OT: A Declaration The President Ignores
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By John Fabian Witt
Wednesday, July 4, 2007; Page A15
As we gather around picnic tables and backyard barbecues today, we
should pause to consider a forgotten dimension of the occasion -- one
that is as important now as it was on July 4, 1776.
We all know that the Declaration of Independence announced the United
States' freedom from the British Empire. We all remember that it
declared certain truths to be self-evident. But what you probably
haven't heard is that the declaration also advanced an idea about war.
The idea was that war ought to be governed by law.
Unfree Speech
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By Robert J. Samuelson
Wednesday, July 4, 2007; A15
" Congress shall make no law. . . abridging the freedom of speech, or
of the press; or the right of the people peaceably to assemble, and to
petition the government for a redress of grievances."
The Fourth of July is an apt moment to reflect on one of the great
underreported stories of our time: the rise of speech regulation.
Glance at the First Amendment, but do not think it still applies.
Large bodies of political speech are now governed by laws, agency
regulations, court decisions and lawyerly interpretations. Speech has
become unfree.
Bush's Supreme Moment
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By Ruth Marcus
Wednesday, July 4, 2007; Page A15
George W. Bush had a Terrible, Horrible, No Good, Not-So-Bad week.
I'm riffing, in case you haven't had the pleasure of reading it, on
the children's book about a grumpy boy named Alexander, whose
relentlessly calamitous day stretched from waking up with gum in his
hair to finding lima beans on his dinner plate.
Why We Keep This Creed
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By Michael Gerson
Wednesday, July 4, 2007; Page A15
One of the great Independence Day speeches of American history was an
attack on Independence Day.
On the Fourth of July, 1829, William Lloyd Garrison-- who looked like
a shop clerk and set rhetorical fires like an arsonist -- took the
pulpit at the Park Street Church in Boston. Rather than celebrate, he
said, Americans should "spike every cannon and haul down every banner"
because of the "glaring contradiction" between the Declaration of
Independence and the practice of slavery. The grievances of slaves, he
argued, made the grievances of the American colonists look like
trivial whining. "I am ashamed of my country," he concluded. "I am
sick of our unmeaning declamation in praise of liberty and equality;
of our hypocritical cant about the unalienable rights of man."
Arm's-Length Leniency
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By Robert D. Novak
Wednesday, July 4, 2007; Page A15
When he finally decided he could not be responsible for sending
Scooter Libby to federal prison, George W. Bush performed Monday as he
had from the start in the CIA leak case. He sought to keep his
distance from an incident that excited intense political emotions,
making no value judgment other than that the jail sentence was
unjustified.
For three years President Bush had treated the leak to me of Valerie
Plame Wilson's employment at the CIA as a legal prosecution and then a
judicial proceeding about which he could not comment. But aides say he
was sickened by the thought of Vice President Cheney's chief of staff
being imprisoned for 30 months. How to prevent that without judging
the merits of the case? By commuting the sentence, which retains
Libby's fine and his ignominy as a felon.
Mr. Chávez's Friends
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The Venezuelan president bonds with regimes that the rest of the world
-- and his own compatriots -- shun.
Wednesday, July 4, 2007; Page A14
THE LATEST Global Attitudes survey by the Pew Foundation contains a
lot of bad news for the United States, but there was one relative
bright spot in Latin America: Venezuela. According to Pew, 56 percent
of Venezuelans say they have a favorable view of the United States, a
higher number than in Britain or Canada. Seventy-one percent say they
like U.S. television and movies and a stratospheric 84 percent feel
positively about Americans. Though only 23 percent say they have
confidence in George W. Bush, the U.S. president's rating is almost 50
percent higher in Venezuela than that of Russian President Vladimir
Putin or Iranian President Mahmoud Ahmadinejad.
Those numbers cast an interesting light on the foreign policy of
Venezuelan President Hugo Chávez, who describes the United States as
an evil empire and Mr. Bush as "the devil," and who just completed a
tour of three countries he sees as close allies in a global anti-
American alliance: Russia, Iran and Belarus. He addressed each of
their leaders as "brother" and called for ever-closer economic and
military bonds between their governments and his. This raises an
obvious question: For whom was Mr. Chávez speaking?
The Fourth of July
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Self-evident truths and an inestimable right still denied D.C.
