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9:30 AM ET, October 11, 2006

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David Brown / Washington Post:
Study Claims Iraq's 'Excess' Death Toll Has Reached 655,000  —  A team of American and Iraqi epidemiologists estimates that 655,000 more people have died in Iraq since coalition forces arrived in March 2003 than would have died if the invasion had not occurred.
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New York Times:
Iraqi Dead May Total 600,000, Study Says  —  A boy at his father's coffin in Baghdad yesterday.  Death rates were higher outside the capital, the study said.  —  A team of American and Iraqi public health researchers has estimated that 600,000 civilians have died in violence across Iraq since …
Neil King Jr / Wall Street Journal:
Iraqi Death Toll Exceeds 600,000, Study Estimates  —  WASHINGTON — A new study asserts that roughly 600,000 Iraqis have died from violence since the U.S.-led invasion in March 2003, a figure many times higher than any previous estimate.  —  The study, to be published Saturday …
Malcolm Ritter / Associated Press:
Study: 655,000 Iraqis die because of war  —  NEW YORK - A controversial new study contends nearly 655,000 Iraqis have died because of the war, suggesting a far higher death toll than other estimates.  —  The timing of the survey's release, just a few weeks before the U.S. congressional elections, led one expert to call it "politics."
Discussion: NewsBusters.org and NewsHog
Rick Moran / Right Wing Nut House:   A MOST GHOULISH DEBATE  —  It is an unseemly thing to be debating …
Kevin Drum / Political Animal:
THE DEATH RATE IN IRAQ....A team at Johns Hopkins has done another study …
Discussion: Decision '08
Captain Ed / Captain's Quarters:
Guest Post: Senator John McCain On North Korea  —  Please welcome Senator John McCain as a guest poster at Captain's Quarters.  He delivers a tough, no-nonsense reponse to the latest provocation from North Korea.  —  Time for Decisive Action on North Korea  —  Korea doubts the world's resolve.
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New York Times:
Rice Asserts U.S. Plans No Attack on North Korea  —  South Korean rice bound for the North.  Sanctions urged by the United States might limit such shipments.  —  Secretary of State Condoleezza Rice said Tuesday that the United States did not intend to invade or attack North Korea …
Times of London:
Wary neighbours shy away from punishing nuclear North Korea
Discussion: Captain's Quarters
William J. Perry / Washington Post:
In Search of a North Korea Policy
Wall Street Journal:
Asia Weighs Risk of Sanctions
Discussion: Austin Bay Blog
Washington Post:
China Says It Will Back Sanctions On N. Korea
ABCNEWS:
Foley's Reputed Visit to the Page Dormitory  —  New Testimony May Pose Problems for GOP Leadership  —  House speaker Dennis Hastert, R-Ill., tries to change the subject.  But the accusations about Hastert subordinates who were apparently told about Congressman Mark Foley's questionable activities keep coming.
Discussion: CNN, Political Punch and TalkLeft
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Associated Press:
Hastert Vows to Fire Anyone Who Hid Page Info
TRex / Firedoglake:
Late Nite FDL: Scott Palmer, Who Are You?
Discussion: Wampum
Jonathan Weisman / Washington Post:
History of Foley Messages' Release Clarified by Players  —  2 Sources Explain Motives, Citing Concern for Hill's Pages  —  Two of the news media's sources of Mark Foley's sexually explicit instant messages to former House pages said this week that they came forward to expose …
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AJStrata / The Strata-Sphere:
Washington Post Acknowledges Democrats Role In Foleygate
Discussion: The Jawa Report
New York Times:
Across Europe, Worries on Islam Spread to Center  —  Europe appears to be crossing an invisible line regarding its Muslim minorities: more people in the political mainstream are arguing that Islam cannot be reconciled with European values.  —  "You saw what happened with the pope," …
Rasmussen Reports:
Rhode Island Governor: Carcieri Up Three  —  Carcieri (R) 47% Fogarty (D) 44%  —  Incumbent Donald Carcieri's (R) lead has been extended by a single point in Rhode Island's gubernatorial race.  The latest Rasmussen Reports election survey shows Carcieri leading Lt. Governor Charles Fogarty (D) 47% to 44% (see crosstabs).
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Rasmussen Reports:
Rhode Island Senate: Chafee Down 10
Margaret Webb Pressler / Washington Post:
Researchers See a Downside as Keyboards Replace Pens in Schools  —  Researchers See a Downside as Keyboards Replace Pens in Schools  —  The computer keyboard helped kill shorthand, and now it's threatening to finish off longhand.  —  When handwritten essays were introduced on the SAT exams …
John Pomfret / Washington Post:
Fence Meets Wall of Skepticism  —  Critics Doubt a 700-Mile Barrier Would Stem Migrant Tide  —  CALEXICO, Calif. — Legislation passed by Congress mandating the fencing of 700 miles of the U.S. border with Mexico has sparked opposition from an array of land managers, businesspeople …
USA Today:
FBI investigating actions of Specter staff member  —  WASHINGTON — The FBI is investigating whether a member of Sen. Arlen Specter's staff broke the law by helping her husband, a lobbyist, secure almost $50 million in Pentagon spending for his clients, the senator acknowledged Tuesday.
Discussion: First Read
USA Today:
Jury awards $11.3M over defamatory Internet posts  —  A Florida woman has been awarded $11.3 million in a defamation lawsuit against a Louisiana woman who posted messages on the Internet accusing her of being a "crook," a "con artist" and a "fraud."  —  Legal analysts say the Sept. 19 award …
Discussion: Wizbang
Captain Ed / Captain's Quarters:
It's The Economy, Even If The Media Doesn't Report It  —  Bill Clinton got elected on the James Carville slogan, "It's the economy, stupid."  Fourteen years later, it's the media playing stupid, as a roaring economy has been treated with more secrecy than national-security programs by newspapers and television news channels.
Mark Pazniokas / Hartford Courant:
Poll: Lieberman Leads Lamont  —  Sen. Joseph I. Lieberman leads Ned Lamont by eight percentage points in the Senate race, although a majority of voters agree with Lamont on the war in Iraq and the need for change in Washington, a Courant/University of Connecticut poll says.
 
 
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