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HILL JABS AT JOHN — TAKES HER FIRST SHOT VS. AN '08 PREZ FOE — Sen. Hillary Rodham Clinton last night ripped into 2008 White House contender John Edwards - her first direct assault on any of her potential Democratic presidential rivals. — Clinton's surprising broadside came just hours after Edwards …
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Walter Pincus / Washington Post:
Democrats Differ on Iraq Bill's Bite
Democrats Differ on Iraq Bill's Bite
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Jim Krane / Associated Press:
UAE beats Americans' environmental harm — DUBAI, United Arab Emirates - When it comes to squandering the earth's natural resources, residents of this desert land of chilled swimming pools, monster 4x4s and air-conditioned malls are on a par with even the ravenous consumption of Americans, according to the World Wildlife Fund.
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Francis McCabe / Las Vegas Review-Journal:
Nevada U.S. attorney given walking papers — The Bush administration has forced Daniel Bogden out of his position as U.S. attorney for the District of Nevada, Nevada's two senators said Sunday. — It was unclear whether Bogden was fired or asked to resign and for what reason.
M.E. Sprengelmeyer / Rocky Mountain News:
Allard: No third term — WASHINGTON — Sen. Wayne Allard said today he will honor his term-limits pledge and leave at the end of 2008, creating a replacement fight that should turn Colorado into one of the country's biggest electoral battlegrounds. — "I just didn't think I could back away from the (term limits) commitment.
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CBS News:
WHAT DO YOU THINK? — (CBS) On Jan. 12, 2007, two days after President George W. Bush told the country that he would send 21,000 more troops into Iraq, the president sat down with 60 Minutes correspondent Scott Pelley for a candid conversation. The two met in Camp David's Laurel Cabin …
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Guardian:
Iran target of US Gulf military moves, Gates says — Mark Tran and agencies — Increased US military activity in the Gulf is aimed at Iran's "very negative" behaviour, the Bush administration said today. — The defence secretary, Robert Gates, told reporters that the decision to deploy …
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David E. Sanger / New York Times:
Opening a New Front in the War, Against Iranians in Iraq — For more than two years after Saddam Hussein's fall, the war in Iraq was about chasing down insurgents and Al Qaeda in Iraq. Last year it expanded to tamping down sectarian warfare. — Over the past three weeks …
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CNN:
Hussein's half-brother decapitated during hanging … BAGHDAD, Iraq (CNN) — Iraq hanged two of Saddam Hussein's aides early Monday, and one of the men was decapitated in the process. — The official video of the hangings showed Hussein's half-brother lying headless below the gallows …
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Valerie Strauss / Washington Post:
Despite Lessons on King, Some Unaware of His Dream — In a recent survey of college students on U.S. civic literacy, more than 81 percent knew that the Rev. Martin Luther King Jr. was expressing hope for "racial justice and brotherhood" in his historic "I Have a Dream" speech. — That's the good news.
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Why the right doesn't get Martin Luther King
Why the right doesn't get Martin Luther King
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Amir Taheri / New York Post:
IRAQ: WHY THE MEDIA MISSTEP — JUST outside Um al-Qasar, a port in south east Iraq, a crowd had gathered around a British armored car with a crew of four. An argument seemed to be heating up through an interpreter. — The interpreter told the Brits that the crowd was angry and wanted U.K. forces out of Iraq.
Gerard Henderson / Times of London:
How Australia confronts militant Islam — A nation's blunt refusal to back down to terror — Australians are sometimes accused of being direct, even blunt. But this way of going about things seems to have worked well enough when dealing with the threat of radical Islamism Down Under.
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Guardian:
France and UK considered 1950s 'merger' — Staff and agencies — Britain and France talked about a "union" in the 1950s, even discussing the possibility of the Queen becoming the French head of state, it was reported today. — On September 10 1956, Guy Mollet, the then French prime minister …
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Ronald A. Cass / Real Clear Politics:
Sandy Berger: What Did He Take and Why Did He Take It? — Some things cry out for explanation. Like finding $90,000 in marked bills in a Congressman's freezer. Or finding out that a blue-chip lawyer who held one of the most important jobs in the nation was willing to risk his career …
Mark Mazzetti / New York Times:
Cheney Defends Efforts to Obtain Financial Records — Vice President Dick Cheney yesterday defended efforts by the Pentagon and the Central Intelligence Agency to obtain financial records of Americans suspected of terrorism or espionage, calling the practice a "perfectly legitimate activity" …