Wednesday, July 4, 2007; Page A14
BETWEEN ITS uplifting beginning ("We hold these truths to be self-
evident, that all men are created equal, that they are endowed by
their Creator with certain unalienable Rights . . . ") and its
resolute conclusion (". . . we mutually pledge to each other our
Lives, our Fortunes and our sacred Honor"), the Declaration of
Independence contains a long list of allegations concerning King
George of England that might be said to make up the bulk of the
document.
On the opposite page today, John Fabian Witt of Columbia University
lists some of the more lurid accusations against George III: He has
"plundered our Seas," "ravaged our Coasts, burnt our Towns, and
destroyed the Lives of our People" and committed other acts "scarcely
paralleled in the most barbarous Ages."
A Stark Edge in Race for '08 Cash
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New Numbers Heavily Favor The Democrats
By Michael D. Shear
Washington Post Staff Writer
Wednesday, July 4, 2007; A01
Campaign contributors to the 2008 presidential candidates heavily
favored Democrats in the three-month period that ended Saturday,
giving three dollars to the party's leading contenders for every two
dollars they gave to the top Republican candidates.
Democratic Sen. Barack Obama's 258,000 contributors since January
exceed the combined number of donors of former New York mayor Rudolph
W. Giuliani, former Massachusetts governor Mitt Romney and Sen. John
McCain (Ariz.), according to estimates provided by the campaigns.
Violence Erupts at Pakistani Mosque
Radicals Confront Security Forces in Deadly Street Clash
By Griff Witte
Washington Post Foreign Service
Wednesday, July 4, 2007; A01
ISLAMABAD, Pakistan, July 4 -- A long-simmering standoff between the
government and a radical mosque in the heart of the Pakistani capital
exploded into a vicious street clash on Tuesday, with a dozen dead and
more than 100 others injured.
For over 15 hours, paramilitary forces and bandanna-clad Islamic
fighters manning positions in the Red Mosque traded automatic-weapons
fire. At least three female students at a religious school affiliated
with the mosque were killed, as were an army ranger and a Pakistani
photographer who was caught in the crossfire.
Hedge Funds Mystify Markets, Regulators
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Deeply Powerful, Largely Unchecked
By David Cho
Washington Post Staff Writer
Wednesday, July 4, 2007; A01
Wall Street chroniclers one day could look back at the early 21st
century and easily dub it the Era of the Hedge Fund. The question is
whether it will be remembered as an age of reason or irrational
exuberance.
Hedge funds hold unparalleled sway over the financial markets, as
confirmed by the recent unraveling of $20 billion in Bear Stearns
funds. Portrayed as the new masters of the universe by author Tom
Wolfe, hedge-fund managers are responsible for more than a third of
stock trades and control more than $2 trillion worth of assets,
according to industry researchers. Each of the top hedge-fund managers
earned more than $1 billion in 2006 alone.
Pilots Shot Down in Iraq Tell of Dramatic Escape
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Comrades Rescue Ambushed Officers
By Ann Scott Tyson
Washington Post Staff Writer
Wednesday, July 4, 2007; A01
"We're taking fire!" Chief Warrant Officer 2 Steven Cianfrini, 27,
yelled to his co-pilot as he looked out the helicopter door and saw
tracer rounds flying his way.
It was the first ominous sign Monday morning as their OH-58D Kiowa
attack helicopter banked over palm groves, fields and canals on a
reconnaissance mission to flush out Sunni insurgents in rural areas
south of Baghdad.
Justice Is Unequal for Parents Who Host Teen Drinking Parties
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By Daniela Deane
Washington Post Staff Writer
Wednesday, July 4, 2007; A01
When police showed up recently at a Walt Whitman High School
graduation party, three young people were drinking in a vehicle parked
outside the Bethesda home. Then three more teenagers walked up with a
six-pack in a bag. While the police were dealing with them, the mother
came outside, saw the officers and ran back in.
Montgomery County police wrote dozens of citations against the minors
who were found to have been drinking at the party. The party-hosting
parents were given two civil citations each, carrying fines of up to
$1,500 per infraction.
TB Carrier's Case Called Less Severe Than Believed
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New Diagnosis Improves Chances of a Cure
By David Brown
Washington Post Staff Writer
Wednesday, July 4, 2007; Page A03
The strain of tuberculosis infecting Andrew Speaker, the Atlanta
lawyer who was the object of an international hunt by public health
authorities in May, turns out not to be as dangerous as doctors
originally thought.
