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sos.georgia.gov:
Georgia Election Results Unofficial And Incomplete Results of the Tuesday, December 02, 2008 General Election Runoff — The results displayed are UNOFFICIAL AND INCOMPLETE until certified by both county election superintendents and the Secretary of State, a process that will not be completed until the week of December 8.
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Jim Tharpe / Atlanta Journal-Constitution:
Chambliss wins second term in U.S. Senate — Defeats Jim Martin after arduous runoff campaign — Republican U.S. Sen. Saxby Chambliss beat back a prolonged challenge from Democrat Jim Martin on Tuesday to win a second term in office after a bruising four-week runoff between the one-time University of Georgia fraternity brothers.
New York Times:
Republican Wins Runoff for Senator in Georgia
Republican Wins Runoff for Senator in Georgia
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Shannon McCaffrey / Associated Press:
Georgia Sen. Chambliss wins re-election in runoff
Georgia Sen. Chambliss wins re-election in runoff
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The Politico:
Jeb: I am considering Senate run — Former Florida Gov. Jeb Bush - the younger brother of the president - is weighing a run for the Senate seat currently held by Republican Mel Martinez. — Martinez announced Tuesday that he will not seek reelection in 2010.
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Marc Ambinder:
Jeb Bush Ponders Florida Senate Run — Two sources close to Jeb Bush, including one who has spoken to the former Florida governor within the past few hours, say he is seriously considering a run for Senate now that incumbent Republican Mel Martinez has retired.
Wall Street Journal:
India Names Mumbai Mastermind — MUMBAI — India has accused a senior leader of the Pakistani militant group Lashkar-e-Taiba of orchestrating last week's terror attacks that killed at least 172 people here, and demanded the Pakistani government turn him over and take action against the group.
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Mirror.co.uk:
Mumbai bombers ‘took cocaine and LSD’ before carrying out attacks — Terrorist Azam Ameer Qasab lies dazed after his capture (Pic:Getty) — The Mumbai terrorists may have pumped themselves full of drugs to keep going during their murderous three-day rampage.
Reuters:
Obama shelves oil company tax after price fall: aide — CHICAGO/WASHINGTON (Reuters) - President-elect Barack Obama is not planning to implement a windfall profit tax on oil companies because prices have dropped below $80 a barrel, an aide said on Tuesday. — “President-elect Obama announced …
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Susan Page / USA Today:
Poll: Obama earning high marks
Poll: Obama earning high marks
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David Stout / New York Times:
Gates Says He and Obama on the Same Page on Iraq
Gates Says He and Obama on the Same Page on Iraq
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Daily Mail:
Jewish mother killed in Mumbai attacks ‘was pregnant’... and her son, 2, may have been beaten by militants … The Jewish mother murdered in the brutal Mumbai terror attacks last week was six month pregnant, her father revealed today at her funeral. — And Rivkah Holtzberg's two-year-old son …
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Bill Gross / PIMCO:
Investment Outlook — Dow 5,000 Redux — Here I go again! Gosh it was only six years ago that I cemented my place in stock market history by predicting that the Dow would fall from 8,500 to 5,000, instead of going up to 14,000 where it peaked in October of 2007.
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Felix Salmon / Portfolio:
Q — The most striking thing about Bill Gross's column this month …
Q — The most striking thing about Bill Gross's column this month …
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Tom Gross / Wall Street Journal:
If this Isn't Terrorism, What Is? — Last week in Mumbai we witnessed as clear a case of carefully planned mass terrorism as we are ever likely to see. — The seven-venue atrocity was coordinated in a highly sophisticated way. The terrorists used BlackBerrys to stay in touch with each …
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Tim Weiner / New York Times:
Odetta, Voice of Civil Rights Movement, Dies at 77 — Odetta, the singer whose deep voice wove together the strongest songs of American folk music and the civil rights movement, died on Tuesday at Lenox Hill Hospital in Manhattan. She was 77. — The cause was heart disease, said her manager, Doug Yeager.
Tamar Lewin / New York Times:
College May Become Unaffordable for Most in U.S. — The rising cost of college — even before the recession — threatens to put higher education out of reach for most Americans, according to the annual report from the National Center for Public Policy and Higher Education.
Kathleen Parker / Washington Post:
Rise of the Twitterati — “I have discovered that all human evil comes from this, man's being unable to sit still in a room.” — We are sitting in a restaurant, sipping wine and chatting, when my friend begins twittering. — Not in the usual way. Two women twittering turn no heads.
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Nate Silver / FiveThirtyEight.com:
Statistical Models Now Show Coleman as Slight Favorite — With in excess of 90 percent of Minnesota's votes now having been recounted, our statistical models now show Norm Coleman as the favorite to retain his senate seat, although with a high degree of uncertainty and without accounting …
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New York Times:
After Sharp Words on C.I.A., Obama Faces a Delicate Task — WASHINGTON — For two years on the presidential campaign trail, Barack Obama rallied crowds with strongly worded critiques of the Bush administration's most controversial counterterrorism programs, from hiding terrorism suspects …