Nation and World
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Related to Khomeini, but backing Khatami
Mar 12, 2008 11:00 pm - TEHRAN, Iran -- She is a granddaughter of Ayatollah Ruhollah Khomeini, founder of the 1979 Islamic revolution, but Zahra Eshraghi has long been a leader of reformers see...
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EPA pinpoints where the air isn't fit to breathe
Mar 12, 2008 11:00 pm - WASHINGTON -- The air in hundreds of U.S. counties is simply too dirty to breathe, the government said Wednesday, ordering a multibillion-dollar expansion of efforts to ...
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Spitzer's fall from power is quick
Mar 12, 2008 11:00 pm - ALBANY, N.Y. -- On Saturday night, Gov. Eliot Spitzer was at the annual Gridiron Club dinner in Washington, where President Bush serenaded reporters with a funny song ab...
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Man names Jodie Foster in threatening letters
Mar 12, 2008 11:00 pm - BOSTON -- Authorities arrested a Massachusetts man Tuesday and charged him with mailing a bomb threat mentioning actress Jodie Foster to a Los Angeles-area airport. U.S....
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Call girl in Spitzer case is identified, says she doesn't want to be 'monster'
Mar 12, 2008 11:00 pm - NEW YORK -- The call girl at the center of the prostitution scandal that prompted Gov. Eliot Spitzer to resign in disgrace has been identified as a 22-year-old aspiring ...
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'Hero' director has cast of 10,000 for opening ceremony
Mar 12, 2008 11:00 pm - BEIJING -- China's most famous film director will shoulder the burden of boiling down 5,000 years of history into 50 minutes for the opening ceremony of the Beijing Olym...
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White House: No rift with admiral
Mar 12, 2008 11:00 pm - WASHINGTON -- The White House on Wednesday rejected charges that it quashes dissenting views in the military, an accusation brought to light by the resignation of Adm. ...
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Suspect in UNC slaying student charged with killing Duke student
Mar 12, 2008 11:00 pm - DURHAM, N.C. -- Authorities have charged a suspect in the slaying of the University of North Carolina student president with the January killing of a Duke University gra...
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Foreign minister says air quality will suit athletes just fineMar 12, 2008 11:00 pm - Most athletes taking part in this year's Olympic Games in Beijing will be "satisfied" with the city's air quality, China's Foreign Minister Yang Jiechi said. Yang, speak...
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New York's lieutenant governor would become state's first blind governor
Mar 11, 2008 11:00 pm - ALBANY, N.Y. -- The man poised to succeed Gov. Eliot Spitzer would not only become the first black governor of New York. He would also be the state's first legally blind...