That was the conclusion announced yesterday by physicians and
laboratory scientists at National Jewish Medical and Research Center
in Denver, where Speaker is being treated. Repeated tests there have
shown his infection to be "multidrug resistant" (MDR) and not
"extensively drug resistant" (XDR).
State Dept. Assigns 300 Junior Envoys To Passport Duty
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By Karen DeYoung
Washington Post Staff Writer
Wednesday, July 4, 2007; Page A03
Disbelieving laughter was the early reaction when a senior official
told hundreds of junior U.S. diplomats gathered for an emergency State
Department meeting yesterday that their country needed them to spend
the summer in New Orleans and Portsmouth, N.H.
Smiles quickly faded as Patrick Kennedy, the department's director of
management policy, assured them he was serious. They were all being
placed on passport duty, detailed to help reduce a half-million
backlog in applications that has left many Americans with ruined
overseas travel plans this summer, he told them.
Bush Says He's Not Ruling Out Pardon for Libby
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President Defends Commutation of Prison Sentence
By Amy Goldstein and Robert Barnes
Washington Post Staff Writers
Wednesday, July 4, 2007; A04
President Bush held out the possibility yesterday that he eventually
may pardon I. Lewis "Scooter" Libby as the White House sought to fend
off Democratic outrage and conservative disappointment over the
president's decision to commute the 30-month prison term of the vice
president's former chief of staff.
A day after he intervened to keep Libby out of prison, Bush refused to
reject the idea of issuing a full pardon, which some conservatives
have been urging him to grant. A pardon would erase the four felony
convictions Libby received for lying to federal investigators about
his role in a White House leak of a covert CIA officer's identity.
Democratic Rivals Tread A Well-Worn Path in Iowa
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Clinton and Obama Share Theme: Change
By Anne E. Kornblut and Dan Balz
Washington Post Staff Writers
Wednesday, July 4, 2007; Page A06
IOWA CITY, July 3 -- Despite ongoing and determined attempts to spread
the early nominating process across several states, the top Democratic
presidential contenders are converging this week on a familiar patch
of land: Iowa.
And as Sens. Hillary Rodham Clinton and Barack Obama campaigned across
the eastern part of the state Tuesday -- both hitting on a theme of
change -- they illustrated the extent to which their strategies begin
here. Clinton officials fear they are in danger of finishing in third
place in Iowa, behind Obama and former senator John Edwards of North
Carolina, who has placed an all-or-nothing bet on winning the state,
where he has been a front-runner.
Clinton's Chief Strategist Is Accused of Illegal Eavesdropping
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By Sara Kugler
Associated Press
Wednesday, July 4, 2007; Page A06
NEW YORK, July 3 -- Sen. Hillary Rodham Clinton's chief strategist is
being accused of illegal eavesdropping in a lawsuit that alleges he
and his polling firm monitored the personal e-mails of a former
associate who started a rival company.
Mitchell E. Markel, a former vice president at Penn, Schoen & Berland,
claims in the lawsuit that the firm began monitoring all messages sent
from his personal BlackBerry device nearly a month after he had
resigned and become president of his new business. The suit claims
that Mark Penn, who is Clinton's chief strategist and pollster, knew
about and approved of the monitoring, which the suit says violates
federal wiretapping laws.
BBC Reporter Released to Hamas
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Journalist Was Held 114 Days in Gaza in 'Occasionally Quite
Terrifying' Conditions
By Scott Wilson
Washington Post Foreign Service
Wednesday, July 4, 2007; Page A10
JERUSALEM, July 4 -- The kidnappers of BBC correspondent Alan Johnston
released him Wednesday to a Hamas-run security force in the Gaza
Strip, setting him free after 114 days of captivity.
"It is just the most fantastic thing to be free," Johnston told the
BBC by telephone from Gaza. It was "occasionally quite terrifying," he
added.
Brown Calmly Prevails In First Days as Premier
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By Kevin Sullivan
Washington Post Foreign Service
Wednesday, July 4, 2007; Page A10
LONDON, July 3 -- Last Wednesday, Gordon Brown stepped up to a
microphone outside the fabled black door of 10 Downing Street to
address his nation for the first time after becoming prime minister
about an hour earlier. Without a smile, he promised to "try my utmost"
and soon signed off somberly, like a teacher assigning homework: "Now
let the work of change begin."
