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David Johnston / New York Times:
Another Time Reporter Is Asked to Testify in Leak Case  —  WASHINGTON, Nov. 27 - A second reporter for Time magazine has been asked to testify under oath in the C.I.A. leak case, about conversations she had in 2004 with a lawyer for Karl Rove, the senior White House adviser, the magazine reported on Sunday.
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Tom Maguire / JustOneMinute:
Does TIME Magazine Still Protect Their Sources?
Discussion: The Next Hurrah and firedoglake
ReddHedd / firedoglake:   I Call Partial Mulligan...
John F. Burns / New York Times:
Tribunal Leader in Hussein's Case Is Target of Plot  —  BAGHDAD, Iraq, Nov. 27 - Less than 24 hours before Saddam Hussein's scheduled return to court on charges of crimes against humanity, the police in northern Iraq said Sunday that they had arrested 10 Sunni Arab men carrying orders …
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Jim Yardley / New York Times:
A Judge Tests China's Courts, Making History  —  LUOYANG, China - Judge Li Huijuan happened to be in the courthouse file room when clerks, acting on urgent orders, began searching for a ruling on a mundane case about seed prices.  "I handled that case," Judge Li told the clerks, surprised that anyone would be interested.
Discussion: The Peking Duck
Hamza Hendawi / Associated Press:
Saddam Trial Resumes, Then Is Postponed  —  BAGHDAD, Iraq - The trial of Saddam Hussein for alleged crimes against humanity resumed in a heavily guarded courtroom Monday with the former Iraqi president angrily complaining about having to walk up four flights of stairs under foreign guard.
Discussion: Power Line and Gateway Pundit
CNN:
Back in court, Hussein hits out at 'occupiers'  —  BAGHDAD, Iraq (CNN) — Deposed Iraqi president Saddam Hussein argued with the judge and complained about Iraq's "occupiers" as his trial for crimes against humanity resumed in a Baghdad court Monday.  —  Hussein, carrying a copy of the Quran under …
Doug Struck / Washington Post:
Plot to Kill Judge in Hussein Trial Foiled, Police Say
Discussion: The Heretik and Drudge Report
Howard Kurtz / Washington Post:
The Man With the Inside Scoop  —  For Bob Woodward, Proximity to Power Cuts Both Ways  —  It was a cinematic image that lured thousands of young people into journalism, Robert Redford coaxing information out of Hal Holbrook in a dimly lit parking garage.  —  And since, in real life …
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Deborah Howell / Washington Post:
More Questions for Bob Woodward
ThreatsWatch.Org:
The Hounds of Husaybah  —  A night on patrol with the Jackals of Lima Company  —  By Bill Roggio  —  HUSAYBAH, IRAQ: The evening kicked off with a ride in the darkness from Camp Qaim, which is situated at the railroad station South of Al Qaim, to Camp Gannon, the outpost that sits directly between …
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ThreatsWatch.Org:   Steel Curtain Unmasked
Seymour M. Hersh / New Yorker:
UP IN THE AIR  —  Where is the Iraq war headed next?  —  In recent weeks, there has been widespread speculation that President George W. Bush, confronted by diminishing approval ratings and dissent within his own party, will begin pulling American troops out of Iraq next year.
Stephanie Saul / New York Times:
Gimme an Rx!  Cheerleaders Pep Up Drug Sales  —  As an ambitious college student, Cassie Napier had all the right moves - flips, tumbles, an ever-flashing America's sweetheart smile - to prepare for her job after graduation.  She became a drug saleswoman.  —  Ms. Napier, 26 …
Discussion: Patridiot Watch and enrevanche
Los Angeles Times:
Timing Entwined War Vote, Election  —  WASHINGTON — Tom Daschle, the former Democratic senator from South Dakota, remembers the exchange vividly.  —  The time was September 2002.  The place was the White House, at a meeting in which President Bush and Vice President Dick Cheney pressed …
New York Sun:
Frank Rich's War  —  Those who charge President Bush and Vice President Cheney with lying to get America involved in the war in Iraq, as the New York Times columnist Frank Rich did yesterday, have a special obligation to get the truth correct themselves.  It's one thing for Mr. Rich to disagree …
Mark Steyn / Associated Press:
Hollywood's PC perversion stifles storytelling  —  To judge from the way the weekend's box office is breathlessly reported in the news bulletins on Monday morning, more people seem to be interested in movie grosses than in the movies.  Evidently, Hollywood's now recovered from this summer's all-time record "box office slump."
MTV:
50 Cent  —  50 Cent and Kanye West are the only ones selected to be GQ's "Men of the Year" who have no false modesty about it — both of the hip-hop stars justify their big egos in the mag's pages.  But they also have more on their minds than just themselves.
Discussion: Mark in Mexico
Associated Press:
Marble chunk falls from Supreme Court facade  —  'All of a sudden, these blocks started falling'  —  WASHINGTON (AP) — A basketball-sized piece of marble molding fell from the facade over the entrance to the Supreme Court Monday, landing on the steps near visitors waiting to enter the building.
Discussion: Patridiot Watch

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