Showdown in Odessa
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1973.html
Teaching the Bible in Texas public schools
Saturday, May 26, 2007; Page A22
WHEN THE newly elected school board in Odessa, Tex., announced that it
would require public schools to offer a Bible course elective, many
townspeople cried hallelujah. But last week some other residents,
aided by the American Civil Liberties Union and the People for the
American Way Foundation, sued the school district for violating the
First Amendment.
Currently 8 percent of public schools nationwide offer courses on the
Bible. The Supreme Court has deemed these classes constitutional so
long as they "present knowledge, but neither promote nor disparage
belief." Odessa residents are thus challenging the course's execution
and not its existence. The district chose the more controversial of
two leading Bible class curricula: a course designed by the National
Council on Bible Curriculum in Public Schools, a group run by a
veritable Who's Who of conservative Christian leaders. Council board
member and actor Chuck Norris has described this curriculum as the
"first step to get God back into your public school."
Making History in Scotland
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By Sean Connery
Saturday, May 26, 2007; Page A23
This is a historic week for Scotland. The country's new first minister
met Queen Elizabeth -- Queen of England and Queen of Scots -- at
Holyrood Palace on Thursday. This was the first time Her Majesty has
met the leader of a Scottish government who is committed to Scotland
rejoining the community of nations as an equal and independent
partner.
The meeting was also the culmination of a month of firsts for
Scotland. On May 3, the Scottish National Party (SNP) -- a democratic
party, committed to independence, that I have proudly supported all of
my adult life -- won the largest number of seats in the Scottish
Parliament. And last week the Scottish Parliament elected the SNP
leader, Alex Salmond, to the country's top job.
New Orleans: A City Gets to Its Feet, Slowly
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By Jonathan Capehart
Saturday, May 26, 2007; Page A23
When I boarded the flight to New Orleans this month, I was ready.
Ready to be angry and heartbroken all over again. Nearly two years
after Hurricane Katrina drowned New Orleans, the images of people
clinging to their rooftops and waving for help that came too late
won't soon leave me. Nor will the haunting chants of "help!" from
evacuees at the Superdome. Nor will the photos of dead bodies.
And then I got my feet on the ground in New Orleans. The anger I was
ready to embrace never materialized, because the people I met were
moving beyond it.
Campaign Finance Flip
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1971.html
The Mitt Romney who ran in Massachusetts had it right.
Saturday, May 26, 2007; Page A22
"MY FEAR," former Massachusetts governor Mitt Romney said at the
Republican debate this month, "is that McCain-Kennedy would do to
immigration what McCain-Feingold has done to campaign finance and
money in politics, and that's bad." Mr. Romney has turned campaign
finance reform into one of his stump villains -- which represents a
dramatic and wrongheaded turnabout from his days running for office in
Massachusetts.
Analysts' Warnings of Iraq Chaos Detailed
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1380.html
Senate Panel Releases Assessments From 2003
By Walter Pincus and Karen DeYoung
Washington Post Staff Writers
Saturday, May 26, 2007; Page A01
Months before the invasion of Iraq, U.S. intelligence agencies
predicted that it would be likely to spark violent sectarian divides
and provide al-Qaeda with new opportunities in Iraq and Afghanistan,
according to a report released yesterday by the Senate Select
Committee on Intelligence. Analysts warned that war in Iraq also could
provoke Iran to assert its regional influence and "probably would
result in a surge of political Islam and increased funding for
terrorist groups" in the Muslim world.
The intelligence assessments, made in January 2003 and widely
circulated within the Bush administration before the war, said that
establishing democracy in Iraq would be "a long, difficult and
probably turbulent challenge." The assessments noted that Iraqi
political culture was "largely bereft of the social underpinnings" to
support democratic development.