In the next few days, Britain's strait-laced new leader was forced to
deal with floods that caused more than $2 billion in damage in central
England, leaving hundreds of families homeless, and failed car
bombings in London and Glasgow. His response has been careful, steady
and without a single glittering turn of phrase -- a far cry from the
telegenic empathy and pitch-perfect oratory of his predecessor, Tony
Blair.
Foreign Doctors Queried in Bomb Plot
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Thousands Evacuated From Heathrow Airport After Luggage Scare
By Kevin Sullivan and Craig Whitlock
Washington Post Foreign Service
Wednesday, July 4, 2007; A10
LONDON, July 3 -- Police investigating last weekend's failed bomb
attacks in London and Glasgow on Tuesday questioned foreign-born
doctors who are suspected of plotting the attacks, while a suspicious
piece of luggage at Heathrow Airport forced the evacuation of
thousands of travelers and the cancellation of more than 100 flights.
All eight suspects now in custody are believed to have worked for
Britain's National Health Service, seven as doctors or medical
students and one as a laboratory technician, according to officials
and British media reports. One of the eight is being held in
Australia. The suspects are said to have earned their medical degrees
in Iraq, Jordan, India and other countries before immigrating to
Britain.
Iraqi Cabinet Approves Draft Oil Legislation
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Move Is 2nd Attempt to Establish Law; Maliki Acknowledges Shortcomings
by Government
By Joshua Partlow
Washington Post Foreign Service
Wednesday, July 4, 2007; A11
BAGHDAD, July 3 -- Iraq's cabinet has again approved draft legislation
establishing a framework to manage the country's vast oil resources,
Prime Minister Nouri al-Maliki said Tuesday, but has not yet acted on
a potentially more contentious companion law that would govern the
distribution of oil revenue.
At a televised news conference, Maliki also expressed disappointment
that a "national unity government" has not been achieved as he had
hoped. He said recent boycotts by some Sunni and Shiite members of
parliament and cabinet ministers were "causing harm to the citizens
and creating depression and disappointment."
Death Sought For Ex-GI In Slayings, Rape in Iraq
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Capital Case Would Be First in Current Wars
By Josh White
Washington Post Staff Writer
Wednesday, July 4, 2007; Page A11
Justice Department attorneys will pursue the death penalty against a
former U.S. Army soldier accused of raping and killing an Iraqi
teenager and slaying her family members last year, according to papers
filed yesterday in federal court. It could be the first capital case
to proceed against a U.S. service member arising out of the wars in
Iraq and Afghanistan.
Prosecutors revealed that they will seek death for former Pfc. Steven
D. Green should he be convicted of the March 12, 2006, slayings of
Abeer Qassim al-Janabi, 14, her parents and her young sister -- one of
the worst homicide cases of the war. Green is accused of plotting the
attack with three other U.S. soldiers in the hotly contested
Mahmudiyah area south of Baghdad.
U.S. Army Confirms 'Friendly Fire' Deaths
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Canadian, American Shot in Afghanistan
By Doug Struck
Washington Post Foreign Service
Wednesday, July 4, 2007; Page A12
TORONTO, July 3 -- Fifteen months after a Canadian soldier and U.S.
soldier were killed in Afghanistan, the U.S. Army has confirmed that
both were shot from behind by a U.S. machine gunner in a "friendly
fire" incident.
The confirmation, made after a Freedom of Information Act request by
the Associated Press, means that six of the 60 Canadian soldiers
killed in Afghanistan in the last five years died from accidental fire
by their U.S. allies. Two more of the fatalities are under
investigation.
U.S. and Russia Vow Further Cuts In Nuclear Arms
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They Also Agree To Aid Nations In Power Projects
By Peter Baker and Robin Wright
Washington Post Staff Writers
Wednesday, July 4, 2007; Page A12
The United States and Russia vowed yesterday to keep reducing nuclear
warhead stockpiles to "the lowest possible level" even after a key
treaty expires in 2009, and they agreed to work together to help other
countries develop civilian nuclear power without spreading weapons.
