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Local10.com

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'60 Minutes' Newsman Ed Bradley Dies Bradley Was 65

POSTED: 12:19 pm EST November 9, 2006
UPDATED: 12:36 pm EST November 9, 2006


Ed Bradley, a longtime veteran of the CBS news magazine "60 Minutes," has died.

Bradley was 65.

In an on-air announcement, anchorwoman Katie Couric said Bradley died from complications of leukemia.

Bradley died Thursday at New York's Mount Sinai Hospital.

The 2005-06 season of "60 Minutes" marked Bradley's 25th year with the groundbreaking, critically hailed CBS news magazine.

Bradley was born June 22, 1941 in Philadelphia.



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Toledo Blade


http://www.toledoblade.com/apps/pbcs.dll/article?Date=20061108&Category=NEWS09&ArtNo=611080485&SectionCat=&Template=printart

Strickland easily takes Ohio governor job

By JAMES DREW and STEVE EDER
BLADE STAFF WRITERS


COLUMBUS - Disgusted by scandal and frustrated with Ohio's lagging economy, voters yesterday elected a Democratic governor for the first time in 20 years, taking aim at the Republican machine that had controlled every statewide office since 1994. See the latest Ohio results

Ted Strickland, a congressman from southeast Ohio who campaigned on a message of change including cleaning up Republican corruption, trounced Secretary of State Ken Blackwell, a conservative who vowed to revive the state's economy by cutting taxes.

With 64 percent of precincts reporting, Mr. Strickland had 59 percent of the vote to Mr. Blackwell's 38 percent, in the first general election since the scandal erupted over the state's $50 million rare-coin investment controlled by Tom Noe.



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Sun-Sentinel


http://www.sun-sentinel.com/news/local/southflorida/sfl-ahouse09nov09,0,2950641.story?coll=sfla-news-sfla


South Florida Dems vow: Up with ethics, down with drug prices

By William E. Gibson
Washington Bureau Chief

November 9, 2006


Flush with victory at the polls, South Florida Democrats vowed Wednesday to push for lower drug prices for patients and new ethics rules for Congress when their party takes control of the U.S. House of Representatives next year.

Suddenly in the majority, they will wield more clout when Congress begins a new session in January, posing opportunities to pursue causes long dormant under 12 years of Republican rule.

Democrats gained roughly 30 House seats, depending on late vote counts in a few districts. Late Wednesday, they appeared to secure control of the Senate when The Associated Press declared Virginia Democrat Jim Webb the winner over Republican Sen. George Allen.

Democrats dominate the South Florida congressional delegation and represent all parts of Broward and Palm Beach counties. The region will send six Democrats to Congress, including newcomers Ron Klein of Boca Raton and Tim Mahoney of Palm Beach Gardens. Three Cuban-American Republican incumbents from Miami will join them.



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http://www.sun-sentinel.com/news/nationworld/politics/wire/sns-ap-montana-senate,0,3573917.story


Montana's Newest Senator Seeks Change

By MARY CLARE JALONICK
Associated Press Writer

November 9, 2006, 4:27 AM EST


HELENA, Mont. -- Democrat Jon Tester ran as an outsider to what he called Washington's "culture of corruption" -- but got a boost from opposition to the war in Iraq and his Republican opponent's gaffe-laden campaign.

The 50-year-old organic farmer and state Senate president rode that populist horse all the way to a Senate seat by ousting Republican Sen. Conrad Burns by a wafer-thin margin.

"It is absolutely, critically important that we change the direction of the country," Tester said Wednesday. "Now is the time to come together and put politics aside."

Tester's win -- and fellow Democrat Jim Webb's victory in Virginia Wednesday -- gave the Democrats the 51 Senate seats they need to control the chamber.




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November 8, 2006

Rumsfeld Resigns as Defense Secretary After Big Election Gains for Democrats

By DAVID STOUT


Defense Secretary Donald H. Rumsfeld, the hard-driving and super-confident Pentagon boss who came to symbolize President Bush's controversial Iraq policy, is resigning, President Bush announced today.

Mr. Bush, appearing at the White House the day after the Republican Party suffered sweeping defeats in Tuesday's midterm elections, said he and Mr. Rumsfeld had had "a series of thoughtful conversations" and agreed that "the time is right for new leadership at the Pentagon."

The president said he would nominate Robert Gates, former head of the Central Intelligence Agency and now president of Texas A & M University, to replace Mr. Rumsfeld.



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AP: Democrats Win Both Houses Of Congress
Va. Senate Race Goes To Webb
POSTED: 3:41 am EST November 7, 2006
UPDATED: 9:02 pm EST November 8, 2006


WASHINGTON -- The Democrats clinched the final victory needed for a 51-seat majority in the U.S. Senate Wednesday night, according to the AssociatedPress, effectively handing both houses of Congress to the party for thefirst time since 1994.

