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2010-07-31: Headlines

Green Bay Press Gazette: Cyber Saturday: Pentagon Papers reporter: What the WikiLeaks war logs tell us 2010-07-31
Americans who ó like me ó werenít alive when the Pentagon Papers story was first leaked to The New York Times are likely still familiar with the end conclusion: The American people found out what...
PR-USA.net: NASA, UIC offer kids summer science programs :: CHICAGO SUN-TIMES 2010-07-31
Ethel Oliver is proud to follow in her late father's footsteps by insisting that the children in her life get the best education they can. | "I'm an old-school girl. I make sure my grandchildren are in school every day, on time every day, and that they have a hot meal every morning before they leave," said Oliver, who is raising her four grandchildren in south suburban South Holland.
Kurdish Globe: Dispaly Article 2010-07-31
I would like to see the Kurds get much more attention and assistance from America. | Abe Greenwald, assistant editor of Commentary magazine, "the flagship of the neoconservatives," speaks to Kurdish Globe about his observations on Kurdistan during his visit few weeks ago. He says he was moved by the self-determination of the Kurdish people, and he expresses his full support for an American military base in Kurdistan.
Southtown Star: BPs waning Britishness 2010-07-31
Its chairman is Swedish, a growing chunk of its revenue comes from Russia and its incoming chief executive speaks with an American accent. So goes the Britishness in the company once known as British Petroleum. | BP PLC's appointment of Managing Director Robert Dudley to replace luckless Briton Tony Hayward as CEO has drawn a muted reaction in Britain, however.
Sacramento Bee: Commentary: Playing politics with Kagans confirmation 2010-07-31
Today is my wedding anniversary, and that makes me think of the late Justice William Brennan. | It was in July 1990, while returning to the Half Moon Bay, Calif., bed-and-breakfast where my husband and I were celebrating our first anniversary, that I learned Brennan was retiring from the Supreme Court. | No ubiquitous cellphones or laptops in those ancient days.
Ottawa Citizen: Preventive detention can save lives 2010-07-31
Division of Canwest Publishing Inc. | More than 300 people lined up outside the Apple Store in the Rideau Centre early Friday morning to get their hands on Apple's latest product, the iPhone 4. | Doomsayers relax: we can, in fact, feed the population of nine billion the world is expected to have by 2050. But to do this, we'll have to abandon our irrational prejudice against genetically modified... | I just called, to say, I'm ...
Chicago Sun-Times: The skys the limit 2010-07-31
Ethel Oliver is proud to follow in her late father's footsteps by insisting that the children in her life get the best education they can. | "I'm an old-school girl. I make sure my grandchildren are in school every day, on time every day, and that they have a hot meal every morning before they leave," said Oliver, who is raising her four grandchildren in south suburban South Holland.

2010-07-30: Headlines

Pierce County Herald: Letter: What Obama, Dems support isnt socialism, he says 2010-07-30
Republican U.S. Senate candidate Jane Norton told a Steamboat Springs audience Thursday morning that Washington is out of control, with over-regulation costing the state jobs and preventing the development of natural resources.
Al-Ahram Weekly: Abdel-Moneim Said: From Boston on Palestine 2010-07-30
Amid the numerous solutions proposed and discussed on the Israeli-Palestinian conflict, few note the default solution: managing the worst of what is intractable, writes Abdel-Moneim Sai...
Steamboat Pilot: US Senate candidate Norton discusses candidacy in Steamboat 2010-07-30
Republican U.S. Senate candidate Jane Norton told a Steamboat Springs audience Thursday morning that Washington is out of control, with over-regulation costing the state jobs and preventing the development of natural resources.
Al-Ahram Weekly: Eric Walberg: Westward Hu 2010-07-30
Russia's accommodation of the US and NATO continues apace, with new support of the Afghan war and even missile defence, notes Eric Walber...
Al-Ahram Weekly: Bullying Abbas into talks 2010-07-30
The US and the EU continue to pressure the Palestinian Authority leadership to embrace direct talks with Israel, but to what end, asks Khaled Amayreh in Ramalla...
Al-Ahram Weekly: James Zogby: I understand Shirley Sherrod 2010-07-30
Attacked by political opportunists and denied a voice: Shirley Sherrod's recent treatment mimics that of too many Arab Americans, writes James Zogb...

