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New York Times:
Musharraf Leaves White House in Lurch — For more than five months the United States has been trying to orchestrate a political transition in Pakistan that would manage to somehow keep Gen. Pervez Musharraf in power without making a mockery of President Bush's promotion of democracy in the Muslim world.
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Cernig / The Newshoggers:
Pentagon Backs Musharraf — Quelle Suprise! Via Raw Story, the Pentagon has said that it will be business as usual with Pakistan's dictator. … This is the actual response of the Bush administration - there's no way this decision is a purely Pentagon one - while Rice mouths weasel words …
The Corner:
re: Pakistan Emergency — Things were certainly heating up a lot last week in Pakistan though the various jihadi attacks didn't get much coverage in the West. — In the Punjab, far from the frontier there was a major suicide bomb attack against the Pakistani Air Force, killing eight officers and cadets …
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CNN:
'Emergency will last as long as necessary' — (CNN) — The state of emergency declared in Pakistan will be imposed for "as long as it is necessary," Pakistani Prime Minister Shaukat Aziz told reporters Sunday, a day after President Pervez Musharraf announced the measure which suspends the constitution and widens his powers.
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Matthew Mosk / Washington Post:
Thompson Adviser Has Criminal Past — Republican presidential candidate Fred Thompson has been crisscrossing the country since early this summer on a private jet lent to him by a businessman and close adviser who has a criminal record for drug dealing. — Thompson selected the businessman …
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Times of London:
Saudi Arabia is hub of world terror — The desert kingdom supplies the cash and the killers — Nick Fielding and Sarah Baxter, Washington — It was an occasion for tears and celebration as the Knights of Martyrdom proclaimed on video: "Our brother Turki fell during the rays of dawn …
Maureen Dowd / New York Times:
Gift of Gall — Girlfriend had a rough week. — First Hillary got brushed back by the boys in the debate. Then some women bemoaned Hillaryland's "Don't hit me, I'm a girl" strategy. — The Washington Post's Ruth Marcus deplored the "antifeminist subtext" of Hillary's campaign playing the woman-as-victim card.
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Molly Ivors / Whiskey Fire:
Idiot Princess™ — Seems like we just did this, doesn't it? — But then, MoDo must be telling herself the same thing. — Yes, the Idiot Princess™ is at it again, sharpening her tools for her paymasters who clearly fear Hillary with a pathology that must be based on some deep Freudian s**t …
Jeff Jacoby / Boston Globe:
A hero in Castro's gulag — AT A White House ceremony tomorrow President Bush will honor eight distinguished men and women with the Presidential Medal of Freedom, the nation's highest civil award. Among the recipients will be the longtime civil rights activist Benjamin Hooks; Harper Lee …
Patrick Healy / New York Times:
Clinton Rebuts Accusations of Secrecy — As Senator Hillary Rodham Clinton began a four-day swing through Iowa on Saturday, her political camp struck back against accusations that she and her husband were being overly secretive about discussions they had during their White House years.
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Teresa Watanabe / Los Angeles Times:
Citizenship applications climb despite fee hike — Growing anti-immigration sentiment is pushing many people to take action so they can vote, experts say. — The number of citizenship applications received in the Los Angeles area tripled in September compared with the same period last year …
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N. Gregory Mankiw / New York Times:
Beyond Those Health Care Numbers — WITH the health care system at the center of the political debate, a lot of scary claims are being thrown around. The dangerous ones are not those that are false; watchdogs in the news media are quick to debunk them. Rather, the dangerous ones …
Tina Rosenberg / New York Times:
The Perils of Petrocracy — I. — Who holds the world's oil? You might assume it's in the hands of big private oil companies like ExxonMobil. But in fact, 77 percent of the world's oil reserves are held by national oil companies with no private equity, and there are 13 state-owned oil companies …
Frank Rich / New York Times:
Noun + Verb + 9/11 + Iran = Democrats' Defeat? — WHEN President Bush started making noises about World War III, he only confirmed what has been a Democratic article of faith all year: Between now and Election Day he and Dick Cheney, cheered on by the mob of neocon dead-enders, are going to bomb Iran.
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