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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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Russia Never Wanted a War

Wed, 20 Aug 2008 00:00:00 EST

New York Times - By Mikhail Gorbachev - Aug. 20 (Opinion) - Russia did not want this crisis. The Russian leadership is in a strong enough position domestically; it did not need a little victorious war. Russia was dragged into the fray by the recklessness of the Georgian president, Mikheil Saakashvili. He would not have dared to attack without outside support. Once he did, Russia could not afford inaction.

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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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What Did We Expect?

Wed, 20 Aug 2008 00:00:00 EST

New York Times - By Thomas Friedman - Aug. 20 (Opinion) - If the conflict in Georgia were an Olympic event, the gold medal for brutish stupidity would go to the Russian prime minister, Vladimir Putin. The silver medal for bone-headed recklessness would go to Georgia's president, Mikheil Saakashvili, and the bronze medal for rank short-sightedness would go to the Clinton and Bush foreign policy teams.

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Does Bush Believe McCain Was Tortured?

Wed, 20 Aug 2008 00:00:00 EST

Atlantic Monthly - By Andrew Sullivan - Aug. 20 (Blog Post) - In all the discussion of John McCain's recently recovered memory of a religious epiphany in Vietnam, one thing has been missing. The torture that was deployed against McCain emerges in all the various accounts. It involved sleep deprivation, the withholding of medical treatment, stress positions, long-time standing, and beating. Sound familiar? According to the Bush administration's definition of torture, McCain was therefore not tortured.

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Gun Control Lobby Claims McCain Insider Had Ties to NRA Spy Op

Wed, 20 Aug 2008 00:00:00 EST

ABC News - By Anna Schecter - Aug. 20 (News Report) - A Republican political operative considered part of the McCain campaign's "kitchen cabinet" oversaw a National Rifle Association lobbying campaign that allegedly hired a spy to infiltrate gun control groups, according to Paul Helmke, president of the Brady Campaign to Prevent Gun Violence.

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Alaskan Bribing CEO Enjoys Window of Freedom

Tue, 19 Aug 2008 00:00:00 EST

ProPublica - By Eric Umansky - Aug. 19 (News Report) - Alaskan politicians are facing a lot of heat these days. The state's senior senator, Ted Stevens (R), has of course been indicted for not disclosing booty he received from an Alaskan oil company, VECO. Five other state politicians have also been indicted for allegedly taking bribes from VECO. So what happened to the VECO folks who offered the bribes?

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Afer Musharraf, a new U.S. role

Tue, 19 Aug 2008 00:00:00 EST

Christian Science Monitor - Aug. 19 (Editorial) - Bush, and soon either John McCain or Barack Obama, might be tempted to again back figures in Pakistan that promise quick suppression of jihadi extremists that thrive in the tribal, mountainous areas. While Musharraf did help in the capture of key Al Qaeda figures - which probably prevented some terrorist attacks - he failed to build up democratic institutions and popular support...

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Musharraf Resigns, Leaving A Shaky Pakistan in His Wake

Tue, 19 Aug 2008 00:00:00 EST

Wall Street Journal - By Peter Wonacott, Zahid Hussain - Aug. 19 (News Report) - Mr. Musharraf's resignation, announced in a national television address Monday, marks a victory for the governing coalition of his political opponents that was preparing to impeach him. Yet it also deprives the government of its scapegoat for the country's woes. It leaves the coalition alone to deliver on the promise of better governance in a new democratic era, which Mr. Musharraf helped usher in with parliamentary elections in February.

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As Georgia and Russia Headed for a Clash, the U.S. Missed the Signals

Mon, 18 Aug 2008 00:00:00 EST

New York Times - By Helene Cooper, C.J. Chivers, Clifford J. Levy - Aug. 18 (News Analysis) - The story of how a 16-year, low-grade conflict over who should rule two small, mountainous regions in the Caucasus erupted into the most serious post-cold-war showdown between the United States and Russia is one of miscalculation, missed signals and overreaching, according to interviews with diplomats and senior officials in the United States, the European Union, Russia and Georgia. In many cases, the officials would speak only on the condition of anonymity.

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