Coming the day after President Bush and Russian President Vladimir
Putin met in Kennebunkport, Maine, the announcements were intended to
show that the two countries continue to collaborate, despite strained
relations. But critics said the statements raised as many questions as
they answered and underlined disagreements over the future of arms
control.
China Tightens Restrictions on Transplants
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New Rules Aim to Curb Sale of Organs, Give Priority to Chinese Over
Foreigners
By Edward Cody
Washington Post Foreign Service
Wednesday, July 4, 2007; Page A12
BEIJING, July 3 -- The Chinese government imposed new restrictions on
organ transplants for foreigners Tuesday, part of an effort to curtail
widely reported abuses such as selling organs and, in some hospitals,
catering to foreigners looking for discount hearts, livers and
kidneys.
The regulations, handed down by the Health Ministry, stipulate that
foreigners visiting China on tourist visas cannot receive transplants,
hospitals cannot advertise abroad and any hospital planning to carry
out a transplant on a foreign patient must first get authorization
from Chinese health authorities.
Origins of Our Food
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There should be no compromise of the basic principle that consumers
have a right to know where their food comes from before popping it
into their mouths.
Looking Outward on the Fourth
http://www.nytimes.com/2007/07/04/opinion/04wed2.html
Even in these very difficult times, the universal freedom described in
the Declaration of Independence remains a fundamental truth.
In Politics, Money Is Trump Card
http://www.nytimes.com/2007/07/04/opinion/04wed3.html
If there is to be any hope of reining in the money blitz, the nation
must press Congress to resuscitate the matching funds alternative in
time for 2012.
The Center Shouldn't Hold
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By ANDRO LINKLATER
The citizens of Belle Fourche, S.D., would be well advised to make the
new geographical center of the United States transportable.
In Mauritania, Seeking to End an Overfed Ideal
http://www.nytimes.com/2007/07/04/world/africa/04mauritania.html?ref=world&pagewanted=all
By SHARON LaFRANIERE
To Mauritania's men, fat is sexy, so women resort to force-feeding and
steroid use in pursuit of obesity.
Iraqi Cabinet Moves Forward on Oil Measure
http://www.nytimes.com/2007/07/04/world/middleeast/04iraq.html?ref=world
By ALISSA J. RUBIN
One part of a legislative package is on its way to Parliament. The
measure sets out the role of a new, powerful federal oil and gas
council.
Iran, Low on Gasoline, to Be Supplied by Venezuela
http://www.nytimes.com/2007/07/04/world/middleeast/04iran.html?ref=world
By NAZILA FATHI
Venezuela agreed to sell Iran gasoline on Tuesday, less than a week
after Iran unveiled a rationing program to limit its dependence on
gasoline imports.
Anti-Inflation Curbs on Prices Create Havoc for Zimbabwe
http://www.nytimes.com/2007/07/04/world/africa/04zimbabwe.html?ref=world
By MICHAEL WINES
Zimbabwe's week-old campaign to quell its rampant inflation by forcing
merchants to lower prices is edging the nation close to chaos, some
economists and merchants say.
The Hague: Liberia's Taylor Appears in Court
http://www.nytimes.com/2007/07/04/world/europe/04briefs-taylor.html?ref=africa
By MARLISE SIMONS
Charles G. Taylor, the former president of Liberia, appeared in court
and pleaded not guilty to 11 charges of war crimes and crimes against
humanity.
Businessman in Mexico Says Top Officials Hid Millions
http://www.nytimes.com/2007/07/04/world/americas/04mexico.html?ref=americas
By JAMES C. McKINLEY Jr.
The Mexican government denied allegations by a fugitive businessman
that $150 million found hidden in his mansion came from members of
President Felipe Calderón's party.
Pakistan's Battles Against Islamic Militants Reach the Capital
http://www.nytimes.com/2007/07/04/world/asia/04pakistan.html?ref=asia&pagewanted=all
By JANE PERLEZ and CARLOTTA GALL
A months-long standoff, between Pakistani authorities and militant
Islamic students, erupted in fierce clashes that left at least nine
people dead and scores wounded.
Indian Doctor Detained in Australia Is Not a Political Zealot, Family
Says
http://www.nytimes.com/2007/07/04/world/asia/04india.html?ref=asia
By SOMINI SENGUPTA
Dr. Mohammed Haneef, detained in Australia in connection with the
failed car bombings in Britain, was on his way home to Bangalore to
see his new daughter, his brother said.
