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1:00 PM ET, March 31, 2007

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The Age:
Govt denies it sweetened Hicks' sentence  —  The federal government denies it sweetened David Hicks' sentence for its election convenience.  —  Hicks will walk free from an Adelaide jail next New Year's Day, even though the confessed terrorist was recommended a seven year sentence by a US military commission.
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Lexington Herald-Leader:
Terror suspect gets 9 months in plea deal  —  AUSTRALIAN WILL SERVE HIS SENTENCE IN HOMELAND, CAN'T ALLEGE ABUSE  —  Australian David Hicks pleaded guilty at the Guant‡namo Bay Navy Base yesterday to supporting terrorism in exchange for a nine-month prison sentence under a plea deal …
Michael Melia / Associated Press:
Australian Gitmo Detainee Gets 9 Months  —  AP Photo JHX103  —  GUANTANAMO BAY NAVAL BASE, Cuba (AP) - An American military tribunal sentenced an Australian to nine months in prison Friday after he pleaded guilty to supporting terrorism - in the first conviction at a U.S. war-crimes trial since World War II.
Discussion: The Huffington Post
William Glaberson / New York Times:
Australian to Serve 9 Months in Terrorism Case  —  David Hicks, the Australian high-school dropout whose detention became an international issue, will serve nine more months in custody, most of it in Australia, under the terms of a plea deal unsealed here Friday.
Peter Spiegel / Los Angeles Times:   Gates is pushing to move terror trials from Guantanamo
Larry McShane / Associated Press:
Gallery told to shut down chocolate Jesus display  —  NEW YORK — A planned Holy Week exhibition of a nude, anatomically correct chocolate sculpture of Jesus Christ was canceled Friday after Cardinal Edward Egan and other outraged Roman Catholics complained.
Discussion: Reuters
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Kansas City Star:
Catholics outraged at `My Sweet Lord' chocolate crucifix display
Discussion: The American Street
Joe Gandelman / The Moderate Voice:
Chocolate Jesus Meltdown As Controversial Exhibit Cancelled
Washington Post:
Ex-Partner Of Giuliani May Face Charges  —  Kerik Counts Said To Include Deception During Cabinet Bid  —  Federal prosecutors have told Bernard B. Kerik, whose nomination as homeland security secretary in 2004 ended in scandal, that he is likely to be charged with several felonies …
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Associated Press:
Giuliani: Wife won't be Cabinet member  —  WASHINGTON - Republican presidential contender Rudy Giuliani said Friday his wife will not be a member of his Cabinet or attend most high-level meetings as he sought to clarify his previous statements suggesting she would play a significant role in his administration.
Anne Flaherty / Associated Press:
Pelosi Going to Syria Despite Objections  —  WASHINGTON (AP) - House Speaker Nancy Pelosi will visit Syria, a country President Bush has shunned as a sponsor of terrorism, despite being asked by the administration not to go.  —  "In our view, it is not the right time to have these sort …
Discussion: Scared Monkeys and Roger L. Simon
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Peter Baker / Washington Post:
At Walter Reed, Bush Offers an Apology  —  After Touring Hospital and Visiting Patients, He Vows to 'Fix the Problem'  —  President Bush yesterday paid his first visit to Walter Reed Army Medical Center since the uproar over shoddy conditions at the facility and emerged after a two-hour tour …
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White House:
President Bush Visits Troops at Walter Reed Army Medical Center
Discussion: INTEL DUMP, Daily Kos and First Draft
Newsdesk / The Swamp:
Gen'ls to Bush: Soldiers not props
Discussion: Crooks and Liars
Bill Hess / svherald.com:
Kurd describes 'traumatized' Iraq, why his people worry about U.S.  —  SIERRA VISTA — The Kurds in Iraq are afraid they will again be left in a lurch if American troops are forced to leave next year, the Kurdistan representative to the United States said Thursday.
Discussion: The Belmont Club and Redstate
Don'T Miss This / Associated Press:
Imams removed from flight may sue passengers  —  Lawyers step up to defend fliers who voiced concerns; chilling effect feared  —  Pat Snelson of suburban Minneapolis recalls on March 29, the concern he and his wife had about alleged suspicious behavior by six Muslim imams before the men …
Laura Rozen / American Prospect:
The First Contract  —  New questions arise concerning Mitchell Wade's first White House contract — and his connections to the vice president.  —  From 1991 to 1993, a young lieutenant commander in the Navy Reserve was working as a program manager in a Pentagon intelligence office.
Discussion: Prairie Weather
Thomas Harding / Telegraph:
Without America's might the options are few  —  The Government has few options if it wants to pressure Iran into releasing the captured Britons.  —  Military action is unfeasible without American support and so is a military blockade of the Gulf.  Unless the United Nations shows more rigour …
Cernig / NewsHog:
Yet More On Blogroll Purges  —  Terrance at the Republic of T comes late to the other PurgeGate controversy, the one about blogroll "amnesties" by key A-List progressive bloggers which turned out to be purges of the littler guys.  Still, in a long and thoughtful post he takes a lucid look …
Discussion: The Republic of T.
Libby Purves / Times of London:
Olmert: Arab peace plan "revolutionary"  —  David Byers and Richard Beeston of The Times, in Riyadh  —  The Israeli Prime Minister today described an Arab plan to make peace with the Jewish State as "revolutionary" and said the region could sign a final deal within five years.
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Tom Engelhardt / TomDispatch:
Tomgram: Karon, Why Condi's Diplomacy Should Start with Bush
Discussion: Rootless Cosmopolitan
 
 
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Democratic Committee requests deposition from Secretary of State …
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Washington Post:
Candor at the Capitol  —  THE TESTIMONY of a former top Justice …
Discussion: Power Line and New York Times
Popular Mechanics:
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Discussion: Chicago Boyz and Hot Air
Alexander Mooney / CNN Political Ticker:
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Tom Coghlan / Telegraph:
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Mandy Dalugdug / Music Business Worldwide:
UMG, ABKCO, and Concord sue Believe, a music distributor in 50+ countries, and its subsidiary TuneCore for $500M+, accusing Believe of copyright infringement

Reuters:
French judicial source: investigators searched Netflix's offices in France and the Netherlands as part of a preliminary investigation into tax fraud laundering

Alexandra Steigrad / New York Post:
iHeart says it is laying off employees; a source says the layoffs affect less than 5% of a workforce of more than 10,000 employees

 
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