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Jim Rutenberg / New York Times:
Clinton Finds Way to Play Along With Drudge — As Senator Barack Obama prepared to give a major speech on Iraq one morning a few weeks ago, a flashing red-siren alert went up on the Drudge Report Web site. It read, "Queen of the Quarter: Hillary Crushes Obama in Surprise Fund-Raising Surge …
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Washington Post:
Dishwashers for Clinton — DONORS WHOSE addresses turn out to be tenements. Dishwashers and waiters who write $1,000 checks. Immigrants who ante up because they have been instructed to by powerful neighborhood associations, or, as one said, "They informed us to go, so I went."
Washington Post:Candidates Spar With Each Other, And With Clinton
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Sabrina Tavernise / New York Times:
Iraq and Turkey See Tensions Rise After Ambush — A brazen ambush by Kurdish militants that left at least 12 Turkish soldiers dead touched off a major escalation in Turkey-Iraq tensions on Sunday, bringing fears that Turkey would retaliate immediately by sending troops across the border into Iraq.
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Valerie Plame Wilson / The Huffington Post:
Finally Telling My Story — I'm Valerie Plame Wilson and I'm excited to be here and blog about my book Fair Game: My Life as a Spy, My Betrayal by the White House, which goes on sale Monday, Oct 22. When my publisher sent me the finished copy earlier this week, it was thrilling.
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Larry Johnson / NO QUARTER:
Valerie Plame Wilson and the Ultimate Betrayal — Valerie's problem is her decency and humanity. She has reasons most Americans don't know to be really angry with George Bush and George Tenet but she has contained her rage. In a new tasty nugget in her book, Fair Game, she gives some details on the 2004 Al Qaeda threat to kill her.
Jake Tapper / ABCNEWS:
Key Clinton Backer Rips Giuliani's Personal Life — Rep. Charles Rangel Apparently Refers to Giuliani as a 'Cheating Goddamn Husband' — Rep. Charlie Rangel, D-N.Y., the dean of the New York congressional delegation, chairman of the House Ways and Means Committee, longtime political booster …
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Vikas Bajaj / New York Times:
Mortgage Security Bondholders Facing a Cutoff of Interest Payments — For all the pain in the mortgage market, investors who hold bonds backed by risky home loans have continued to receive their monthly interest payments — until now. — Collateralized debt obligations …
Doug Struck / Washington Post:
At the Poles, Melting Occurring at Alarming Rate — For scientists, global warming is a disaster movie, its opening scenes set at the poles of Earth. The epic already has started. And it's not fiction. — The scenes are playing, at the start, in slow motion: The relentless grip …
Irenep / Michael Yon:
Resistance is Futile — October 22, 2007 — Resistance is futile: You will be (mis)informed. — A gulf. — A gap. — A chasm. — A parallel universe. — All describe the bizarro-world contrast between what most Americans seem to think is happening in Iraq versus what is really happening in Iraq.
US Department of State:
Says U.S. will keep its commitment to build a secure Iraq — "Iraq has become the central front in the war on terror," Vice President Cheney said October 10. — Speaking at the Heritage Foundation in Washington, Cheney said it was "crucial that we enforced the U.N. Security Council resolutions" …
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Raymond Hernandez / New York Times:
A Protector as a Child, Honored as a Hero — In June 2005, Lt. Michael P. Murphy and three fellow members of the Navy Seals were on a mission in the mountains of Afghanistan when they were pinned down by a swarm of enemy fighters. Trapped in a steep ravine, they were unable to get a radio signal to call for help.
Ed Morrissey / Captain's Quarters:
What NASA Won't Tell You — NASA commissioned a study of aviation safety through thousands of interviews with the people with a bird's-eye view of the industry — the pilots. After conducting telephone interviews with 24,000 commercial and general aviation pilots from 2001 to 2005 …
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Adam Liptak / New York Times:
Say What You Like, Just Don't Say It Here — The American commitment to free speech is the most robust in the world. But these days that tolerance stops at the border. — Two cases pending in federal court in Manhattan will soon test how far the government can go in keeping Americans safe …
David Segal / Washington Post:
Low Road to Splitsville — Right-Wing Publisher's Breakup Is Super-Rich In Tawdry Details — Looking for a perfect little weekend vacation this fall? Here's a travel tip you don't hear very often: Head to Pittsburgh. Right away. — Seriously, get in the car and read this story later …
Joe Nocera / New York Times:
Ready or Not, Here Comes the Fox Business Network — It was Thursday around 4:30, and I couldn't take it anymore. — All week long, I'd been sporadically watching Rupert Murdoch's new Fox Business Network, which made its debut on Monday. I was trying to figure out what, exactly …
Jan Moller / New Orleans Times-Picayune:
JINDAL WINS — He's the nation's first governor of Indian descent — BATON ROUGE — In a campaign that had the air of both the inevitable and the historical, Bobby Jindal was elected governor Saturday, claiming the electoral prize that eluded him four years ago.
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