After U.S. Visit, a Homecoming Is Less Than Divine
http://www.nytimes.com/2007/07/04/us/04goddess.html?ref=asia
By NEELA BANERJEE
Hindu and Buddhist priests stripped a living Nepalese goddess of her
title, saying that leaving the country to visit the U.S. had rendered
her impure.
U.S. and Russia to Cut Nuclear Arms
http://www.nytimes.com/2007/07/04/washington/04russia.html?ref=europe
By THE ASSOCIATED PRESS
The United States and Russia pledged Tuesday to reduce their
stockpiles of long-range nuclear arms "to the lowest possible level."
Muslims Urge Cooperation in Inquiry on Bomb Plot
http://www.nytimes.com/2007/07/04/world/europe/04muslims.html?ref=europe
By RAYMOND BONNER
Muslim leaders in Britain have been quick to condemn the failed car
bomb attacks; one leader said "there is no cause whatsoever that could
possibly justify such barbarity."
Brown's Reaction to Terrorist Threat, So Different From Blair's,
Reassures Many
http://www.nytimes.com/2007/07/04/world/europe/04brown.html?ref=europe
By ALAN COWELL
For the many Britons who had expressed fatigue with Tony Blair's
apocalyptic view of terrorism, Gordon Brown's very dourness was a
welcome change.
A Country's Past Is Unearthed, and Comes Into Focus
http://www.nytimes.com/2007/07/04/us/04dig-.html?ref=us
By NIKO KOPPEL
Archaeologists exposed remains of a four-story brick and stone mansion
that was home to George Washington and John Adams.
Drought Saps the Southeast, and Its Farmers
http://www.nytimes.com/2007/07/04/us/04drought.html?ref=us
By ADAM NOSSITER
The worst drought in over a century has farmers averting their gaze
from a future that looks as bleak as their fields.
Republicans Trail Democrats in Fund-Raising
http://www.nytimes.com/2007/07/04/us/politics/04repubs.html?ref=us&pagewanted=all
By ADAM NAGOURNEY
The fund-raising totals underscored the tough political environment
for Republicans candidates.
Bush Rationale on Libby Stirs Legal Debate
http://www.nytimes.com/2007/07/04/washington/04commute.html?ref=us
By ADAM LIPTAK
President Bush drew on arguments about federal sentencing that are
opposed by his own administration.
Biden Talks Tough
http://thecaucus.blogs.nytimes.com/2007/07/04/biden-talks-tough/
Joseph Biden, the Delaware Democrat running for president, is a man of
strong opinions.
Romneys and Clintons Collide, Amiably
http://thecaucus.blogs.nytimes.com/2007/07/04/romneys-and-clintons-collide-amiably/
Friends for now, hoping to be foes
Bill Clinton Buys a Round
http://thecaucus.blogs.nytimes.com/2007/07/04/bill-clinton-buys-a-round/
NASHUA, Iowa - Hillary and Bill Clinton just made their third ice
cream pit stop in two days, this time at the tiny Dairy Treat here in
central Iowa.
Obama's Iowa News Conference
http://thecaucus.blogs.nytimes.com/2007/07/04/obamas-iowa-news-conference/
Barack Obama and Senator Hillary Rodham Clinton are both spending
Independence Day in Iowa, but their respective campaign trails never
came within about a two-hour drive of one another.
The 2008 Race and the Supreme Court
http://thecaucus.blogs.nytimes.com/2007/07/04/the-2008-race-and-the-supreme-court/
In her Web column today, Robin Toner looks at the question: Can the
left mobilize effectively when it comes to the court and judicial
appointments in general?
Bill Clinton Criticizes Bush on Libby Move
http://www.nytimes.com/2007/07/04/us/politics/04clintons.html?ref=politics
By PATRICK HEALY
The former president criticized President Bush and tried to draw a
distinction from his own controversial pardons.
Bill Clinton Criticizes Bush on Libby Move
http://www.nytimes.com/2007/07/04/us/politics/04clintons.html?ref=politics
By PATRICK HEALY
The former president criticized President Bush and tried to draw a
distinction from his own controversial pardons.
Bush Is Said to Have Held Long Debate on Decision
http://www.nytimes.com/2007/07/04/washington/04libby.html?ref=washington
By SHERYL GAY STOLBERG and JIM RUTENBERG
President Bush and a small circle of advisers are said to have delved
deeply into the evidence in the case, debating I. Lewis Libby Jr.'s
guilt or innocence.
