NATIONAL & WORLD DIGEST March 9, 2008

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Pew Research center
http://pewresearch.org/
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Hispanics Give Clinton Crucial Victories
Latino voters lopsided support for Hillary Clinton more than accounted forher margin of victory in Texas, California and New Mexico. Read more
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Voting Religiously
Forum's John Green discusses the role that religious and unaffiliated votersplayed on March 4 and could play in coming primaries and whether falserumors about Obama's faith could hurt his chances. Read more
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Tracking the Race Factor
This week's primaries show that, results in Wisconsin aside, pre-primarypolls may either over- or underestimate support for Obama depending on stateracial demographics. Read more
Political Perceptions
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Working the Refs: Combative Clinton Gets Media to Cover Itself
When reporters weren't vetting Obama, they were questioning their owntreatment of him. Read more
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Public Sees Fair Fight
While the public would like to see more coverage of the issues, mostAmericans are not critical of the tone of the campaign coverage. Read more
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Getting to Know Them
If they turn out to be their party's nominees, both Barack Obama and JohnMcCain need to educate voters about themselves in some pretty basic, andchallenging, ways. Read morePowering America
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Mixed Signals on Energy Policy
The public remains conflicted abou t energy and the environment, but 55%favor more conservation and regulation compared with 35% who supportexpanded exploration. Fully 90% favor tighter auto fuel standards. ReadmoreInfo on the Go
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A Survey of Mobile Users
A new Pew Internet survey finds that 62% of all U.S. adults are now part ofa wireless, mobile population. Read more
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Cloud Computing
Groups that have trailed in "traditional" internet access are in a betterposition to shape cyberspace as wireless devices make it more accessible.
Read moreThe Daily Number
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60% - Your Information Online? No Problem
Fully six-in-ten online adults are not worried about how much of theirpersonal information is available on the internet. Check back every weekdayfor another number in the news. Read more
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New York Times
http://www.nytimes.com/
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Bush's Veto of Bill on C.I.A. Tactics Affirms His Legacy
President Bush shut down a Congressional effort to limit harsh interrogationtechniques, cementing a legacy of fighting for strong executive powers.
http://www.nytimes.com/2008/03/09/washington/09policy.html?hp
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When Ben Bernanke Speaks ...
Ben Bernanke's proposals are unlikely to work, because they are based on thenotion that lenders and everyone else in the mortgage chain will actvoluntarily.
http://www.nytimes.com/2008/03/09/opinion/09sun1.html?ref=opinion
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Obama and the Bigots
With countless people spreading scurrilous rumors that Barack Obama is aMuslim, the most appropriate response is a denial followed by: And so whatif he were?
http://www.nytimes.com/2008/03/09/opinion/09kristof.html?ref=opinion
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Sun-Sentinel
http://www.sun-sentinel.com/
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More than 1 in 100 American adults in prison.
No one wants to be soft on crime. But can the country afford to lock up morethan 1 percent of its entire population? That's what's happening in the United States, where more than 1 in 100 adults are now in jail or prison, according to a recent report released by the Pew Center.
http://www.sun-sentinel.com/news/opinion/sfl-editajjprisonerspnmar09,0,7349813.story
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Democrats Criticize Bush's CIA-Bill Veto
http://www.sun-sentinel.com/news/nationworld/ats-ap_top10mar09,0,4998279.story
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Miami Herald
http://www.miamiherald.com/
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What Works -- how to make kids believe
By LEONARD PITTS JR.
PITTSBURGH -- This is a What Works column. Those of you who are regularswill recognize that as my series spotlighting programs that have proveneffective in tackling poverty, miseducation, fatherlessness and otherproblems that blight the prospects of African-American kids. In the year andchange that the series has been underway, it has taken me around thecountry, from Harlem to Austin to Atlanta. Today, it brings me to this cityof bridges and rivers. More specifically, it brings me to the CrossroadsFoundation. Crossroads (www.crossroadsfoundation.org) was founded in 1988to help funnel at-risk Catholic elementary school kids into Catholic highschools.
http://www.miamiherald.com/851/story/448204.html
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Democrat wins election to fill Hastert's seat
http://www.miamiherald.com/campaign08/story/449776.html
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Obama seen as pragmatic in foreign policy matters
Barack Obama's supporters say he's unburdened by rigid idealogy and isgenerally pragmatic and inclusive in his approach to foreign affairs.
http://www.miamiherald.com/campaign08/story/449159.html
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Washington Post
http://www.miamiherald.com/
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At the Edge of Recession by Barney Frank
Why is this economic crisis different from all other crises?
http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/content/article/2008/03/07/AR2008030702896.html
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Outlook: An Epitaph for the Religious Right
U.S. Cyclically Returning to More Concrete Concerns, Closing the Era of the Moral Majority
"We are at the beginning of a new era in which large, secular problemsrelated to war and peace, economics and the United States's standing in theworld will displace culture and religion as the electorate's centralconcerns.
http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/content/discussion/2008/03/07/DI2008030702677.html
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Poll: Iranians Favor Free Election
Most voters in Iran support right to directly choose their supreme leaderand be able to replace him.
http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/content/article/2008/03/08/AR2008030802663.html?hpid=topnews
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Students Get Look at Life of a Migrant Worker
"Would you guys leave behind everything you know to go to a country youdidn't know, and know that you might not ever see your family for 10, 11years?" The group of more than a dozen seventh-graders at the Key Schoolsat in silence, looking as if they couldn't comprehend the question.
http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/content/article/2008/03/08/AR2008030802049.html?hpid=moreheadlines
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