Lewinsky, who just graduated from the London School of Economics with a master of science degree in social psychology.  Her thesis topic was: In Search of the Impartial Juror: An Exploration of the Third Person Effect and Pre-Trial Publicity.
Jeff Zeleny / New York Times:
Testing the Water, Obama Tests His Own Limits  —  On a winter afternoon two years ago, Senator Barack Obama took his oath of office and strolled across the Capitol grounds hand-in-hand with his wife and two daughters.  At the time, a question from his 6-year-old sounded precocious.  Now, it seems prescient.
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Dan Balz / Washington Post:
Clinton, Obama Clearing The Field  —  Without Declaring, They Beat Back Would-Be Rivals  —  Sen. Hillary Rodham Clinton (D-N.Y.) and Sen. Barack Obama (D-Ill.), trading on star power, the capacity to raise tens of millions of dollars with relative ease and an ability to dominate media attention …
Associated Press:
Man sets self aflame in Calif. protest  —  BAKERSFIELD, Calif. - A man used flammable liquid to light himself on fire, apparently to protest a San Joaquin Valley school district's decision to change the names of winter and spring breaks to Christmas and Easter vacation.
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Allahpundit / Hot Air:
Another moron lights himself on fire
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KGET-TV:   Man sets himself, Christmas tree ablaze to protest KHSD winter break name change
Gaius / Blue Crab Boulevard:
Meet The Newest Innovation!
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Jason Burke / Observer:
Channel tunnel is terror target  —  The Channel tunnel has been targeted by a group of Islamic militant terrorists aiming to cause maximum carnage during the holiday season, according to French and American secret services.  —  The plan, which the French DGSE foreign intelligence service became aware …
Washington Times:
Ethiopia launches airstrikes on Somalia  —  Fighting escalated in Somalia Sunday as Ethiopian planes and helicopter gun ships attacked Islamist targets in several central provinces.  —  One area that came under heavy attack was the town of Baledweyn, 220 miles south of the capital Mogadishu …
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Hindrocket / Power Line:   ETHIOPIA ENTERS SOMALIA CONFLCT
Agence France Presse:
Putin to remain leader after leaving Kremlin: senior politician  —  President Vladimir Putin will retain a leadership role in Russia even if he steps down in 2008, as required by the constitution, a senior politician has said.  —  "He will not leave," Sergei Stepashin, head of Russia's accounting chamber …
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Captain Ed / Captain's Quarters:
The $100 Million Barbecue  —  The weekend barbecue hosted by Ehud Olmert for his neighbor, Mahmoud Abbas, turned out to be more expensive than the cost of a beef brisket and a few brews.  The long-awaited meeting between the head of the Palestinian Authority and the PM of Israel resulted …
New York Times:
Commander Said to Be Open to More Troops  —  The American military command in Iraq is now willing to back a temporary increase in American troops in Baghdad as part of a broader Iraqi and United States effort to stem the slide toward chaos, senior American officials said Saturday.
Los Angeles Times:
Iraqi Shiites resist isolating Sadr  —  Politicians and clerics support the leader and view U.S. opposition to him as interference.  —  NAJAF, Iraq — One of Iraq's most influential Shiite clerics rejected a U.S.-backed proposal to isolate Shiite extremists in the national government …
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John F. Kerry / Washington Post:
When Resolve Turns Reckless  —  There's something much worse than being accused of "flip-flopping": refusing to flip when it's obvious that your course of action is a flop.  —  I say this to President Bush as someone who learned the hard way how embracing the world's complexity can be twisted into a crude political shorthand.
New York Times:
A Real-World Army  —  Military reality finally broke through the Bush administration's ideological wall last week, with President Bush publicly acknowledging the need to increase the size of the overstretched Army and Marine Corps.  —  Larger ground forces are an absolute necessity for the sort …
Discussion: Outside The Beltway
David Leonhardt / New York Times:
Gender Pay Gap, Once Narrowing, Is Stuck in Place  —  Throughout the 1980s and early '90s, women of all economic levels — poor, middle class and rich — were steadily gaining ground on their male counterparts in the work force.  By the mid-'90s, women earned more than 75 cents for every dollar …
 
 
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Scot M. Faulkner / New York Times:
The Way to Keep House  —  CORRUPTION was widely considered …
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