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Yahoo! Daily News Digest: Op/Ed for Thursday, November 08, 2007 12:00 AM PSTWall Street must learn from the boss's downfallhttp://story.news.yahoo.com/news?tmpl=story&cid=2328&e=1&u=/csm/20071107/cm_csm/yzelleke07The Christian Science Monitor - Wed, 07 Nov 2007 12:00 am PSTStan O'Neal's rise, and now even his fall, as CEO of Merrill Lynch show how far corporate America has come on race. But the O'Neal saga also reveals how far we still need to go in the governance of our corporations.One-on-one with Iran's oppositionhttp://story.news.yahoo.com/news?tmpl=story&cid=2328&e=2&u=/csm/20071107/cm_csm/yhughes07The Christian Science Monitor - Wed, 07 Nov 2007 12:00 am PSTThe head of the Iranian opposition group in exile that supplied early intelligence on Iran's clandestine nuclear program says President Mahmoud Ahmadinejad has engineered a clever disinformation campaign to convince foreign experts that Iran is eight to 10 years away from developing a nuclear bomb.Our view on flood control: Despite Katrina, business as usual on water projectshttp://story.news.yahoo.com/news?tmpl=story&cid=679&e=3&u=/usatoday/20071107/cm_usatoday/ourviewonfloodcontroldespitekatrinabusinessasusualonwaterprojectsUSATODAY.com - Tue, 06 Nov 2007 09:22 pm PST<p>Suppose you need a new car. You want to spend ${dlvDollarSign}14,000. Your spouseargues for ${dlvDollarSign}15,000. Then you go to the showroom and you compromise bydriving away in a ${dlvDollarSign}23,000 vehicle.</p><p>Add six more zeroes to each figure, and that's basically whathappened in Congress to the first legislation since 2000 to authorizenew water projects. The Senate approved ${dlvDollarSign}14 billion, the House approved${dlvDollarSign}15 billion and they "compromised" on ${dlvDollarSign}23 billion. ...Opposing view: 'Entirely justifiable' projectshttp://story.news.yahoo.com/news?tmpl=story&cid=679&e=4&u=/usatoday/20071107/cm_usatoday/opposingviewentirelyjustifiableprojectsUSATODAY.com - Tue, 06 Nov 2007 09:21 pm PSTIt has been nearly seven years since the last Water ResourcesDevelopment Act (WRDA) was enacted. As the nation has waited, the listof unmet infrastructure needs across the country has gotten longer andlonger, as levees and dams have aged and communities have grown.Google goes cellularhttp://story.news.yahoo.com/news?tmpl=story&cid=679&e=5&u=/usatoday/20071107/cm_usatoday/googlegoescellularUSATODAY.com - Tue, 06 Nov 2007 09:20 pm PSTEven in an era of rapid technological advance, it's impossible not to be awed by Google. In nine years it has gone from a garage in Menlo Park, Calif., to a colossus valued at ${dlvDollarSign}230 billion, capable of disrupting industries as distant as advertising and publishing.NY and VA to Lou Dobbs: STFUhttp://story.news.yahoo.com/news?tmpl=story&cid=2407&e=6&u=/huffpost/20071107/cm_huffpost/071655HuffingtonPost.com - Wed, 07 Nov 2007 03:20 pm PSTThat means you too, Rahm Emanuel.San Francisco Goes Greenhttp://story.news.yahoo.com/news?tmpl=story&cid=2281&e=7&u=/thenation/20071107/cm_thenation/4249742The Nation - Wed, 07 Nov 2007 03:58 pm PSTThe Nation -- This weekend marks the San Francisco Green Festival, the largest eco-affair in the United States. Started six years ago as an annual weekend event in the Bay Area, the Green Festival has since grown into an enormously popular multi-tiered nationwide extravaganza. In 2008, the GF will hit Seattle, Chicago and Washington, DC before its yearly November appointment in SF.Dial "Dem" For Immunity?http://story.news.yahoo.com/news?tmpl=story&cid=2281&e=8&u=/thenation/20071107/cm_thenation/15249701The Nation - Wed, 07 Nov 2007 01:56 pm PSTThe Nation -- With the Senate Judiciary Committee scheduled to mark-up the FISA Amendments Act tomorrow, a movement against immunity for telecoms hasn't translated into legislative promises by even traditional Bush foes.The Daily 2008http://story.news.yahoo.com/news?tmpl=story&cid=2709&e=9&u=/realclearpolitics/20071107/cm_rcp/the_daily_2008131RealClearPolitics.com - Wed, 07 Nov 2007 07:03 am PSTHere are today's top election stories, and we'll start with Bill Clinton:Hillary the