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Dinitia Smith / New York Times:
Kurt Vonnegut, Novelist Who Caught the Imagination of His Age, Is Dead at 84 — Kurt Vonnegut, whose dark comic talent and urgent moral vision in novels like "Slaughterhouse-Five," "Cat's Cradle" and "God Bless You, Mr. Rosewater" caught the temper of his times and the imagination of a generation, died last night in Manhattan.
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Cristian Salazar / Associated Press:Novelist Kurt Vonnegut dies at age 84
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WNBC:
Imus Now Off MSNBC — NEW BRUNSWICK, N.J. — MSNBC has announced the cable network will no longer carry the "Imus in the Morning" radio show. — NBC News released a statement Wednesday night that detailed Imus's dismissal. — "Effective immediately, MSNBC will no longer simulcast …
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Jake Tapper / ABCNEWS:
Obama: Fire Imus — Obama First White House Contender to Call for Imus' Firing Over Racial Slur — In an interview with ABC News Wednesday afternoon, Sen. Barack Obama, D-Ill., called for the firing of talk radio host Don Imus. Obama said he would never again appear on Imus' show …
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New York Times:
NBC News Drops Imus Show Over Racial Remark — NBC News dropped Don Imus yesterday, canceling his talk show on its MSNBC cable news channel a week after he made a racially disparaging remark about the Rutgers University women's basketball team. — The move came after several days …
Brian Maloney / The Radio Equalizer:
Imus, MSNBC Cancels Simulcast, Nappy-Headed Hos, Rutgers, Media Matters — ONE DOWN — I-Man Loses TV, Libs Now Call Him "Conservative" — *** See main page and scroll down for more Imus coverage *** — With Don Imus now officially booted from MSNBC and word on the fate …
John Amato / Crooks and Liars:MSNBC fires IMUS...
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Jennifer Loven / Associated Press:
Bush aides' use of GOP e-mail probed — WASHINGTON - The White House said Wednesday it had mishandled Republican Party-sponsored e-mail accounts used by nearly two dozen presidential aides, resulting in the loss of an undetermined number of e-mails concerning official White House business.
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Tom Hamburger / Los Angeles Times:
Officials' e-mail may be missing, White House says — The messages, on a private system, are wanted by Congress in a probe of the firings of eight U.S. attorneys. — WASHINGTON — The White House said Wednesday that it may have lost what could amount to thousands of messages sent through …
Sheryl Gay Stolberg / New York Times:Bush Advisers' Approach on E-Mail Draws Fire
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Katherine Coble / Just Another Pretty Farce:
This Entry For A Limited Time Only — The doorbell rang 5 minutes ago. — It was delivery of a certified letter. — I am being ordered to take down all of my blog entries pertaining to JL Kirk & Associates. If I don't, they will so me for tortuous interference and other damages.
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Bill Hobbs:
Suing a Blogger — Big, powerful law firms like Nashville's King & Ballow really ought to hire someone with journalistic and new media experience to advise them on how to handle clients who complain about things published by bloggers. Then they wouldn't do stupid things like issue threats …
Aaron Beard / Associated Press:
Prosecutors Drop Charges in Duke Case — RALEIGH, N.C. (AP) - Prosecutors dropped all charges Wednesday against the three Duke lacrosse players accused of sexually assaulting a stripper at a party, saying the athletes were innocent victims of a "tragic rush to accuse" by an overreaching district attorney.
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Josh White / Washington Post:
Gates Announces Longer Tours for Active-Duty Army Soldiers — Defense Secretary Robert M. Gates announced this afternoon that all active-duty Army soldiers currently deployed to Iraq and Afghanistan could serve extended tours of up to 15 months in combat, meaning more than 100,000 troops …
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New York Times:
In 5-Year Effort, Scant Evidence of Voter Fraud — Five years after the Bush administration began a crackdown on voter fraud, the Justice Department has turned up virtually no evidence of any organized effort to skew federal elections, according to court records and interviews.
Liz Sidoti / Associated Press:
McCain campaign to cut back on staff — WASHINGTON - Sen. John McCain (news, bio, voting record)'s troubled presidential campaign is eliminating some non-senior staff positions and cutting some consultants' contracts. — The Arizona senator's campaign characterized the moves as …
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Racist Literature Distributed in Berkeley — A study in hate, the left/right convergence, and media spin — During the first few days of April, 2007, racist literature was distributed in several Berkeley, California neighborhoods by members of an out-of-town white supremacist group.
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Ariel Leve / Times of London:
Google puts the spotlight on Darfur — News blog: next stop - deleting Bolivia? — Google Earth, the search engine's online mapping service, has updated its images of the Darfur region in Sudan in an attempt to draw attention to the plight of people living there.
Guardian:
Blair blames spate of murders on black culture — Patrick Wintour and Vikram Dodd — Tony Blair yesterday claimed the spate of knife and gun murders in London was not being caused by poverty, but a distinctive black culture. His remarks angered community leaders, who accused him of ignorance …
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