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Anne E. Kornblut / Washington Post:
Losing Ground In Iowa, Clinton Assails Obama — With a new poll showing her losing ground in the Iowa caucus race, Sen. Hillary Rodham Clinton (D-N.Y.) mounted a new, more aggressive attack against Sen. Barack Obama (D-Ill.) on Sunday, raising direct questions about his character …
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Adam Nagourney / New York Times:Lonely No More, Huckabee Faces Hurdles
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Karl Rove / Financial Times:Memo to Obama: win Iowa or lose the race
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Patrick Healy / The Caucus:An Attack, From the Candidate's Mouth
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Simon Romero / New York Times:
Venezuela Hands Narrow Defeat to Chávez Plan — Voters in this country narrowly defeated a proposed overhaul to the constitution in a contentious referendum over granting President Hugo Chávez sweeping new powers, the Election Commission announced early Monday.
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Gateway Pundit:
Doing the Marxist Slide— Venezuela Votes on Chavista Rule... Update: CHAVEZ WINS!... Update 2: Maybe Not?... Update 3: CHAVEZ GOES DOWN!! — Final Results— Hugo Chavez loses election: — NO- 51% — SI- 49% — The Marxists at HovReferendum must be very sad. boo-hoo — Earlier Updates...
CNN:
Voters reject Chavez's referendum — CARACAS, Venezuela (CNN) — Venezuelan voters narrowly rejected a constitutional referendum that would have bolstered President Hugo Chavez's embrace of socialism and granted an indefinite extension of his eligibility to serve as president, the National Electoral Council reported early Monday.
Ian James / Associated Press:
Chavez loses constitutional vote — CARACAS, Venezuela - Humbled by his first electoral defeat ever, President Hugo Chavez said Monday he may have been too ambitious in asking voters to let him stand indefinitely for re-election and endorse a huge leap to a socialist state.
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Daniel / Venezuela News And Views:The NO wins in Venezuela — This picture is Daniel Duquenal worn …
Kevin Sullivan / Washington Post:
Sudan's President Pardons British Teacher — A British school teacher jailed in Sudan for two weeks after allowing her students to name a teddy bear Muhammad was freed Monday following a pardon by the Sudanese president. — President Omar al-Bahir's pardon of Gillian Gibbons allowed …
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Clifford J. Levy / New York Times:
Party's Triumph Raises Question of Putin's Plans — With President Vladimir V. Putin's opponents persistently hobbled by the Kremlin, his party swept Sunday to the kind of landslide long predicted for the parliamentary elections. Yet the results, while a triumph for Mr. Putin …
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CNN:
Putin: Vote victory is a mandate — MOSCOW, Russia (CNN) — Russian President Vladimir Putin Monday declared his party's parliamentary victory as a mandate to cement power, according to The Associated Press, reporting remarks he made on Russian TV. — But international electoral monitors …
Patrick / FishBowlDC:
Imus Is Back! — Highlights in bold. — 6:00 A.M.: Charles McCord opens the program. "The Imus in the Morning program has returned to the air following a hiatus of nearly 8 months." Wild applause from the live audience assembled in Times Square's Town Hall.
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Marissamuller / CNN Political Ticker:
Romney ready to address Mormon religion head-on — WASHINGTON (CNN) - GOP presidential candidate Mitt Romney will make a much anticipated speech on his Mormon faith this week. — Romney's campaign says that the address, entitled "Faith In America," will take place Thursday …
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Jonathan Martin / The Politico:
Pro-Huckabee negative calls flood Iowa — A newly-formed group claiming to support Mike Huckabee hit the phones of Iowa Republicans tonight with an automated push-poll attacking Huckabee's GOP opponents and praising the former Arkansas governor. — Officials representing the Iowa campaigns …
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Wall Street Journal:
Subprime Debacle Traps Even Very Credit-Worthy — As Housing Boomed, — Industry Pushed Loans — To a Broader Market — One common assumption about the subprime mortgage crisis is that it revolves around borrowers with sketchy credit who couldn't have bought a home without paying punitively high interest rates.
Paul Krugman / New York Times:
Innovating Our Way to Financial Crisis — The financial crisis that began late last summer, then took a brief vacation in September and October, is back with a vengeance. — How bad is it? Well, I've never seen financial insiders this spooked — not even during the Asian crisis of 1997-98 …
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Sabin Willett / Boston Globe:
'I will never leave Guantanamo' — "WE HAVE important news for you!" — Chained to the floor of a cell in Camp Six, Guantanamo, Joseph said nothing. But he had some news for us, too. — The Court of Appeals had decided what record - what pieces of paper - it would examine when it considered his "Detainee Treatment Act" case.
Rudy Giuliani / Wall Street Journal:
The Meaning of Fiscal Conservatism — With economic uncertainty weighing on the minds of many Americans, Congress is preparing to recess after another year of profligate spending, protectionist talk and promises of higher taxes. No wonder some people feel like we're moving in the wrong direction.
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