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Kerry blocks Bush pick for top US highway job
Thursday, March 16, 2006
Rick Klein - - Boston Globe
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Senator John F. Kerry is blocking the White House nomination of fired Big Dig project manager J. Richard Capka to head the Federal Highway Administration, calling him a symbol of the Bush administration's ''incompetence" in managing federal agencies.
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Dubai firm to sell US holdings within 6 months
Thursday, March 16, 2006
AP's TED BRIDIS - - Boston Globe
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A Dubai-owned company announced yesterday that it would sell all its US port operations within four to six months to an unrelated American buyer, completing a multimillion-dollar deal forced by congressional concerns over terrorism security.
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Study says potent cell plays big role in asthma
Thursday, March 16, 2006
Scott Allen - - Boston Globe
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A little-known but potent cell in the immune system plays a far bigger role than had been previously thought in asthma, Children's Hospital Boston researchers have found, perhaps explaining why current treatments often fail to control the disease.
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Police at center of Palestinian tensions
Thursday, March 16, 2006
Anne Barnard and Sa'id Ghazali - - Boston Globe
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Ever since Hamas defeated the ruling Fatah party in January's elections, Palestinian security officials have dreaded a shoot-out with Israeli forces like the one that killed a Palestinian policeman and a prisoner here Tuesday. But they're even more worried about another nightmare scenario -- a brewing confrontation between Hamas militants and Fatah-dominated police and soldiers that could spark street battles or paralyze the Palestinian security forces.
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On spring break, they spread kindness
Wednesday, March 15, 2006
Adrienne P. Samuels - - Boston Globe
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A whirlwind cross-country volunteering tour is not a typical way to spend spring break, but it is how 38 University of Minnesota students choose to illustrate the "Pay It Forward" concept where one good deed leads to another.
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Better effort promised on checking SAT scores
Wednesday, March 15, 2006
Marcella Bombardieri - - Boston Globe
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After sending incorrect scores to 4,000 students, those who give and process the Scholastic Assessment Tests are pledging to do more to monitor their automated scoring, even while insisting that they already do almost everything possible to catch errors.
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State targets contaminant
Wednesday, March 15, 2006
Beth Daley - - Boston Globe
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The state Department of Environmental Protection proposed yesterday the nation's toughest standard for perchlorate, a chemical used in explosives that was found in 10 public water sources in 2004. The drinking water limit of 2 parts per billion would be dramatically stricter than a proposed level of 24.5 parts per billion, announced by the US Environmental Protection Agency in January.
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Israel raids prison, takes 6 militants
Wednesday, March 15, 2006
Thanassis Cambanis - - Boston Globe
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Israeli forces stormed a Palestinian prison yesterday, capturing six radical militants and provoking a wave of retaliatory attacks and hostage-takings in the first major security crisis since Hamas won Palestinian elections.
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Probe into tax foe's ties to Abramoff sought
Wednesday, March 15, 2006
Michael Kranish - - Boston Globe
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A watchdog group yesterday asked the Internal Revenue Service to investigate whether Grover Norquist, the antitax activist, broke laws in his dealings with lobbyist Jack Abramoff and a former Christian Coalition chief, Ralph Reed.
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3 Bay Staters join call to investigate Bush
Wednesday, March 15, 2006
Rick Klein - - Boston Globe
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Three of the 10 US House members from Massachusetts have signed a resolution calling for an investigation and the possible impeachment of President Bush, placing them among a small minority within the Democratic Party who are supporting the long shot effort.
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Dean seen boosting DNC from bottom up
Monday, March 13, 2006
Rick Klein - - Boston Globe
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When Howard Dean took over as chairman of the Democratic National Committee last February, the selection of the man known for ''the scream" sent chills down the spines of many Democrats in Southern and Western states, where a Dean-injected dose of East Coast liberalism carried the risk of dooming the party for years.
But a year after the crusading former Vermont governor took over the DNC, the party has reacted in some surprising ways.
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Senator pushes to censure Bush for US eavesdropping
Monday, March 13, 2006
AP's DOUGLASS K. DANIEL - - Boston Globe
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A liberal Democrat and potential White House contender is proposing to censure President Bush for authorizing domestic eavesdropping, saying the White House misled Americans about its legality.
