Yahoo! Daily News Digest: Op/Ed for Monday, November 19, 2007 12:00 AM PSTSkies get a little friendlier
http://story.news.yahoo.com/news?tmpl=story&cid=679&e=1&u=/usatoday/20071116/cm_usatoday/skiesgetalittlefriendlierUSATODAY.com - Thu, 15 Nov 2007 09:20 pm PSTIt's a good thing for airlines that so many consumers get cable TV.That means airline executives can still find one industry that ranksbelow theirs on the American Customer Satisfaction Index at least until next spring's survey, the first to be done since this year's summer of our discontent.Our view on predatory lending: 'Fee harvester' credit cards scam vulnerable consumers
http://story.news.yahoo.com/news?tmpl=story&cid=679&e=2&u=/usatoday/20071116/cm_usatoday/ourviewonpredatorylendingfeeharvestercreditcardsscamvulnerableconsumersUSATODAY.com - Thu, 15 Nov 2007 09:22 pm PST<p>The credit card solicitation to Chicago consumer Thelma Perryoffered "a credit limit of up to ${dlvDollarSign}1,500." What Perry would get,instead, was a ${dlvDollarSign}250 credit line that was worth far less.</p><p>First came the ${dlvDollarSign}9 "processing" fee to accompany the application.Then the card issuer tacked on a ${dlvDollarSign}119 "acceptance fee," a ${dlvDollarSign}50"membership fee" and the first ${dlvDollarSign}6 installment of a ${dlvDollarSign}72 annual"participation fee" leaving the cardholder with ${dlvDollarSign}75 in actual buyingpower.</p><p>Perry sued, arguing in essence that this wasn't much of an offer. ...Opposing view: Let consumers choose
http://story.news.yahoo.com/news?tmpl=story&cid=679&e=3&u=/usatoday/20071116/cm_usatoday/opposingviewletconsumerschooseUSATODAY.com - Thu, 15 Nov 2007 09:21 pm PSTWhen it comes to cracking down on violations of consumer protectionlaws, we're all for it. The American Financial Services Associationstrongly opposes abusive practices and believes all credit consumersdeserve a clear disclosure of product terms.Let's stand with Pakistan's heroes
http://story.news.yahoo.com/news?tmpl=story&cid=2328&e=4&u=/csm/20071116/cm_csm/yneukom16The Christian Science Monitor - Fri, 16 Nov 2007 12:00 am PSTWe all have seen the images: Lawyers clad in dark suits, symbols of professional responsibility, enveloped in clouds of tear gas. Soldiers surrounding a nation's Supreme Court, and thousands of lawyers and judges, as well as several justices, placed under arrest.Arc de truculence
http://story.news.yahoo.com/news?tmpl=story&cid=2328&e=5&u=/csm/20071116/cm_csm/efranceThe Christian Science Monitor - Fri, 16 Nov 2007 12:00 am PSTThe French are at it again: transit strikes and student barricades this week; work stoppages for teachers, hospital workers, and judges next week. Oh yes, the French are all for the reform agenda of their feisty new president, Nicolas Sarkozy as long as it doesn't affect them personally.President Bush Is Losing The Cold War Peace
http://story.news.yahoo.com/news?tmpl=story&cid=2407&e=6&u=/huffpost/20071119/cm_huffpost/073208HuffingtonPost.com - Sun, 18 Nov 2007 06:59 pm PSTHistory has a voice. Through its participants, monuments and anniversaries, it can both inspire and haunt us. As President Bush pushes his national security agenda on Capitol Hill, a perfect storm of anniversaries hovers over it like Banquo's ghost asking the question of whether President Bush and his fellow travelers in Congress have squandered our victory in the Cold War by embracing the tactics of our vanquished enemy.Condoleeza Rice's Middle East Photo-Op
http://story.news.yahoo.com/news?tmpl=story&cid=2281&e=7&u=/thenation/20071117/cm_thenation/7252497The Nation - Fri, 16 Nov 2007 09:38 pm PSTThe Nation -- The American-sponsored Middle East peace conference (or meeting or get-together) expected to be held in Annapolis , Maryland later this month has more to do with providing Secretary of State Condoleezza a much-needed photo op to repair her tarnished legacy than creating the groundwork for a just and comprehensive settlement of the Israeli-Palestinian crisis.Nancy Nord Likes Business More Than Children
http://story.news.yahoo.com/news?tmpl=story&cid=2281&e=8&u=/thenation/20071116/cm_thenation/4252405The Nation - Fri, 16 Nov 2007 01:24 pm PSTThe Nation -- Parents in the US these days often seem only one step from the brink of panic in the best of times. So this past August when toxic toys from China, including the enormously popular Thomas the Tank Engine, began to be recalled, people freaked.Spitzer Finally Stops Digging
http://story.news.yahoo.com/news?tmpl=story&cid=2709&e=9&u=/realclearpolitics/20071115/cm_rcp/spitzer_finally_stops_diggingRealClearPolitics.com - Wed, 14 Nov 2007 11:00 pm PSTJust how much damage did Eliot Spitzer do to himself with his driver's licenses for illegal immigrants plan? This much:Daily 08
