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Mary Bruce / ABCNEWS:
Obama: Gitmo Likely Won't Close in His First 100 Days — Closing Guantanamo Bay More Difficult Than People Realize, President-Elect Says — President-elect Barack Obama said this weekend that he does not expect to close Guantanamo Bay in his first 100 days in office.
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Jennifer Parker / George's Bottom Line:
Obama Calls for ‘Grand Bargain’ on Economy: 'Everybody's Going to Have to Give' — In my exclusive interview with Barack Obama airing tomorrow on This Week, the president-elect told me that fixing our economy over the long term will require sacrifice from every American and scaling back some of his campaign promises.
ABCNEWS:
‘This Week’ Transcript: Barack Obama — George Stephanopoulos' Exlusive Interview with President-Elect Barack Obama — GEORGE STEPHANOPOULOS: Hello, again. In nine days he will be president of the United States. This morning Barack Obama is our exclusive headliner.Welcome back to THIS WEEK.
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Times of London:
Revealed: the environmental impact of Google searches — Physicist Alex Wissner-Gross says that performing two Google searches uses up as much energy as boiling the kettle for a cup of tea — Performing two Google searches from a desktop computer can generate about the same amount …
Bono / New York Times:
Notes From the Chairman — Once upon a couple of weeks ago ... I'm in a crush in a Dublin pub around New Year's. Glasses clinking clicking, clashing crashing in Gaelic revelry: swinging doors, sweethearts falling in and out of the season's blessings, family feuds subsumed or resumed.
David S. Broder / Washington Post:
An Early Drubbing For Obama — It was not lost on anyone that the president-elect of the United States, riding the crest of his popularity, and the Democratic leadership of the U.S. Senate were outsmarted last week by a state politician who won his last election almost 20 years ago.
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Steven Erlanger / New York Times:
A Gaza War Full of Traps and Trickery — JERUSALEM — The grinding urban battle unfolding in the densely populated Gaza Strip is a war of new tactics, quick adaptation and lethal tricks. — Hamas, with training from Iran and Hezbollah, has used the last two years to turn Gaza into a deadly maze …
Eric Lichtblau / New York Times:
Public Servant's Private Stint at Issue — WASHINGTON — Chiquita was facing the prospect of federal charges for paying protection money to Colombian terrorists to safeguard its banana crops, and the company needed help. It turned to Eric H. Holder Jr., an elite Washington lawyer well versed in the ways of the Justice Department.
Dave Newbart / Chicago Sun Times:
Vandals deface three local synagogues — Vandals spray-painted the words “Death to Israel” on two synagogues and a Jewish school early Saturday in three separate incidents police say could be linked and are being investigated as hate crimes. — In each case, the vandals — at times donning masks …
Yaakov Katz / Jerusalem Post:
IDF likely to expand Gaza op before cease-fire is imposed — The IDF will likely expand its operations in the Gaza Strip in the coming days in an effort to press Egypt to declare its readiness to stop the weapons smuggling from the Sinai Peninsula into Gaza, defense officials said Saturday.
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Wall Street Journal:
President Gulliver's Lawyer — A nominee who wants to tie down the executive branch. — Barack Obama's cabinet choices are understandably getting most media attention, but everyone knows policy is also made by the sub-cabinet. So we think more public scrutiny should be drawn …
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Anthony H. Cordesman / CSIS:
DATE OF PUBLICATION: … SYNOPSIS: — The Israeli-Hamas War, and there is little else that it can be called, has now lasted two weeks. Israeli jets have flown some 800 strike sorties, and the IDF has pushed deep into Gaza. Israel also continues to report tactical gains.
N. Gregory Mankiw / New York Times:
Is Government Spending Too Easy an Answer? — WHEN the Obama administration finally unveils its proposal to get the economy on the road to recovery, the centerpiece is likely to be a huge increase in government spending. But there are ample reasons to doubt whether this is what the economy needs.