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'Long struggle' with Iran seen ahead
Thursday, March 9, 2006
Farah Stockman - - Boston Globe
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The State Department is preparing for a ''long struggle" against Iran and has opened a special Office of Iranian Affairs inside the department in Washington and a miniature embassy-in-exile in Dubai to help ''defeat" the Iranian regime, Undersecretary of State Nicholas Burns told Congress yesterday.
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Colleges scramble amid SAT glitch
Thursday, March 9, 2006
Marcella Bombardieri and Tracy Jan - - Boston Globe
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College admissions officers in Massachusetts and elsewhere yesterday scrambled to deal with the applications of thousands of students whose SAT scores were too low because of a technical glitch, one of the biggest mistakes ever made on the high-stakes exam.
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A leaderless nation learns to adapt
Wednesday, March 8, 2006
John Donnelly - - Boston Globe
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Thousands of Somalis who have adapted and plunged ahead with businesses, schools, and service organizations despite the continuing violence and leadership void. Somalia this week took another important step to resurrect its national government.
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Cheney warns Iran of 'consequences'
Wednesday, March 8, 2006
AP's ANNE GEARAN - - Boston Globe
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The Bush administration drew a hard line on Iran yesterday, warning of "meaningful consequences" if the Islamic government does not back away from an international confrontation over its disputed nuclear program.
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GOP senators refuse eavesdropping inquiry
Wednesday, March 8, 2006
Rick Klein and Charlie Savage - - Boston Globe
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Senate Republicans yesterday rejected a full inquiry of the domestic spying program that was secretly authorized by President Bush, but they said they would push to impose new limits on the administration's ability to eavesdrop on Americans' phone calls and e-mail messages without a warrant.
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Hispanic evangelical offering GOP a bridge to future
Monday, March 6, 2006
Charlie Savage - - Boston Globe
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The Rev. Samuel Rodriguez Jr., president of a group he says represents 15 million Hispanic evangelical Christians, said his fellow social conservatives are making a historic mistake. By spurning proposals to give illegal immigrants a shot at citizenship instead of deportation, they are making it easier for supporters of abortion and same-sex marriage to win elections.
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Filling a void, Iraqi militias assert authority
Monday, March 6, 2006
Thanassis Cambanis - - Boston Globe
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In the ranks of the Mahdi Army militia, the deadly sectarian fighting that took Iraq to the verge of civil war wasn't so much a crisis as an opportunity.
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GOP picks a fight
Monday, March 6, 2006
Yvonne Abraham - - Boston Globe
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She is the daughter of immigrants. She is black and Hispanic. She is a single mother, and a Muslim.
And, to the delight of the state party, Samiyah Diaz is also a Republican.
The law student, who is collecting signatures to oppose state Senator Dianne Wilkerson, the Roxbury Democrat, in November, may have little chance of besting the 13-year incumbent. But for longtime Republicans, Diaz's candidacy is as much about shifting the image of the Republican Party as it is about winning.
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Katrina video is fueling criticism of Bush
Friday, March 3, 2006
Susan Milligan - - Boston Globe
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The White House, already on the defensive against bipartisan allegations about its handling of port security, the Iraq war, and Hurricane Katrina, yesterday sought to stem a new flow of criticism of President Bush's level of honesty and engagement on Katrina, with Democratic lawmakers accusing Bush of covering up the ''incompetence" of the hurricane response.
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Agency nominee taking Senate heat
Friday, March 3, 2006
Michael Kranish - - Boston Globe
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Senate critics of the Bush administration's decision to let a Dubai-owned company operate six US ports say they want to hold a new hearing on the nomination of a former top official of the company to run the US Maritime Administration.
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Senate balks at ethics watchdog agency
Friday, March 3, 2006
Rick Klein - - Boston Globe
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A key Senate committee yesterday scuttled a proposal to establish an independent watchdog agency that would enforce ethics rules on members of Congress, dealing a severe blow to efforts to beef up oversight following a series of high-profile scandals.
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Some say important restrictions lacking
Friday, March 3, 2006
Farah Stockman - - Boston Globe
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More than three decades after India developed nuclear weapons in defiance of the world, President Bush and the Indian prime minister, Manmohan Singh, announced yesterday that they had reached an agreement that would allow India to obtain civilian nuclear technology and expertise from American companies without having to curtail its nuclear arsenal.
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An attack in Iraq hits hard in N.E.
