NATIONAL & WORLD DIGEST March 20, 2008

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New York Times
http://www.nytimes.com/
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Clinton Facing Narrower Path to Nomination
Winning the nomination has seemed something of a long shot for HillaryRodham Clinton since February, but it now seems to have grown a bit longer.
http://www.nytimes.com/2008/03/20/us/politics/20memo.html?_r=1&hp&oref=slogin
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Hillary Rodham Clinton's White House Schedules
The National Archives and the William J. Clinton Presidential Libraryreleased more than 11,000 pages of Hillary Rodham Clinton's public schedulefor her eight years as first lady. There are redactions on more than 4,400pages, and on many days there is an entry for a "private meeting" that givesno clue as to whom she met or what the meeting was about.
http://politics.nytimes.com/clinton-schedules/
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Analysis: Papers Show Highs and Lows
NEW YORK (AP) -- Newly released schedules from Hillary Rodham Clinton'seight years in the White House portray an activist first lady who weighed inon policy, traveled the globe and won a race for the U.S. Senate.
http://www.nytimes.com/aponline/us/AP-Clinton-Papers-Analysis.html?scp=2&sq=GAY&st=nyt
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Outrage at Cartoons Still Tests the Danes
AARHUS, Denmark - "I think this is safe house No. 5," Kurt Westergaard saidthe other day, and it was clear that he genuinely had lost track.
http://www.nytimes.com/2008/03/20/books/20cartoon.html?hp
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The Tough Guy and Political Newcomer Who Counsels New York's GovernorALBANY - As Gov. David A. Paterson found himself confronting the firstcrisis of his day-old administration on Tuesday morning, it was left toCharles J. O'Byrne, his trusted second in command, to contain the damage.
http://www.nytimes.com/2008/03/20/nyregion/20obyrne.html?scp=3&sq=GAY&st=nyt
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Tibet Adds Pressure for Olympic Sponsors
BEIJING (AP) -- McDonald's, Coca-Cola and other sponsors paid tens ofmillions of dollars to link their names with the Beijing Olympics. Nowthey're trying to mollify activists pressing for change on Tibet, Darfur andother issues, without angering China
http://www.nytimes.com/aponline/world/AP-OLY-Beijing-Uneasy-Sponsors.html?scp=7&sq=GAY&st=nyt
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Groups Respond to Obama's Call for National Discussion About Race
The speech Senator Barack Obama delivered Tuesday morning has been viewedmore than 1.6 million times on YouTube and is being widely e-mailed. Whilecommentators and politicians debated its political success Wednesday, somearound the country were responding to Mr. Obama's call for a nationalconversation about race.
http://www.nytimes.com/2008/03/20/us/politics/20race.html?ex=1206590400&en=e6279dd1bcb26b97&ei=5040&partner=MOREOVERNEWS
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Mission Still Not Accomplished
Even now, President Bush refuses to let facts interfere with the notion ofkeeping troops in Iraq indefinitely and insists that Iraq must remainAmerica's priority.
http://www.nytimes.com/2008/03/20/opinion/20thu1.html?ref=opinion
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Obama and Race
The Obama campaign has led many white Americans to
listen in for the first time to some of the black conversation - and theyare thunderstruck
http://www.nytimes.com/2008/03/20/opinion/20kristof.html?ref=opinion
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Beyond America's Original Sin
A racial divide, once lived, dwells in the deepest parts of the psyche. Thisis what was captured by Barack Obama's pitch-perfect speech on race.
http://www.nytimes.com/2008/03/20/opinion/20cohen.html?ref=opinion
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Clinton Rising - Or Democrats Just Sinking?
