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31 Aug 2006 05:51:17 AM |
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OT: Ohio to Delay Destruction of Presidential Ballots |
Ohio to Delay Destruction of Presidential Ballots
http://www.nytimes.com/2006/08/31/washington/31ohio.html?ref=us&pagewanted=all
By IAN URBINA
Critics say preliminary results from their ballot inspections show
signs of widespread irregularities.
Live Long? Die Young? Answer Isn't Just in Genes
http://www.nytimes.com/2006/08/31/health/31age.html?ref=us&pagewanted=all
By GINA KOLATA
Recent studies find that genes may not be so important in determining
how long someone will live.
Bush Shifting Public Focus to Terrorism and Iraq War
http://www.nytimes.com/2006/08/31/washington/31bush.html?ref=washington
By ANNE E. KORNBLUT
Advisers said President Bush would continue his speeches on Iraq and
the broader struggle against terrorism for several weeks.
U.S. Drafts List of Sanctions as Iran Ignores Deadline
http://www.nytimes.com/2006/08/31/world/middleeast/31diplo.html?ref=washington
By HELENE COOPER and DAVID E. SANGER
Sanctions the U.S. is seeking could start with restrictions on Iran's
imports of nuclear material, but the plan faces a high hurdle at the
U.N.
Israel Says Blockade of Lebanon Will Continue
http://www.nytimes.com/2006/08/31/world/middleeast/31nations.html?ref=world
By WARREN HOGE
Prime Minister Ehud Olmert rebuffed a request from the U.N. secretary
general for even a partial lifting of the blockade.
We're Not Winning This War
http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/content/article/2006/08/30/AR2006083002730.html
Despite Some Notable Achievements, New Thinking Is Needed on the Home
Front and Abroad
By John Lehman
Thursday, August 31, 2006; Page A25
Are we winning the war? The first question to ask is, what war? The
Bush administration continues to muddle a national understanding of the
conflict we are in by calling it the "war on terror." This political
correctness presumably seeks to avoid hurting the feelings of the
Saudis and other Muslims, but it comes at high cost. This not a war
against terror any more than World War II was a war against kamikazes.
We are at war with jihadists motivated by a violent ideology based on
an extremist interpretation of the Islamic faith. This enemy is
decentralized and geographically dispersed around the world. Its
organizations range from a fully functioning state such as Iran to
small groups of individuals in American cities.
The Democrats' Dysfunctional Calendar
http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/content/article/2006/08/30/AR2006083002732.html
By David S. Broder
Thursday, August 31, 2006; Page A25
Well, the Democrats have gone and messed it up again.
I came back from a one-week vacation, out of reach of the news, to
learn that the Democratic National Committee in its wisdom had further
muddled the calendar of events for choosing the 2008 presidential
nominee.
Bellwether For a Bitter Election
http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/content/article/2006/08/30/AR2006083002731.html
By George F. Will
Thursday, August 31, 2006; Page A25
KANSAS CITY -- If you seek this year's emblematic election, look at
Missouri. In this bellwether state, which has voted with the winner in
25 of the past 26 presidential elections, the U.S. Senate contest
between incumbent Republican Jim Talent and state auditor Claire
McCaskill encompasses today's political controversies.
Talent, 49, lost a race for governor in 2000 by 21,445 votes, and won
two-thirds of a Senate term in 2002 by 21,254 (defeating Sen. Jean
Carnahan, who was appointed to the Senate in 2000 when her husband,
Mel, was elected 22 days after dying in a plane crash). So he is
running statewide for the third time in six years. In 2002 President
Bush made five trips to Missouri on his behalf. This year Talent, like
most Republican candidates, is stressing his independence, but Bush is
coming Sept. 8 for a third visit anyway.
Bush Team Casts Foes as Defeatist
http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/content/article/2006/08/30/AR2006083003177_pf.html
Blunt Rhetoric Signals a New Thrust
By Peter Baker and Jim VandeHei
Washington Post Staff Writers
Thursday, August 31, 2006; A01
President Bush and his surrogates are launching a new campaign intended
to rebuild support for the war in Iraq by accusing the opposition of
aiming to appease terrorists and cut off funding for troops on the
battlefield, charges that many Democrats say distort their stated
positions.
With an appearance before the American Legion in Salt Lake City today,
Bush will begin a series of speeches over 20 days centered on the fifth
anniversary of the Sept. 11, 2001, attacks. But he and his top
lieutenants have foreshadowed in recent days the thrust of the effort
to put Democrats on the defensive with rhetoric that has further
inflamed an already emotional debate.
Lebanon Offers Aid for Rebuilding
http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/content/article/2006/08/30/AR2006083002933.html
Premier's Plan Comes on Eve of International Donor Conference
By Nora Boustany
Washington Post Foreign Service
Thursday, August 31, 2006; Page A18
BEIRUT, Aug. 30 -- Prime Minister Fouad Siniora on Wednesday unveiled a
$33,000 compensation package for Lebanese whose homes were destroyed in
the fighting between Hezbollah and Israel.
The announcement came on the eve of a donor conference in Stockholm
aimed at raising $500 million to jump-start Lebanon's recovery. Siniora
said the money would be used to rebuild roads and vital infrastructure
damaged in southern Lebanon and in the southern suburbs of Beirut
during the 33-day conflict.
How to avoid the final countdown
John Williams
August 31, 2006 10:30 AM
http://commentisfree.guardian.co.uk/john_williams/2006/08/post_326.html
Is military conflict with Iran inconceivable? Or is confrontation now
possible, even likely? And what, if anything, can the British
government do to prevent it? Throughout the terrible events of this
summer in the Middle East, the importance of Iran has become ever
clearer. Hizbullah could not have humiliated prime minister Ehud Olmert
of Israel without Iran's support. The stronger Hizbullah is, the
stronger Iran.
Tehran can now approach its showdown with the UN security council over
its nuclear ambitions with its confidence bolstered by Hizbullah's
success. It takes little imagination to see this being a decisive
summer with dire consequences.
In the footsteps of Lorca
Denis MacShane
August 31, 2006 09:46 AM
http://commentisfree.guardian.co.uk/denis_macshane/2006/08/denis_on_lorca.html
Seventy years ago in the late summer Spain's greatest 20th century
poet, Frederico Garcia Lorca, was bundled into a hollow in a wooded
ravine north of Granada and shot dead. British writers like Gerald
Brennan, Ian Gibson and Jason Webster have all tried to establish the
exact conditions of Lorca's death but his body was never found. Lorca
was a challenge to everything Franco's clerical fascism stood for. He
was gay. He spent a year in New York writing plangent poems explaining
modernity to his fellow Spaniards. He could easily have got out of
Granada, which fell to the nationalists in the first days of uprising
against the Spanish republic. He chose to stay with his sister who was
married to the mayor of Granada.
Despite fame, status and connections, the poet was dragged away to be
killed. A fury of killing from the right and the left marked the
terrible year of 1936 in Spain. Today's tourists in Granada walk
through the marvel of the Muslim-Christian palaces of the Alhambra -
symbol of a Europe a millennium ago where Muslims, Jews and Christians
lived in harmony. A 1,000 years ago Granada and nearby Cordoba had
libraries with 400,000 volumes on the philosophy, science, law and
theology of the three Abrahamic religions plus Greek and Roman texts.
Seventy years ago the area around the Alhambra was used as night-time
killing field with 20-30,000 Spaniards shot dead because they were
thought to be supporters of democracy, the left, trade unions or were
teachers, journalists or a writer like Lorca.
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