Friday, March 3, 2006
Brian MacQuarrie and Caroline Louise Cole - - Boston Globe
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An insurgent attack on an Iraqi police station in Ramadi on Wednesday killed one soldier from Vermont and wounded two from New Hampshire, one of the bloodiest days of the war for National Guard units from New England.
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In blow to GOP, Mihos to run as independent
Thursday, March 2, 2006
Frank Phillips and Scott Helman - - Boston Globe
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Bolting from the Republican Party, wealthy businessman Christy Mihos said yesterday he will run for governor as an independent, a decision that delivers a blow to GOP chances of victory in November.
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Aloft in the 'Idol' world
Thursday, March 2, 2006
Joanna Weiss - - Boston Globe
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Even before Wrentham native Ayla Brown crooned a Celine Dion song on ''American Idol" Tuesday night, Mike Devine, 17, was plotting strategy.
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Democratic group targets Senate GOP
Thursday, March 2, 2006
Rick Klein - - Boston Globe
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Hoping to strike back at Republicans who mounted a yearslong effort to oust him from office, former Senate Democratic leader Tom Daschle is helping raise millions of dollars to form a new political advocacy group aimed at creating a clearinghouse of opposition-research information against all Senate Republicans.
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Abramoff pushed plan to drill for oil in Israel
Wednesday, March 1, 2006
Michael Kranish - - Boston Globe
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Lobbyist Jack Abramoff worked with Russian partners to establish a company that envisioned a high-risk plan to drill for oil in Israel, which he hoped would bring him riches and reshape the Middle East, according to documents and his former lobbying partners.
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Views are mixed on domestic spying
Wednesday, March 1, 2006
Charlie Savage - - Boston Globe
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Several legal specialists told a Senate committee yesterday that President Bush's domestic spying program is "blatantly illegal" and that it could set a troubling precedent that allows wartime presidents to break laws freely in the name of national security.
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Romney shifts on adoption by gays
Wednesday, March 1, 2006
Patricia Wen and Frank Phillips - - Boston Globe
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Governor Mitt Romney signaled new openness yesterday to considering a request by Catholic bishops to ban gay couples from adopting children from Catholic social service agencies, a shift from earlier comments in which he said he had no authority in the matter.
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Deal on spy program in works
Tuesday, February 28, 2006
Charlie Savage - - Boston Globe
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Senate Judiciary Committee Chairman Arlen Specter, a leading Republican critic of President Bush's domestic spying program, has drafted a bill that would exempt the once-secret surveillance program from a 1978 statute that requires warrants.
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New Senate bill would cover half of state uninsured
Tuesday, February 28, 2006
Scott Helman and Scott S. Greenberger - - Boston Globe
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The state Senate, in an 11th-hour bid to keep $385 million in annual federal Medicaid money coming into Massachusetts, will debate a slimmed-down healthcare bill today that aims to cover roughly half of the state's uninsured residents through new subsidized insurance plans.
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With port pact, Democrats turn tables
Tuesday, February 28, 2006
Rick Klein - - Boston Globe
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The proposal to allow a Dubai firm to manage six US ports has brought a striking reversal of roles in the politics of terrorism: Suddenly, Democrats are using insinuations and accusations to suggest that the Bush administration is being weak on security, while President Bush and allies are urging critics against assuming guilt by association.
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Blasts, gunfire kill at least 26 in Iraq
Monday, February 27, 2006
AP's ALEXANDRA ZAVIS - - Boston Globe
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Violence killed at least 26 people yesterday, including three US soldiers, and mortar fire rumbled through the heart of Baghdad after sundown despite stringent security measures imposed after an explosion of sectarian violence.
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Emirates firm agrees to new US review
Monday, February 27, 2006
AP's TED BRIDIS - - Boston Globe
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The White House yesterday accepted an offer by a United Arab Emirates company to avert a political showdown by submitting to a second, and broader, US review of potential security risks in an accord to take over many operations at six American ports.
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India ascends, and US embraces a partner
Monday, February 27, 2006
John Donnelly - - Boston Globe
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For more than a half-century, the relationship between India and the United States was characterized by bitterness and distrust.
But in the last two years, the two countries have forged a tight alliance that many analysts believe will become part of a shifting global order in the 21st century -- a shuffling of power and influence widely forecast to feature the rise of both China and India, which not only account for a third of the planet's population but also are experiencing an economic renaissance.
