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New York Times
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U.S. Said to Seek Execution for 6 in Sept. 11 Case
The decision to seek the death penalty for detainees would presentchallenges to a troubled military commission system that has yet to begin asingle trial.
http://www.nytimes.com/2008/02/11/us/11gitmo.html?hp
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Maine to Obama; Clinton Replaces Campaign Leader
Facing another big round of contests Tuesday, Hillary Rodham Clintonconducted the biggest shakeup of her campaign to date as Barack Obamatallied another win.
http://www.nytimes.com/2008/02/11/us/politics/11dems.html?hp
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Obama's Path to Victory
Around 9 p.m. Tuesday night, television networks probably will beannouncing, for the first time, that Barack Obama holds an unambiguousdelegate lead.
http://www.nytimes.com/2008/02/11/opinion/11kristol.html?ref=opinion
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Hate Springs Eternal
Most of the venom is coming from supporters of Barack Obama, who want theirhero or nobody. His campaign seems dangerously close to becoming a cult ofpersonality.
http://www.nytimes.com/2008/02/11/opinion/11krugman.html?ref=opinion
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Unworthy Nominees
Fifteen months after voters put Democrats in control of the Senate, Mr. Bushis still trying to muscle far-right ideologues with troubling records intoimportant positions.
http://www.nytimes.com/2008/02/11/opinion/11mon2.html?ref=opinion
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Nafta Is a Sweet Deal, So Why Are They So Sour?
The Mexican government must revamp its own system of supports that now favormainly big farmers, and provide small farmers with access to credit andknow-how.
http://www.nytimes.com/2008/02/11/opinion/11mon4.html?ref=opinion
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Army Buried Study Faulting Iraq Planning
The unclassified report identified problems with nearly every organizationthat had a role in planning the war, including the White House and theDefense Department.
http://www.nytimes.com/2008/02/11/washington/11army.html?hp
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Senior Taliban Figure Caught in Pakistan
QUETTA, Pakistan (AP) -- Pakistani security forces critically wounded a topfigure in the Taliban militia fighting U.S. and NATO forces in Afghanistan,among six militants captured after a firefight near the border Monday, thearmy said. Also Monday, an independent candidate running in next week'sparliamentary elections and seven supporters were killed in a suicide attackin a border region, officials said.
http://www.nytimes.com/aponline/world/AP-Pakistan-Violence.html
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Losses Signal Challenges for McCain
Just as Senator John McCain appeared poised to become the presumptiveRepublican presidential nominee, he was reminded over the weekend that manyRepublican voters still have not climbed aboard his bandwagon.
http://www.nytimes.com/2008/02/11/us/politics/11repubs.html
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Miami Herald
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CONGRESS
Republicans face an 'epidemic' of U.S. House dropouts
With 25 GOP retirements or resignations from the U.S. House alreadyannounced, the Republican Party has a political problem.
http://www.miamiherald.com/top_stories/story/414410.html
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Fort Report
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California's path after tax cuts shows Florida counties a way
Staying ahead of shrinking revenues requires 'really creative thinking,'Golden State lawmakers say. As city and county officials in Florida wringtheir hands over predicted revenue shortfalls from Amendment 1, theircounterparts in California can say: Been there, done that.
http://www.tcpalm.com/news/2008/feb/09/30californias-pathafter-tax-cuts-showsfla-a-way/
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Foe of Electoral College pushes popular vote plan
A Stanford professor is leading a drive to change how the president iselected. SPRINGFIELD, Ill. - If John Koza gets his way, American voterswill never again have to wonder about the workings of the Electoral Collegeand why it decides who sits in the White House.
http://www.sptimes.com/2008/02/11/Worldandnation/Foe_of_Electoral_Coll.shtml
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Another Voice
Follow the process with Hillary Clinton's papers. Sen. Hillary RodhamClinton, D-N.Y., touts her experience as first lady, particularly herleadership of the health-care task force in the early years of the Clintonadministration, as the foundation of her run for the Democratic Partynomination for president. So it's only natural that there would be a clamorfor the release of White House records that would give a fuller accountingof her performance and judgment before the November election, assuming shesucceeds in snaring the nomination.
http://www.chron.com/disp/story.mpl/editorial/5529636.html
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Clinton still in the lead with party insiders
WASHINGTON - Hillary Rodham Clinton retains her lead among suddenly criticalDemocratic Party insiders even as Barack Obama builds up his delegate marginwith primary and caucus victories across the country, according to a surveyby The Associated Press.
http://www.chron.com/disp/story.mpl/politics/5529910.html
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Washington Post
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Life After Chávez
Is Hugo Chávez crashing? It's hard to believe that a strongman whocommands more than $40 billion in annual petroleum revenue, who has beengranted the right to rule by decree by a rubber-stamp parliament, whocontrols his country's courts and television media, and who has recentlyspent billions on new weapons for his army could have much to worry about.Yet as Venezuela's president held a parade to celebrate the 16th anniversaryof his unsuccessful military coup against a former democratic governmentlast week, his own nine-year-old administration was struggling to pull outof a tailspin.
http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/content/article/2008/02/10/AR2008021001969.html
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Obama's Bradley Effect?