Drawing a Blank on a Party Hero
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2475_pf.html
China Promotes Obscure Professor as Role Model
By Edward Cody
Washington Post Foreign Service
Saturday, May 26, 2007; A01
DALIAN, China -- The Fang Yonggang inspirational message went out loud
and clear from the Communist Party Working Committee in Dalian's
crowded Renminlu neighborhood.
"We should earnestly organize party members, officials and people who
live in this neighborhood to study the advanced achievements of
Comrade Fang Yonggang," read a written notice circulated to local
government offices, businesses and apartment buildings. "We should
learn from Fang's spirit of studying party doctrine and exploring the
truth."
Top Talent Could Lose Fast Track to U.S.
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2472_pf.html
Under Bill, Foreign Luminaries Would No Longer Skip Immigration Line
By Anthony Faiola and Robin Shulman
Washington Post Staff Writers
Saturday, May 26, 2007; A01
NEW YORK -- Would America open its doors for the next Albert Einstein?
Under the new immigration bill, the answer is maybe, but maybe not.
For years, foreign-born Nobel Prize winners, corporate officers, and
top talents in sports, arts and sciences have had a fast track to
permanent residency, and eventually citizenship, in the United States.
In the name of attracting the world's greatest and brightest,
authorities have granted these luminaries priority access to green
cards under a little-known provision offered to "aliens of
extraordinary abilities."
Largess To Clintons Lands CEO In Lawsuit
http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/content/article/2007/05/25/AR200705250=
2332_pf.html
Case Is a Window On Couple's Ties
By Matthew Mosk and John Solomon
Washington Post Staff Writers
Saturday, May 26, 2007; A01
For the past four years, the Clintons have jetted around on Vinod
Gupta's corporate plane, to Switzerland, Hawaii, Jamaica, Mexico --
$900,000 worth of travel. The former president secured a $3.3 million
consulting deal with Gupta's technology firm. His presidential library
got a six-figure gift, too.
Gupta, whose big donations to the Democratic Party earned him a
Lincoln Bedroom overnight when Bill Clinton was president, has emerged
as a key benefactor of Clinton's post-presidency -- and Hillary Rodham
Clinton's presidential candidacy.
In Kentucky, Toyota Faces Union Rumblings
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Downtrodden UAW Makes New Push
By Sholnn Freeman
Washington Post Staff Writer
Saturday, May 26, 2007; A01
GEORGETOWN, Ky. -- Dissident workers at the Toyota plant here gather
at the Best Western Georgetown on Wednesdays between shifts to shape a
battle plan. The workers are angry at conditions at this flagship
Toyota site, where the best-selling Camry is built.
The United Auto Workers has launched a big new push to organize the
plant, trying to capitalize on fears of lower pay, outsourcing of jobs
and on Toyota's treatment of injured workers. The stakes for the UAW
intensified this month as a private-equity firm agreed to buy
Chrysler, raising fears that the union will be unable to block cuts in
jobs and benefits at a privately owned automaker.
Pentagon Memorial Progress Is Step Forward for Families
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2284_pf.html
By Timothy Dwyer
Washington Post Staff Writer
Saturday, May 26, 2007; A01
Rosemary Dillard, wearing a hard hat, safety goggles and a reflective
vest, stood above two concrete pilings and began to shake as a wave of
emotion flowed through her body. She felt a cool breeze -- "Eddie,"
she said to herself.
Her husband, Eddie Dillard, was one of 184 victims of the Sept. 11,
2001, terrorist attack on the Pentagon.
Officials Say Justice Dept. Based Hires on Politics Before Goodling
Tenure
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2124.html
By Dan Eggen
Washington Post Staff Writer
Saturday, May 26, 2007; Page A02
The Justice Department considered political affiliation in screening
applicants for immigration court judgeships for several years until
hiring was frozen in December after objections from department
lawyers, current and former officials said yesterday.
The disclosures mean that the Justice Department may have violated
civil service laws, which prohibit political considerations in hiring,
for as long as two years before the tenure of Monica M. Goodling, the
former aide to Attorney General Alberto R. Gonzales who testified
about the practice this week.
