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Mike Atherton / Times of London:
Bombay: wealthy owe lives to hotel's cummerbund heroes — Staff shielded guests from gunmen's bullets — They were heroes in cummerbunds and overalls. The staff of the Taj Mahal Palace hotel saved hundreds of wealthy guests as heavily armed gunmen roamed the building, firing indiscriminately …
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Daily Mail:
Massacre in Mumbai: Up to SEVEN gunmen were British and ‘came from same area as 7/7 bombers’ … British-born Pakistanis were among the Mumbai terrorists, Indian government sources claimed today, as the death toll rose to at least 150. — As many as seven of the terrorists may have British connections …
New York Times:
Brooklyn Couple Killed in Attacks — Leaders of the Chabad-Lubavitch movement in Brooklyn and the worldwide ultra-orthodox Jewish community began on Friday to mourn the deaths of Rabbi Gavriel Holtzberg and his wife Rivka, who were killed in the terrorist attack of the Nariman House …
John Taylor / Times of London:Jewish hostages killed as British terrorists linked to Bombay attacks
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Fox News:Urgent: Unconfirmed Reports That Hostages Inside Mumbai Religious …
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Jack Healy / New York Times:
Wal-Mart Employee Trampled to Death by Customers — A Wal-Mart employee in suburban New York died after being trampled by a crush of shoppers who tore down the front doors and thronged into the store early Friday morning, turning the annual rite of post-Thanksgiving bargain hunting into a frenzy.
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Mark Silva / The Swamp:
‘Black Friday:’ Three dead so far — Some “Black Friday.” — First a temporary maintenance worker died opening the doors of a Wal-Mart to a bargaining-hunting crowd of human wolves. And now two are dead at a Toys “R” Us. — Lay a little blame at the feet of the government …
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Michael D. Shear / Washington Post:
Adviser Who Insulted Clinton Has Role in Transition — Samantha Power, the Harvard professor who was forced to resign from Barack Obama's presidential campaign last spring after calling Sen. Hillary Rodham Clinton “a monster,” is now advising the president-elect on transition matters relating …
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Fox News:
Obama Adviser Who Called Clinton a ‘Monster’ Returns — Samantha Power is among foreign policy experts the president-elect's office selected to help the incoming administration prepare for Clinton's anticipated nomination as secretary of state. — A former adviser to Barack Obama's presidential campaign …
Michael Falcone / The Caucus:
Bush Weighs In on His Legacy — As the clock ticks down on his days in the White House, President George W. Bush is taking part in one of his last presidential rituals — helping to shape the perception of his years in office. — In an interview conducted earlier this month by his sister …
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David Alexander / Front Row Washington:
Bush contemplates how he'd like to be remembered — President George W. Bush, nearing the end of his final term in office, says he most wants to be remembered as someone who came to Washington and didn't lose his values. — Someone who didn't sell his soul to the political process.
Wall Street Journal:
Rubin, Under Fire, Defends His Role at Citi — ‘Nobody Was Prepared’ for Crisis of '08 — Under fire for his role in the near-collapse of Citigroup Inc., Robert Rubin said its problems were due to the buckling financial system, not its own mistakes, and that his role was peripheral …
Rusty Shackleford, Ph.D. / The Jawa Report:
American Muslims Justify, Equivocate Mumbai Massacre [UPDATED, Bumped] — Samir Khan emerges from his parents' house in Charlotte, NC — Our nemesis Samir Khan [aka, “inshallahshaheed"] over at the “Ignored Puzzle Pieces of Knowledge” is talking about the Mumbai massacre over at this blog.
Paul Krugman:
Was the Great Depression a monetary phenomenon? — Sins of omission? — Has anyone else noticed that the current crisis sheds light on one of the great controversies of economic history? — A central theme of Keynes's General Theory was the impotence of monetary policy in depression-type conditions.
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Jon Friedman / MarketWatch:
Mr. Obama, enjoy the media adulation while you can — Commentary: President-elect should remember that what goes up must come down — This is an update to fix a typographical error. — NEW YORK (MarketWatch) — I'm starting to feel a little guilty about the media's treatment …
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