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AP
Dean's Last Opponent Bows Out of Chairman's Race

To Be Chalabi, or Not To Be
This Syrian exile wants to overthrow another evil Baathist dictator. How can he persuade the U.S. to help him?
by Elisabeth Eaves

A Dangerous Loophole in Airport Security
If Slate could discover it, the terrorists will too.
by Andy Bowers

Int'l Herald Tribune
White House Letter: Why is Bush reading Tom Wolfe? Don't ask

Ants and Grasshoppers
By Kevin A. Hassett

American Prospect
Is Moore Less?
American ProspectRepublicans say filmmaker Michael Moore is the gift that keeps on giving. Should the Democrats give him the Sister Souljah treatment?
By Mark Leon Goldberg

Let's Not Make the Same Mistakes in Iran
By David Kay

The Drought Breaks
A roundup of the past month's good news from Afghanistan.
by Arthur Chrenkoff

Democracy Is No Polite Tea Party
By Salman Rushdie

Schwarzenegger Takes on the Incumbent-Protection Racket
by John Fund

Harry Reid's 'Roulette'
by George Will

The Dems' Week from Hell
by Noemie Emery

Five Threats to American Way of Life
by Newt Gingrich

A transformative president
by Michael Barone
George W. Bush -- clumsily in the view of his critics, but with confidence self-evident to those who watched his State of the Union with clear eyes -- sets out to transform America and the world. And is succeeding.

Confirmation politics
by Robert Novak
Sen. Charles Schumer of New York, intensely ambitious and partisan, was uncharacteristically caught off balance.

Dems crunched by Social Security numbers
by Donald Lambro
When President Bush unveiled the first details of his personal investment accounts proposal, it was greeted by a loud chorus of nay-saying Democrats, who said it was dead on arrival.

Austin-American Statesman Editorial
Howard Dean and squishy swing voters

A Test of Faith on Social Security
By William Raspberry

Nuclear Power Can Lift Cloud Over US Energy
by Barry Ganapol

43rd’s Tribute to the 40thPresident
Bush gives tribute to the Reagan legacy.
By Gleaves Whitney

Inferring the Obvious
It doesn't take psychoanalysis to figure out what Dan Rather's motivations were; the legal system has a process for recognizing bias.
by Paul Mirengoff

NY Times
U.S. Redesigning Atomic Weapons
Scientists have begun designing a new generation of weapons meant to be sturdier and more reliable.

W. Post
Bush Budget Plan AimsTo Cut Many Programs
The $2.5 trillion proposal to be unveiled today would boost military, security spending. Cuts face an uphill struggle.

USA Today
New faces in the White House
Press corps set for Round 2 with Bush

Where did we come from? (And what can we teach our kids?)
Evolution vs. intelligent design? The good news is that our public schools shouldn't have to choose.
By Gerald L. Zelizer

What Intelligent Design Is and What It Is Not
by Michael Behe

Use the Brain God Gave Us to Debate God
By David Klinghoffer

LA Times
Internet Radio Poised for a Tune-Around
Attention from ratings services, the return of big media companies and technologies that allow portability may enable the medium to take off.

USA Today
Anheuser-Busch still king of ads
Beer marketer keeps its crown despite rookie competition

New Book Knocks Disney's Iger
Release of 'DisneyWar' could complicate Robert Iger's bid to succeed Michael Eisner as CEO.

NY Daily News
Out of control at Camp Crazy!
Female soldiers dress down & get dirty for mud romps

The Sun
U2 #1 song for drivers

UK Observer
The son also rises
Bob Hewson loved opera. Now, whenever his son Bono hits the high notes, he can't help but think of him. Here, U2's charismatic front man talks to Sean O'Hagan about the song he wrote for his father's funeral, why photographer Anton Corbijn is the band's 'fifth member' and his life-changing moment in an African orphanage.

ESPN
Eagles Clock Management Problems

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