Special Prosecutor Seeks 30 to 37 Months in Prison for Libby
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1866.html
By Michael A. Fletcher
Washington Post Staff Writer
Saturday, May 26, 2007; Page A02
Former top Bush administration aide I. Lewis "Scooter" Libby should
spend 30 to 37 months in prison for obstructing the CIA leak
investigation, Special Counsel Patrick J. Fitzgerald contended in
court documents filed yesterday.
Libby, former chief of staff to Vice President Cheney, has shown no
remorse for lying to investigators and "about virtually everything
that mattered" in the probe of who disclosed the identity of covert
CIA officer Valerie Plame to the media in 2003, Fitzgerald wrote.
Message to Santa Ana: For a Better Job, Learn English
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1864.html
Chamber Promotes Classes in City of 150,000 Immigrants
By Sonya Geis
Washington Post Staff Writer
Saturday, May 26, 2007; Page A03
SANTA ANA, Calif. -- "Two jobs?" blares a poster at a bus shelter
here. The words are in Spanish over a picture of a tired-looking
Hispanic woman in a janitor's uniform. "Work and Work but You Still
Can't Get Ahead?" reads another ad on a bus shelter down the street.
At the bottom, the small print: "Free English classes . . . in 60
locations.
The ads are part of an unusual campaign by the Santa Ana Chamber of
Commerce to spur the city's 150,000 immigrants to learn English. Here
in the most Latino big city in the country -- where fewer than one in
five residents speak English at home -- business leaders decided that
simply offering free English classes was not enough. The chamber is
spending $4.5 million to cajole residents to take the classes and get
English workbooks into their hands.
FEMA Pricing Of Trailers Called Unfair And Wasteful
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1862.html
By Spencer S. Hsu
Washington Post Staff Writer
Saturday, May 26, 2007; Page A04
The Federal Emergency Management Agency has sold trailers to victims
of the 2005 hurricanes at prices that range from $1 to $20,000, under
inconsistent policies that prompted a temporary ban on all trailer
sales, according to a new government report.
Department of Homeland Security Inspector General Richard L. Skinner
warned that uneven sales practices in Texas, Mississippi, Alabama and
Florida were unfair to some victims of hurricanes Katrina and Rita and
wasted taxpayer dollars.
Walter Reed Official Returned to Full Duty
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By Steve Vogel
Washington Post Staff Writer
Saturday, May 26, 2007; Page A04
A senior commander at Walter Reed Army Medical Center who was placed
on administrative leave earlier this month has been returned to full
duty after an internal investigation cleared him of responsibility for
leadership failures at the facility, a hospital official said
yesterday.
Col. Virgil T. Deal, who as the health-care system's commander oversaw
much of the hospital's operations, was removed from the post on May 3
by Maj. Gen. Eric B. Schoomaker, the hospital commander.
Candidate Clinton Praises Ambassador Clinton
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By Politics
Saturday, May 26, 2007; A05
Sen. Hillary Rodham Clinton (D-N.Y.) answered a question at a town
hall in Mason City, Iowa, about how to improve America's relations
around the world by praising activists working on issues such as
poverty. She singled out one.
"My husband is probably the most popular person in the world right now
because of all the work he's doing," Clinton said.
U=2ES. Rejects G-8 Climate Proposal
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Germany Urges Limiting Emissions, Temperature Increase
By Juliet Eilperin
Washington Post Staff Writer
Saturday, May 26, 2007; Page A09
U=2ES. officials have raised a second round of unusually bluntly worded
objections to a proposed global-warming declaration that Germany
prepared for next month's Group of Eight summit, according to
documents obtained by The Washington Post.
Representatives from the world's leading industrial nations met the
past two days in Heiligendamm, Germany, to negotiate over German
Chancellor Angela Merkel's proposed statement, which calls for
limiting the worldwide temperature rise this century to 3.6 degrees
Fahrenheit and cutting global greenhouse gas emissions to 50 percent
below 1990 levels by 2050.
