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Obama outlines job-creation plan — (CNN) — President-elect Barack Obama on Saturday offered an outline of his economic recovery plan and jobs were the top priority. — American workers will rebuild the nation's roads and bridges, modernize its schools and create more sources of alternative energy …
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Bush Appointees Land Career Science Jobs With Seemingly Unrelated Backgrounds — Bush Appointees Land Career Jobs Without Technical Backgrounds — The president of the nation's largest general science organization yesterday sharply criticized recent cases of Bush administration political …
Rana Jawad / Agence France Presse:
Terror plot mastermind killed by US missile in Pakistan — ISLAMABAD (AFP) - The alleged Al-Qaeda mastermind of a 2006 transatlantic airplane bombing plot was killed in a US missile attack in northwest Pakistan early Saturday, after spending almost a year on the run.
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Andrew Alderson / Telegraph:
Rashid Rauf: profile of a terror mastermind — Rashid Rauf is believed to have first come to the attention of the British police six years ago. — Attention focused on him after his uncle Mohammed Saeed, 54, was stabbed to death near his home in Birmingham in April 2002.
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Amanda Carpenter / Townhall.com:
Obama Selects $30K Private School for Girls — Barack Obama's two girls will attend Sidwell Friends—the same school Chelsea Clinton attended. — The reported middle school tuition rate is around $30,000 for each girl per year.
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Richard Leiby / Washington Post:
President-elect Barack Obama and Mrs. Obama Decide to Send Daughters …
President-elect Barack Obama and Mrs. Obama Decide to Send Daughters …
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Thomas Joscelyn / Weekly Standard:
Clear and Present Danger — The Obama administration is about to discover that the terrorists detained at Guantánamo are there for good reason. — On Sunday, November 16, CBS News's 60 Minutes broadcast the first interview with President-elect Barack Obama.
Tim Blair:
AS BAD AS IT GETS — “And you thought her media outings as a vice presidential candidate were as bad as it gets,” says alarmed MSNBC host David Shuster ... following footage of Sarah Palin speaking at a turkey processing plant: — Shuster (who urges that young viewers be shielded from the interview) …
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Jules Crittenden / Weekly Standard:
A Time for Thanksgiving — Obama's debt of gratitude to George W. Bush. — As the transition progresses and Barack Obama's inauguration draws closer, it's a good moment to mull the gifts George W. Bush has left for the incoming president. Bush has made the world a better place …
Bob Geiger:
The Saturday Cartoons — And here's our friends at Headzup showing us James Dobson celebrating the passage of California's Proposition 8 by asking WWJF? — And, via The Onion, we have a few minutes with Andy Rooney — well, China's version of the 60 Minutes commenter-in-chief …
John McCormick / Chicago Tribune:
For president-elect, a brief taste of normalcy at home — A routine, yet surreal, existence sequestered in a security bubble — President-elect Barack Obama greets the lunch crowd at Manny's Coffee Shop & Deli on South Jefferson Street as he stops to pick up sandwiches and pie.
Clinton / Associated Press:
Oprah, Leno, Letterman: What's Palin to do next? — Featured Topics: - Barack Obama - Presidential Transition — ANCHORAGE, Alaska - Sarah Palin is juggling offers to write books, appear in films and sit on dozens of interview couches at a rate astonishing for most Hollywood stars, let alone a first-term governor.
Gail Collins / New York Times:
Time for Him to Go — Thanksgiving is next week, and President Bush could make it a really special holiday by resigning. — Seriously. We have an economy that's crashing and a vacuum at the top. Bush — who is currently on a trip to Peru to meet with Asian leaders who no longer care what he thinks …
Abdi Sheikh / Reuters:
Somali rebels take steps to attack tanker pirates — MOGADISHU (Reuters) Islamist militants in Somalia took steps on Saturday to attack pirates behind the world's biggest hijack and rescue the captured Saudi Arabian supertanker, an Islamist spokesman said. — The Sirius Star …
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Celean Jacobson / Associated Press:
Carter, Annan, others refused entry to Zimbabwe — JOHANNESBURG, South Africa - Zimbabwe has refused to let Kofi Annan and two eminent colleagues visit the impoverished African country for a humanitarian mission, the three said Saturday. — The former U.N. secretary-general …
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Jackie Calmes / New York Times:
Fed Official Is Said to Be Choice for Treasury — WASHINGTON — President-elect Barack Obama will name Timothy F. Geithner, president of the Federal Reserve Bank of New York, to be his Treasury secretary, moving to fill a key post at a moment when the quavering financial markets are looking …
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Jonathan Cohn / The New Republic:
Assembly Line — Debunking the myth of the $70-per-hour autoworker. — If you've been following the auto industry's crisis, then you've probably read or heard a lot about overpaid American autoworkers—in particular, the fact that the average hourly employee of the Big Three makes $70 per hour.
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