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Agence France Presse:
Iranian president to face protests in New York — NEW YORK (AFP) — Iranian President Mahmoud Ahmadinejad was to face angry protests Sunday in New York, where he was due to arrive amid a storm of controversy over his appearances at the United Nations and a top university.
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Jihad Watch
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CNN:
Brzezinski: White House hyping Iran threat — WASHINGTON (CNN) — Former national security adviser Zbigniew Brzezinski likened U.S. officials' saber rattling about Iran's alleged nuclear ambitions to similar statements made before the start of the Iraq war.
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Vidiot Speak
David M. Schizer / law.columbia.edu:
STATEMENT BY DAVID M.SCHIZER RE: SIPA INVITATION TO MAHMOUD AHMADINEJAD — A controversy has developed about the invitation extended to President Mahmoud Ahmadinejad of Iran by the Columbia School of International and Public Affairs. Although Columbia Law School was not involved in arranging …
MSNBC:
'Meet the Press' transcript for Sept. 23, 2007 — Sen. Hillary Clinton, D-N.Y., and Former Federal Reserve chairman Alan Greenspan — MR. TIM RUSSERT: Our issues this Sunday: the Iraq war, healthcare, campaign fund-raising and more. Our Meet the Candidates 2008 series continues.
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CNN:
CNN LATE EDITION WITH WOLF BLITZER — Interview With Hillary Clinton; Interview With Chuck Hagel — THIS IS A RUSH TRANSCRIPT. THIS COPY MAY NOT BE IN ITS FINAL FORM AND MAY BE UPDATED. — WOLF BLITZER, HOST: It's 11 a.m. here in Washington, 8 a.m. in Los Angeles and 7 p.m. in Baghdad.
Anne E. Kornblut / Washington Post:
Hitting All the Sunday Talk Shows, Clinton Says a Lot but Reveals Little
Hitting All the Sunday Talk Shows, Clinton Says a Lot but Reveals Little
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Oliver Willis
PR Newswire:
Statement by Eli Pariser, MoveOn.org Political Action Executive Director, Resolving the New York Times Ad Rate Issue — WASHINGTON /PRNewswire-USNewswire/ — In the Public Editor column of today's New York Times, the Times' vice president admits that, without the knowledge or consent …
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Roger L. Simon / Pajamas Media:
ALL THE PROPAGANDA THAT'S FIT TO PRINT — Pajamas Media CEO Roger Simon underestimated how deep the institutional bias in the New York Times truly runs. That won't happen again. — Support Pajamas Media; Visit Our Advertisers — It's not often I underestimate the stuck-in-time …
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The Van Der Galiën Gazette
Alec MacGillis / Washington Post:
Giuliani's Rhetoric on Terror Contrasts With His Record — As Rudolph W. Giuliani campaigns for president, he rarely misses a chance to warn about the threat from terrorists. "They hate you," he told a woman at an Atlanta college. They "want to kill us," he told guests at a Virginia luncheon.
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The Caucus, Connecting.the.Dots, Brilliant at Breakfast, The Reaction, Riehl World View and TalkLeft
Henry Samuel / Telegraph:
French PM Fillon tells farmers 'France is broke' — France is bankrupt and can no longer afford to pay its workers generous salaries and subsidies, its prime minister has declared. — Francois Fillon made the undiplomatic outburst during a trip to the French island of Corsica, where farmers were demanding more government money.
The Corner:
Free-Speech Hypocrisy — Institutional memory is short, so just a flashback to the Qadhafi speech at Columbia. The sad thing is that while faculty fall all over themselves to bring repressive dictators to campus, many dissidents from the same countries are ignored.
Washington Post:
U.S. Aims To Lure Insurgents With 'Bait' — A Pentagon group has encouraged some U.S. military snipers in Iraq to target suspected insurgents by scattering pieces of "bait," such as detonation cords, plastic explosives and ammunition, and then killing Iraqis who pick up the items, according to military court documents.
Paul Krugman / New York Times:
Politics in Black and White — Last Thursday there was a huge march in Jena, La., to protest the harsh and unequal treatment of six black students arrested in the beating of a white classmate. Students who hung nooses to warn blacks not to sit under a "white" tree were suspended for three days …
Philip Shenon / New York Times:
Post-9/11 Cases Fuel Criticism for Nominee — The 21-year-old Jordanian immigrant was in shackles when he was brought into the courtroom of Judge Michael B. Mukasey in Federal District Court in Manhattan. — It was Oct. 2, 2001, and the prisoner, Osama Awadallah, then a college student …
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Rook's Rant
Scott Adams / The Dilbert Blog:
A Feeling I'm Being Had — I was happy to hear that NYC didn't allow Iranian President Ahmadinejad — to place a wreath at the WTC site. And I was happy that Columbia — University is rescinding the offer to let him speak. If you let a guy like — that express his views, before long the entire world will want freedom