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Egyptians open fire on Palestinians — Egyptian border guards have opened fire on Palestinians who breached the border to escape Israel's assault on Hamas in the Gaza Strip. — An Egyptian security official said there were at least five breaches along the nine-mile border and hundreds of Palestinian residents were pouring in.
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Ezra Klein / American Prospect:
ISRAEL, WRONG. — This is the paragraph that I can't get out of my head: … No deaths and few injuries. “Deeply disturbing.” Hamas lacks the technology to aim its rockets. They're taking potshots. In response, the Israeli government launched air strikes that have now killed …
Glenn Greenwald / Salon:
Marty Peretz and the American political consensus on Israel — (updated below - Update II) — Opinions about the Israeli-Palestinian dispute are so entrenched that any single outbreak of violence is automatically evaluated through a pre-existing lens, shaped by one's typically immovable beliefs …
Jerusalem Post:
‘Hamas could have prevented massacre’ — Hamas could have prevented the “massacre” in the Gaza Strip, Palestinian Authority President Mahmoud Abbas said Sunday in Cairo. — “We spoke to them and told them ‘Please, we ask you not to end the cease-fire. Let it continue,’” …
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Greg Mitchell / The Huffington Post:Attack on Gaza: As Usual, U.S. Media (And Most Liberals) Silent …
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Jerusalem Post:Artillery batteries deployed along border with Gaza Strip
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CBS News:
Condoleezza Rice: “I'm Not A Type A” — Outgoing Secretary Of State Shares Thoughts With Sunday Morning … She's been called the administration's “warrior princess,” the true believer who's visited scores of countries, traveling a million miles to implement, explain, and defend, president George W. Bush's foreign policy.
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Rice: People will soon thank Bush for what he's done — (CNN) — Secretary of State Condoleezza Rice said that despite President Bush's low approval ratings, people will soon “start to thank this president for what he's done.” — “So we can sit here and talk about the long record …
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Carol E. Lee / The Politico:
Obama bristles as the bubble closes in on him — HONOLULU - The media glare, the constant security appendage and the sheer production that has become a morning jog or a hankering for an ice cream cone - it's been closing in on Barack Obama for some time. — Now the president-elect appears …
Michael Goodwin / NY Daily News:
Goodwin: Say goodnight, Caroline — In the beginning, just three long weeks ago, the idea of Caroline Kennedy being a United States senator had a certain ring to it. The Camelot myth still has shelf life and a merger with the historic Obama presidency provided an intriguing story line.
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Dave Barry / Washington Post:
The Year in Review — How weird a year was it? Here's how weird: — O.J. actually got convicted of something. — Gasoline hit $4 a gallon — and those were the good times. — On several occasions, “Saturday Night Live” was funny. — There were a few days there in October …
Maria Panaritis / Philly.com:
Cars leaving lots without drivers — A half-dozen trailers rolled up to Eckenhoff Cadillac Buick Pontiac GMC in Jenkintown bright and early and wiped the lot clean of $8.4 million in inventory - Hummers, Cadillacs and all. — “Load up, leave. Load up, leave. . . .” …
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Thomas L. Friedman / New York Times:
Win, Win, Win, Win, Win ... How many times do we have to see this play before we admit that it always ends the same way? — Which play? The one where gasoline prices go up, pressure rises for more fuel-efficient cars, then gasoline prices fall and the pressure for low-mileage vehicles vanishes …
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Susan Edelman / New York Post:
CITY PENSION NIGHTMARE — The city's five pension funds have lost close to 30 percent in the Wall Street crisis this year - threatening to hit taxpayers like an economic tsunami for years to come, experts are warning. — An estimated $30 billion in recent pension investment losses …
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NY Daily News:
Bernie's funda-mental defense — If you thought Bernard Madoff's $50 billion investment scheme was audacious, get ready for his alibi. Lawyers for the accused scammer are exploring an insanity defense, we hear. — “Bernie's family and his attorneys may argue that, somewhere along the line …
Hillel Italie / Associated Press:
Anger, sadness over fabricated Holocaust story — NEW YORK (AP) - It's the latest story that touched, and betrayed, the world. — “Herman Rosenblat and his wife are the most gentle, loving, beautiful people,” literary agent Andrea Hurst said Sunday, anguishing over why she, and so many others …
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