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7:40 AM ET, July 31, 2006

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Richard / EU Referendum:
Milking it?  —  Certainly, the photographs are distressing, and indeed they are meant to be.  As this piece tells us: … But the photographers, it seems, are not too fussy about how they go about "adding to the shock value".  These two sequences illustrate the extent to which photographers …
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Guardian:
As the shells fall around them, Hizbullah men await the Israelis  —  Ghaith Abdul-Ahad, south of Tyre  —  Inside a well-furnished apartment in a village on the outskirts of Tyre, with shelves of books piled from floor to ceiling, a black turbaned cleric and three men sit sipping bitter coffee.
Peter Baker / Washington Post:
Crisis Could Undercut Bush's Long-Term Goals  —  The Israeli bombs that slammed into the Lebanese village of Qana yesterday did more than kill three dozen children and a score of adults.  They struck at the core of U.S. foreign policy in the region and illustrated in heart-breaking images …
Ali Waked / Ynetnews:
Lebanese PM thanks Hizbullah for 'sacrifices'  —  Lebanese Prime Minister Fouad Siniora says during press conference that he expresses his 'full estimation' for Nasrallah, and for all those who sacrifice their lives for Lebanon  —  Lebanese Prime Minister Fuoad Siniora expressed his 'gratitude …
Herb Keinon / Jerusalem Post:
US: IAF to suspend activity over Lebanon for 48 hours  —  Israel agreed to a 48-hour suspension of aerial activity over southern Lebanon after it bombed a Lebanese village on Sunday and a number of children died, a US official said.  —  The attack marred US Secretary of State Condoleezza …
Tom Perry / Reuters:
Lebanese crowd breaks into U.N. HQ in Beirut  —  BEIRUT (Reuters) - Lebanese protesters broke into the United Nations headquarters in Beirut on Sunday, smashing windows and ransacking offices, after an Israeli air strike killed at least 40 people in south Lebanon.
Haaretz:   Senior government source: Despite IAF curbs, there is no cease-fire
Gideon Levy / Haaretz:   Days of darkness  —  In war as in war: Israel is sinking …
Yaakov Katz / Associated Press:
Officers slam suspension of airstrikes
Katherine Shrader / Associated Press:
Israel OKs temporary aerial suspension
Ynetnews:
IDF: Qana building fell hours after strike
Haaretz:
Peretz: Fighting in Lebanon to continue at least two weeks
Discussion: Jerusalem Post
Yaakov Katz / Jerusalem Post:   IDF: 150 rockets fired from Kana
Jonathan / The Head Heeb:
GRAPES OF WRATH
Craig Howie / Scotsman:
Jewish groups call for hate-crime probe on Mel Gibson  —  JEWISH groups have demanded Mel Gibson be investigated for hate crimes after the Hollywood star allegedly made anti-Semitic comments to US police officers when he was stopped on suspicion of drink-driving and speeding.
Discussion: Flopping Aces and RIGHTWINGSPARKLE
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Mark Pazniokas / Hartford Courant:
Slips Imperil Senate Career  —  As Sen. Joseph I. Lieberman flew home from Iraq last November, his wife urged him to sleep.  But an energized Lieberman worked his Blackberry, typing an account of the progress he saw in Iraq.  —  His upbeat article would be published in the Wall Street Journal under …
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Matt Stoller / MyDD:
Connecticut Rallies for Lamont  —  Here's a MyDD picture tour of the campaign.  —  After last week's positive movement for Lieberman, the dynamic has shifted perceptively against Lieberman once again.  Maxine Waters, who is enormously well-respected in the black community …
Seattle Post-Intelligencer:
Bellevue woman killed in shooting identified  —  Pam Waechter, 58, 'had this great droll wit'  —  Family friends today confirmed the woman killed in Friday's shooting spree at the Jewish Federation of Greater Seattle buiding was Pam Waechter, of Bellevue, the federation's annual campaign director.
Discussion: Michelle Malkin
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Time:
Even Churchill Couldn't Figure Out Iraq  —  The Bush Administration has created such a mess in Iraq that despairing military strategists are talking about drastic, flawed measures such as taking sides or partitioning Baghdad  —  There is something very sinister to my mind in this mesopotamian entanglement …
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Tom Lasseter / theolympian.com:
Officials: There 'aren't enough troops' to fix problems in Iraq
Damien Cave / New York Times:
As a Tactic, Starving Is Found Wanting  —  SADDAM HUSSEIN ended his 19-day hunger strike last Wednesday with a meal of beef, rice and Coca-Cola, but he had little to show for his starvation.  Iraqis in particular, living day-to-day with brutal sectarian violence, viewed Mr. Hussein's self-sacrifice as an insult.
Discussion: Rantingprofs
Katie Pulls / New York Post:
STRINGS IN COCKPIT  —  KATIE Couric had fellow passengers aboard a New York-bound jet on the warpath this week when, as their plane was about to taxi to the runway, she got out of her seat and begged the pilot to allow one of her late-arriving producers to board.  —  "It was like, 'Who the hell does she think she is?' "
Discussion: Scared Monkeys and Flopping Aces
Associated Press:
Youngest son of Sen. John McCain joins Marine Corps  —  18-year-old likely to  —  July 30.  —  he youngest son of Sen. John McCain has joined the Marine Corps and could be deployed to a war zone in a matter of months, according to a magazine report.  —  Jimmy McCain, 18, will begin basic training in September.
Jonathan Alter / Newsweek:
'The Putting of First Things First'  —  The revival of the romance of the antiwar left is a potential disaster for the Democrats.  It's what gave the world Richard Nixon in 1968.  —  To the consternation of my children, I once spent an afternoon with Monica Lewinsky.
 
 
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