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Shrine bombing stirs rage in Iraq
Thursday, February 23, 2006
Thanassis Cambanis - - Boston Globe
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Enraged Shi'ites rioted across Iraq and swore revenge yesterday after bombs ripped through one of the Muslim sect's holiest shrines, and religious and political leaders scrambled to prevent a major escalation of sectarian warfare.
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Medicare numbers at odds with US claims
Thursday, February 23, 2006
Jeffrey Krasner - - Boston Globe
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Since December, the US Department of Health and Human Services has repeatedly overstated the number of enrollees in the new Medicare prescription drug plan.
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Snowe holds up Katrina bill in bid for home heating aid
Wednesday, February 22, 2006
Alan Wirzbicki - - Boston Globe
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After months of fruitless efforts to add more federal money for home heating assistance, Maine Senator Olympia Snowe has used a parliamentary maneuver to put a hold on a federal relief program for victims of Hurricane Katrina until the Senate is allowed to vote on energy grants for low-income homeowners.
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Netanyahu makes Hamas the issue
Wednesday, February 22, 2006
Anne Barnard - - Boston Globe
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Benjamin Netanyahu, the charismatic firebrand of Israel's right wing, yesterday seized on Hamas's electoral victory to bolster two campaigns of his own: to lead the faltering Likud party back to power, and to convince the West that Hamas is an enemy on the order of Al Qaeda.
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Justices agree to hear abortion case
Wednesday, February 22, 2006
Charlie Savage - - Boston Globe
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The Supreme Court yesterday announced it would hear a case challenging a federal ban on the late-term abortion procedure that opponents call ''partial-birth abortion," setting up the first major test of abortion law since Justice Samuel A. Alito Jr.'s confirmation last month.
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Bush's response to riots not enough for neocons
Tuesday, February 21, 2006
Peter S. Canellos - - Boston Globe
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The riots surrounding the Danish cartoons of Prophet Mohammed are driving a wedge between the White House and President Bush's neoconservative allies, raising new questions about whether the administration intends to follow the neocon line beyond the Iraq war.
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US and allies eye sanctions on Iran regime
Tuesday, February 21, 2006
Farah Stockman - - Boston Globe
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The Bush administration and its European allies are exploring ways to enact "targeted sanctions" against the Iranian regime, including banning international travel by its leaders and freezing their bank accounts as well as preventing international airlines from flying to Tehran, according to European diplomats and US officials.
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Rice wants funds for democracy initiative in Iran
Thursday, February 16, 2006
Farah Stockman - - Boston Globe
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Secretary of State Condoleezza Rice asked Congress yesterday to fund a sweeping initiative to promote democracy inside Iran that would expand satellite broadcasts to enable Washington to ''engage" directly with the Iranian people. The initiative also would lift US restrictions to allow US funding for Iranian trade unions, political dissidents, and nongovernmental organizations.
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2 e-mailers get testy, and hundreds read every word
Thursday, February 16, 2006
Sacha Pfeiffer - - Boston Globe
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Once again, a friendly reminder: The next time you're tempted to send a nasty, exasperated, or snippy e-mail, pause, take a deep breath, and think again. Then consider the tale of local lawyers William A. Korman and Dianna L. Abdala.
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Cheney takes blame for shooting
Thursday, February 16, 2006
Michael Kranish and Bryan Bender - - Boston Globe
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Ending four days of silence, Vice President Dick Cheney gave a TV interview yesterday in which he took responsibility for accidentally shooting a fellow hunter last weekend, saying: ''You can't blame anybody else. I'm the guy who pulled the trigger and shot my friend."
But Cheney also used the interview on Fox News to defend his decision to let the co-owner of the Texas ranch where the accident happened break the news to a local newspaper, which resulted in the White House not confirming the matter for 20 hours. That delay -- and the absence of a public apology by Cheney -- had created a firestorm for days that the vice president finally sought to quell by giving the 27-minute interview.
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Saudi ambassador spreads blame over cartoon dispute
Thursday, February 16, 2006
Roy Greene - - Boston Globe
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The Saudi ambassador to the United States blamed both sides yesterday for inflaming the dispute over cartoons of the Prophet Mohammed, and urged them to calm the furor by using ''reason to overcome passion."
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Chertoff ripped on storm response
Thursday, February 16, 2006
Charlie Savage - - Boston Globe
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Homeland Security Secretary Michael Chertoff yesterday took responsibility for his department's ''many lapses" in the aftermath of Hurricane Katrina, as a congressional inquiry released yesterday said the government's poor handling of the disaster led to unnecessary deaths.
