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Going out on top
USATODAY.com - The two No. 1 female athletes who abruptly announced their retirements this week sent a welcome message: Dedication and drive to get to the top are important — but life has more than one note, and one act, to it. Having the instinct to know when and how to follow a different path is rare. But, quite clearly, golfer Annika Sorenstam and tennis star Justine Henin have it.
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USATODAY.com - The two No. 1 female athletes who abruptly announced their retirements this week sent a welcome message: Dedication and drive to get to the top are important — but life has more than one note, and one act, to it. Having the instinct to know when and how to follow a different path is rare. But, quite clearly, golfer Annika Sorenstam and tennis star Justine Henin have it.
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West Virginia win doesn't quiet debate
USATODAY.com - The (Cleveland) Plain Dealer, in an editorial: "As she struggles to keep her presidential campaign alive and relevant, Hillary Clinton is trying to convince the unelected superdelegates who will decide the Democratic presidential nomination that her better than 2-1 victory over Barack Obama in Tuesday's West Virginia primary marks a turning point in the race and underscores her argument that he cannot win in November. It does neither.
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USATODAY.com - The (Cleveland) Plain Dealer, in an editorial: "As she struggles to keep her presidential campaign alive and relevant, Hillary Clinton is trying to convince the unelected superdelegates who will decide the Democratic presidential nomination that her better than 2-1 victory over Barack Obama in Tuesday's West Virginia primary marks a turning point in the race and underscores her argument that he cannot win in November. It does neither.
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Torture's Blowback
THE GHOSTS of interrogations past have come back to haunt the Bush administration. This week, the legal officer supervising the military trials at the U.S. detention center at Guantanamo Bay, Cuba, dismissed capital charges against Mohammed al-Qahtani, who allegedly would have been the 20th hijacker during the Sept. 11, 2001, terrorist attacks had he not been prevented from entering the country. The decision has been widely reported as a serious setback for the administration's quest to bring terrorists to justice. It is much more and much worse than that: It is a palpable reminder of the inhumane acts committed by U.S. personnel and sanctioned by top officials in the name of protecting Americans from extremists.
Washington Post – 18 hours, 5 minutes ago ¦ comment?
THE GHOSTS of interrogations past have come back to haunt the Bush administration. This week, the legal officer supervising the military trials at the U.S. detention center at Guantanamo Bay, Cuba, dismissed capital charges against Mohammed al-Qahtani, who allegedly would have been the 20th hijacker during the Sept. 11, 2001, terrorist attacks had he not been prevented from entering the country. The decision has been widely reported as a serious setback for the administration's quest to bring terrorists to justice. It is much more and much worse than that: It is a palpable reminder of the inhumane acts committed by U.S. personnel and sanctioned by top officials in the name of protecting Americans from extremists.
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Farm Bill Chestnuts
TO HEAR CONGRESS tell it, the farm bill that it just passed by veto-proof margins in both houses is all about helping the poor. House Majority Leader Steny H. Hoyer (D-Md.), for example, appeared with members of the House Asian and Hispanic caucuses to hail its benefits for minority communities. And about two-thirds of the $289 billion bill will go to nutrition programs for low-income Americans, including about $10 billion in necessary increases. Corporate welfare for agribusiness accounts for less than half the price tag. But where does the Constitution say that Congress has to put aid to the poor in the same bill with tens of billions in aid to the middle class and rich? Congress does it that way so that rural members can get urban and suburban members to sign off on lavish farm subsidies they would otherwise reject.
Washington Post – 18 hours, 5 minutes ago ¦ comment?
TO HEAR CONGRESS tell it, the farm bill that it just passed by veto-proof margins in both houses is all about helping the poor. House Majority Leader Steny H. Hoyer (D-Md.), for example, appeared with members of the House Asian and Hispanic caucuses to hail its benefits for minority communities. And about two-thirds of the $289 billion bill will go to nutrition programs for low-income Americans, including about $10 billion in necessary increases. Corporate welfare for agribusiness accounts for less than half the price tag. But where does the Constitution say that Congress has to put aid to the poor in the same bill with tens of billions in aid to the middle class and rich? Congress does it that way so that rural members can get urban and suburban members to sign off on lavish farm subsidies they would otherwise reject.