Hedgehoghttp://story.news.yahoo.com/news?tmpl=story&cid=2709&e=10&u=/realclearpolitics/20071107/cm_rcp/hillary_the_hedgehogRealClearPolitics.com - Wed, 07 Nov 2007 07:30 am PSTClinton hedges again when asked a direct question about driver's licenses for illegal immigrants (Via Ben Smith):MCCARTHYISM: THE ROSETTA STONE OF LIBERAL LIEShttp://story.news.yahoo.com/news?tmpl=story&cid=108&e=11&u=/ucac/20071107/cm_ucac/mccarthyismtherosettastoneofliberalliesAnn Coulter - Wed, 07 Nov 2007 03:47 pm PSTWhen I wrote a ferocious defense of Sen. Joe McCarthy in "Treason: Liberal Treachery From the Cold War to the War on Terrorism," liberals chose not to argue with me. Instead they posted a scrolling series of reasons not to read my book, such as that I wear short skirts, date boys, and that "Treason" was not a scholarly tome.Back to Schoolhttp://story.news.yahoo.com/news?tmpl=story&cid=2280&e=12&u=/weeklystandard/20071107/cm_weeklystandard/backtoschoolThe Weekly Standard - Wed, 07 Nov 2007 10:24 am PSTWellesley, MassachusettsIt was a tough week for Hillary Clinton trying to face down a Democratic field that had decided to go negative. She turned in a sub-par debate performance and then one of her donors suggested, on a high-profile conference call, that Tim Russert "should be shot."Editorial rounduphttp://story.news.yahoo.com/news?tmpl=story&cid=695&e=13&u=/ap/20071107/ap_on_ed/editorial_rdpAP - Wed, 07 Nov 2007 08:40 am PSTExcerpts from recent editorials in newspapers in the United States and abroad:ONCE MORE INTO THE BREACH!http://story.news.yahoo.com/news?tmpl=story&cid=2207&e=14&u=/ucjk/20071107/cm_ucjk/oncemoreintothebreachJames Kilpatrick - Tue, 06 Nov 2007 04:57 pm PSTThe case of Richard Hamblen of Nashville, Tenn., provides an unhappy example of a good cause caught in a mesh of bad facts. The gentleman is now in prison. He's a gun nut.ONE UP FOR THE DONORShttp://story.news.yahoo.com/news?tmpl=story&cid=128&e=15&u=/ucwb/20071106/cm_ucwb/oneupforthedonorsWilliam F. Buckley - Tue, 06 Nov 2007 03:52 pm PSTThe Foundation Management Institute (FMI) lets out what can only be described as a screech of joy. The cause? "Judge Neil Shuster (of Trenton, N.J.) ruled that the Robertson family is entitled to its day in court. At issue is control of the family's donations to the Robertson Foundation -- a fund now approaching ${dlvDollarSign}900 million."THREE CHEERS FOR AYN RANDhttp://story.news.yahoo.com/news?tmpl=story&cid=115&e=16&u=/ucmg/20071106/cm_ucmg/threecheersforaynrandMaggie Gallagher - Tue, 06 Nov 2007 03:51 pm PST"Atlas Shrugged," Ayn Rand's monumental 1,000-plus-page valentine to the America of her dreams, turns 50 this year.An Intrusion of Realityhttp://story.news.yahoo.com/news?tmpl=story&cid=2695&e=17&u=/uc/20071106/cm_uc_crpbux/op_334305Pat Buchanan - Tue, 06 Nov 2007 12:00 am PST"Inaction at this moment is suicide for Pakistan, and I cannot allow the country to commit suicide."THE TIME-TO-MAKE-THE-DOUGHNUTS CANDIDATEhttp://story.news.yahoo.com/news?tmpl=story&cid=127&e=18&u=/ucru/20071106/cm_ucru/thetimetomakethedoughnutscandidateTed Rall - Mon, 05 Nov 2007 04:57 pm PSTNEW YORK--"The fact that a lot of people dislike you is troubling," says the director of the Quinnipiac University poll, talking about Hillary Clinton (D-Carpetbagger, Slept Her Way Into National Prominence, NY). She scores 47 percent of likely Democratic primary voters, leaving Barack Obama (21 percent) and John Edwards (12 percent) in the dust.STANDING BY THE OLD WAYShttp://story.news.yahoo.com/news?tmpl=story&cid=2207&e=19&u=/ucjk/20071105/cm_ucjk/standingbytheoldwaysJames Kilpatrick - Mon, 05 Nov 2007 11:47 am PSTThe judge leans over the bench and asks the defendant, "How many drinks did you have?"HAVE YOU HUGGED AN ISLAMO-FASCIST TODAY?http://story.news.yahoo.com/news?tmpl=story&cid=108&e=20&u=/ucac/20071105/cm_ucac/haveyouhuggedanislamofascisttodayAnn Coulter - Mon, 05 Nov 2007 07:47 am PSTCollege liberals are in a fit of pique because various speakers are coming to their campuses this week as part of David Horowitz's Islamo-Fascism Awareness Week -- not to be confused with Islamo-Fascism Appreciation Week, which I believe is in April.You received this email because you subscribed to Yahoo! Alerts.

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