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Times of London:
UN office doctored report on murder of Hariri — From James Bone in New York and Nicholas Blanchard in Beirut — THE United Nations withheld some of the most damaging allegations against Syria in its report on the murder of Rafik Hariri, the former Lebanese Prime Minister, it emerged yesterday.
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Anthony Shadid / Washington Post:
Syria Feels Heat Over U.N. Report — Middle East Is Captivated By Findings in Hariri Killing — DAMASCUS, Syria, Oct. 21 — A day after its release, a U.N. report that implicated senior Syrian officials in the assassination of former Lebanese prime minister Rafiq Hariri escalated pressure …
Michael J. Totten:
Mehlis Day — Fear and apprehension turned to anger and relief in Beirut after the Mehlis report named Syrian President Bashar Assad's brother-in-law as the chief suspect, and Lebanese President Emile Lahoud as a possible accomplice, in the assassination of Rafik Hariri. — The city didn't explode.
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Robert Mayer / Publius Pundit:
SYRIA SCREWED — The Mehlis report was released today, and it was the historic bombshell that everyone knew it would be. It implicated Syrian and Lebanese intelligence chiefs and military generals, all the way up to members of Assad's family. The commission was also extended up until December …
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Warren Hoge / New York Times:Bush Pushes U.N. to Move Swiftly on Syria Report
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Don Surber:
Iraqi Semper Liberi — News Busters says the media ignores the good news in Iraq. Not everyone. … Iraq came closer to freedom and liberty when its constitution was approved by a direct vote of the people. May the civil war subside and the Shia, Sunni and Kurds learn to live together.
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Washington Times:
Insiders see hint of Miers pullout — The White House has begun making contingency plans for the withdrawal of Harriet Miers as President Bush's choice to fill a seat on the Supreme Court, conservative sources said yesterday. — "White House senior staff are starting to ask outside people …
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Washington Post:
Miers Backed Race, Sex Set-Asides — As president of the State Bar of Texas, Harriet Miers wrote that "our legal community must reflect our population as a whole," and under her leadership the organization embraced racial and gender set-asides and set numerical targets to achieve that goal.
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Jonah Goldberg / The Corner on National Review Online:
THIS IS WHERE I GET OFF — My official position on Miers has been to criticize the selection, but give her the benefit of the doubt until the hearings. In other words, bad pick but she's the nominee so let's give her a shot. — No more. — After reading this story I'm officially against Miers.
Opinion Journal:
The Miers Blunder — Walking the nominee into a political crossfire. — Although skeptical from the start, we've restrained our criticism of the Harriet Miers nomination because we've long believed that Presidents of either party deserve substantial deference on their Supreme Court picks.
Hope Yen / Associated Press:
FEMA Official Says Boss Ignored Warnings — WASHINGTON — In the midst of the chaos that followed Hurricane Katrina, a Federal Emergency Management Agency official in New Orleans sent a dire e-mail to Director Michael Brown saying victims had no food and were dying. No response came from Brown.
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ABCNEWS:
Young Singers Spread Racist Hate — Duo Considered the Olsen Twins of the White Nationalist Movement — Oct. 20, 2005 — Thirteen-year-old twins Lamb and Lynx Gaede have one album out, another on the way, a music video, and lots of fans. — They may remind you another famous pair of singers …
Howard Kurtz / Washington Post:
A Split Between The Times & Miller? — Editor Says Reporter May Have Misled The Newspaper in Plame Leak Case — New York Times executives "fully encouraged" reporter Judith Miller in her refusal to testify in the CIA leak investigation, a stance that led to her jailing …
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Carl Hulse / New York Times:
Senate Pushes Back Stem-Cell Debate to '06 — WASHINGTON, Oct. 21 - A Senate debate over whether to ease federal restrictions on stem cell research will be put off until next year, an influential senator seeking to relax the rules said Friday. — The lawmaker, Senator Arlen Specter …
euphoricreality.net:
Burning Taliban — *************scroll down for updates*************** — If this situation goes any further at all, I feel a war comin' on (Pantano style)… — Report Of U.S. Burning Bodies Investigated … The Australian photojournalist, Stephen Dupont, who shot the video footage …
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Victor Davis Hanson / victorhanson.com:
With a Whimper — How the violence in Iraq will end. — National Review Online — The Western media was relatively quiet about the quite amazing news from the recent trifecta in Iraq: very little violence on election day, Sunni participation, and approval of the constitution.
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David G. Savage / Los Angeles Times:
Miers' Answer Raises Questions — Legal experts find a misuse of terms in her Senate questionnaire 'terrible' and 'shocking.' — WASHINGTON — Asked to describe the constitutional issues she had worked on during her legal career, Supreme Court nominee Harriet E. Miers had relatively little …
Peter Steinfels / New York Times:
Historians and Scholars Produce New Picture of Witches and Witch Hunts, but Questions Remain — It is the season of witches - cute little costumed ones crying "trick or treat" and full-grown adult ones laying claim to Halloween and recounting tales of medieval and early modern persecution.
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