Washington Post – 18 hours, 5 minutes ago ¦ comment?
There Goes the Neighborhood?
AMONG WASHINGTON'S close-in suburbs, Arlington County has a justifiable reputation as a harmonious stronghold of tolerance and moderation. As it remade itself in recent decades from a bedroom suburb into a more densely settled, partly urban, more diverse cluster of communities, it did so with a consensus born of plentiful citizen input and little of the political turbulence that similar transformations caused elsewhere. That's why it's news that a proposal now before the County Board that would allow homeowners to rent out parts of their homes as separate living units -- additions, basement apartments with kitchenettes and the like -- has upset some homeowners, including a portion who believe the measure could attract illegal immigrants.
Washington Post – 18 hours, 5 minutes ago ¦ comment?
AMONG WASHINGTON'S close-in suburbs, Arlington County has a justifiable reputation as a harmonious stronghold of tolerance and moderation. As it remade itself in recent decades from a bedroom suburb into a more densely settled, partly urban, more diverse cluster of communities, it did so with a consensus born of plentiful citizen input and little of the political turbulence that similar transformations caused elsewhere. That's why it's news that a proposal now before the County Board that would allow homeowners to rent out parts of their homes as separate living units -- additions, basement apartments with kitchenettes and the like -- has upset some homeowners, including a portion who believe the measure could attract illegal immigrants.
Washington Post – 18 hours, 5 minutes ago ¦ comment?
A Sublime Moment For Cable TV--Chris Matthews interviewing Kevin James On Appeasement.
HuffingtonPost.com - Well, this might have been his finest hour. Chris Matthews I mean, confronting Kevin James in the presence of Mark Green on tonight's Hardball. The topic: what it means to compare appeasement, meaning Nazis and Neville Chamberlain in 1938-39--that exhausted neo-con trope--to our current situation vis-Ã-vis Iran and etc. The exchange was pegged to Bush's political exploitation of Israel's 60th anniversary.
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HuffingtonPost.com - Well, this might have been his finest hour. Chris Matthews I mean, confronting Kevin James in the presence of Mark Green on tonight's Hardball. The topic: what it means to compare appeasement, meaning Nazis and Neville Chamberlain in 1938-39--that exhausted neo-con trope--to our current situation vis-Ã-vis Iran and etc. The exchange was pegged to Bush's political exploitation of Israel's 60th anniversary.
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Martin Luther King Memorial Isn't Worthy Of The Man
Georgie Anne Geyer - WASHINGTON -- "How would you like to go on the bus with the clergymen to Albany tomorrow?" my editor at the Chicago Daily News asked me that turbulent spring in the early 1960s.
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Georgie Anne Geyer - WASHINGTON -- "How would you like to go on the bus with the clergymen to Albany tomorrow?" my editor at the Chicago Daily News asked me that turbulent spring in the early 1960s.
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New York diary by Oliver Burkeman
Oliver Burkeman: McCain might be studying British politics rather closely when it comes to devising his election strategy
The Guardian – 22 hours, 36 minutes ago ¦ comment?
Oliver Burkeman: McCain might be studying British politics rather closely when it comes to devising his election strategy
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Mark Lawson: Weapons we can't handle
Mark Lawson: This spate of stabbings defies simple remedy, with knives so available and anger so inevitable
The Guardian – 22 hours, 38 minutes ago ¦ comment?
Mark Lawson: This spate of stabbings defies simple remedy, with knives so available and anger so inevitable
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Polly Toynbee: Goodbye, good times. Now Labour has to show just whose side it is on
Polly Toynbee: Faced with an economic downturn, Gordon Brown must spread the pain fairly - not carry on squeezing the low-paid
The Guardian – 22 hours, 38 minutes ago ¦ comment?
Polly Toynbee: Faced with an economic downturn, Gordon Brown must spread the pain fairly - not carry on squeezing the low-paid
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