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Two Women Sentenced to 'Re-education' in China

Thu, 21 Aug 2008 00:00:00 EST

New York Times - By Andrew Jacobs - Aug. 21 (News Report) - Two elderly Chinese women have been sentenced to a year of "re-education through labor" after they repeatedly sought a permit to demonstrate in one of the official Olympic protest areas, according to family members and human rights advocates.

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Journalists and their good friends in the White House

Wed, 20 Aug 2008 00:00:00 EST

Salon - By Glenn Greenwald - Aug. 20 (Opinion) - It's actually difficult to find a news story of any significance that isn't shaped at its core by the incestuous, deeply affectionate relationship between the Government and the establishment media.

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Georgia at War: What I Saw

Wed, 20 Aug 2008 00:00:00 EST

Huffington Post - By Bernard-Henri Levy - Aug. 20 (Blog Post) - The first thing that strikes me as soon as we are out of Tbilisi is the strange absence of military force. I had read that the Georgian army, defeated in Ossetia, then routed in Gori, had withdrawn to the capital to defend it. I reach the outskirts of the city, moving forty kilometers on the highway that slices through the country from east to west. But I see almost no trace of the army which has supposedly regrouped in order to fiercely resist the Russian invasion.

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Lobbyist parties for lawmakers bend rules

Wed, 20 Aug 2008 00:00:00 EST

San Francisco Chronicle - By Zachary Coile - Aug. 20 (News Report) - the House ethics committee opened a huge loophole in the rule by issuing guidelines in December saying it was fine for lobbyists or their employers to throw parties for a group of House members - just not for a single lawmaker.

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Ambushed

Wed, 20 Aug 2008 00:00:00 EST

Media is a Plural - By Rory O'Connor - Aug. 20 (Blog Post) - After Jenna Kern, a member of the Unitarian Universalist Church, decided to write an Op-Ed piece for Newsday questioning whether shock jocks and hate speech contributed to the recent murderous shooting spree in a U-U church in Tennessee, the haters started to come after her as well.

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Free digital texts begin to challenge costly college textbooks in California

Wed, 20 Aug 2008 00:00:00 EST

Los Angeles Times - By Gale Holland - Aug. 20 (Special Report) - McAfee said he wrote his open-source book because the traditional textbook market is broken. Textbook and college supply prices nearly tripled between 1986 and 2004, an audit by the federal Government Accountability Office found in 2005. With costs continuing to climb, it would be "reasonable to conclude that [individual student] expenditures can easily approach $700 to $1,000 today even after supplies are subtracted," the congressional Advisory Committee on Student Financial...

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Goodbye Musharraf, hello Taliban

Wed, 20 Aug 2008 00:00:00 EST

Asia Times - By Syed Saleem Shahzad - Aug. 20 (Opinion) - As if on cue, the Taliban launched two of their most daring attacks in Afghanistan on the day that Pervez Musharraf resigned as president of Pakistan, opening up a political vacuum in that country and throwing into doubt its continued cooperation in the United States' "war on terror".

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Governments' building projects shore up economy

Wed, 20 Aug 2008 00:00:00 EST

USA Today - By Dennis Cauchon - Aug. 20 (News Report) - Construction spending by federal, state and local governments has reached record levels, lifting the economy and employing some blue-collar workers despite a collapse in home building.

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Cindy McCain's half sister emerges to put down 'only child' claim

Wed, 20 Aug 2008 00:00:00 EST

The Independent - By Leonard Doyle - Aug. 20 (News Report) - Now a half-sister has emerged from the shadows to challenge that family history, claiming she and her offspring have been carefully airbrushed out of the would-be First Lady's family picture. "I'm upset," Kathleen Hensley Portalski said. "I'm angry. It makes me feel like a non-person." Documents show that she was born to Jim and Mary Jeanne Hensley on 23 February 1943. The still-married Mr Hensley was sent to West Virginia to recuperate from war wounds...

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Citizens' U.S. Border Crossings Tracked

Wed, 20 Aug 2008 00:00:00 EST

Washington Post - By Ellen Nakashima - Aug. 20 (News Report) - The federal government has been using its system of border checkpoints to greatly expand a database on travelers entering the country by collecting information on all U.S. citizens crossing by land, compiling data that will be stored for 15 years and may be used in criminal and intelligence investigations.

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