2010-07-29: Headlines

Santa Cruz Sentinel: As We See It: Raiding Arizona: Now feds have to act 2010-07-29
Blocking Arizona's unwise and unconstitutional immigration law won't solve the bigger problems. | When a federal judge put on hold the most onerous of the Arizona law's provisions, she did more than set up a lengthy court battle.
Lexington Herald Leader: Commentary: A new Mockingbird story 2010-07-29
Harper Lee's Pulitzer Prize-winning novel, To Kill a Mockingbird, is still required reading for many junior and senior high school students. | For several consecutive years, when the book was read by ninth-graders in the Birdville school district, I would go at the end of the literary unit to talk to the predominantly white students about real-life discrimination and racism.
Florida Times-Union: Fact Check: Reports of voter intimidation appear exaggerated 2010-07-29
A Times-Union reader wants to know:Is the e-mail true that says Attorney General Eric Holder backed off pursuing a slam-dunk case against the New Black Panther Party on voter intimidation charges because the Obama administration does not want to prosecute minorities for civil rights violations?
World Jewish Congress: Paris and Washington upgrade status of Palestinian representative offices 2010-07-29
Last week, he signaled France's readiness to engage in direct dialogue with Hamas, "if France receives an official request from the Palestinian Authority." The Islamist movement, which controls the Gaza Strip, is listed by the United States and Europe as a terrorist organization. | Last week, the US State Department gave the Palestinian office in Washington the right to hoist the Palestinian flag.
postzambia.com: Judge blocks Arizonas controversial immigration law 2010-07-29
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Australia.TO: Ecoterra: | Status of seized vessels and crews in Somalia, The Gulf of Aden and the Indian Ocean - July 29 ( 2 ) 2010-07-29
Status of seized vessels and crews in Somalia, The Gulf of Aden and the Indian Ocean - July 29 ( 2 ) | Sea-jacked British couple, Paul and Rachel Chandler, aged 60 and 58, were abducted from their 38-ft yacht S/Y LYNN RIVAL, seized October 22, 2009 en route to Tanzania, and are still held in Somalia.

2010-07-27: Headlines

Palestine Think Tank: Nima Shirazi – When the Truth is Inconvenient: A Preview of Countdown To Zero 2010-07-27
When the Truth is Inconvenient: A Preview of 'Countdown To Zero' | A new documentary, directed by Lucy Walker and produced by Lawrence Bender, entitled Countdown To Zero, is set for wide release on July 23, 2010. The film has been heavily publicized and promoted for many months now and is surely already a heavily-favored Oscar contender.
BOOK Southern Africa: What We Need is a Finishing School for Our Baboons 2010-07-27
Much has been spoken about the tripartite alliance ever since Zwelinzima Vavi turned rogue and Blade Nzimande turned capitalist. Yawn. There's a far more interesting tripartite alliance in Cape Town, and it has nothing to do with alfresco toilets, COPE's two-headed freak show or Julius Malema's Stalin Lite purges. This tripartite alliance is made up of the City of Cape Town, CapeNature and Table Mountain National Park (SANParks).
Southtown Star: Will Adam risk contempt in Defense of Blago? 2010-07-27
Will Adam risk contempt in Defense of Blago? | Sam E. Adam, 37, of Chicago's Beverly community, desperately wants to tell the jury in the former governor's corruption trial that Tony Rezko, Stuart Levine and other convicted felons the prosecution has linked to Blagojevich were not called as government witnesses - suggesting the government couldn't prove its case.
African Press Agency: Ping meets EU, UN and US representatives to Kampala summit 2010-07-27
APA-Kampala (Uganda) | The chairperson of the African Union (AU) Commission, Dr. Jean Ping, met the European Union (EU) Commissioner for Development, Andris Pieabalgs, the United Nations deputy Secretary General Ms Asha Rose Migiro and the US Attorney General Eric Holder on the sidelines of the 15th AU ordinary summit currently being held in the Ugandan capital, Kampala, APA learns here.
DesMoinesRegister.com: Two enter guilty pleas in Obama records case 2010-07-27
Two former employees of a U.S. Department of Education contractor have pleaded guilty of illegally viewing President Barack Obama’s student loan records.
Middle East Online: US hits back at claims of Lockerbie double-talk 2010-07-27
US hits back at claims of Lockerbie 'double-talk' | Washington insists that it had always wanted Libya's terminally-ill Megrahi to die in jail. | WASHINGTON - The United States on Monday hit back at claims it was guilty of "double-talk" over the release of the convicted Lockerbie bomber, insisting it had always wanted him to die in jail.
MyNews.in: How Wikileaks became an effective whistle-blowing site 2010-07-27
Two former employees of a U.S. Department of Education contractor have pleaded guilty of illegally viewing President Barack Obama’s student loan records.
Politico: Abby Phillip : Obama to defend reform plan 2010-07-27
He and Arne Duncan will address criticisms of the $4.35 billion Race to the Top program.