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3:25 PM ET, July 18, 2006

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New York Times:
Israeli General Says Lebanon Offensive Will Last Weeks  —  JERUSALEM, July 18 — A top Israeli general said today that Israel's offensive in Lebanon would last another few weeks, and he said that the use of large numbers of ground forces had not been ruled out.
Richard Cohen / Washington Post:
Hunker Down With History  —  The greatest mistake Israel could make at the moment is to forget that Israel itself is a mistake.  It is an honest mistake, a well-intentioned mistake, a mistake for which no one is culpable, but the idea of creating a nation of European Jews in an area of Arab Muslims …
Agence France Presse:
Lebanon civilian deaths morally not same as terror victims — Bolton  —  UNITED NATIONS (AFP) - US Ambassador John Bolton said there was no moral equivalence between the civilian casualties from the Israeli raids in Lebanon and those killed in Israel from "malicious terrorist acts".
MSNBC:
U.S. citizens remain in dark about evacuation  —  Official: Operation costs more than available resources; 64 have left so far  —  A French toddler is carried over a fence by relatives as they wait Monday with hundreds of other French citizens near their embassy in Beirut to be evacuated from Lebanon.
Discussion: The Washington Note
Yaakov Katz / Associated Press:
IDF needs another week to alleviate Hizbullah threat
StrategyPage:   Hizbollah's Iranian Rocket Force
Firas Al-Atraqchi / Aljazeera:   'Lebanon crisis an international conspiracy'
Washington Post:
Push Made for U.N. To Go Into Lebanon
Haaretz:
One killed in Katyusha strike on house in Nahariya
Captain Ed / Captain's Quarters:
You Are A Fluke Of The Universe ...
Discussion: Kesher Talk
Major 'Y / Jerusalem Post:   In the cockpit  —  Major 'Y', an F-16 pilot in the Israeli Air Force …
Democrat Taylor Marsh Blogs Politics:
Bush Gropes Germany's Merkel  —  President Bush took time out from the G-8 Summit to grope German Chancellor Angela Merkel.  I'm not kidding.  It boggles the mind.  (Update: John at C&L has the video up.)  —  Via Mash (by the way, great get!), we get photos via a friend of his in Germany.
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John Amato / Crooks and Liars:
Presidential Groping  —  She sure doesn't seem to happy about it to me. … Video-WMP Video-QT later  —  This has been an awful trip for Bush to say the least on so many levels.  Please list all the problems he has had in the comment section. … Lindsay: Every woman will recognize …
Think Progress:
Brownback Holds Up Drawing Of Embryo, Asks 'Are You Going To Kill Me?'  —  Sen. Sam Brownback (R-KS) is leading the opposition to the H.R. 810, the Stem Cell Research Enhancement Act.  On Saturday, the Washington Post reported that Brownback has used a deceptive and false report …
Discussion: Wonkette and The Democratic Daily
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Dana Milbank / Washington Post:
Stem Cell Debate Wedges Bush Between a Rock and a Hard Place
Carl Hulse / New York Times:
Stem Cell Bill Nears Passage in the Senate
Duncan Black / Los Angeles Times:
Why the Left Is Furious at Lieberman  —  A blogger's blast at the embattled Connecticut senator.  Hint: It's not just Iraq.  —  SOME TIME AFTER having lunch in Iraq with the junior senator from Connecticut, Time magazine Baghdad bureau chief Michael Ware told an interviewer …
Reuters:
NYT to cut paper size and close plant  —Text+NEW YORK (Reuters) - The New York Times Co. (NYT.N: Quote, Profile, Research) plans to narrow the size of its flagship newspaper and close a printing plant, resulting in the loss of 250 jobs, the company said in a story posted on its Web site late on Monday.
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Katharine Q. Seelye / New York Times:
Times to Reduce Page Size and Close a Plant in 2008  —  The New York Times is planning to reduce the size of the newspaper, making it narrower by one and a half inches, and to close its printing operation in Edison, N.J., company officials said yesterday.  —  The changes, to go into effect …
Kate Zernike / New York Times:
G.O.P. Senator Resisting Bush Over Detainees  —  WASHINGTON, July 17 — Senator Lindsey Graham of South Carolina often plays the contrarian, the conservative Republican willing to poke a stick in the eye of the White House.  —  Now Mr. Graham is playing an even higher-profile variant of that role …
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Milt Freudenheim / New York Times:
A Windfall From Shifts to Medicare  —  The pharmaceutical industry is beginning to reap a windfall from a surprisingly lucrative niche market: drugs for poor people.  —  And analysts expect the benefits to show up in many of the quarterly financial results that drug makers will begin posting this week.
James Boyce / The Huffington Post:
Punk'd By John O'Neill And His Friends  —  Last week on the Huffington Post, I asked a legitimate question: were the actions of the Swift Boat veterans who attacked John Kerry influenced by the substantial monetary payments they received?  I think it's important for everyone to understand …
Jules Witcover / Salt Lake Tribune:
The Democrats' message dilemma  —  WASHINGTON — It was a bit startling the other morning to hear Sen. Charles Schumer of New York — the garrulous poster boy of Democratic liberalism — intone that New Deal Democracy is over.  But also, he added just as surprisingly, so is Reagan Republicanism.
New York Times:
Car Bomb Kills Dozens Near Shiite Shrine in Iraq  —  BAGHDAD, Iraq, July 18— A bomb killed 53 people and wounded more than 100 in the Shiite city of Kufa today, a day after at least 48 people died as dozens of gunmen suspected of being Sunni Arabs went on a rampage through a mostly Shiite market area …
 
 
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