http://story.news.yahoo.com/news?tmpl=story&cid=2709&e=10&u=/realclearpolitics/20071115/cm_rcp/daily_083RealClearPolitics.com - Thu, 15 Nov 2007 08:30 am PSTOn this day in 1864 General William Tecumseh Sherman of the Union Army set fire to the city of Atlanta and began his famous March to the Sea. Sherman's scorched earth tactics are a fitting historical backdrop to the Democratic debate set to take place this evening in Las Vegas, where Barack Obama and John Edwards will seek to keep the heat on front runner Hillary Clinton.THE VOTE WAS 4-2
http://story.news.yahoo.com/news?tmpl=story&cid=2207&e=11&u=/ucjk/20071118/cm_ucjk/thevotewas42James Kilpatrick - Sat, 17 Nov 2007 05:02 pm PSTA few weeks ago, when I was deep in a high and mighty mode, I poked fun at the author of a memorable headline in Asheville, N.C. The headline read, "Crane Operator Electrocuted, in Critical Condition."Not-So-Great Generation
http://story.news.yahoo.com/news?tmpl=story&cid=2280&e=12&u=/weeklystandard/20071117/cm_weeklystandard/notsogreatgenerationThe Weekly Standard - Fri, 16 Nov 2007 07:58 pm PSTQ: If the World War II generation was the "greatest generation," what is the Vietnam War generation?A: I don't think the full judgment of history is in yet. There is certainly greatness in the '60s generation. They changed our attitudes about race in America, which was long overdue.--Tom Brokaw, interviewed in the November 19 U. S. News & World Report, on his new book, Boom! Voices of the Sixties.The Last Talking Point of the Left
http://story.news.yahoo.com/news?tmpl=story&cid=2280&e=13&u=/weeklystandard/20071117/cm_weeklystandard/thelasttalkingpointoftheleftThe Weekly Standard - Fri, 16 Nov 2007 07:36 pm PSTTo celebrate Veterans Day, the Los Angeles Times ran a two-part story on James Blake Miller, the battle-exhausted soldier in the iconic picture of the Battle of Falluja in November 2004.END OF AN ERA
http://story.news.yahoo.com/news?tmpl=story&cid=1316&e=14&u=/ucds/20071117/cm_ucds/endofaneraDavid Shribman - Fri, 16 Nov 2007 04:57 pm PSTAs we move into a new era in American political life -- maybe symbolized by the first female president, maybe the first black one, maybe the first Republican president in a generation to support abortion rights -- it is useful to pause and reflect on the era we're leaving. And it may surprise you (but I doubt it will surprise historians) to consider that the era we're ending is what we might call the Age of Reagan.AGAINST US OR AGAINST US
http://story.news.yahoo.com/news?tmpl=story&cid=127&e=15&u=/ucru/20071116/cm_ucru/againstusoragainstusTed Rall - Fri, 16 Nov 2007 09:26 am PSTPakistan's Con ContinuesTerror in the Skies
http://story.news.yahoo.com/news?tmpl=story&cid=2689&e=16&u=/uc/20071116/cm_uc_crlchx/op_204411Linda Chavez - Fri, 16 Nov 2007 12:00 am PSTJust in time for the busiest travel week of the year, we have this news from the General Accountability Office, Congress' investigative arm:Too Close to Kooky
http://story.news.yahoo.com/news?tmpl=story&cid=2692&e=17&u=/uc/20071116/cm_uc_crmchx/op_54409Mona Charen - Fri, 16 Nov 2007 12:00 am PSTMemo to: Ron Paul supportersThe Shameless Spring-Break Porn King
http://story.news.yahoo.com/news?tmpl=story&cid=2687&e=18&u=/uc/20071116/cm_uc_crbbox/op_234406Brent Bozell III - Fri, 16 Nov 2007 12:00 am PSTMost Americans don't know the name Joe Francis. But many are familiar with his gold mine. It's "Girls Gone Wild," the odious racket of DVDs huckstered on late-night cable shows and the Internet in which Francis and his jolly cast of soft-porn exploiters charm, badger or hornswoggle often-drunk, young, college-age girls into flashing their breasts for the camera on spring break.The Crash of 2008?
http://story.news.yahoo.com/news?tmpl=story&cid=2695&e=19&u=/uc/20071116/cm_uc_crpbux/op_334413Pat Buchanan - Fri, 16 Nov 2007 12:00 am PSTIn March 1929, the Harding-Coolidge era came to an end. The eight years had witnessed the greatest peacetime prosperity of any nation in history: America in the Roaring Twenties. Early that March, Calvin Coolidge handed the presidency over to Herbert Hoover, who had just pulled off a third straight Republican landslide.Grading Sandwiches and Surgeons
http://story.news.yahoo.com/news?tmpl=story&cid=2698&e=20&u=/uc/20071116/cm_uc_crsesx/op_394407Susan Estrich - Fri, 16 Nov 2007 12:00 am PSTIf Dr. Donda West had been looking for a good turkey sandwich instead of a good plastic surgeon, she could have counted on the government to warn her away from the likes of the doctor whose actions seem to have cost her life.You received this email because you subscribed to Yahoo! Alerts.
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