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  • Friday's Headlines

    CNN: Casualties, Up to 40 Hostages in Upstate New York Siege AP: Jobless Rate at 8.5%; 91.5% of America Real Shook Right Now American Prospect: Terence Samuel Discusses New $1T Man, the IMF; Ted DiBiase Jealous AJE: Sarkozy Rejects Obama’s Afghan Plan, Forgets French Could Have Been His 2nd Language NYT: Iowa Courts Lifting Ban…

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  • Thursday's Headlines

    WP: Blago Expected to Be Indicted Today (Did You Hear that Roland?) CNN: Michelle Obama Hugs Queen, (White) People Freak Out Reuters: Sarkozy Gives G20 Presser, Asked If Obama Hug Freaked Him Out Too BBC: G20 Seals $1T Deal; Media Asks, “No, But for Real, Did You See That Hug”? NYT: China Looks to Own…

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  • Wednesday's Headlines

    Reuters: Taliban Spokesmen Say the Darnedest Things! WFAA: Police Misconduct Is for Quitters: Officer in Moats Incident Resigns ABC: Rio Plans to Wall in Slums, US: “Just Call it a ‘Housing Project’ and You’re Set” USAT: Calipari: ‘ I Do Not Walk On Water’, Leaving Feat to Obama, Jesus The Job: Conservation Can Be Deadly!…

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  • Tuesday's Headlines

    BBC: Iran, US Have ‘Cordial’ Chit-Chat; Exchange Baby Pics, Nuclear Schematics UPI: British Hand Over Basra Command to US, Don’t Let Door Hit Behind on Way Out AP: Netanyahu Wants ‘Full Peace’; Says ‘We Can Do This the Easy Way or the Easier Way’ LAT: 200 Migrants Feared Drowned in Mediterranean Reuters: Record Drop in…

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  • Why Michael Steele Must Stay

    Recently, I got a call from a Republican National Committee member from the Mid-Atlantic. She was worried that Michael Steele may be ousted from his RNC chairmanship before he ever gets started. She told me that she had received repeated calls from concerned committee members in Georgia, Tennessee and some Midwest states about Steele’s foibles and…

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  • Monday's Headlines

    SFC: Six Members of Family Die in Murder-Suicide WP: Surprise, Surprise: Israeli Military Finds No Misconduct in Gaza War FOX: White House Not Super Into Auto Industry Plan, Says ‘Try Again’ NYT: Cholestrol Drug May Cut Risk of Clots; Not a License to Eat More Bacon DS: Dallas Cop Apologizes to Moats (That Should Just…

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  • Sunday Brunch: The Week in Review

    MONDAY MSNBC: Tips for Making College Affordable—Step One: Have Money AJE: Deadly Attack on Iraq Funeral (Yeah, It’s Reaaallly Time for Us to Go) CNN: Tyra Gets Her Robin Givens On, Talks to Oprah of Abuse WH: Obama Talks Green Jobs *Live* IS: Indiana Near Top of Black Homicide Rate; Buzz Didn’t Know Hoosiers Were…

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  • Saturday Matinee: The New York Times

    Michael Steele Forgets Memo, Continues Speaking

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  • The Confab — Mar. 27, 2009

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  • Clues to Smith's 'Detective Agency'

    He’s not the first person that you’d expect to author a series of mysteries starring Mma Precious Ramotswe, an enterprising “lady detective,” a Botswana woman of “traditional build.” Novelist Alexander McCall Smith is, after all, neither Botswanan nor female, but a Scottish law professor who was born in Zimbabwe and educated in Zimbabwe and Scotland.  …

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