NATIONAL & WORLD DIGEST March 11, 2008

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New York Times
http://www.nytimes.com/
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Spitzer Said to Be Weighing Resignation
http://www.nytimes.com/2008/03/11/nyregion/11spitzer.html?ex=1205899200&en=666c183eb7694a8b&ei=5040&partner=MOREOVERNEWS
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Prostitution and the Law
Should prostitution indeed be illegal? Is it worse to be caught paying forsex than simply having an affair?
http://kristof.blogs.nytimes.com/2008/03/10/prostitution-and-the-law/index.html?ref=opinion
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Radio Fear America
President Bush used his radio address on Saturday to try to scare Americansinto believing they have to sacrifice their rights and their values tocombat terrorism.
http://www.nytimes.com/2008/03/11/opinion/11tue2.html?_r=1&ref=opinion&oref=slogin
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Sharing the Pain
The economic pain and anxiety felt for so long by the poor and the near-poorhas been spreading like a stain in the middle class as well. It's hardlybeen a secret.
http://www.nytimes.com/2008/03/11/opinion/11herbert.html?ref=opinion
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Oil's End
From the steps of the Supreme Court to the White House press room, fromglobal trading exchanges to the snowy reaches of Alaska - over the lastweek, you could hear the creak of history as it began to pivot in ahalf-dozen locales.
The Age of Oil is at an end. Maybe not this year. Maybe not for five years.
But signs of the coming collapse are evident.
http://egan.blogs.nytimes.com/2008/03/05/oils-end/index.html?ref=opinion
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Another Tri - State Governor in Scandal
http://www.nytimes.com/aponline/us/AP-Spitzer-Tarnished-Governors.html?_r=1&scp=3&sq=gay&st=nyt&oref=slogin
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Washington Post
http://www.miamiherald.com/
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Economy weak but not enough for recession: report
http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/content/article/2008/03/11/AR2008031100421.html
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Ashcroft to Testify at House Hearing
http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/content/article/2008/03/11/AR2008031100342.html
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How the Democrats Could Lose
http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/content/article/2008/03/10/AR2008031002246.html?hpid=opinionsbox1
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Who Is the Real John McCain?
http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/content/article/2008/03/10/AR2008031002247.html?hpid=opinionsbox1
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The President's Lawyers
http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/content/article/2008/03/10/AR2008031002664.html
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Delegates We Need
Let's have a revote in Florida and Michigan, and let the DemocraticNational Committee pay for it.
When Barack Obama's campaign says that Hillary Clinton can't escape theharsh realities of delegate math, it's telling the truth. The problem withthat argument is that neither can he.
After last Tuesday's primaries, it has become increasingly obvious thatneither of the two Democratic candidates for president is likely before theconvention to attain the 2,025 delegates needed to clinch the party'snomination. It appears, instead, that we are headed toward a stalemate.
As a result, the word "superdelegate" has stormed into the vernacular of theAmerican public like no electoral term since "hanging chad."
http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/content/article/2008/03/10/AR2008031002243.html
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Iraq's Surging Violence by Eugene Robinson
Has anyone noticed that Iraq is growing less peaceful and tranquil by theday?
http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/content/article/2008/03/10/AR2008031002245.html
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Ms. Rice's Retreat
The secretary of state, who once championed reform in Egypt, waives humanrights restrictions on U.S. aid.
http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/content/article/2008/03/10/AR2008031002669.html
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Belgium to Pay Holocaust Survivors
http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/content/article/2008/03/11/AR2008031100973.html?hpid=moreheadlines
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Vatican Updates Its Thou-Shalt-Not List
http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/content/article/2008/03/10/AR2008031001194.html?hpid=sec-religion
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California Regents Sue Animal Rights Activists
http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/content/article/2008/03/10/AR2008031002591.html?hpid=sec-education
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Prostituting His Office
It was shortly after 3 p.m. yesterday when I saw Fox News anchor ShepardSmith report that, based on "sources," Eliot L. Spitzer was expected toresign "just moments from now," and "has been indicted."
http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/content/article/2008/03/11/AR2008031100866_pf.html
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Fort Report
http://www.fortreport.com/
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Would the GOP rather face Clinton or Obama?
http://www.salon.com/news/feature/2008/03/10/hillary/
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House sues administration for documents, testimony
The House on Monday launched what could be a landmark attack against theBush administration, claiming in a federal lawsuit that the White Houseabused the protections of executive privilege to shield itself fromlegitimate oversight.
The suit, filed in federal court in Washington, seeks to force the WhiteHouse to turn over documents and provide testimony shedding light on therole of executive-branch officials in the controversial dismissals of nineU.S. attorneys in 2006.
http://www.latimes.com/news/nationworld/nation/la-na-contempt11mar11,1,4085417.story?track=rss&ctrack=5&cset=true
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Forwarded from Gay Asalyum - UK
http://groups.yahoo.com/group/gayasylum/messages?o=1
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The UN's Committee on the Elimination of Racial Discrimination harshlycriticized the US record on race after considering oral and writtentestimony submitted by the US government. In its conclusions issued today,the committee urged the US to rectify the "stark racial disparities" incriminal justice systems throughout the country. "The UN is telling the USthat it needs to deal with an ugly aspect of its criminal justice system,"said Alison Parker, deputy director of the US Program at Human Rights Watch.
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