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Al Qaeda Offer Obama Conditional Truce
From the AP via NewsOne: Osama bin-Laden’s deputy said in a video message released Monday that the al-Qaida leader’s offers of a truce with the U.S. and Europe remained on the table, though he ridiculed President Barack Obama as “the new face of the same old crimes.” In a video posted on an Islamic militant…
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The Ayatollah: "Yay, Ahmadinejad!"; Critics: "Nah, Son. Nah."
From BBC: Senior Iranian political figures appear to have snubbed the formal endorsement of Mahmoud Ahmadinejad as president by Supreme Leader Ayatollah Ali Khamenei. Influential former President Akbar Hashemi Rafsanjani was among those not at Monday’s ceremony, state TV said. Another former president, Mohammad Khatami, was also absent, as were defeated election candidates Mir Hossein…
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Another Arrest in Harvard Murder Case
From NewsOne: A man arrested in a deadly shooting inside a Harvard University dormitory has been taken from a Manhattan court in handcuffs to face first-degree murder charges in Massachusetts. Jason Aquino waived extradition at his arraignment Friday in Manhattan Criminal Court. He was arrested Thursday at his Manhattan home. His attorney didn’t immediately return…
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New HIV Strain Discovered in Cameroonian Woman
From Al Jazeera: A new strain of the virus that causes Aids has been discovered in a woman from the West African nation of Cameroon. The virus strain appears to come from gorillas but researchers said the woman has likely been infected by another human, not an animal. “We have identified a new human immunodeficiency virus…
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The Real Affirmative Action Babies
Last Sunday, veteran Washington Post journalist Juan Williams and conservative author Shelby Steele wrote two opposing op-eds on the pending death of affirmative action. Williams opined that Justice Sandra Day O’Connor was too optimistic when she predicted that affirmative action, born with the Civil Rights Act of 1964, had at most 25 more years to…
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Bob Herbert: When Anger is The Right Response
From The New York Times: No more than five or six minutes elapsed from the time the police were alerted to the possibility of a break-in at a home in a quiet residential neighborhood and the awful clamping of handcuffs on the wrists of the distinguished Harvard professor Henry Louis Gates Jr. If Professor Gates…
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Sincerely, The Blacks: Anti-Cap and Trade Lobbyists Forge Letter from NAACP
From The American Prospect: Before the big House vote on the American Clean Energy and Security Act (ACES), Representative Tom Perriello had a tough choice to make. Perriello won his seat by a small margin and worried about attacks from Republicans campaigning against the bill. Ultimately, he voted for it, in part because he believes…
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*Cueing Up Tirade* Obama's Sister Moving to DC!
From the NY Times: The far-flung Obama clan is coming closer together. President Obama’s half-sister, Maya Soetoro-Ng, is moving her family here from Hawaii and will spend the next several months living in the nation’s capital, White House officials say. The extended stay means that the siblings will live in the same city, at least…
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