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Hillary Clinton / NY Daily News:
Hillary: Why do I continue to run — This past Friday, during a meeting with a newspaper editorial board, I was asked about whether I was going to continue in the presidential race. — I made clear that I was - and that I thought the urgency to end the 2008 primary process was unprecedented.
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Katharine Q. Seelye / The Caucus:
On the Road: Clinton's Very Bad Day — Friday might have been one of the worst days of Senator Hillary Clinton's political career. Her campaign, as everyone knows, was already struggling. But on Friday, she made a reference to Bobby Kennedy's assassination _ a terrible choice of phrase …
Mary Flood / Houston Chronicle:
Lawyers cry foul in FLDS seizures — Many lawyers for children and parents in a Texas polygamist sect are boiling mad about the growing number of legal errors they claim the state has made in seizing and holding more than 460 children. — From the way officials handled an April anonymous phone tip …
NEWS.com.au:
Sex swap approved for girl, 12 — A JUDGE has allowed a 12-year-old Victorian girl to start a taxpayer-funded sex swap, despite objections from the child's father. — The girl has begun court-approved hormone treatment in the first step toward a complete gender switch.
Peter Nicholas / Los Angeles Times:
Trouble brewing in N.Y. for Clinton — Black leaders say that if Hillary Rodham Clinton returns as senator, she'll need to heal racial wounds her campaign has inflicted. — Even as she continues her longshot presidential bid, Hillary Rodham Clinton faces a political rift in New York …
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Thers / Firedoglake:
Late Night: The Autumn of Wingnuttia — George Packer's New Yorker article asking if conservatives have “run out of ideas” caused quite the stir in the Right Blogosphere this past week. And right bloggers proved Packer wrong: as it turns out, they didn't have any “ideas” to start with.
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Jim Yardley / New York Times:
Chinese Are Left to Ask Why Schools Fell — UNEQUAL DAMAGE. — DUJIANGYAN, China — The earthquake's destruction of Xinjian Primary School was swift and complete. Hundreds of children were crushed as the floors collapsed in a deluge of falling bricks and concrete.
Neil Asher Silberman / Washington Post:
Real Archaeologists Don't Wear Fedoras — After 17 years, Hollywood's most famous archaeologist is back in action. Now grayer and a bit creakier, Indiana Jones is again hacking his way through thick jungles, careering wildly in car chases and scrambling through dark tunnels to snatch …
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Times of London:
MI5 fears jihadis will use mentally ill as suicide bombers — Islamic terrorists may be targeting mentally disturbed or disabled people in Britain in a bid to form a new “brigade” of home-grown suicide bombers, security officials fear. — MI5 and police say the case of Nicky Reilly …
Associated Press:
Colombia Government Source Says Top Rebel Leader Is Dead — BOGOTA, Colombia — Colombia's Defense Ministry said Saturday that it has information from various intelligence sources that the legendary leader of Latin America's largest guerrilla army is dead.
The Columbus Dispatch:
Rev. Rod Parsley withdraws McCain endorsement — After saying Friday that he would not withdraw his endorsement of Sen. John McCain, pastor Rod Parsley has changed his mind. — The pastor of World Harvest Church, in the Canal Winchester area, issued a statement almost identical …