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10:35 AM ET, November 20, 2007

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Washington Post:
For Democrats, Iowa Still Up for Grabs  —  The top three Democratic presidential contenders remain locked in a close battle in Iowa, with Sen. Hillary Rodham Clinton (N.Y.) seeing her advantages diminish on key issues, including the questions of experience and which candidate is best prepared …
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The Politico:
Rapid response speeds up  —  The presidential campaigns in both parties have begun reacting ferociously to real or perceived attacks from rivals, goaded by a tight campaign calendar that leaves no room for error, and a determination to show they're tougher than John F. Kerry was in 2004.
Taegan Goddard's Political Wire:
Two Networks Flop in Reporting on New Poll  —  If there is something surprising about the new ABC News/Washington Post survey of likely Iowa Democratic caucus attendees, it isn't the fact that Sen. Barack Obama (30 percent) holds a narrow lead over New York Sen. Hillary Clinton (26 percent) and John Edwards (22 percent).
Discussion: ABCNEWS
Craig Timberg / Washington Post:
U.N. to Cut Estimate Of AIDS Epidemic  —  Population With Virus Overstated by Millions  —  The United Nations' top AIDS scientists plan to acknowledge this week that they have long overestimated both the size and the course of the epidemic, which they now believe has been slowing for nearly a decade …
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Ed Morrissey / Captain's Quarters:
UN Admits AIDS Hysterics  —  The United Nations grossly overestimated both the scope and direction of AIDS infections, its scientists will admit later this week.  The actual numbers in almost every theater have proven to be much less than UN reports indication, in some places less than half of that asserted.
New York Times:
Baghdad Starts to Exhale as Security Improves  —  Five months ago, Suhaila al-Aasan lived in an oxygen tank factory with her husband and two sons, convinced that they would never go back to their apartment in Dora, a middle-class neighborhood in southern Baghdad.
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Ed Morrissey / Captain's Quarters:
Progress Must Be Real If The Gray Lady Reports It  —  The New York Times finally discovers a breaking news story from Iraq — that life has improved as a result of the surge.  Well, for most of the rest of us, that hardly qualifies as breaking news, as we have tracked the decline in violence …
Beth Reinhard / miamiherald.typepad.com:
Giuliani beats Clinton in new poll  —  Republican Rudy Giuliani, shown here campaigning yesterday at the NASCAR Nextel Cup Ford 400 race in Homestead, is the most popular presidential candidate in Florida, with 57 percent of voters willing to consider voting for him, according to a new Mason-Dixon poll.
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Ben Adler / The Politico:
Young voters dig Giuliani's moderate views  —  Zachary Zhengyi Lim, a freshman at Dartmouth College in New Hampshire, is a self-described political moderate.  A 17-year-old who will turn 18 in time to vote in the Granite State's presidential primary, Lim said he registered Republican on a whim.
Discussion: The Glittering Eye
Michael Tomasky / Guardian:
A myth in the unmaking  —  Fox News's status as a politically impartial channel is at last being exposed as a fiction  —  Britons may be familiar with Rupert Murdoch, but I don't think the UK has a beast quite like the American Fox News Channel.  Celebrating its 11th year on the air, Fox is a breathtaking institution.
Amit R. Paley / Washington Post:
Iraqis Joining Insurgency Less for Cause Than Cash  —  MOSUL, Iraq — Abu Nawall, a captured al-Qaeda in Iraq leader, said he didn't join the Sunni insurgent group here to kill Americans or to form a Muslim caliphate.  He signed up for the cash.  —  "I was out of work and needed the money …
Malcolm Ritter / Seattle Post-Intelligencer:
Stem cell breakthrough uses no embryos  —  NEW YORK — Scientists have made ordinary human skin cells take on the chameleon-like powers of embryonic stem cells, a startling breakthrough that might someday deliver the medical payoffs of embryo cloning without the controversy.
Paul Duggan / Boston Globe:
Effectiveness of D.C. gun ban still a mystery  —  WASHINGTON - Three decades ago, at the dawn of municipal self-government in the District of Columbia, the city's first elected mayor and council enacted one of the country's toughest gun-control measures, a ban on handgun ownership that opponents …
Discussion: Cold Fury and Right Wing News
Amy Goldstein / Washington Post:
U.S. Attorney for Minnesota to Leave Post  —  Rachel K. Paulose, the U.S. attorney for Minnesota who sparked staff rebellions and a federal probe into her handling of classified information, is resigning to return to the Justice Department's Washington headquarters, department officials said yesterday.
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Anne Applebaum / Washington Post:
Collateral Damage  —  Casualties are definitely down.  Other places suddenly seem to need more urgent attention.  News coverage is shrinking, as is public interest.  All of which may help explain the breath of optimism one can now detect in Washington, and even in other places, about the war in Iraq.
 
 
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Jose Luis Jimenez / San Diego Union-Tribune:
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Peter Schworm / Boston Globe:
Professor takes heat for nod to Clinton
Jeff Zeleny / The Caucus:
Home, or Not, for the Holiday  —  Most years, it might appear unseemly …
Discussion: MSNBC and The Page
Richard Cohen / Washington Post:
You First, Governor Huckabee
Discussion: The Opinionator
Spencer S. Hsu / Washington Post:
DHS Erred in $475 Million Contract Given to Native Firm
Susan Crabtree / The Hill:
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Discussion: The Trail
Scott Horton / Harper's:
Department of Painfully Inappropriate Comparisons
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Fredric U. Dicker / New York Post:
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Jeffrey Collins / Associated Press:
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Bret Stephens / Opinion Journal:
The Annapolis Fiasco  —  Condoleezza Rice's pointless Middle East conference.
Richard Owen / Times of London:
Drug dealer is fourth suspect in Meredith murder investigation
Discussion: Spot-On
Cenk Uygur / The Huffington Post:
What Obama Must Do  —  1. Sear into people's minds that experience means nothing.
Discussion: Alternate Brain
David Brooks / New York Times:
The Segmented Society  —  On Feb. 9, 1964, the Beatles played on "The Ed Sullivan Show."
Scott Rapoport / WCBS-TV:
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Discussion: Pat Dollard
Katharine Q. Seelye / New York Times:
Panel Picks 4 Debate Sites, Angering Excluded New Orleans