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Anne E. Kornblut / Washington Post:
Losing Ground In Iowa, Clinton Assails Obama — With a new poll showing her losing ground in the Iowa caucus race, Sen. Hillary Rodham Clinton (D-N.Y.) mounted a new, more aggressive attack against Sen. Barack Obama (D-Ill.) on Sunday, raising direct questions about his character …
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Peter Beinart / Washington Post:
A Non-Story Remakes the Race — Last month, Katharine Q. Seelye of the New York Times live-blogged the Democratic presidential debate in Las Vegas. As the discussion bounced from subject to subject, she marked the topic and the time, then gave her thoughts.
Clinton Pressed / Pew Research Center:
Democratic Primary Preview: Iowa, New Hampshire, South Carolina — Summary of Findings — Democrats enter the presidential primary campaign upbeat about their candidates and united in their views on major issues. Sen. Hillary Clinton is the clear frontrunner in New Hampshire and South Carolina …
Ron Christie / The Hill:Beginning of the End of the Clinton Campaign (Ron Christie)
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Kevin Sullivan / Washington Post:
Sudan's President Pardons British Teacher — A British school teacher jailed in Sudan for two weeks after allowing her students to name a teddy bear Muhammad was freed Monday following a pardon by the Sudanese president. — President Omar al-Bahir's pardon of Gillian Gibbons allowed …
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Patrick / FishBowlDC:
Imus Is Back! — Highlights in bold. — 6:00 A.M.: Charles McCord opens the program. "The Imus in the Morning program has returned to the air following a hiatus of nearly 8 months." Wild applause from the live audience assembled in Times Square's Town Hall.
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Jacques Steinberg / New York Times:
A Chastened Imus Returns to Radio — Nearly eight months after he was fired for making a racially and sexually disparaging remark about the Rutgers women's basketball team, Don Imus went back on the radio at 6 a.m. today and vowed he would not say anything like that again.
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Simon Romero / New York Times:
Venezuela Hands Narrow Defeat to Chávez Plan — Voters in this country narrowly defeated a proposed overhaul to the constitution in a contentious referendum over granting President Hugo Chávez sweeping new powers, the Election Commission announced early Monday.
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Wall Street Journal:
Subprime Debacle Traps Even Very Credit-Worthy — As Housing Boomed, — Industry Pushed Loans — To a Broader Market — One common assumption about the subprime mortgage crisis is that it revolves around borrowers with sketchy credit who couldn't have bought a home without paying punitively high interest rates.
New York Times:
Lashing Justice — Muslims who wonder why non-Muslims are often baffled, angered, even frightened by some governments' interpretation of Islamic law need only look to the cases of two women in Saudi Arabia and Sudan threatened with barbaric lashings. — In Saudi Arabia, a woman who was gang-raped was sentenced to 90 lashes.
The Age:
Hague museum pulls offensive Muslim art — The city museum of The Hague has decided not to include in an exhibition a work of art that may offend Muslims, it was reported on Monday. — The picture, made by Iranian artist Sooreh Hera, is entitled Adam and Ewald and shows two gay men wearing masks …
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Jonathan Martin / The Politico:
Pro-Huckabee negative calls flood Iowa — A newly-formed group claiming to support Mike Huckabee hit the phones of Iowa Republicans tonight with an automated push-poll attacking Huckabee's GOP opponents and praising the former Arkansas governor. — Officials representing the Iowa campaigns …
Paul Krugman / New York Times:
Innovating Our Way to Financial Crisis — The financial crisis that began late last summer, then took a brief vacation in September and October, is back with a vengeance. — How bad is it? Well, I've never seen financial insiders this spooked — not even during the Asian crisis of 1997-98 …
Rudy Giuliani / Wall Street Journal:
The Meaning of Fiscal Conservatism — With economic uncertainty weighing on the minds of many Americans, Congress is preparing to recess after another year of profligate spending, protectionist talk and promises of higher taxes. No wonder some people feel like we're moving in the wrong direction.
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Clifford J. Levy / New York Times:
Party's Triumph Raises Question of Putin's Plans — With President Vladimir V. Putin's opponents persistently hobbled by the Kremlin, his party swept Sunday to the kind of landslide long predicted for the parliamentary elections. Yet the results, while a triumph for Mr. Putin …
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Sabin Willett / Boston Globe:
'I will never leave Guantanamo' — "WE HAVE important news for you!" — Chained to the floor of a cell in Camp Six, Guantanamo, Joseph said nothing. But he had some news for us, too. — The Court of Appeals had decided what record - what pieces of paper - it would examine when it considered his "Detainee Treatment Act" case.
Washington Post:
Banking on Holiday Cheer — After a one-year hiatus — and a whole lot of water under the bridge since then — the World Bank is bringing back the office Christmas party. — Last year, bank leadership, under then-President Paul Wolfowitz, pulled the plug on holiday festivities …
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The Corner:
Shocked — It took five months and almost 7,000 words, but The New Republic and its editor Franklin Foer have finally retracted the piece "Shock Troops." — As most of the blog world knows by now, TNR published "Shock Troops" on July 13 under the byline Scott Thomas …
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