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Lewis Scooter Libby was indicted and resigned.
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20 people were killed in a car bombing in basra monday.
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hunger strikers at guatanamo bay have accused their captors of force-feeding them violently with large, dirty feeding tubes.
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Colin Powell’s former chief of staff publicly accused top-level officials in the Bush administration of hijacking the country’s foreign policy in ways that have undermined American democracy.
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The US has stopped caring that much about foreign disaster victims, possibly due to donor fatigue, or hurricane katrina.
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it’s becoming increasingly clear that former FEMA Director Michael Brown totally sucks, particularly because he needs at least an hour to eat dinner.
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saddam goes on trial tomorrow. a lot of people are concerned about the trial. they think maybe people might not view the tribunal as independent, mostly because of the significant involvement of both the iraqi and us goverments. in addition, the tribunal does not have to lack reasonable doubt to convict, as long as they’re “satisfied,” and saddam only has one lawyer with limited experience and 800 pages of evidence he has not had time to read. bush has said he is confident the tribunal will meet “”basic standards of international law”
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hurrican wilma has threatened to destroy flordia’s orange groves.
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two percent of african-americans support george bush.
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martha stewart is putting out a line of designer houses.
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The people of Belgium have been left reeling by the first adult-only episode of the Smurfs, in which the blue-skinned cartoon characters’ village is annihilated by warplanes.

Belgian television viewers were given a preview of the 25-second film earlier this week, when it was shown on the main evening news. The reactions ranged from approval to shock and, in the case of small children who saw the episode by accident, wailing terror.

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Both Democratic and Republican senators were questioning the qualifications of Supreme Court nominee Harriet Miers, who has never argued a case before the Supreme Court but has been often referred to as President Bush’s “work wife.”

A new CBS News poll shows that 59 percent of US citizens want US troops to leave Iraq as soon as possible, even if the country is not completely stable.
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More than 40 people were killed in a series of attacks in Iraq today
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Former Education Secretary William Bennett blamed the media for distorting his comment about aborting black babies. After informing a caller he could “abort every black baby in this country, and your crime rate would go down,” he also added that it would be impossible, and morally reprehensible, to do so.
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In South Asia an earthquake killed an estimated 42,000 people.

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A massive rescue operation is under way in Central America and southern Mexico, where mudslides caused by a tropical storm have killed at least 250 people.
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bill o’reilly suggested we assassinate somebody else’s president.
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at least thirty-six people died today
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Which major newspaper mentioned in its Army recruiting coverage that significantly reduced target numbers were the only reason the army managed to meet its recruiting goals these last four months?
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