The 2008 Election and the Supreme Court
http://www.nytimes.com/2007/07/04/us/politics/04web-toner.html?ref=washington
By ROBIN TONER
As the campaign heats up, the question naturally arises: Can the left
mobilize when it comes to the Supreme Court and judicial appointments
in general?
2 Senators Accuse Judge of Misleading Committee
http://www.nytimes.com/2007/07/04/washington/04judge.html?ref=washington
By NEIL A. LEWIS
A federal appeals court judge said he had no role in formulating
detention policy when he was an official in the Bush White House.
U.S. Withdraws Offer of 60,000 Job-Based Visas, Angering Immigration
Lawyers
http://www.nytimes.com/2007/07/04/us/04visas.html?ref=washington
By JULIA PRESTON
The State Department said the 60,000 visas it had expected to offer
would no longer be available because of "sudden backlog reduction
efforts."
At Yale, a New Campus Just for Research
http://www.nytimes.com/2007/07/04/education/04yale.html?ref=education
By KAREN W. ARENSON
Yale hopes to take a big step forward in biology after its recent
purchase of the 136-acre campus of Bayer HealthCare.
So Much Paperwork, So Little Time to Teach
http://www.nytimes.com/2007/07/04/education/04Education.html?ref=education
By SAMUEL G. FREEDMAN
She left a long career as a stage manager to become a teacher and
quickly discovered that paperwork can overwhelm the act of teaching.
Colleges Join Forces on a Web Presence to Let Prospective Students
Research and Compare
http://www.nytimes.com/2007/07/04/education/04rankings.html?ref=education
By ALAN FINDER
A proposed common Web site would provide more and better information
about colleges and universities to prospective students and their
parents.
Technology Eases the Ride to Higher Tolls
http://www.nytimes.com/2007/07/04/business/04leonhardt.html?ref=business
By DAVID LEONHARDT
An economist has found that after an electronic system is put in
place, tolls start rising sharply.
Painfully, Europeans Ponder Cutback in Wine Industry
http://www.nytimes.com/2007/07/04/business/worldbusiness/04wine.html?ref=business
By STEPHEN CASTLE
Efforts to shore up the European wine industry by tearing out
vineyards have set the stage for a debate as Europeans contemplate the
cost of their love affair with the grape.
Big Investors Sound Note of Caution
http://www.nytimes.com/2007/07/04/business/worldbusiness/04equity.html?ref=worldbusiness
By JULIA WERDIGIER
Executives of private equity companies said that increasing levels of
leverage in the financial markets should stir caution among investors.
EBay to Be Rival of Craigslist in Online Classifieds
http://www.nytimes.com/2007/07/04/technology/04ebay.html?ref=technology
EBay, the Internet auction leader, has quietly introduced a new online
classified advertising service in the United States.
Google Purchases Web Phone Service
http://www.nytimes.com/2007/07/03/technology/03google.html?ref=technology
By BLOOMBERG NEWS
Google said that it had bought GrandCentral Communications, acquiring
a service that lets people use a single number for all their phones.
Summertime. Fish Jumping. That's Trouble.
http://www.nytimes.com/2007/07/04/us/04sturgeon.html?ref=science
By ABBY GOODNOUGH
Florida's season of "sturgeon strikes" - collisions between the
leaping fish and hapless boaters - is under way.
Testing Whether the Crunch Is All It's Cracked Up to Be
http://www.nytimes.com/2007/07/04/dining/04curi.html?ref=science
By HAROLD McGEE
The science of potato chips, as measured by researchers in Korea and
London.
A Vietnam P.O.W. Story, Tangling With the Vines of Convention
http://movies2.nytimes.com/2007/07/04/movies/04dawn.html?ref=arts
By MATT ZOLLER SEITZ
"Rescue Dawn" is a satisfying genre picture that challenges the
viewer's expectations.
'The Pursuit of Glory'
http://www.nytimes.com/2007/07/04/books/04gord.html?ref=arts
By TIM BLANNING
Reviewed by JOHN STEELE GORDON
"The Pursuit of Glory," at 708 pages, is not a short read, but it is
so well written that for those who love history, it is a page turner.