Jim Webb was declared the winner by the AP reporters who contacted election officials in all 134 localities where voting occurred. About half hadcompleted canvassing and nearly all absentee ballots had been counted,according to the AP.

As of Wednesday, the Senate stood at 49 Republicans and 50 Democrats(including two independents who caucus with the party), with Virginia stillup in the air. Because Vice President Dick Cheney holds the tie-breaker inthe chamber, the Democrats needed a full 51 seats in their caucus to win majority control.




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November 8, 2006
Rumsfeld Resigns as Defense Secretary After Big Election Gains for Democrats
By DAVID STOUT


Defense Secretary Donald H. Rumsfeld, the hard-driving and super-confidentPentagon boss who came to symbolize President Bush's controversial Iraqpolicy, is resigning, President Bush announced today.

Mr. Bush, appearing at the White House the day after the Republican Party suffered sweeping defeats in Tuesday's midterm elections, said he and Mr.Rumsfeld had had "a series of thoughtful conversations" and agreed that "thetime is right for new leadership at the Pentagon."

The president said he would nominate Robert Gates, former head of the Central Intelligence Agency and now president of Texas A & M University, toreplace Mr. Rumsfeld.

Mr. Bush said that as the leader of the Republican Party, he bore the responsibility for its losses on Tuesday. The Democrats picked up 27 seatsand took control of the House, and so far it has gained five seats in theSenate.




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http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/content/article/2006/11/09/AR2006110900240_pf.html


Montana's Tester Squeaks by GOP Rival

By MARY CLARE JALONICK
The Associated Press
Thursday, November 9, 2006; 4:40 AM


HELENA, Mont. -- Democrat Jon Tester ran as an outsider to what he called Washington's "culture of corruption" _ but got a boost from opposition tothe war in Iraq and his Republican opponent's gaffe-laden campaign.

The 50-year-old organic farmer and state Senate president rode that populist horse all the way to a Senate seat by ousting Republican Sen. Conrad Burnsby a wafer-thin margin.

"It is absolutely, critically important that we change the direction of the country," Tester said Wednesday.

"Now is the time to come together and put politics aside."




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Forwarded from Kenneth Sherrill - Ken's List
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Huffington Post (blog), November 8, 2006

http://www.huffingtonpost.com/terry-curtis-fox/the-antirights-democrat_b_33679.html

The Anti-Rights Democrat
Terry Curtis Fox

Out here in the blue part of the Blue/Red Zone, people have been walking around with shocked smiles. This is Western North Carolina, where I've beenteaching, as divided a Congressional District as any in the country. Thereis very little purple in these hills. Asheville is as liberal as SantaMonica; the university town fifty miles to the west is much the same.

In between is an area so red that a local preacher demanded that his congregants leave church if they so much as thought of voting for John Kerry.

But vote Democrat is what a good number of red-area folks must have done.Western North Carolina just unseated an eight-term pork-barrel (and ratherporcine) Republican and replaced him with ... well, that's kind of thequestion.



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http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/content/article/2006/11/08/AR2006110802522_pf.html


Mike Beebe (D)

Thursday, November 9, 2006; A42

Arkansas Attorney General Mike Beebe handily defeated Republican As Hutchinson to give Democrats control of the governorship. Beebe replacesGov. Mike Huckabee (R), who was term-limited and in office since 1996. Beebe, 59, is a veteran politician who has been in public office for 24years. Hutchinson, a former congressman and Department of Homeland Security official, was the first opponent Beebe had ever faced.

The race was the most expensive in state history, with the candidates spending a combined $8.8 million and each drawing campaign visits from such party luminaries as former president Bill Clinton and President Bush.

Beebe promised to phase out the state's 6-cent tax on groceries and expand pre-kindergarten programs.

He also tried to neutralize any advantage Hutchinson had with conservative voters in a state that has trended Republican in recent years by proclaiming his support for gun and property rights and for reinstating a state law banning gay foster parents.




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Technology Review


http://www.technologyreview.com/read_article.aspx?id=17771&ch=biztech


Monday, November 06, 2006
Microsoft unveils 3-D maps in latest bid to upstage Google
By Associated Press


SAN FRANCISCO (AP) -- Microsoft Corp. has upgraded its online mapping service to include three-dimensional tours of 15 U.S. cities, marking another step in its dogged pursuit of Internet search leader Google Inc.

With the improvements unveiled Monday, Microsoft is hoping to upstage Google's popular ''Earth'' software, which enables about one-third of theworld's population to obtain an aerial view of their homes andneighborhoods.

Google says it has distributed more than 100 million free copies of the Earth software since its June 2005 introduction.

Microsoft, the world's largest software maker, is touting its 3-D version of ''Virtual Earth'' as a more compelling alternative that provides''photorealistic'' images of the 15 targeted cities: San Francisco, SanJose, Seattle, Boston, Philadelphia, Los Angeles, Las Vegas, Detroit,Phoenix, Houston, Baltimore, Atlanta, Denver, Dallas and Fort Worth, Texas.


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