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Asbestos fund fails in Senate
Wednesday, February 15, 2006
Rick Klein - - Boston Globe
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The Senate yesterday scuttled legislation designed to create a privately financed compensation fund for victims of asbestos exposure, with Republicans who are concerned about the fund's cost joining Democrats who want asbestos claims to continue to be handled by courts.
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Hunter shot by Cheney has a heart attack
Wednesday, February 15, 2006
Bryan Bender and Michael Kranish - - Boston Globe
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Harry Whittington, the 78-year-old Texas lawyer whom Vice President Dick Cheney accidentally shot on a hunting trip Saturday had a minor heart attack yesterday when a piece of birdshot lodged in his heart, triggering an abnormal rhythm, hospital officials said.
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A sweet tooth is tough to pull
Wednesday, February 15, 2006
Tracy Jan - - Boston Globe
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The state Senate plans to debate today whether to limit the sale of high-calorie snacks and sugar-laden soft drinks in school vending machines. The bill, which comes amid similar efforts by school systems across the nation, is likely to pass the Senate, but it would need approval from the House and Governor Mitt Romney.
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Complaints mounting over college savings accounts
Tuesday, February 14, 2006
Ross Kerber - - Boston Globe
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In the decade since they were created by Congress, so-called 529 college savings plans have soared in popularity. But as the ?rst generation of students and parents to take advantage of the plans reaches college, complaints are mounting about poor returns, high fees, and confusion generated by the 80-odd different savings programs offered by state agencies around the country.
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Bush got fast word of Cheney incident
Tuesday, February 14, 2006
Michael Kranish and Bryan Bender - - Boston Globe
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President Bush was informed by 8 p.m. Saturday that Vice President Dick Cheney had accidentally shot a hunting partner earlier that day in Texas, but the information was not relayed to the White House spokesman until Sunday morning and was not confirmed to the public until around 1 p.m. Sunday, White House officials said yesterday.
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Wild card looms in governor's race
Tuesday, February 14, 2006
Frank Phillips - - Boston Globe
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Wealthy businessman Christopher Gabrieli, rejected as a lieutenant governor running mate by Attorney General Thomas F. Reilly, has told Democratic Party officials that he is receptive to jumping into the race for governor and has given the green light to his supporters to marshal support for him at the party's June convention.
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Administration's PR detailed
Tuesday, February 14, 2006
Rick Klein - - Boston Globe
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The Bush administration spent more than $1.6 billion over a 30-month period on public relations and advertising contracts to promote its policies and programs, according to a report released yesterday by the nonpartisan investigative arm of Congress.
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Patriot Act compromise may be near
Friday, February 10, 2006
Rick Klein - - Boston Globe
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A key group of Senate Republicans reached an agreement with the White House yesterday to include several new civil liberties protections in the USA Patriot Act, a development that appears likely to break a logjam over extending the controversial antiterrorism law.
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Early returns in Haiti favor Préval
Friday, February 10, 2006
Susan Milligan - - Boston Globe
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René Préval, who led this impoverished Caribbean nation in the late 1990s, has an early lead in his bid to return to the presidential palace, according to preliminary results of Tuesday's national elections.
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Bush tells of a foiled plot to strike LA
Friday, February 10, 2006
Charlie Savage - - Boston Globe
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Providing new details about a foiled plot, President Bush said yesterday that the United States and the governments of several Southeast Asian countries disrupted a plan by Al Qaeda to hijack a commercial airliner and fly it into a Los Angeles skyscraper in early 2002.
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Islamic furor exposes a rift across Europe
Friday, February 10, 2006
Colin Nickerson - - Boston Globe
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The outpouring of wrath toward Europe from Muslim immigrants and from people in Islamic countries suggests, analysts say, that Europe has become the ''new" United States for many Muslims: a rich and powerful entity seeking to impose its will and values on the poorer regions of the world.
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Band of Democrats touts military values
Thursday, February 9, 2006
Bryan Bender - - Boston Globe
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With flags flying and the Capitol as a backdrop, 40 veterans of wars from Vietnam to Iraq vowed yesterday to promote military values within the Democratic Party and promised ''vigorous oversight" of US foreign policy if voters elect them to the US House of Representatives this fall.
