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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.
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 …
Gary Gross / Let Freedom Ring:
So Similar It'S Scary — Sunday evening, I read this Strib article about Keith Ellison speaking "to a gathering of atheists." Here's a quote worth noting: … Later Sunday night, I watched a replay of Sean Hannity's interview Imam Abdul Alim Musa. Imam Musa made some outrageous statements during …
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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 …
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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Art Moore / WorldNetDaily:
Muslims declare sovereignty over U.S., UK — Hear Islamic leaders in London: 'Queen Elizabeth, go to hell!' — Across town from the site of the recent attempted car-bomb attacks, several thousand Muslims gathered in front of the London Central Mosque to applaud fiery preachers prophesying …
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 …
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 …
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."
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.
Robert Pear / New York Times:
A Battle Over Expansion of Children's Insurance — The fight over a popular health insurance program for children is intensifying, with President Bush now leading efforts to block a major expansion of the program, which is a top priority for Congressional Democrats.
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