NATIONAL & WORLD DIGEST March 10, 2008

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New York Times
http://www.nytimes.com/
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Sniping by Her Aides Hurt Clinton's Image as Manager
Internal second-guessing undermined Hillary Rodham Clinton's image as asteady-at-the-wheel chief surrounded by a phalanx of loyal and efficientaides.
http://www.nytimes.com/2008/03/10/us/politics/10clinton.html?hp
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India Nurtures Business of Surrogate Motherhood
http://travel.nytimes.com/2008/03/10/world/asia/10surrogate.html?scp=5&sq=GAY&st=nyt
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Prison Nation
Persuading public officials to adopt a more rational approach to prisonpolicy is a daunting prospect, not least because building and runningjailhouses has become a major industry.
http://www.nytimes.com/2008/03/10/opinion/10mon1.html?ref=opinion
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McCain's Daunting Task
Republican hopes to the contrary notwithstanding, Democrats will unitebehind Barack Obama or Hillary Clinton, or behind a ticket with the two ofthem.
http://www.nytimes.com/2008/03/10/opinion/10kristol.html?ref=opinion
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Tribalism Here, and There
We're beyond tribalism, right? Wrong. The main forces in the world today arethe modernizing, barrier-breaking sweep of globalization and the tribalreaction to it.
http://www.nytimes.com/2008/03/10/opinion/10webcohen.html?ref=opinion
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Teaching Change
While laws like No Child Left Behind take the punches for being astraitjacket on schools, it is union contracts that have the greatest effectover what teachers can and cannot do.
http://www.nytimes.com/2008/03/10/opinion/10rotherham.html?ref=opinion
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Southern Baptists Back a Shift on Climate Change
http://www.nytimes.com/2008/03/10/us/10baptist.html
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Detroit Mayor's Friend Landed Millions in Contracts, Newspaper Reports
http://www.nytimes.com/2008/03/10/us/10detroit.html
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Washington Post
http://www.washingtonpost.com/
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A New Front in War on Spam
Messages that have long plagued e-mail inboxes find victims via a morepersonal route: cellphones. Text messages are the latest tool foradvertisers and scammers to target consumers.
http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/content/article/2008/03/09/AR2008030902213.html?hpid=topnews
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Laws Leave Chinese Vulnerable
Underground human trafficking system flourishes in the absence ofprotections against forced labor.
http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/content/article/2008/03/09/AR2008030902048.html?hpid=topnews
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Tibet's language, customs and traditions are fading away and Tibetans livein fear as they become an insignificant minority in their Himalayanhomeland, the Dalai Lama will say in a speech on Monday.
http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/content/article/2008/03/09/AR2008030900306.html?hpid=sec-religion
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Miami Herald
http://www.miamiherald.com/
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Good AIDS program can be made better
The adoring crowds that recently hailed President Bush in Africa did sobecause the AIDS program he championed five years ago has helped more than1.4 million people. Those crowds may have more to cheer in another fiveyears, thanks to a compromise bill in Congress that would boost theAIDS-program funding and effectiveness. ....Tough compromises centered onfunding for abstinence programs and restrictions on sex workers and familyplanning, including contraception. Health experts note that infectedprostitutes can rapidly spread HIV and shouldn't be ignored. Abstinenceprograms alone won't stop unprotected sex.
http://www.miamiherald.com/opinion/editorials/story/450471.html
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Obama needs a new message
By EUGENE ROBINSON
With arithmetic on his side, Barack Obama still should be heavily favored towin the Democratic presidential nomination. But Obama does have a problem:The world-class orator, attacked by opponents for being all talk and nowalk, urgently needs to come up with a new speech.
http://www.miamiherald.com/851/story/450480.html
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Think twice about ending U.S. embargo
By GEORGE F. WILL
On Dec. 29, 1962 -- 11 months before he was murdered by an advocate forFidel Castro's regime (Lee Harvey Oswald had distributed propaganda on a NewOrleans street for the Fair Play for Cuba Committee) -- President JohnKennedy, speaking in Miami's Orange Bowl to veterans of the Bay of Pigsfiasco, received from them a Cuban flag and vowed, ''I can assure you thatthis flag will be returned to this brigade in a free Havana.''
http://www.miamiherald.com/851/story/448205.html
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