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6:05 AM ET, March 29, 2006

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Amir Shah / Associated Press:
Update 21: Christian Convert Vanishes After Release  —  An Afghan man who had faced the death penalty for converting from Islam to Christianity quickly vanished Tuesday after he was released from prison, apparently out of fear for his life with Muslim clerics still demanding his death.
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Daveed Gartenstein-Ross / Weekly Standard:
The New Roman Lions
Discussion: The Moderate Voice
Haaretz:
Olmert, declaring victory, appeals to Abbas for peace talks  —  Acting Prime Minister Ehud Olmert, declaring an election victory, appealed to Palestinian Authority Chairman Mahmoud Abbas early Wednesday to enter into negotiations over the permanent borders of Israel, but added that Israel …
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The Corner on National Review Online:
POWER VACUUM IN ISRAEL [JPod]  —  So the polls are closed, and the story is: Oy.  Exit polls say the new party founded by Ariel Sharon did the best, winning around 30 seats.  But since last week it was projected to win 40 seats or more, the results have to be a huge disappointment for the party, Kadima, and its head, Ehud Olmert.
Ravi Nessman / Associated Press:
Olmert Declares Victory in Israel Election
Discussion: AMERICAblog
Linda Greenhouse / New York Times:
Supreme Court Justices Question Law on Detainee Trials  —  WASHINGTON, March 28 — As the justices of the Supreme Court took their seats Tuesday morning to hear Osama bin Laden's former driver challenge the Bush administration's plan to try him before a military commission, one question …
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Charles Lane / Washington Post:
Case Tests Power of Judiciary, President
Discussion: Power Line
Greg Levine / Forbes:
Bush Says Chief Of Staff Andrew Card Resigns  —  NEW YORK -  —  White House Chief of Staff Andrew Card has resigned.  —  President George W. Bush announced the resignation in a press conference Tuesday morning.  —  Card was not only a longtime friend of his boss, but had served …
Discussion: Wonkette and Don Surber
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Liz Sidoti / Associated Press:
Democrats Pledge to 'Eliminate' Osama  —  WASHINGTON - Congressional Democrats promise to "eliminate" Osama bin Laden and ensure a "responsible redeployment of U.S. forces" from Iraq in 2006 in an election-year national security policy statement.  —  In the position paper to be announced Wednesday …
Slate:
The Secret of George Mason  —  What its Final Four basketball team and its unusual economics department have in common.  —  Unlike his neighbors, George Washington, Thomas Jefferson, and James Madison, founding father George Mason has rarely gotten his props from historians and the public.
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RNC Memo Warns GOPers Not To Distance Themselves From Bush  —  Republican pollster Jan van Lohuizen, in a memo written for RNC chairman Ken Mehlman, warns that if members of Congress try to drive a wedge between themselves and Pres.  Bush, it'd be akin to adding weight to an anchor.
Stephen F. Hayes / Weekly Standard:
Choosing Ignorance  —  THE NEW YORK TIMES today joined the debate about Iraqi documents with a front-page news article and an op-ed by Peter Bergen.  It's been nearly two weeks since the first documents were released, but a belated acknowledgement of the news is better than nothing.
Eric Lipton / New York Times:
Testers Slip Radioactive Materials Over Borders  —  WASHINGTON, March 27 — Undercover Congressional investigators successfully smuggled into the United States enough radioactive material to make two dirty bombs, even after it set off alarms on radiation detectors installed at border checkpoints, a new report says.
Brian Maloney / The Radio Equalizer:
Sean Hannity, Alec Baldwin, WABC, New York City  —  WABC MELTDOWN  —  Alec Baldwin And Sean Hannity In Radio Cockfight  —  After an ugly on-air meltdown between actor/ guest host Alec Baldwin and caller Sean Hannity Sunday evening, New York radio fans are wondering: was this a planned stunt?
Brian / mediabistro.com:
Q1 '06: MSNBC's Olbermann Beats CNN's Zahn & HLN's Grace In The Demo  —  In the first quarter of 2006, MSNBC's Countdown with Keith Olbermann beat CNN's Paula Zahn Now in the 25-54 demographic.  "This marks MSNBC's first quarterly primetime victory over CNN in the demo in almost five years …
David Nason / The Australian:
Hillary too sexy to win back the White House, screen siren says  —  ACTOR Sharon Stone has warned Hillary Rodham Clinton to stay out of the 2008 US presidential race, saying the New York senator and former first lady is too sexy to win back the keys to the White House.
Edward Wong / New York Times:
Shiites Say U.S. Is Pressuring Iraqi Leader to Step Aside  —  BAGHDAD, Iraq, March 28 — Senior Shiite politicians said today that the American ambassador has told Shiite officials to inform the Iraqi prime minister that President Bush does not want him to remain the country's leader in the next government.
Michelle Malkin:
"THE MIRACLE FISH OF ALLAH"  —  I kid you not: … LGF has a photo of the other fish:  —  Question: What if I draw a cartoon of the Allah and Mohammed fish and post it on my blog?  —  Update: You can watch video of the Allah fish at BareKnucklePolitics.
Discussion: Point Five and Confederate Yankee
Larisa Alexandrovna / The Huffington Post:
Now "We Credit Blogs we Know" - AP Part II  —  Following up on my blog post regarding the AP, in which I discussed their rather less than ethical sourcing policies, John Byrne at Raw has written an article providing more details about the AP's problem sourcing.  —  Here are some parts of John's article on this:
Jason Leopold / truthout.org:
Fitzgerald Will Seek New White House Indictments  —  It may seem as though it's been moving along at a snail's pace, but the second part of the federal investigation into the leak of covert CIA agent Valerie Plame Wilson is nearly complete, with attorneys and government officials …
 
 
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Tim Johnson / Knight Ridder:
Online language instruction booming in China
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Bunting Cant  —  Yesterday Guardian columnist Madeleine Bunting …
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nbc5i.com:
Police Make Arrests On 2nd Day Of Walkouts
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Jonathan Weisman / Washington Post:
Senate to Weigh Guest-Worker Proposal
Democracy Now:
Fmr.  Democratic Senator and Presidential Candidate Gary Hart …
National Review:
Iran Is at War with Us
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Roosevelt Democrats  —  In a couple of days, it will be exactly …
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IL 17: Evans, Citing Battle With Parkinson's, Says He's Retiring
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Bradley Graham / Washington Post:
State Dept. Offers Record Pay in 2 Hot Spots
Thom Shanker / New York Times:
Rumsfeld Marks 9/11 Crash Site With Medallion Given to Troops
Alisa Valdes-Rodriguez / La Queen Sucia:
How Stupid are the US Media?!?!
Jim Miklaszewski / MSNBC:
Avoiding attacking suspected terrorist mastermind
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Juan-Carlos Rodriguez / Associated Press:
Lyn Nofziger, Reagan spokesman and adviser, dead at 81
 

 
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Alex Sherman / CNBC:
Sources: Paramount Global's board is preparing to fire CEO Bob Bakish as soon as Monday, after he lost the trust of controlling shareholder Shari Redstone

Jessica Toonkel / Wall Street Journal:
Sources: Paramount is planning for what happens if no big deal happens, mulling cutting $2B in costs, selling BET and TV stations, starting a streaming JV, more

Elise Morton / Associated Press:
Russia arrests two journalists, Konstantin Gabov and Sergey Karelin, on “extremism” charges for allegedly working for a group founded by the late Alexei Navalny

 
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