For Barack Obama, in the blink of an eye, things have gone from bad:"Democrat Barack Obama's big national lead over Hillary Clinton has all butevaporated in the U.S. presidential race, and both Democrats trailRepublican John McCain, according a Reuters/Zogby poll released onWednesday," Reuters tells us.
http://opinionator.blogs.nytimes.com/2008/03/19/clinton-rising-or-democrats-just-sinking/index.html?ref=opinion
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U.S. Eases 'No Child' Law as Applied to Some States
In relaxing the provisions, the White House acknowledged that the law isdiagnosing too many schools as failing.
http://www.nytimes.com/2008/03/19/us/19child.html
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Fort Report
http://www.fortreport.com/
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Liberals don't want convention fight
Liberals are antsy. They haven't seen Democratic voter enthusiasmlike this in a long time and they'd rather not wait until the party's Augustconvention to harness it to the party's presidential nominee.
http://www.boston.com/news/nation/articles/2008/03/19/liberals_dont_want_convention_fight/?rss_id=Boston.com+--+Latest+news
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Clinton takes lead over Obama in Gallup poll
Democratic presidential candidate Hillary Clinton hasmoved into a significant lead over Barack Obama for the first time in weeksin the race for the party nomination, according to a Gallup poll.
http://today.reuters.com/news/articlenews.aspx?type=topNews&storyID=2008-03-20T130707Z_01_N20378340_RTRUKOC_0_US-USA-POLITICS-GALLUP.xml&WTmodLoc=NewsHome-C1-topNews-2
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Views of Obama's pastor reflect black U.S. tradition
CHARLOTTE, North Carolina (Reuters) - Many U.S. voters have been shocked bythe sentiments expressed by the pastor of Democratic presidential candidateBarack Obama but they should not be surprised, say faith leaders withexperience of black American churches.
http://www.reuters.com/article/politicsNews/idUSN1933620020080320?feedType=RSS&feedName=politicsNews
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Republicans and Democrats diverge on health care
Americans' views of the U.S. health care systemdiffer widely based on political party preferences, with Republicans farmore likely than Democrats to call it the world's best, a poll released onThursday showed.
http://www.boston.com/news/nation/washington/articles/2008/03/20/republicans_and_democrats_diverge_on_health_care/
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Our view on primary do-overs: Voters in Florida, Michigan deserve to beheardLet the people, not party insiders, decide which delegates to seat. Back inJanuary, when Florida and Michigan held early primaries in violation ofparty rules, it didn't seem like a big deal.
http://blogs.usatoday.com/oped/2008/03/our-view-on-pri.html?csp=34
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Washington Post
http://www.miamiherald.com/
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After a Decade at War With West, Al-Qaeda Still Impervious to Spies
BARCELONA -- A decade after al-Qaeda issued a global declaration of waragainst America, U.S. spy agencies have had little luck recruitingwell-placed informants and are finding the upper reaches of the networktougher to penetrate than the Kremlin during the Cold War, according to U.S.and European intelligence officials.
http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/content//article/2008/03/19/AR2008031903760.html?hpid=topnews
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Fantasies on Iraq
Political speeches on the war's anniversary have in common the promise ofthe impossible.
THE FIFTH anniversary of the invasion of Iraq prompted a flurry of speechesfrom President Bush and the Democratic candidates who hope to inherit theWhite House next year. Sadly, what they had in common was their failure tograpple with hard realities -- beginning with the elusiveness of any clearor quick path toward Mr. Bush's promise of "victory," or that of HillaryClinton and Barack Obama to "end this war."
http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/content/article/2008/03/19/AR2008031902908.html?hpid=opinionsbox1
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How Many Have Bailed Out of Catholicism?
Benedict will have a big audience here in the United States. According to amegastudy of Americans' religious identification released recently by thePew Forum on Religion in Public Life, almost one in four Americans--24percent--is Catholic. But Pew also found that no American faith group haslost more adherents than the Catholic Church; 10 percent of Americans areex-Catholics. However, in the pollster version of a smackdown, some of Pew'sfindings are getting an argument from the go-to research center for allthings Catholic--the Center for Applied Research in the Apostolate (CARA) atGeorgetown University.
http://blog.washingtonpost.com/pope-watch/2008/03/how_many_have_bailed_out_of_ca_1.html?hpid=sec-religion
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Cutting the Prison Rate Safely
The news that more than 1 in 100 adults in our country are behind barsshocked many Americans, but it shouldn't have come as a surprise.
http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/content/article/2008/03/19/AR2008031902854.html
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Miami Herald
http://www.miamiherald.com/
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CAMPAIGN 2008 | FLORIDA
Clinton, Obama reject primary plan by state senators
Two state senators from South Florida floated a new proposal to allowFlorida to send delegates to the Democratic nominating convention.
http://www.miamiherald.com/political-currents/story/463221.html
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