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jules crittenden:
Next Order of Business — From Tripoli to Syria to Teheran to Beirut to Pyongyang, how many of Saddam Hussein's fellow travelers involuntarily rubbed their own necks as the world was treated to this spectacle of justice for once achieved and not cynically subverted? — Heads up, Khaddafy, Assad and Ahmadinejad.
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Michael Roston / TPMCafe blogs:
Saddam and the cellphones — 1 of 1 people recommend this blog entry.
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Michael A. Fletcher / Washington Post:
Bush Has Quietly Tripled Aid to Africa — Increase in Funding to Impoverished Continent Is Viewed as Altruistic or Pragmatic — President Bush's legacy is sure to be defined by his wielding of U.S. military power in Afghanistan and Iraq, but there is another, much softer and less-noticed effort …
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Darlene Superville / Associated Press:
Poll: Americans see gloom, doom in 2007 — WASHINGTON - Another terrorist attack, a warmer planet, death and destruction from a natural disaster. These are among Americans' grim predictions for the United States in 2007. — Only a minority of people think the U.S. will go to war with Iran …
The Hill:
Conyers accepts responsibility for possible ethics violations — Rep. John Conyers (D-Mich.) has "accepted responsibility" for possibly violating House rules by requiring his official staff to perform campaign-related work, according to a statement quietly released by the House ethics committee late Friday evening.
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Tim Golden / New York Times:
For Guantánamo Review Boards, Limits Abound — GUANTÁNAMO BAY, Cuba — At one end of a converted trailer in the American military detention center here, a graying Pakistani businessman sat shackled before a review board of uniformed officers, pleading for his freedom.
Michael Arrington / TechCrunch:
Google's Tipping Point — Taken in a vacuum, a fairly trivial thing happened a few days ago. The co-founder of Firefox, Blake Ross, wrote a post criticizing Google called "Tip: Trust is hard to gain, easy to lose". He takes issue with a new Google search feature that promotes certain …
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Liz Fedor / Minneapolis Star Tribune:
Area Somalis want peace for homeland — Many of the 1,500 protesters in Minneapolis were angered that the U.S. gave tacit support for ousting of Islamists. — More than a thousand Somalis gathered in Minneapolis on Saturday to call for Ethiopian troops to withdraw immediately from Somalia.
Times of London:
Hillary falls to earth in poll race — THE first vote is still more than a year away, but the campaign to replace President George W Bush in the White House is already throwing up surprises. — Unfortunately for Senator Hillary Clinton, long the front-runner in the Democratic drive to retake …
IrelandOn-line:
Hundreds of Turks injured in Muslim animal sacrifice — Hundreds of Turks spent the first day of the Muslim feast of Eid al-Adha holiday in emergency wards today after stabbing themselves or suffering other injuries while sacrificing startled and agitated animals.
Barbara O'Brien / Crooks and Liars:
Old Tapes — I know the young folks despair at the way we moldering relics of the Baby Boom can't let go of Vietnam. Let me say forthrightly that I know how you feel. — Imagine being a teenager in the mid-1960s and lusting after the Correges-style boots the other girls were wearing …
MSNBC:
U.S. sustains 3,000th fatality in Iraq — Texas soldier's death raises toll to new milestone; Bush weighs his options — BAGHDAD, Iraq - The Pentagon announced the death of a Texas soldier on Sunday, raising the number of U.S. military deaths in Iraq to at least 3,000 since the war began, according to an Associated Press count.
Zachary Abuza / Counterterrorism Blog:
New Years Eve Bombs Shake Up Bangkok — Seven bombs were exploded across downtown Bangkok on New Years Eve as revelers began to turnout for dinner and the evening's festivities. The first bomb exploded at the Victory Monument, an area crowded with food stalls, the terminus for small commuter vans from the northern districts.
Nancy Benac / Associated Press:
AP Poll: Americans Optimistic for 2007 … WASHINGTON (AP) — The news from Iraq and other national headlines may be grim, but in Greenville, N.C., John Given has a new baby and his first home, and life is good. — So, too, for Sandra Trowbridge in tiny Magnet Cove, Ark. The situation …
Byron Calame / New York Times:
Truth, Justice, Abortion and the Times Magazine — THE cover story on abortion in El Salvador in The New York Times Magazine on April 9 contained prominent references to an attention-grabbing fact. "A few" women, the first paragraph indicated, were serving 30-year jail terms for having had abortions.
Washington Post:
Prosecutorial Indiscretion — "THE PROSECUTOR has more control over life, liberty and reputation than any other person in America. His discretion is tremendous. He can have citizens investigated, and, if he is that kind of person, he can have this done to the tune of public statements and veiled or unveiled intimations."
Times of London:
Science told: hands off gay sheep — Experiments that claim to 'cure' homosexual rams spark anger — SCIENTISTS are conducting experiments to change the sexuality of "gay" sheep in a programme that critics fear could pave the way for breeding out homosexuality in humans.
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Mike / Blue Hampshire:
Edwards Declares War On Hope (and it's about time) — You want to know what a preemptive strike on the Obama candidacy looks like? Here is it is, textbook perfect, from John Edwards himself. Today, standing in front of a sign asserting "Tomorrow Begins Today" he stated:
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