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New York Times:
U.S. Arming Sunnis in Iraq to Battle Old Qaeda Allies — With the four-month-old increase in American troops showing only modest success in curbing insurgent attacks, American commanders are turning to another strategy that they acknowledge is fraught with risk: arming Sunni Arab groups …
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'Meet the Press' transcript for June 10, 2007 — Colin Powell on the war in Iraq, Decision 2008 and much more — MR. TIM RUSSERT: Our issues this Sunday: February 5th, 2003, then Secretary of State Colin Powell goes before the United Nations to lay out the case against Saddam Hussein.
Taegan Goddard's Political Wire:
Her Way — On Meet the Press yesterday, Tim Russert asked Jeff Gerth and Don Van Natta what was the most important thing in their new book, Her Way: The Hopes and Ambitions of Hillary Rodham Clinton. — Gerth: "She's now running for president, and we felt that people needed to understand how …
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Washington Post:
Tribal Coalition in Anbar Said to Be Crumbling — U.S.-Backed Group Has Fought Al-Qaeda in Iraq — A tribal coalition formed to oppose the extremist group al-Qaeda in Iraq, a development that U.S. officials say has reduced violence in Iraq's troubled Anbar province, is beginning to splinter …
Eli Lake / New York Sun:
GOP's Powell Is Now Advising Obama — WASHINGTON — Colin Powell, who only a decade ago was being discussed as a possible Republican presidential nominee and who more recently served as President Bush's first secretary of state, is advising a Democratic presidential candidate, Senator Obama of Illinois.
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Robert Stacy McCain / Washington Times:
Reagan's famous line nearly clipped from Berlin speech — SANTA BARBARA, Calif. — Top administration officials said the speech was all wrong. Too provocative, said the National Security Council. Too tough, said the State Department. — The president overruled his advisers and …
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John Fund / Opinion Journal:
Hitting the Wall — Reagan's prophetic Berlin speech, 20 years later. — Rip Van Winkle has nothing on Jan Grzebski, a Polish railway worker who just emerged from a coma that began 19 years ago—just prior to the collapse of communism in his country. His take on how the world around …
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Washington Post:
Immigration Judges Often Picked Based On GOP Ties — Law Forbids Practice; Courts Being Reshaped — The Bush administration increasingly emphasized partisan political ties over expertise in recent years in selecting the judges who decide the fate of hundreds of thousands of immigrants …
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Laurie Goodstein / New York Times:
Romney's Run Has Mormons Wary of Scrutiny — LOGAN, Utah — In this wide valley where the twin spires of the Mormon temple dominate the landscape and some neighborhoods have a Mormon chapel every few blocks, Mitt Romney's bid for president is both a proud sign of progress and a cause of trepidation.
Opinion Journal:
General Retreat — Secretary of Defense Levin picks a new war leader. — There's a rumor going around that Robert Gates is the Secretary of Defense. We'd like to request official confirmation, because based on recent evidence the man running the Pentagon is Democratic Senator Carl Levin of Michigan.
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Liz Lightfoot / Telegraph:
'Political meddling' ruining learning in schools — The curriculum in state schools in England has been stripped of its content and corrupted by political interference, according to a damning report by an influential, independent think-tank. — It warns of the educational apartheid opening …
Los Angeles Times:
U.S. relies on Sudan despite condemning it — The nation accused of aiding the killings in Darfur provides spies in Iraq. In return, it gets access in Washington. — WASHINGTON — Sudan has secretly worked with the CIA to spy on the insurgency in Iraq, an example of how the U.S …
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Nikki Finke / Deadline Hollywood Daily:
THAAAT'S What We Were All Waiting For? Angry 'Sopranos' Fans Crash HBO Website — The line to cancel HBO starts here. What a ridiculously disappointing end lacking in creativity to The Sopranos saga. But if you're one of those who found it perversely interesting, then don't bother to read on.
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Robert Tanner / Associated Press:
Studies say death penalty deters crime — Anti-death penalty forces have gained momentum in the past few years, with a moratorium in Illinois, court disputes over lethal injection in more than a half-dozen states and progress toward outright abolishment in New Jersey.
Chris Barge / Rocky Mountain News:
5 questions for journalist and author David Sirota — Al Franken calls him "My Sirota - the sexy, sexy wonk." — The late columnist Molly Ivins said he "is a new-generation populist who instinctively understands that the only real questions are 'Who's getting screwed?' and 'Who's doing the screwing?' "
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ABCNEWS:
EXCLUSIVE: Hilton Calls Barbara Walters from Jail — She 'Was Severely Depressed and Felt as if I Was in a Cage,' but now Has 'New Chance' — In jail serving out the remainder of her sentence for violating parole on reckless driving charges, Paris Hilton phoned ABC News' Barbara Walters Sunday …
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