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Ben Feller / Associated Press:
Bush: Arab Co. Port Deal Should Proceed  —  0acbc64803ce@news.ap.org President Bush said Tuesday that the deal allowing an Arab company to take over six major U.S. seaports should go forward and that he would veto any congressional effort to stop it.  —  "After careful review by our government …
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Judd / Think Progress:
BREAKING: Rumsfeld and Pace Not Consulted On Transfer Of Port Operations To UAE  —  In a press briefing today, Secretary Rumsfeld revealed that he was not consulted about the decision to transfer operations of six key U.S. ports to the United Arab Emirates, a country with troubling ties to international terrorism.
Will Lester / Associated Press:
Frist to Offer Bill Halting U.S. Port Deal  —  WASHINGTON - Senate Republican Leader Bill Frist called Tuesday for the Bush administration to stop a deal permitting a United Arab Emirates company to take over six major U.S. seaports, upping the ante on a fight that several congressmen …
Castro / volpac.org:
Sea Ports Deal Update  —  News that a Middle-East based firm is seeking to purchase the operating rights to several U.S. ports - from New York to New Orleans - raise serious questions regarding the safety and security of our homeland.  —  Post 9/11 prudence warrants - at the very least - a more extensive review of this matter.
Discussion: PoliPundit.com and Suitably Flip
White House:   Roundtable Interview of the President by the Press Pool
Michael McAuliff / Mercury News:
Dubai company set to run U.S. ports has ties to administration
Djmarch / The Nation:
Corporate Control of Ports Is the Problem — UPDATED
Discussion: Ezra Klein and TAPPED
New York Times:
Bush Threatens to Veto Any Bill to Stop Port Takeover
Discussion: The Next Hurrah and Balloon Juice
Christopher Hitchens / Slate:
Stand up for Denmark!  —  Why are we not defending our ally?  —  Put the case that we knew of a highly paranoid religious cult organization with a secretive leader.  Now put the case that this cult, if criticized in the press, would take immediate revenge by kidnapping a child.
Discussion: Outside The Beltway
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New York Times:
Embattled President of Harvard to Step Down at End of Semester  —  Lawrence H. Summers, the president of Harvard University, said today that he would step down at the end of the academic year.  —  Dr. Summers will likely take a yearlong sabbatical and then return to Harvard as a distinguished professor …
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President Lawrence H. Summers / president.harvard.edu:
Letter to the Harvard community  —  Dear Members of the Harvard Community,  —  I have notified the Harvard Corporation that I will resign as President of the University as of June 30, 2006.  Working closely with all parts of the Harvard community, and especially with our remarkable students …
Reuters:
Summers to quit as Harvard president: report
Jonathan D. Glater / New York Times:
To: Professor@University.edu Subject: Why It's All About Me  —  One student skipped class and then sent the professor an e-mail message asking for copies of her teaching notes.  Another did not like her grade, and wrote a petulant message to the professor.  Another explained that she was late …
Deb Riechmann / Associated Press:
Bush Blames Cuts at Energy Lab on Mix-Up  —  GOLDEN, Colo. — President Bush, on a three-state trip to promote his energy policy, said Tuesday that a budgeting mix-up was the reason 32 workers at one of the nation's premier renewable energy labs were laid off and then reinstated just before his visit.
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John M. Broder / New York Times:
States Curbing Right to Seize Private Homes  —  In a rare display of unanimity that cuts across partisan and geographic lines, lawmakers in virtually every statehouse across the country are advancing bills and constitutional amendments to limit use of the government's power of eminent domain …
Will Bunch / Philadelphia Daily News:
Santorum's mortgage raises interest  —  This article stems from an investigative piece that Daily News staff writer Will Bunch wrote on a freelance assignment for American Prospect, a national political magazine with a liberal bent.  The entire 6,000-word story is slated to be available today …
Yahoo! News:
Hate Mail and Death Threats Target Seller of Mohammed Cartoon T-shirts  —  (PRWEB) - (PRWEB) February 21, 2006 — Conservative t-shirt maker MetroSpy set off a firestorm when their newest design depicted a caricature of the prophet Mohammed with a bomb wrapped in his turban.
John O'Neil / New York Times:
Supreme Court Reopens Abortion Issue on Alito's First Day  —  The Supreme Court announced today that it will hear a challenge to a federal law outlawing a late-term abortion procedure, reopening the contentious issue on Justice Samuel A. Alito Jr.'s first day on the bench.
Associated Press:
Bikers roll to military funerals to oppose anti-gay protests  —  FORT CAMPBELL, Kentucky (AP) — Wearing vests covered in military patches, a band of motorcyclists rolls around the country from one soldier's funeral to another, cheering respectfully to overshadow jeers from church protesters.
Discussion: The Liquid List
Kenneth Chang / New York Times:
Few Biologists but Many Evangelicals Sign Anti-Evolution Petition  —  In the recent skirmishes over evolution, advocates who have pushed to dilute its teaching have regularly pointed to a petition signed by 514 scientists and engineers.  —  The petition, they say, is proof that scientific doubt over evolution persists.

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