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11:40 AM ET, September 26, 2007

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Annie Karni / New York Sun:
Backlash Against Bollinger Hits Columbia  —  A backlash against the president of Columbia University, Lee Bollinger, who on Monday delivered a harsh rebuke to President Ahmadinejad, is coming from faculty members and students who said he struck an "insulting tone" and that his remarks amounted to "schoolyard taunts."
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Mr. Lee Bollinger / Fars News Agency:
Iranian University Chancellors Ask Bollinger 10 Questions  —  TEHRAN (Fars News Agency)- Seven chancellors and presidents of Iranian universities and research centers, in a letter addressed to their counterpart in the US Colombia University, denounced Lee Bollinger's insulting words …
Howard Kurtz / Washington Post:
NPR Rebuffs White House On Bush Talk  —  Radio Network Wanted To Choose Its Interviewer  —  The White House reached out to National Public Radio over the weekend, offering analyst Juan Williams a presidential interview to mark yesterday's 50th anniversary of school desegregation in Little Rock.
Michael Gerson / Washington Post:
Can She Reach Religious Voters?  —  During a question-and-answer session at Tufts University immediately after the 2004 election, Sen. Hillary Clinton identified the alienation of religious voters as one of the Democratic Party's main problems.  And the appeal she proposed was straightforward …
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Quinnipiac University News and Events:
September 26, 2007 - Clinton, Giuliani Neck And Neck In New Jersey Pres Race, Quinnipiac University Poll Finds; More See Giuliani As More Principled Than Democrat  —  New York Sen. Hillary Clinton and former New York City Mayor Rudolph Giuliani, the Republican front-runner …
Yeas & Nays:
Couric weighs in on Iraq, Rather  —  Her take on the news  —  Speaking at the National Press Club Tuesday evening, CBS "Evening News" anchor Katie Couric pulled back the curtain on her personal views of both the war in Iraq and former "Evening News" anchor Dan Rather.
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Eric Boehlert / Media Matters for America:
Dan Rather is right
Discussion: TalkLeft
Opinion Journal:
Calling Rudy  —  For Mr. Giuliani, it's more than his wife that's on the line.  —  Most Americans understand it takes an extra chromosome to run for President, but there are some limits on odd behavior.  Which makes us wonder what Rudy Giuliani was thinking last Friday when he accepted …
Discussion: The Swamp, MSNBC and The Impolitic
Tom Maguire / JustOneMinute:
No Liberal Bias At The Times  —  Timeswoman Katherine Seelye pursues the "General Betray Us" discounted ad puzzle and delivers a great laugher.  Times spokeswoman Catherine Mathis explained to Ms. Seelye why there was no bias displayed by the ad department when they gave a discount to MoveOn:
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Katharine Q. Seelye / New York Times:
MoveOn Pays The Times $77,508 for Ad Cost
Discussion: The Corner
Scott Helman / Boston Globe:
Hsu raised big money for Clinton supporters  —  Candidates she courted benefit  —  Disgraced fund-raiser Norman Hsu did a lot more than just pump $850,000 into Hillary Clinton's campaign bank account: He also raised hundreds of thousands of dollars for local, state, and federal candidates …
Washington Post:
UAW Reaches Tentative Agreement With GM  —  General Motors and the United Auto Workers agreed to a new contract early Wednesday, ending a two-day nationwide strike with a watershed deal that establishes a new union-managed trust fund for retiree health care.
Discussion: Discourse.net and The Next Hurrah
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Dahlia Lithwick / Slate:
Do Not Vote for This Guy  —  HE DOESN'T WANT DEMOCRATS TO VOTE—UNLESS IT'S TO APPOINT HIM TO THE FEDERAL ELECTION COMMISSION.  —  Another one for you to file under "fox guards the henhouse": The Senate rules committee votes tomorrow (Wednesday) on whether to give Hans A. von Spakovsky …
Investor's Business Daily:
The Soros Threat To Democracy  —  Democracy: George Soros is known for funding groups such as MoveOn.org that seek to manipulate public opinion.  So why is the billionaire's backing of what he believes in problematic?  In a word: transparency.  —  George Soros & MoveOn.org: Exclusive Series
Glenn Thrush / Newsday:
Slow down in fundraising hits Clinton, Obama  —  WASHINGTON - The torrid fundraising pace set by Barack Obama and Hillary Rodham Clinton is cooling faster than the housing market, with both camps claiming to raise millions less over the last three months than in previous quarters.
Discussion: VodkaPundit
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Jeanne Cummings / The Politico:
Small donors rewrite fundraising handbook
Discussion: Donklephant
Ruth Marcus / Washington Post:
The Two Obamas  —  Last week, I saw Democratic presidential candidate Barack Obama give two speeches.  The first was enthralling, the second disappointing.  Together, they offered a pointed reminder of Obama's undeniable promise as a politician and the fundamental, unanswered question of his candidacy …
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Bloomberg:
Clinton May Erase Obama's Fund-Raising Edge in Third Quarter
Reed Walters / New York Times:
Justice in Jena  —  THE case of the so-called Jena Six has fired the imaginations of thousands, notably young African-Americans who, according to many of their comments, believe they will be in the vanguard of a new civil rights movement.  Whether America needs a new civil rights movement …
James Bone / Times of London:
Mix-up reveals what President George Bush must do when words fail him at UN  —  George Bush gave a rare insight into his struggle with pronunciation yesterday when the White House mistakenly released an unedited script of his speech to the UN General Assembly.
New York Times:
Towns Rethink Laws Against Illegal Immigrants  —  A little more than a year ago, the Township Committee in this faded factory town became the first municipality in New Jersey to enact legislation penalizing anyone who employed or rented to an illegal immigrant.
 
 
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Seth Mydans / New York Times:
Police Clash With Monks in Myanmar
Discussion: Chicago Tribune
Salon:
(CROSSTALK) … There really is this child-like need …
Discussion: The Sideshow and Balloon Juice
David Seifman / New York Post:
MIKE: IRAQ IS LIKE 1776
Michael Scherer / Salon:
The GOP gets gaudy in Michigan
Mike Allen / The Politico:
Veterans still getting shoddy treatment
Alissa J. Rubin / New York Times:
Sunni Insurgents in New Campaign to Kill Officials
JoAnne Allen / Reuters:
White House pulls nomination for top CIA lawyer
Discussion: The Moderate Voice
Wall Street Journal:
How Bill Clinton's Aide Facilitated a Messy Deal
Discussion: MSNBC and CBS News
 Earlier Items: 
The Corner:
Paulnuts and Giuliani
Ynetnews:
Goldwasser recounts confrontation with Ahmadinejad
Alisa Tang / Associated Press:
165 insurgents killed in Afghanistan
Discussion: Captain's Quarters
Natalie O'Brien / NEWS.com.au:
Islamist 'leader' wants revolution
Ilya Somin / Opinion Journal:
Uncle Sam Wants You, Gramps
Discussion: Betsy's Page and Althouse
Richard Fernandez / Pajamas Media:
THE SAFFRON REVOLUTION
Matt Stoller / Open Left:
New Train Wreck Coming on FISA
Washington Post:
House Passes Children's Health Bill