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| Mon, 19 Dec 2005 14:00:00 EST Barnes Blog |
| As the conflict in Iraq continues, U.S. News has dispatched Pentagon correspondent Julian E. Barnes for a frontline view. Barnes, who has periodically reported from Iraq since the war began in 2003, is blogging his impressions for usnews.com. |
| Mon, 19 Dec 2005 12:00:00 EST King Kong: A great movie despite the numbers |
| The negativity people have been hard at work on King Kong. When the movie failed to set a record for a Wednesday opening, clucking was heard throughout Hollywood. The box office take though the first weekend was $66 million, "mighty but no monster," according to Daily Box Office. |
| Mon, 19 Dec 2005 08:00:00 EST Mortimer B. Zuckerman: A man of parts |
| We diminish ourselves when we fail to honor the passing of a great and good human being. It is now a few weeks since the death of Alexander Yakovlev. I was surprised that it went virtually unnoticed in the West, for here was a man who played a singular role in the history of our times. |
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| Mon, 19 Dec 2005 21:36:31 GMT 12 Said Killed in Plane Crash Off Miami (AP) |
AP - A seaplane carrying at least 16 people crashed off Miami Beach within sight of the city's high-rises Monday, killing at least 12 of those aboard, authorities said. Scuba divers and rescuers in speedboats struggled to find survivors.
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| Mon, 19 Dec 2005 21:34:05 GMT Bush Vigorously Defends Domestic Spying (AP) |
AP - Accused of acting above the law, President Bush forcefully defended a domestic spying program on Monday as an effective tool in disrupting terrorists and insisted it was not an abuse of Americans' civil liberties.
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| Mon, 19 Dec 2005 18:20:43 GMT 'Dr. Germ,' Others Released in Iraq (AP) |
AP - About 24 top former officials in Saddam Hussein's regime, including a biological weapons expert known as "Dr. Germ," have been released from jail, while a militant group released a video Monday of the purported killing of an American hostage.
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