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Polling delays spark clashes in Haiti
Wednesday, February 8, 2006
Susan Milligan - - Boston Globe
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Haiti's long-awaited elections for president and a national legislature erupted in anger and occasional violence yesterday, as thousands of Haitians -- including many who awoke at 3 a.m. to walk hours to the polls -- found themselves turned away at polling centers unprepared for the massive throngs.
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Energy gaps seen in Bush's budget
Wednesday, February 8, 2006
Rick Klein - - Boston Globe
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President Bush's latest spending plan is unlikely to substantially reduce US oil consumption in the short term because it slashes $100 million from federal programs promoting conservation and falls short of the commitment in last year's energy bill to make vast new investments in renewable and emerging technologies, like hydrogen fuel and solar power.
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Islamic protests intensify; Afghan police fire on mob
Wednesday, February 8, 2006
Colin Nickerson - - Boston Globe
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In the worst violence yet in the spreading Islamic furor over cartoons depicting the Prophet Mohammed, police in Afghanistan yesterday opened fire on an armed mob rushing positions held by European peacekeepers, killing four protesters and wounding 25, according to NATO officials and Afghan authorities.
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Study finds no major benefits of low-fat diet
Wednesday, February 8, 2006
Liz Kowalczyk - - Boston Globe
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A low-fat diet did not reduce older women's risk of breast cancer, colorectal cancer, or heart disease, according to a long-awaited $415 million government-funded study that creates uncertainty about exactly what Americans should eat to prevent disease.
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A new peril for breast cancer survivors
Tuesday, February 7, 2006
Liz Kowalczyk - - Boston Globe
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Doctors across the United States say they are treating a growing number of breast cancer survivors who have brain tumors, where drugs have halted the spread of cancer in their bodies, but not in their brains.
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4 more killed in furor over cartoons
Tuesday, February 7, 2006
Colin Nickerson - - Boston Globe
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As protests over cartoons of the Prophet Mohammed grew more violent and four people were killed by police in Afghanistan, United Nations Secretary General Kofi Annan called yesterday for an end to religious-inspired attacks on diplomatic compounds and other unrest sweeping the Islamic world.
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Bush budget would slash aid to state
Tuesday, February 7, 2006
Bryan Bender - - Boston Globe
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Massachusetts would lose hundreds of millions of dollars in education, health, and other federal assistance under President Bush's $2.7 trillion budget plan announced yesterday.
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Having another go? Kerry doffs the gloves
Tuesday, February 7, 2006
Peter S. Canellos - - Boston Globe
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John F. Kerry's decision to lead last week's unsuccessful filibuster of Samuel A. Alito Jr.'s Supreme Court nomination met with predictable ridicule from Republicans and some Democrats, but it could end up being his smartest political move in a long time.
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GOP senators add heat on spying
Tuesday, February 7, 2006
Charlie Savage - - Boston Globe
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Four Republican senators yesterday joined Democrats in challenging Attorney General Alberto Gonzales's insistence that President Bush broke no law when he authorized the military to spy on Americans' international phone calls and e-mails in a contentious daylong hearing by the Senate Judiciary Committee.
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Assumptions in Bush's data may be flawed, some say
Tuesday, February 7, 2006
Michael Kranish - - Boston Globe
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President Bush's budget relies on what fiscal analysts call a variety of debatable assumptions, and it does not include long-term plans to overhaul Social Security, Medicare, or the tax system, which the analysts say must happen for the government to put itself on a course toward erasing skyrocketing deficits.
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Act would allow paying to get Medicaid
Monday, February 6, 2006
Rick Klein - - Boston Globe
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Now, after more than six years of congressional lobbying by working-class parents, President Bush is poised to sign the Family Opportunity Act, which will allow parents of disabled children whose incomes exceed the federal poverty line to pay to join Medicaid, on a sliding fee scale based on their income.
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On eve of vote, Haitians hope for fresh start
Monday, February 6, 2006
Susan Milligan - - Boston Globe
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As darkness settled over the Haitian capital, 16-year-old Benyada Antoine and her 13-year-old sister, Kechna, weary from a day of chores and school, headed to the only place they could study: under a street lamp in a local square.