Ch=E1vez Raises Volume Of Government's Voice
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2139.html
By Juan Forero
Washington Post Foreign Service
Saturday, May 26, 2007; Page A10
CARACAS, Venezuela -- In the 1990s, Venezuelan journalist Jos=E9 Vicente
Rangel hosted a television talk show whose aggressive style and
muckraking led to the downfall of President Carlos Andr=E9s P=E9rez. Now,
after eight years as President Hugo Ch=E1vez's deputy, Rangel is back on
television, interviewing and breaking news on "Jos=E9 Vicente Today."
But instead of airing the bare-knuckles journalism for which he was
once known, Rangel's program on privately owned Televen is decidedly
supportive of many of Ch=E1vez's policies. Rangel has even defended
Ch=E1vez's decision not to renew the license of an influential and
stridently anti-government television station, RCTV, which will go off
the air Sunday just before midnight.
From Nazi Past, a Proliferating Pest
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By Craig Whitlock
Washington Post Foreign Service
Saturday, May 26, 2007; Page A11
KASSEL, Germany -- In 1934, top Nazi party official Hermann Goering
received a seemingly mundane request from the Reich Forestry Service.
A fur farm near here was seeking permission to release a batch of
exotic bushy-tailed critters into the wild to "enrich the local fauna"
and give bored hunters something new to shoot at.
Goering approved the request and unwittingly uncorked an ecological
disaster that is still spreading across Europe. The imported North
American species, Procyon lotor, or the common raccoon, quickly took a
liking to the forests of central Germany. Encountering no natural
predators -- and with hunters increasingly called away by World War II
-- the woodland creatures fruitfully multiplied and have stymied all
attempts to prevent them from overtaking the Continent.
Practicing the Ancient Art of Patience in the Line for a Ticket to
Stay in India
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2047_pf.html
By Emily Wax
Washington Post Foreign Service
Saturday, May 26, 2007; A12
NEW DELHI Aadil Jan slumps in his plastic chair. He stares up at the
spinning ceiling fans. He gets up. Stretches. It's just after 12:30
p=2Em. on a steaming hot Tuesday in the New Delhi branch of India's
Foreigners' Registration Office, which requires visitors looking to
stay in the country to obtain a registration certificate.
Jan's been waiting five days for an eight-day visa extension.
Pentagon Warns That China Is Adding Missiles and Building Capacity to
Fight Abroad
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1954.html
From News Services
Saturday, May 26, 2007; Page A13
China is modernizing its military in ways that give it options for
launching surprise attacks, potentially on targets far from its
borders, the Pentagon said yesterday.
The Chinese are acquiring better missiles, submarines and aircraft and
should more fully explain the purpose of their military buildup, the
Defense Department said in an annual report to Congress.
China's Reform Debate Surfaces in 2 Essays
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2052.html
By Edward Cody
Washington Post Foreign Service
Saturday, May 26, 2007; Page A14
BEIJING, May 25 -- China dropped another hint of internal debate over
political reform Friday, publishing commentaries saying the country
should shun European-style democratic socialism.
The brief articles, by a pair of established Beijing academics, ran
side-by-side in People's Daily, the official Communist Party
newspaper. Both argued that China could borrow useful policies from
democratic countries but should remain faithful to the "socialism with
Chinese characteristics" that has been official doctrine here since
the 1980s.
Burma Extends House Arrest of Nobel-Winning Pro-Democracy Leader
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2103.html
By Aye Aye Win
Associated Press
Saturday, May 26, 2007; Page A15
RANGOON, Burma, May 25 -- Burma's military government on Friday
extended the house arrest of pro-democracy leader Aung San Suu Kyi for
another year, defying an outpouring of international appeals for the
Nobel Peace Prize winner's freedom.
Suu Kyi, 61, has spent more than 11 of the past 17 years in detention.
