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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 …
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Michael Slackman / New York Times:
U.S. Focus on Ahmadinejad Puzzles Iranians — TEHRAN — When Mahmoud Ahmadinejad was first elected president, he said Iran had more important issues to worry about than how women dress. He even called for allowing women into soccer games, a revolutionary idea for revolutionary Iran.
CNN:
Brzezinski: U.S. could be rushing to war with Iran — 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.
Jacob Gershman / New York Sun:
Legislatures May Act on Columbia — Silver Warns of Impact on State Aid — As the president of Iran, Mahmoud Ahmadinejad, prepares to address Columbia University today amid a storm of student protest, state and city lawmakers say they are considering withholding public funds from the school …
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Sen. Mike Gravel / The Huffington Post:
Let Ahmadinejad Go to Ground Zero — First, a few words about Ahmadinejad: His claims that the Holocaust was a myth are wrong and disgusting. His rhetorical threats to Israel are irresponsible and detestable. I wish he lost his 2005 election campaign against his reformist opponent …
Bill Sammon / Examiner:
Examiner Exclusive: President predicts GOP will keep control of White House after 'tough race' in 2008 — Washington, D.C. (Map, News) - President Bush, for the first time, is predicting that Hillary Rodham Clinton will defeat Barack Obama in the Democratic presidential primaries.
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Josh Marshall / Talking Points Memo:
DON'T MISS THAT MEME — As you can see in our feature story over on the right, the White House's new line is that Barack Obama may be too "intellectually lazy" to run a serious presidential campaign let alone be President of the United States. — And don't think this was a stray comment.
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The Daily Background
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.
David Paul Kuhn / The Politico:
Podhoretz secretly urged Bush to bomb Iran — President Bush and Karl Rove sat listening to Norman Podhoretz for roughly 45 minutes at the White House as the patriarch of neoconservatism argued that the United States should bomb Iran's nuclear facilities. — The meeting was not on the president's public schedule.
Charles Lane / Washington Post:
Rather Ridiculous — I have obtained new documentary evidence regarding Dan Rather's relationship with his former bosses at CBS News. — Obviously, I cannot identify my source. But he told me during a collect call from Sofia, Bulgaria, that he has access to Rather's "personal files" and that his typewriter was built after 1966.
Wall Street Journal:
UAW Workers Walk Off the Job — DETROIT — United Auto Workers union members walked out of General Motors Corp. factories in the U.S. Monday morning after bargaining over a new national labor agreement failed to produce a deal by an 11 a.m. deadline - but union leaders said they planned …
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Cernig / The Newshoggers:
Hillary Declines To Commit To Withdrawal — Via Raw Story: … Of course it's appropriate to be speculating, you weasel-worded harridan! Bush is speculating, the U.S. top officials in Iraq are in front of Congess speculating, every foreign policy thinker on the planet is speculating!
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The Impolitic
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Howard Kurtz / Washington Post:
New York Times Says It Violated Policies Over MoveOn Ad — After two weeks of denials, the New York Times acknowledged that it should not have given a discount to MoveOn.org for a full-page advertisement assailing Gen. David H. Petraeus. — The liberal advocacy group should have paid $142,000 …
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.
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Bill Walsh / Breaking News Updates New Orleans:
Vitter earmarked federal money for creationist group — WASHINGTON — Sen. David Vitter, R-La., earmarked $100,000 in a spending bill for a Louisiana Christian group that has challenged the teaching of Darwinian evolution in the public school system and to which he has political ties.
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