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Leaders urge calm amid Muslim fury
Monday, February 6, 2006
Colin Nickerson - - Boston Globe
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Leaders from the United States and Europe urged calm yesterday as violent protests ignited by cartoons depicting the Prophet Mohammed spread in Islamic countries and beyond. Thousands of Muslims rampaged through the streets of Beirut, setting fire to the Danish Embassy, torching European flags, and trashing a Christian neighborhood.
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Wrangling over applications
Monday, February 6, 2006
Robert Weisman - - Boston Globe
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The nation's elite business schools are struggling to thwart a small industry that has sprung up to coach applicants in crafting essays and acing interviews to win coveted spots on campus.
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Abramoff's grand aims came early
Monday, February 6, 2006
Nina J. Easton - - Boston Globe
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In 1981, a newly elected president was about to shift the nation rightward, and a 22-year-old Brandeis graduate named Jack Abramoff -- savoring his own victory as the newly elected chairman of the College Republicans -- was hatching plans to transform the nation's young people into stalwart Reaganites.
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In outreach, Kerry posts to a liberal political blog
Friday, February 3, 2006
Alan Wirzbicki - - Boston Globe
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In an effort to reach grass-roots liberal activists, Senator John F. Kerry has begun posting entries to a blog that his presidential campaign disavowed in 2004.
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Biosafety lab in South End gets final OK
Friday, February 3, 2006
Stephen Smith - - Boston Globe
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The federal government gave final approval yesterday to Boston University's plan to build a high-security research laboratory in the South End, where scientists hunting for vaccines and drugs will work with some of the world's deadliest viruses and bacteria, such as Ebola, anthrax, and plague.
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GOP ousts Blunt as majority leader
Friday, February 3, 2006
Rick Klein - - Boston Globe
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In a clear sign that they're worried about the direction of the Republican Party, House GOP members ousted acting majority leader Roy Blunt, the chamber's second in command, and replaced him with Representative John A. Boehner, an Ohio conservative who has promised to crack down on pet projects inserted into bills at the request of lobbyists and lawmakers.
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Senator calls spy program 'most extensive' in history
Friday, February 3, 2006
Charlie Savage - - Boston Globe
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A senator who has been briefed on President Bush's domestic spying said yesterday that it is the ''the most extensive and aggressive" National Security Agency program in history, offering a new assessment of the scope of the secretive policy.
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$120b more is sought for war efforts
Friday, February 3, 2006
Bryan Bender - - Boston Globe
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The White House will ask Congress for an additional $70 billion to fund the wars in Iraq and Afghanistan for the remainder of the fiscal year -- nearly double some government estimates of what would be needed just a few months ago -- and will also seek $50 billion more as a down payment for those wars in 2007, administration officials said yesterday.
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Specialists doubt legality of wiretaps
Thursday, February 2, 2006
Charlie Savage - - Boston Globe
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Legal specialists yesterday questioned the accuracy of President Bush's sweeping contentions about the legality of his domestic spying program, particularly his assertion in his State of the Union speech on Tuesday that "previous presidents have used the same constitutional authority I have."
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Bush begins tour to sell '06 agenda
Thursday, February 2, 2006
Rick Klein - - Boston Globe
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Kicking off a weeks-long campaign to sell his 2006 agenda, President Bush was received at the packed Grand Ole Opry House yesterday with cheers, popping flashbulbs, and enthusiastic whistles -- hearty greetings normally reserved for country music superstars.
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Security shortage seen before Haiti vote
Thursday, February 2, 2006
Susan Milligan - - Boston Globe
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International peacekeepers responsible for preventing violence during Tuesday's national election do not plan to protect some 10 percent of the approximately 800 polling centers across Haiti, including the most dangerous sites in the troubled capital, according to an internal Haitian police document.
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Another short extension expected for Patriot Act
Wednesday, February 1, 2006
Charlie Savage - - Boston Globe
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The House of Representatives is expected to vote as early as today to extend the USA Patriot Act until the middle of March, a sign that Congress remains deadlocked over whether the surveillance law threatens civil liberties, congressional aides said.
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In reach for middle ground, Bush echoes Bill Clinton
Wednesday, February 1, 2006
Peter S. Canellos - - Boston Globe
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After a resolute defense of his plan for victory in Iraq and his spying program, President Bush last night delivered a speech that Bill Clinton would have been proud to give, embracing the global economy and emphasizing progressive action.
