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Bill Dedman / MSNBC:
Reading Hillary Rodham's hidden thesis — Clinton White House asked Wellesley College to close off access — Hillary Rodham, in a 1965 freshman photo when she was president of Wellesley College's Young Republicans, with the cover page of her senior thesis from 1969 on radical organizer Saul D. Alinsky.
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Anne E. Kornblut / Washington Post:
At Site of '65 March, an '08 Collision — Sunday's Selma Event to Be a Stage for Obama — and Clinton(s) — Bill Clinton will join Sen. Hillary Rodham Clinton at a commemoration of the 1965 civil rights march in Selma, Ala., on Sunday, bringing his star power and popularity among African Americans …
Bill Dedman / MSNBC:
How the Clintons wrapped up Hillary's thesis — 'A stupid political decision,' says her former Wellesley poli-sci professor — WELLESLEY, Mass. - Hillary Rodham Clinton's political science professor said he'd give the tactic an "F." — It was early 1993, in the first days of the Clinton administration …
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Michael Fleming / Variety:
Plame film in works at Warner Bros. — Studio sets movie about CIA leak scandal — Warner Bros. is developing a feature on the lives of Valerie Plame and Ambassador Joseph Wilson, the married couple drawn into a D.C. firestorm. — Plame's status as a CIA agent was revealed …
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Baltimore Sun:
A new twist to an intriguing family history … WASHINGTON // Many people know that Democratic presidential candidate Barack Obama's father was from Kenya and his mother from Kansas. — But an intriguing sliver of his family history has received almost no attention until now …
Ralph Z. Hallow / Washington Times:
Gilmore to reveal 'false' conservatives — Former Virginia Gov. James S. Gilmore III will become the first Republican presidential contender to say publicly that the three top-ranked party candidates are phony conservatives. — Unlike the Democratic competition for the presidential nomination next year …
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David D. Kirkpatrick / New York Times:
McCain and Obama in Deal on Public Financing
McCain and Obama in Deal on Public Financing
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Marisa Taylor / Real Cities:
Sources: GOP lawmakers tried to influence federal investigation — WASHINGTON - Sen. Pete Domenici and Rep. Heather Wilson of New Mexico pressured the U.S. attorney in their state to speed up indictments in a federal corruption investigation that involved at least one former Democratic state senator …
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Washington Post:
House Panel Subpoenas Fired U.S. Attorneys — Democrats issued their first major subpoenas yesterday since taking control of Congress, as a House subcommittee voted to compel testimony from four former U.S. attorneys who were part of a wave of firings by the Justice Department.
CBS News:
Poll: The Politics Of Health Care — Most Americans Favor Universal Health Care, Give Democrats Edge On Improving System — (CBS) Americans think the U.S. health care system is in need of major repairs, according to a CBS News/New York Times poll. — Nine out of 10 say the system needs …
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Marjorie Connelly / The Caucus:
New Bush, Iraq Poll Numbers
New Bush, Iraq Poll Numbers
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Michelle Malkin:
CPAC-apalooza — ***update 942am*** — Newt Gingrich landed at Blogger Row. He chatted with Hot Air TV for 10 minutes. We'll have the interview up later. I asked whether bloggers would have seats at Gingrich White House press briefings. Gingrich says he contacted Tony Snow …
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Washington Post:
Not 'a Good-News Story' — YESTERDAY THE Post reported that Lt. Gen. Kevin C. Kiley heard years ago from a veterans advocate and even a member of Congress that outpatient care at Walter Reed Army Medical Center was distressingly squalid and disorganized. That commander proceeded to do little …
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Charles Krauthammer / Washington Post:
Music Of the Spheres — You might not have noticed, but we broke another U.S. space record last month when astronaut Michael Lopez-Alegria logged his 67th hour of spacewalking. If you consider that the equivalent of the Guinness record for pogo-stick bouncing (23.11 miles in 12 hours and 27 minutes) …
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Blue Crab Boulevard
Gerard Baker / Times of London:
Oh George, what will we do when you're gone? — Our columnist on an easy target for America-bashers — Somewhere, deep down, tucked away underneath their loathing for George Bush, in a secret place where the lights of smart dinner-party conversation and clever debating-society repartee never shine …
Carlotta Gall / New York Times:
Pressed by U.S., Pakistan Seizes a Taliban Chief — The former Taliban defense minister was arrested in Pakistan on Monday, the day of Vice President Dick Cheney's visit, two government officials said Thursday. He is the most important Taliban member to be captured since the American-led invasion of Afghanistan in 2001.
Des Moines Register:
Vilsack says early polls didn't show his strength — The former Iowa governor says it was his inability to raise money that forced him from the presidential race. — Former Iowa Gov. Tom Vilsack criticized public opinion polls Friday and said his presidential campaign was running stronger …
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Kimberley A. Strassel / Opinion Journal:
Checkmate — The Democratic Party's honeymoon is over. — For Big Labor, this week's "card check" victory marked the ultimate payoff for past Democratic election support. For House Democrats, it marked the end of the honeymoon. — Democrats won in November in part by playing …