Israelis seized nuclear material in Syrian raid  —  Israeli commandos seized nuclear material of North Korean origin during a daring raid on a secret military site in Syria before Israel bombed it this month, according to informed sources in Washington and Jerusalem.

A Mother's Strength, a Candidate's Ambition  —  Dorothy Rodham's Experiences Shaped and Inspire Clinton  —  Family friends offer harmless details about Dorothy Emma Howell Rodham.  She likes to read.  She travels on her own.  She loves the National Zoo.

Open Letter to Progressive Opponents of Mahmoud Ahmadinejad  —  by The Columbia Coalition Against the War  —  As Columbia only very recently announced, Iranian President Mahmoud Ahmadinejad will be speaking in Roone Arledge auditorium this Monday.  A number of students and student organizations …

Video: Of course we'd invite Hitler to speak, says Columbia dean  —  Webloggin's also on this.  I have it in my head somehow that Dwight Eisenhower, when offered the opportunity to personally accept the surrender of a German general, refused.  So unspeakably loathsome did he find the Nazis …

Explosives belt designated for holiday attack found in Tel Aviv apartment  —  A suicide attack in Tel Aviv was thwarted on Saturday when security forces found an explosives belt in an apartment in the city, designated to be used in an attack over the Yom Kippur holiday.

War Costing $720 Million Each Day, Group Says  —  The money spent on one day of the Iraq war could buy homes for almost 6,500 families or health care for 423,529 children, or could outfit 1.27 million homes with renewable electricity, according to the American Friends Service Committee …

More Profit and Less Nursing at Many Homes  —  Habana Health Care Center, a 150-bed nursing home in Tampa, Fla., was struggling when a group of large private investment firms purchased it and 48 other nursing homes in 2002.  —  The facility's managers quickly cut costs.

Iraq: Blackwater guards fired unprovoked  —  BAGHDAD - Iraqi investigators have a videotape that shows Blackwater USA guards opened fire against civilians without provocation in a shooting last week that left 11 people dead, a senior Iraqi official said Saturday.  He said the case was referred to the Iraqi judiciary.

China in Three Colors  —  After a week of meetings with Chinese energy, environmental and clean-car experts, I'm left with one big, gnawing question: Can China go green without going orange?  —  That is, can China really undertake the energy/environmental revolution it needs without …

Nuance and Resolve in Rulings by Attorney General Nominee  —  In his 18 years on the federal bench, Judge Michael B. Mukasey issued more than 1,500 decisions concerning matters as cataclysmic as the Holocaust and as mundane as milk, beer and cigarettes.  —  In his opinions …

Thompson's Speaking Style  —  ...is a bit dull.  People are looking down, wearing somber faces.  Some at the dinner tables have begun chatting and whispering during the speech.  The majority who are paying attention are really looking for an applause line — perhaps, to put it harshly, for something that will keep them awake.