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6:05 PM ET, May 14, 2007

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Anthony DePalma / New York Times:
Ground Zero Illnesses Clouding Giuliani's Legacy  —  Anyone who watched Rudolph W. Giuliani preside over ground zero in the days after 9/11 glimpsed elements of his strength: decisiveness, determination, self-confidence.  —  Those qualities were also on display over the months he directed …
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Sebastian Mallaby / Washington Post:
Endgame at the World Bank  —  If the World Bank were a company, its share price would have fallen 25 percent amid the current leadership scandal.  The board of directors wouldn't care about the scandal's details; it would have replaced the beleaguered CEO with someone who could lead effectively.
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Steven R. Weisman / New York Times:
Bank Files May Undercut Wolfowitz, Critics Say
Discussion: The Next Hurrah
Rajiv Chandrasekaran / Washington Post:
Defense Skirts State in Reviving Iraqi Industry  —  Paul Brinkley, a deputy undersecretary of defense, has been called a Stalinist by U.S. diplomats in Iraq.  One has accused him of helping insurgents build better bombs.  The State Department has even taken the unusual step of enlisting …
Lolita C. Baldor / Associated Press:
Pentagon limits troops' Web access  —  WASHINGTON - Lt. Daniel Zimmerman, an infantry platoon leader in Iraq, puts a blog on the Internet every now and then "to basically keep my friends and family up to date" back home.  —  It just got tougher to do that for Zimmerman and a lot of other U.S. soldiers.
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Stars & Stripes:
DOD blocking YouTube, others
Discussion: First Draft and Redstate
ABCNEWS:
Gingrich Says There Is a 'Great Possibility' He Will Run for President  —  The Former Speaker of the House Warns GOP Hillary Clinton Has a Good Chance of Becoming President  —  Newt Gingrich for president?  It could happen.  —  In an interview with Diane Sawyer on "Good Morning America …
Tom Grubisich / Washington Post:
Sunshine for the Virtual Town Hall  —  These days we want "transparency" in all institutions, even private ones.  There's one massive exception — the Internet.  It is, we are told, a giant town hall.  Indeed, it has millions of people speaking out in millions of online forums.
Chris Cillizza / The Fix:
Lieberman Helps Collect Cash for Collins  —  Sen. Joe Lieberman (D-Conn.) is never going to win any popularity contests among his party's liberal base — a fact he seems decidedly unconcerned about despite his 2006 Democratic primary loss to Ned Lamont.  —  Not only has Lieberman endorsed Sen. Susan Collins (R-Maine.)
Discussion: Power Line and Daily Kos
Rick Popely / Chicago Tribune:
Long loans put dent in auto sales  —  Extended payments force more would-be buyers to delay trading up to new vehicles  —  VEHICLE; FINANCE; CONSUMER; ECONOMY; VEHICLE; SALE — John Guido, dealer principal of Arlington Heights Ford, thinks his sales have suffered from a combination …
Greg Sargent / Election Central:
Reid To Allow Vote On Feingold Measure To End Iraq War  —  Good news for war foes: Harry Reid just spoke on the Senate floor, revealing that he'll allow a vote this week on the Feingold-Reid amendment, which would cut off funding for the war by March 31, 2008.
Discussion: Talking Points Memo and TalkLeft
Timothy Garton Ash / New York Review of Books:
The Stasi on Our Minds  —  a film directed by Florian Henckel von Donnersmarck  —  by Florian Henckel von Donnersmarck  —  Frankfurt: Suhrkamp, 216 pp., Ä8.50 (paper)  —  One of Germany's most singular achievements is to have associated itself so intimately in the world's imagination …
Discussion: Spectator and Washington Monthly
Bill Roggio / Daily Iraq Report:
Iraq Report: The search, Kurds attacked, SCIRI, Sunni moves  —  The search is on for the 3 missing soldiers who are believed to have been captured after a complex assualt on a U.S. Army patrol on the outskirts of Mahmudiyah Saturday morning.  Over 4,000 troops, along with aerial and satellite surveillance …
Edward / Heading Right:
Norm Coleman Live Blog  —  Just preparing for the live blog of Norm Coleman's speech at the University of Minnesota.  Stay tuned!  —  10:05 CT - Larry Jacobs introduces the series of speakers, talking about the U's open-government projects.  This is one of a series of events, and I'm going to try to make a few of these.
