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Time
What Teachers Hate About Parents
Parents Behaving Badly
Inside the new classroom power struggle: What teachers say about pushy moms and dads who drive them crazy
Photo Essay:Classroom Clash
Graphic:Teacher's Pests

Foul Play in Iraq?
A slain American contractor feared for his life after turning whistleblower

NY Times
In City of Excess, Saying 'Marry Me' Can Be a Spectacle

Newsweek
Mommy Madness
What happened when the Girls Who Had It All became mothers? A new book explores why this generation feels so insane
The Good Enough Mother
Forget about day camp or mandatory Gymboree. What's the point of raising kids if we don't have a good time and a few laughs?
Meet the Slacker Mom
One mother says it’s time to stop the madness

Newsweek
King Karl
It's no big deal, insists the White House. But Rove's new duties will help fix Bush's place in history

San Diego Union-Tribune
Q&A Ambassador L. Paul Bremer
Former U.S. administrator in Iraq

The Bubbling UN Cauldron
by Andrew Sullivan

Schwarzenegger Takes on California's "Evil" Empire
by John Fund

Democrats Seek to Outmaneuver GOP
by Ronald Brownstein

Democrats Need a Fierce Intra-Party Battle
by Kenneth Baer

Democrats, once again, are the party of ‘the plain people'
By Terry McAuliffe

Can Dean Give 'Em A Winner?
by E.J. Dionne Jr.

USA Today
Google's givers go Democratic
Only 2% of donations went to Republicans

Diplomacy and Iran's Nuclear Weapons
by Henry Kissinger

They've Got Nukes. So Is the Proliferation Security Initiative Working?
by Bryan Preston
Is the Bush administration's multilateral policy on North Korea a failure? Bryan Preston reads the tea leaves.

Will Blogs Produce a Chilling Effect?
by James Miller

The Jordan Kerfuffle
Did he really have good reason to quit CNN?

The End of the Beginning
A roundup of the past two weeks' good news from Iraq.
by Arthur Chrenkoff

Condi’s tough road ahead
by Joel Mowbray
The most determined enemy the new Secretary of State will face is not across the pond or even across the aisle. No, her greatest threat comes from within the halls of Foggy Bottom, in the form of the career Foreign Service.

The Scandal That is the United Nations
The oil-for-food debacle is merely a symptom. The very structure of the U.N. invites fraud and abuse — with no accountability. A world body could serve a vital role. This one, though, doesn't.
by David Frum

Christian Counterculture
Meet Grace
If grace is God's love for the undeserving, then what does it look like in action? And if Christians are its sole dispensers, then how are we doing at lavishing grace on a world that knows far more cruelty and unforgiveness than it does on mercy?

Human Artillery Shells
By Ralph Kinny Bennett
The basic Islamofascist "artillery shell" is a young "martyr" with clothing or backpack stuffed full of explosives.

An Eighth of Every Paycheck
by Jeff Jacoby

Beating Columbia's Army
by Robert Novak

The Story of "Kamal" and the Iraqi Insurgency
by Jim Hoagland

Counter-Intelligence: In Defense of Porter Goss
by Loch Johnson

USA Today
Running late? Feed the meter by phone
Parking paid by cellphone is easy but may cost more

Yankees took ‘steroids' from Giambi's contract
The New York Yankees acknowledged they removed the word “steroids” from Jason Giambi's contract during negotiations in 2001.

60 Minutes
Steroid-User Canseco Names Names

ESPN.com
The Burden of Proof

AP
U2 Sings Tribute to Bono's Dad

Chicago Tribune
U2's midlife crisis

U2 Win Three Grammy Awards Go 3-3
Best Rock Song --Vertigo by U2
Best Rock Performance By A Duo Or Group With Vocal --Vertigo by U2
Best Short Form Music Video - Vertigo by U2
U2 now has 17 career Grammy Awards. U2, Alison Krauss and Ray Charles are now tied for 8th on the all-time list of Grammy winners.
U2 Shelves 'Vertigo,' Honors Bono's Father
Grammy Performance - Video & Audio
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