She has been continuously detained for the past four years, spending
most of it confined to her residence in Rangoon, Burma's largest city.
U=2ES. Military Aid Begins to Reach Lebanon
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0137.html
By Alia Ibrahim
Special to The Washington Post
Saturday, May 26, 2007; Page A16
NAHR AL-BARED, Lebanon, May 25 -- U.S. military aid began arriving in
Lebanon on Friday, Lebanese officials said, in order to resupply
government troops battling a militant group in northern Lebanon whose
leader claims links to al-Qaeda.
"Lebanon has received equipment from the U.S. as well as some Arab and
European countries; such equipment will help the military deal with
any terrorist challenge it is facing,' " Telecommunications Minister
Marwan Hamade said.
Sadr Reappears With Nationalist Ambitions
By Sudarsan Raghavan
Washington Post Foreign Service
Saturday, May 26, 2007; A18
BAGHDAD, May 25 -- The influential Shiite cleric Moqtada al-Sadr
emerged publicly on Friday for the first time in months, calling for
U=2ES. forces to leave Iraq and vowing to defend Sunnis and Christians.
His appearance, and remarks, seemed part of an ongoing tactical shift
by Sadr to recast himself as a nationalist who can unify and lead a
post-occupation Iraq.
Flanked by 10 bodyguards, the 33-year-old, black-turbaned cleric
entered his gold-domed mosque in the southern holy city of Kufa as
crowds chanted "May God pray on Muhammad" -- a greeting, evoking
Islam's prophet, used to welcome a person who has reappeared after a
long absence. Sadr, glowering, stepped up to the rostrum, and before
launching into a fiery sermon, ordered the faithful, some in tears, to
repeat three times after him:
"No, no to America. No, no for the occupation. No, no for Israel. No,
no to imperialism. No, no to the devil."
N=2E Korea Test-Fires Missiles as South Launches U.S.-Equipped Destroyer
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By Hans Greimel
Associated Press
Saturday, May 26, 2007; Page A19
SEOUL, May 25 -- North Korea fired a salvo of short-range test
missiles into its coastal waters Friday, flexing naval muscles as
South Korea launched its most advanced destroyer, armed with a high-
tech U.S. air defense system.
The moves came during a continued standoff over implementing communist
North Korea's promise to dismantle its nuclear weapons program. The
divided Koreas are scheduled to hold high-level reconciliation talks
in Seoul in several days.
Naval Academy Graduates Get Civics Lesson From Gates
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By Brian Witte
Associated Press
Saturday, May 26, 2007; Page A24
Defense Secretary Robert M. Gates encouraged the U.S. Naval Academy's
Class of 2007 yesterday "to remember the importance of two pillars of
our freedom under the Constitution: the Congress and the press."
"Both surely try our patience from time to time, but they are the
surest guarantees of the liberty of the American people," Gates told
1,028 graduates during a sunny ceremony at Navy-Marine Corps Memorial
Stadium in Annapolis.
Ensuring Progress at Ground Zero
http://www.nytimes.com/2007/05/26/opinion/26sat1.html
If there is progress in the reconstruction of Lower Manhattan, news
about how 9/11 affected people's health only gets worse.
Budget Battle Lines
http://www.nytimes.com/2007/05/26/opinion/26sat2.html
On the 2008 budget, the president should stop posturing and start
working with lawmakers, for the good of his own legacy and for all the
people who need the government's services and protections.
A Say on Executive Pay
http://www.nytimes.com/2007/05/26/opinion/26sat3.html
Shareholders at roughly 20 companies have pushed say-on-pay proposals.
And Congress appears ready to act if companies don't.
'I Should Be Dead'
http://www.nytimes.com/2007/05/26/opinion/26sat4.html
As New Jersey's Gov. Jon Corzine makes clear in a new public service
commercial, he would've been a lot better off if he had been wearing
his seat belt.