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Bush calls for US to cut oil reliance
Wednesday, February 1, 2006
Michael Kranish - - Boston Globe
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Saying "America is addicted to oil," President Bush used his State of the Union address last night to call for reducing America's dependence on Middle Eastern oil by 75 percent by the year 2025. Bush also laid out a relatively modest domestic agenda of providing federal help on healthcare and education, and vowed to remain vigilant against the ''enemies of freedom" around the world.
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Wounded journalists back in US
Wednesday, February 1, 2006
Kevin Cullen - - Boston Globe
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ABC News co-anchor Bob Woodruff and cameraman Doug Vogt, who were seriously wounded by a roadside bomb in Iraq on Sunday, arrived here yesterday afternoon aboard a military airlift from Germany and were transferred to Bethesda Naval Hospital.
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Mother of a movement carried a legacy
Wednesday, February 1, 2006
Mark Feeney - - Boston Globe
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Coretta Scott King, the widow of Martin Luther King Jr., who after her husband's murder became one of America's best-known civil rights leaders in her own right and an international symbol of the struggle for social justice, died in her sleep late Monday night. She was 78.
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Medicaid proposal could hurt seniors
Monday, January 30, 2006
Alice Dembner - - Boston Globe
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Hundreds of thousands of seniors will find it tougher to get government help with nursing home costs under rules Congress is expected to approve as soon as Wednesday.
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Bush to address use of alternate energy sources
Monday, January 30, 2006
Michael Kranish - - Boston Globe
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President Bush said yesterday he would use his annual address to Congress tomorrow to call for more use of alternative energy sources. The president also plans to put forward initiatives on issues such as healthcare and taxes, analysts said.
But Bush, who failed to deliver on his far-reaching proposal to overhaul Social Security in last year's State of the Union speech, faces an uphill battle.
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Two ABC journalists injured in Iraq
Monday, January 30, 2006
Joanna Weiss and Anne Barnard - - Boston Globe
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ABC News anchor Bob Woodruff and cameraman Doug Vogt suffered serious head wounds in Iraq yesterday when the military convoy they were traveling in was hit by a roadside bomb.
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Unrest unravels US goals in Iraq
Friday, January 27, 2006
Farah Stockman - - Boston Globe
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The US government will complete just a fraction of the planned massive reconstruction projects in Iraq before $18.4 billion in federal funding runs out next year, according to a government audit released yesterday.
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Bush sees vote proving 'power of democracy'
Friday, January 27, 2006
Farah Stockman - - Boston Globe
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President Bush praised the Palestinian election yesterday as proof of ''the power of democracy." But his administration was left grappling with the victory of a group it considers a terrorist organization, posing a dilemma that pitted Bush's policy of promoting democracy in the Middle East against his goal of fighting terrorism.
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Mass. senators to filibuster Alito
Friday, January 27, 2006
Charlie Savage and Rick Klein - - Boston Globe
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Breaking ranks with Democratic leaders, Senators John F. Kerry and Edward M. Kennedy yesterday vowed to lead a filibuster against the Supreme Court nomination of Samuel A. Alito Jr., forcing their colleagues to decide whether to join a high-stakes -- but likely fruitless -- attempt to use Senate rules to block the judge's confirmation.
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Hamas victory fuels uncertainty
Friday, January 27, 2006
Anne Barnard and Thanassis Cambanis - - Boston Globe
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Hamas's surprising landslide victory in Palestinian parliamentary elections upended Middle East politics yesterday, making the militant group that has long sworn to destroy Israel a principal player in Palestinian governance.
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Studies link psychosis, teenage marijuana use
Thursday, January 26, 2006
Carey Goldberg - - Boston Globe
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Researchers are offering new ammunition to worried parents trying to dissuade their teens from smoking marijuana: Evidence is mounting that for some adolescents whose genes put them at added risk, heavy marijuana use could increase the chances of developing severe mental illness -- psychosis or schizophrenia.
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In stunning upset, Hamas seen as victor
Thursday, January 26, 2006
Anne Barnard - - Boston Globe
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The militant group Hamas won a majority of the seats in the Palestinian elections, a stunning victory that threatens to derail the Middle East peace process.
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Young, fed up Gazans offer range of election views
Wednesday, January 25, 2006
Anne Barnard - - Boston Globe
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Mohammed Darwish worried that an Islamic-controlled parliament would stop him from wearing his flashy haircut. His friends fretted more about security and jobs. And one of them -- the haircutter himself -- insisted that an Islamic government would make everything better.
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