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ABC 7 Eyewitness News:
Iranian president intends to visit Ground Zero — Iranian mission says he'll go despite NYPD rejection — Iranian president Mahmoud Ahmadinejad requested to visit Ground Zero during an upcoming trip to New York. That request was rejected Wednesday. But a source tells Eyewitness News that the decision may not stop him.
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Thomas J. Lueck / New York Times:
Iranian Leader Was Denied Ground Zero Visit — An advance team for the president of Iran, Mahmoud Ahmadinejad, asked earlier this month that he be allowed to lay a wreath at the World Trade Center site during the opening of the United Nations General Assembly next week, but the request was denied …
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The Big Trunk / Power Line:
Columbia's disgrace — There is a suicidal mania that grips elite opinion in the United States. It is exemplified nowhere better than in our elite educational institutions. Today, for example, Columbia University has issued the following statement to its alumni:
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Washington Post:
Longer Leaves for Troops Blocked — Senate Republicans yesterday rejected a bipartisan proposal to lengthen the home leaves of U.S. troops fighting in Iraq and Afghanistan, derailing a measure that war opponents viewed as one of the best chances to force President Bush to accelerate a redeployment of forces.
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New York Times:
Effort to Shift Course in Iraq Fails in Senate — A proposal that Democrats put forward as their best chance of changing the course of the Iraq war died on the Senate floor on Wednesday, as Republicans stood firmly with President Bush. — With other war initiatives seemingly headed for the same fate …
Susan Cornwell / Reuters:
Senate Republicans block Iraq bill — WASHINGTON (Reuters) - Senate Republicans blocked a plan on Wednesday to give U.S. troops in Iraq more home leave, defeating a proposal widely seen as the Democrats' best near-term chance to change President George W. Bush's Iraq strategy.
Steve Fainaru / Washington Post:
Where Military Rules Don't Apply — Blackwater's Security Force in Iraq Given Wide Latitude by State Dept. — Blackwater USA, the private security company involved in a Baghdad shootout last weekend, operated under State Department authority that exempted the company from U.S. military …
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Will / Attytood:
More proof "the surge is working": Right-wingers claim even the CIA …
More proof "the surge is working": Right-wingers claim even the CIA …
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Associated Press:
New al-Qaida video released — CAIRO, Egypt - Al-Qaida's deputy leader Ayman al-Zawahri said the United States was being defeated in Afghanistan, Iraq and other fronts in a new video released Thursday, the latest in a series put out by the terror network. — The video came days …
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Lurxst / Daily Kos:
I Don't Support the Troops..oops, there, I said it — This has been digging at me for, oh, about 4 years now. I have been hesitant to express this thought, in comments sections and in discussion with other people about the Iraq quagmire for fear of, I don't know, being called mean. Or, un-American.
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Kristen McQueary / The Daily Southtown:
Weller's next challenge — If U.S. Rep. Jerry Weller runs for re-election, he may face two feisty gals: Debbie and Emily. — Senate Majority Leader Debbie Halvorson (D-Crete) is considering running for the 11th District congressional seat, in part because of hot pursuit from Emily's List …
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Ben Smith / The Politico:
Darth Cheney — "You can always tell when the Republicans are getting restless, because the Vice President's motorcade pulls into the Capitol, and Darth Vader emerges," Clinton said just now at Town Hall in New York. — "I'm not invited to their meetings and I don't know what he says or does," she said.
Wall Street Journal:
Donors Stir 'Bundling' Questions — Clinton Campaign Vows — To Check Contributions — Solicited by Supporter — BRISTOW, Va. — When Hillary Rodham Clinton held an intimate fund-raising event at her Washington home in late March, Pamela Layton donated $4,600, the maximum allowed by law …
Barry Meier / New York Times:
Prominent Lawyer to Be Indicted — Melvyn I. Weiss, a leading class-action securities lawyer, is expected to be indicted as early as today in connection with the kickback scheme that has ensnared his firm, Milberg Weiss, and several former lawyers there, the firm said yesterday in a statement.
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Ambrose Evans-Pritchard / Telegraph:
Fears of dollar collapse as Saudis take fright — Saudi Arabia has refused to cut interest rates in lockstep with the US Federal Reserve for the first time, signalling that the oil-rich Gulf kingdom is preparing to break the dollar currency peg in a move that risks setting off a stampede out of the dollar across the Middle East.
Marc Fisher / Raw Fisher:
Pants Update: The Dry Cleaners Shuts Down — Roy Pearson, the D.C. administrative law judge whose $67 million lawsuit against his neighborhood dry cleaners turned into a worldwide lesson in how one obsessed person can hijack the American legal system, lost his case in court …
Jules Crittenden:
The Gallic War — Mon ami le Frogman has done me the tremendous honor of refering to me as Gaius Julius Crittenden ... apparently a mocking reference to my efforts to document the Gallic War ... this most recent lasted about five minutes, so documenting it really wasn't hard work.
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