My Life as a Diplomat
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By NURUDDIN FARAH
Why the conflict in Somalia has become so difficult to solve and why
the transitional government, backed by the United States with the
support of Ethiopia, is probably doomed to fail.
Within 25 Miles of New York, Iran Offers a Congenial Glow
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anted=3Dall
By WARREN HOGE
Javad Zarif, the United Nations ambassador from Iran, a country that
has had no diplomatic relations with the United States since 1980, is
confined in New York.
A Quiet Revolution in Algeria: Gains by Women
http://www.nytimes.com/2007/05/26/world/africa/26algeria.html?pagewanted=3D=
all
By MICHAEL SLACKMAN
In a tradition-bound nation, women are emerging as an economic and
political force unheard of in the rest of the Arab world.
White House Is Said to Debate '08 Cut in Iraq Troops by 50%
http://www.nytimes.com/2007/05/26/washington/26strategy.html?ref=3Dworld
By DAVID E. SANGER and DAVID S. CLOUD
Internal deliberations described by senior officials are the first
indication that the Bush administration is considering what happens
after the troop increase.
Shiite Cleric Ends Absence From Iraq With Fiery Speech
http://www.nytimes.com/2007/05/26/world/middleeast/26iraq.html?ref=3Dworld
By JOHN F. BURNS
Moktada al-Sadr, appearing in public for the first time in months,
demanded a timetable for American forces to withdraw from Iraq.
Senate Democrats Say Bush Ignored Spy Agencies' Prewar Warnings of
Iraq Perils
http://www.nytimes.com/2007/05/26/washington/26intel.html?ref=3Dworld
By SCOTT SHANE
A long-awaited report included declassified versions of the two major
prewar assessments on the effects of toppling Saddam Hussein.
U=2ES. Rebuffs Germany on Greenhouse Gas Cuts
http://www.nytimes.com/2007/05/26/world/europe/26climate.html?ref=3Dworld
By HELENE COOPER and ANDREW C. REVKIN
The Bush administration's rejection of a German proposal set the stage
for a battle at a Group of 8 meeting in June.
Israel Hits Hamas Posts in Gaza With Airstrikes
http://www.nytimes.com/2007/05/26/world/middleeast/26mideast.html?ref=3Dwor=
ld
By ISABEL KERSHNER
The Israeli Army hit at least eight different locations and took aim
at a rocket-launching cell in the Gaza Strip.
Fox's Library: Tribute to Democracy or Ego?
http://www.nytimes.com/2007/05/26/world/americas/26mexico.html?ref=3Dameric=
as
By MARC LACEY
Former President Vicente Fox of Mexico has a new project: a
presidential library and museum devoted to his tenure and place in
history.
Lawmakers in Colombia Urge Firing of Mediator
http://www.nytimes.com/2007/05/26/world/americas/26colombia.html?ref=3Damer=
icas
By SIMON ROMERO
Allegations surfaced that an area set aside for peace talks, which a
foreign diplomat helped oversee, turned into the party ground for
outlawed Colombian paramilitaries.
Costa Rica Seizes Contaminated Toothpaste Imported From China
http://www.nytimes.com/2007/05/26/world/americas/26toothpaste.html?ref=3Das=
ia
By REUTERS
The contaminated brands contain high levels of diethylene glycol,
which killed at least 100 people last year in Panama.
U=2ES. Rebuffs Germany on Greenhouse Gas Cuts
http://www.nytimes.com/2007/05/26/world/europe/26climate.html?ref=3Deurope
By HELENE COOPER and ANDREW C. REVKIN
The Bush administration's rejection of a German proposal set the stage
for a battle at a Group of 8 meeting in June.
Turkey's President Vetoes Bill Allowing Direct Elections
http://www.nytimes.com/2007/05/26/world/europe/26turkey.html?ref=3Deurope
By SABRINA TAVERNISE
President Ahmet Necdet Sezer said that a national presidential ballot
could disrupt the balance of power in the Turkish state.
