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Tahira Yaqoob / Daily Mail:
Live Earth branded a foul-mouthed flop — Live Earth has been branded a foul-mouthed flop. — Organisers of the global music concert - punctuated by swearing from presenters and performers - had predicted massive viewing figures. — But BBC's live afternoon television coverage attracted …
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Skeptical of Performers' Motives, Public Tunes Out Live Earth Event — The Live Earth concert promoted by former Vice President Al Gore received plenty of media coverage and hype, but most Americans tuned out. Just 22% said they followed news stories about the concert Somewhat or Very Closely.
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David E. Sanger / New York Times:
White House Debate Rises on Iraq Pullback — White House officials fear that the last pillars of political support among Senate Republicans for President Bush's Iraq strategy are collapsing around them, according to several administration officials and outsiders they are consulting.
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Robert D. Novak / Washington Post:
'Scouting' the Hill on Iraq — National security adviser Stephen J. Hadley visited Capitol Hill just before Congress adjourned for the Fourth of July. Meetings with a half-dozen senior Republican senators were clearly intended to extinguish fires set by Sen. Richard Lugar's unexpected break from President Bush's Iraq policy.
Russell Berman / New York Sun:
Fired McCain Aides May Be Hired by Thompson — WASHINGTON — The downsizing of Senator McCain's presidential campaign is coming at an opportune time for Fred Thompson, the former Tennessee senator who is likely to jump into the race officially any day now and seeking to build a campaign staff in the early primary states.
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Spencer S. Hsu / Washington Post:
Job Vacancies At DHS Said To Hurt U.S. Preparedness — A Fourth of Top Positions Not Filled, Report Says — The Bush administration has failed to fill roughly a quarter of the top leadership posts at the Department of Homeland Security, creating a "gaping hole" in the nation's preparedness …
R.J. Hillhouse / Washington Post:
Who Runs the CIA? Outsiders for Hire. — Red alert: Our national security is being outsourced. — The most intriguing secrets of the "war on terror" have nothing to do with al-Qaeda and its fellow travelers. They're about the mammoth private spying industry that all but runs U.S. intelligence operations today.
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Joe Hagan / New York Magazine:
Alas, Poor Couric — But pity her not. — F — rom outside the sleek glass chamber of the CBS Evening News set, you can see her: alone in a prim black pantsuit and pearls, shuffling a stack of papers at the wide, half-moon desk. Sitting stiff and still, she looks dwarfed under …
Joby Warrick / Washington Post:
Tunneling Near Iranian Nuclear Site Stirs Worry — The sudden flurry of digging seen in recent satellite photos of a mountainside in central Iran might have passed for ordinary road tunneling. But the site is the back yard of Iran's most ambitious and controversial nuclear facility …
Howard Kurtz / Washington Post:
A Blog That Made It Big — The Huffington Post, Trending Up and Left — NEW YORK — In the high-ceilinged SoHo offices that once housed an art gallery, Rachel Sklar is juggling a slew of stories destined for the virtual pages of the Huffington Post. — There's her interview with author Gay Talese …
BBC:
Three guilty over 21/7 bomb plot — Three defendants in the 21 July terror trial have been found guilty of a plot to bomb London's transport network. — Jurors found Muktar Said Ibrahim, 29, Yassin Omar, 26, and Ramzi Mohammed, 25, guilty of conspiracy to murder.
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Brian C. Mooney / Boston Globe:
He's N.H.'s secret to primary primacy — Power to schedule is held by a master — CONCORD, N.H. — William M. Gardner may be the single most powerful man in the nation when it comes to setting the schedule of contests that will nominate the presidential candidates of both parties next year.
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Washington Post:
All Grown Up — and Going to War — July is a month I sincerely hoped would never come. — At the end of this month, my young son, my only child, deploys with the 22nd Marine Expeditionary Unit. His departure had been six months away, three months; now it is a matter of weeks.
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John Biemer / Chicago Tribune:
Duckworth declines 2008 race — There will be no redux for Tammy Duckworth in the 2008 election. — Duckworth, an Iraq War veteran now serving as director of the Illinois Department of Veterans' Affairs, said Sunday that she has decided not to run again next year against U.S. Rep. Peter Roskam …
Adam Nagourney / New York Times:
Voters Excited Over '08 Campaign; Tired of It, Too — "I'm afraid we are going to get tired of all this hoop-de-la," said Kathy Shaffer, an elementary school teacher from Clear Lake, Iowa. "It is too much for too long.You get tired of it. You put mute on the commercials."
Bill Roggio / The Fourth Rail:
Muqtada al Sadr back in Iran — Muqtada al-Sadr. — Mahdi Army leader leaves Iraq and goes to Iran for second time this year — Muqtada al Sadr, the leader of the Shia Mahdi Army and the Sadrist bloc in parliament, has left Iraq and is in Iran, military sources told Reuters.
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