Which Democrat won Super Tuesday? Thanks to the Democratic Party'sproportional representation, it is not easy to say a week later. Sen.Hillary Clinton and Sen. Barack Obama ran to a virtual dead heat for thedelegates at stake in 22 states that were clearly stacked in Obama's favor.But the way Obama lost California raises the specter of the dreaded "Bradleyeffect."
http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/content/article/2008/02/10/AR2008021001968.html
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A Malaise Election
Now that John McCain has all but clinched the Republican nomination, we cansee the outline of this fall's election. McCain will be the nationalsecurity candidate, more fluent on military readiness than on mortgagetroubles or health care; meanwhile, his Democratic opponent will campaign onsome version of that line from 1992 -- "It's the economy, stupid." Andbehind this simple juxtaposition, a larger debate is likely to unfold. Forthe United States is entering another Kennedy moment.
http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/content/article/2008/02/10/AR2008021001970.html
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MicroHoo
Antitrust issues to consider -- if the deal goes through. AFTER A YEAR oftrying to seal the deal quietly, Microsoft has made a public, unsolicitedbid for Yahoo. While the offer has not yet been accepted -- and Yahoo boardmembers are reportedly going to demand a higher offer today -- Microsoft andits archrival Google have already sicced their lobbying armies onWashington. As in Microsoft's opposition to Google's recently approvedacquisition of DoubleClick, both sides argue that any success of their ownproducts is earned by superior design, and any success gleaned by theircompetitors is due to anticompetitive practices. Lawmakers have alreadyannounced three congressional hearings on the issue.
http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/content/article/2008/02/10/AR2008021001917.html
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Those Missing E-Mails
Not as bad as you think. Not as good as it should be. WITH EACH passingweek, the fate of e-mails generated by President Bush's staff grows morecurious and troubling. While evidence has not emerged of a deliberate effortby the White House to destroy sensitive electronic messages, there's reasonto be concerned about the potential loss of historical records.
http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/content/article/2008/02/10/AR2008021001918.html
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Iran's Clerical Old Guard Being Pushed Aside
TEHRAN -- After Ayatollah Ruhollah Khomeini's followers toppled aU.S.-backed autocracy in Iran, he brought to power a coterie of politicallyengaged clerics who sought to create the world's first Islamic republic.Nearly 30 years later, a new generation of politicians is sweeping asidethose clerics, many of whom had become proponents of better relations withthe West and gradual steps toward greater democracy.
http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/content/article/2008/02/10/AR2008021002698.html?hpid=topnews
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Musharraf's Approval Rating Plummets
Poll Finds Opposition Parties Could Win Two-Thirds in Next Week'sParliamentary Vote. ISLAMABAD, Pakistan, Feb. 10 -- A week beforePakistanis vote in parliamentary elections, President Pervez Musharraf'spopularity has hit an all-time low and opposition parties seem capable of alandslide victory that could jeopardize his efforts to cling to power,according to a poll to be released Monday.
http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/content/story/2008/02/10/ST2008021002397.html?hpid=moreheadlines
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Conflicting Assessments of War in Afghanistan
President Bush famously doesn't like long memos. So if retired Marine Gen.James L. Jones hoped to get Bush's attention with the report he produced onAfghanistan, he was clever enough to be blunt from the start. "Make nomistake," the report says in its first line. "NATO is not winning inAfghanistan." If Bush read that far into the report, he evidentlydisagrees. During his speech Friday to the Conservative Political ActionConference, the president offered a far rosier view of the situation inAfghanistan than even his own top military and civilian advisers hold. "TheTaliban, al-Qaeda and their allies are on the run," Bush declared to theaudience of supporters.
http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/content/article/2008/02/10/AR2008021002437.html?hpid=sec-nation
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Egypt Court Upholds Christian Conversion
CAIRO, Egypt -- Egypt's highest civil court ruled Saturday that 12 CopticChristians who had converted to Islam could return to their old faith,ending a yearlong legal battle over the predominantly Muslim state'stolerance for conversion. The court overturned an April 2007 ruling by alower court that forbade the 12 Muslims from returning to Christianity onthe grounds that Islamic law would consider that apostasy.
http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/content/article/2008/02/09/AR2008020902352.html?hpid=sec-religion
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