Battle Over Control of Troops Escalates Political Crisis in Ukraine
http://www.nytimes.com/2007/05/26/world/europe/26ukraine.html?ref=3Deurope
By STEVEN LEE MYERS
President Viktor A. Yushchenko's decree in putting Ukraine's Interior
Ministry troops under presidential command has escalated a political
crisis.
U=2ES. Military Leader in Iraq Talks of 'Thinning the Lines'
http://www.nytimes.com/2007/05/26/world/middleeast/26general.html?ref=3Dmid=
dleeast
By DAVID S. CLOUD
The American ground commander in Iraq, Lt. Gen. Raymond T. Odierno,
has urged patience to those seeking quick progress in Iraq.
Suit Sheds Light on Clintons' Ties to a Benefactor
http://www.nytimes.com/2007/05/26/us/politics/26clinton.html?ref=3Dpolitics
By MIKE McINTIRE
Details have emerged about the relationship of former President Bill
Clinton and Senator Hillary Rodham Clinton with Vinod Gupta, the
founder of infoUSA.
Clinton and Obama Face G.O.P. Attacks for War Vote
http://www.nytimes.com/2007/05/26/us/politics/26vote.html?ref=3Dpolitics
By MICHAEL COOPER
A decision by two leading Democratic presidential candidates to vote
against a bill providing more money for the war in Iraq has
reverberated on the campaign trail.
A Stadium Seat, an Investigative Columnist and a Younger, Angrier
Giuliani
http://www.nytimes.com/2007/05/26/us/politics/26giuliani.html?ref=3Dpolitics
By RUSS BUETTNER
When Rudolph W. Giuliani was an official at the Justice Department, he
bristled at the way a reporter inquired into his ownership of a Yankee
Stadium seat.
Ex-Senator Faults '86 Law on Immigrants
http://www.nytimes.com/2007/05/26/us/politics/26thompson.html?ref=3Dpolitics
By THE ASSOCIATED PRESS
Fred Thompson has suggested that an immigration measure that President
Ronald Reagan signed into law is to blame for illegal immigrants.
2008: Clinton on Defense
http://thecaucus.blogs.nytimes.com/2007/05/26/2008-clinton-on-defense/
The week ends on a defensive note for the campaign of Senator Hillary
Rodham Clinton, with early reports of two new, critical biographies
and now a lawsuit against a benefactor.
Nasdaq Agrees to Buy OMX, Operator of 7 Stock Exchanges in Europe
http://www.nytimes.com/2007/05/26/business/worldbusiness/26nasdaq.html?ref=
=3Dworldbusiness
By JULIA WERDIGIER
The $3.7 billion deal will form the Nasdaq OMX Group that will list
more than 4,000 companies with a combined market value of $5.5
trillion.
E=2EU. Probes Google Over Data Retention Policy
http://www.nytimes.com/2007/05/26/business/26google.html?ref=3Dworldbusiness
By KEVIN J. O'BRIEN and THOMAS CRAMPTON
Google has been warned that it may be violating European Union privacy
laws by storing search data for up to two years.
Russia Putting on a Davos-Style Economic Forum to Showcase Its Growth
http://www.nytimes.com/2007/05/26/business/worldbusiness/26ruble.html?ref=
=3Dworldbusiness
By ANDREW E. KRAMER
The forum in St. Petersburg will focus on gains in the economy that
have been overshadowed by negative political news from Russia.
The High Price of Creating Free Ads
http://www.nytimes.com/2007/05/26/business/26content.ready.html?ref=3Dtechn=
ology&pagewanted=3Dall
By LOUISE STORY
Companies that have invited consumers to create advertising often find
it to be stressful, costly and time-consuming.
CBS Has a Crush on Wallstrip
http://www.nytimes.com/2007/05/26/technology/26online.html?ref=3Dtechnology
By DAN MITCHELL
Is this just a case of a stodgy old-media company trying to hang out
online with the cool kids?
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