Associated Press:
Teachers fake gunman attack on sixth graders … MURFREESBORO, Tennessee (AP) — Staff members of an elementary school staged a fictitious gun attack on students during a class trip, telling them it was not a drill as the children cried and hid under tables.
CNN:
CNN RELIABLE SOURCES  —  Media, Giuliani and Abortion; Sharpton's Standards  —  THIS IS A RUSH TRANSCRIPT.  THIS COPY MAY NOT BE IN ITS FINAL FORM AND MAY BE UPDATED.  —  HOWARD KURTZ, HOST (voice over): The abortion obsession.  The media target Rudy Giuliani as the only pro-choice Republican in the race.
Discussion: NewsBusters.org
Michael Scherer / Salon:
The Matt Drudge primary  —  How professional political operatives secretly control the news you read about the 2008 campaign.  Hint: It involves the Drudge Report.  —  Photo composite of Matt Drudge.  —  WASHINGTON — John McCain's "Bomb Iran" scandal almost never happened.
Discussion: MSNBC and TIME: Swampland
Bill Carter / New York Times:
Is It the Woman Thing, or Is It Katie Couric?  —  The numbers are stark.  Eight months into Katie Couric's job as the first woman to anchor a network newscast on her own, her "CBS Evening News" has not only settled back into its long-held position of last among the evening news broadcasts …
Jackie Kucinich / The Hill:
Blog's campaign against Calvert to intensify  —  A popular conservative blog will step up its efforts this week to force Republican leaders to pull Rep. Ken Calvert (R-Calif.) from the powerful Appropriations Committee.  In addition, the website will begin a coordinated effort to target members …
John Fund / Opinion Journal:
Cutting the Grass  —  Congressional Democrats prepare another assault on the First Amendment.  —  A recent Wall Street Journal/NBC News poll shows 6 in 10 Americans think the Democratic Congress "hasn't brought much change."  Eager to change this impression, the Democrats are frantically trying …
Jared Bernstein / The Coffee House:
Follow-up from Last Week and A Few Related Tidbits  —  Good morning, all.  It's a gorgeous day in the nation's capital, I'm already hyper-caffeinated, so let's talk economics!  —  Specifically, there were a number of interesting pieces out today amplifying and challenging our discussion about where the economy might be headed.
John Wilen / Associated Press:
Gas Prices Set New Record at the Pump  —  Gas Prices at the Pump Exceed Post-Katrina Record, While Futures Prices Slide  —  NEW YORK (AP) — Gasoline prices hit a new record at the pump on Monday, but gas futures prices fell on concerns that $3 gas will crimp demand.
Discussion: Think Progress
 
 
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Justin McCarthy / NewsBusters.org:
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The Blotter:
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Jason Straziuso / Associated Press:
Militants kill U.S. soldier in Pakistan
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Paul Kiel / TPMmuckraker:
In Civil Rights Division, Workers Claim Discrimination
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Faiz / Think Progress:
Novak: 'Poor Gonzales' Is Terrible, 'But There Are A Lot Of Bad People …
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Think Progress:
Pelosi Approval Unharmed After Syria, Iraq Smears
Forbes:
Take Chrysler. Please
Discussion: The Moderate Voice
Chris Cillizza / The Fix:
Hagel Continues Flirtation With Independent Bid
David H. Petraeus / Michael Yon:
Values Message  —  One of the reasons I trust General Petraeus …
Chris Cillizza / The Fix:
Red, White and Voting Blue — Where Dems Made Gains in '06
Sen. John McCain / MSNBC:
MTP Transcript for May 13, 2007  —  MR. TIM RUSSERT …
Charles Bremner / Times of London:
Shock as Sarkozy woos anti-US leftwinger
Observer:
What I learnt from my stay with a Muslim family