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Robin Wright / Washington Post:
Israel Will Accept a Disarmed Hezbollah — Envoy Talks of Future As a 'Political Group' — The United States, Israel, the United Nations and the European Union have reluctantly concluded that despite punishing military attacks, Hezbollah is likely to survive as a political player in Lebanon …
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Matthew Kalman / San Francisco Chronicle:
Israel set war plan more than a year ago — Strategy was put in motion as Hezbollah began gaining military strength in Lebanon — (07-21) 04:00 PDT Jerusalem — Israel's military response by air, land and sea to what it considered a provocation last week by Hezbollah militants …
Lenin / LENIN'S TOMB:Israel kills more in Lebanon: media blackout protests.
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Lieberman's Last Stand — The Connecticut senator's almost saintly civility may be coming back to haunt him on Iraq — On a brain-foggingly hot Sunday afternoon in July, a wistful Senator Joseph Lieberman tried to summon his inner Samuel Gompers as he accepted the Connecticut AFL-CIO's endorsement …
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The Next Hurrah
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Irving Stolberg / Hartford Courant:
No More Joe — `Dead Wrong' On The War And Defense Of Bush, White House Excesses — Joe Lieberman and I have been friends and colleagues for 38 years. We ran for and won seats in the Connecticut legislature as a team of reformers in 1970. He was my state senator and I was his state representative.
Avi Issacharoff / Haaretz:
Fatah: Hamas ready to accept deal on ceasefire, release of Shalit — Senior Fatah sources in Gaza said on Saturday that Hamas is ready to accept a deal that involves freeing abducted Israel Defense Forces soldier Gilad Shalit, a joint cease-fire and an end to IDF actions in the Gaza Strip.
Jerusalem Post:
Report: Hizbullah willing to talk — Hizbullah agreed to allow the Lebanese government to begin negotiations regarding kidnapped IDF soldiers, according to speaker of the Lebanese Parliament Nabih Berri on Sunday afternoon. — Earlier Sunday, Lebanese Foreign Minister Fawzi Salloukh told …
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CBS News:
Buckley: Bush Not A True Conservative — In Exclusive Interview, Buckley Criticizes President For Interventionist Policies — (CBS) President Bush ran for office as a "compassionate conservative." And he continues to nurture his conservative base — even issuing his first veto this week against embryonic stem cell research.
Jason Lewis / Daily Mail:
Outcry as border guards seize British 'dirty bomb' lorry heading for Iran — Border guards seized a British lorry on its way to make a delivery to the Iranian military - after discovering it was packed with radioactive material that could be used to build a dirty bomb.
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Stanley Fish / New York Times:
Conspiracy Theories 101 — Andes, N.Y. — KEVIN BARRETT, a lecturer at the University of Wisconsin at Madison, has now taken his place alongside Ward Churchill of the University of Colorado as a college teacher whose views on 9/11 have led politicians and ordinary citizens to demand that he be fired.
Darrel Rowland / dispatch.com:
Strickland far ahead, early poll indicates — Democrat strong across board; Brown maintains 8-point edge over DeWine in Senate race — Democrat Ted Strickland has surged to a surprising lead of 20 percentage points in the first Dispatch Poll on Ohio's Nov. 7 race for governor.
Times of London:
God's army has plans to run the whole Middle East — Hezbollah, the group at the heart of the Lebanese conflict, is the spearhead of Iran's ambitions to be a superpower, says Iranian commentator Amir Taheri — 'You are the sun of Islam, shining on the universe!
Alan Finder / New York Times:
Feeling Strains, Baptist Colleges Cut Church Ties — GEORGETOWN, Ky. — The request seemed simple enough to the Rev. Hershael W. York, then the president of the Kentucky Baptist Convention. He asked Georgetown College, a small Baptist liberal arts institution here, to consider hiring …
Jonathan Weisman / Washington Post:
With Insurance Policy Comes Membership — Unbeknown to Some, Those Signing Up With Firm Are Joining Conservative Group — In 2001, Jennifer B. Chace heard an insurance broker's pitch for a new insurance company marketing tax-free medical savings accounts.
Thomas E. Ricks / Washington Post:
In Iraq, Military Forgot Lessons of Vietnam — Early Missteps by U.S. Left Troops Unprepared for Guerrilla Warfare — The real war in Iraq — the one to determine the future of the country — began on Aug. 7, 2003, when a car bomb exploded outside the Jordanian Embassy, killing 11 and wounding more than 50.
Jerusalem Post:
Iran: Israel doomed to 'destruction' — TEHERAN — Iran's president, Mahmoud Ahmadinejad, declared Sunday that Israel had "pushed the button of its own destruction" by launching its military campaign against the Iranian-backed Hizbullah in Lebanon. — Ahmadinejad didn't elaborate …
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