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For humorous balance we’ve got a piece by Maureen Dowd of The New York Times, one of the world’s top columnists, telling about how she surrendered her column to Stephen Colbert, one of the world’s top satirists. Colbert’s column is a hoot. — 287 words.
NEWS FLASH! — Colbert says he’ll join presidential crowd as North Carolina’s favourite son! Click here for video. (Requires flash player 8 or higher)
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Memories from a friend — 405 words.
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Who wouldn't cross the border to save between $5,000 and $15,000 on a new vehicle? Even those annoying border backlogs are worth putting up with to save that kind of money. Automakers, domestic and international, defend the lower price of vehicles sold in the U.S., claiming that different regulatory standards, such as daytime running lights and bumper safety regulations, drive up the cost of new vehicles here. There may be some truth to that, but given the size of the price gulf, there's got to be more to the story. — 405 words.
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An explosion of new research is vastly changing scientists’ understanding of diabetes and giving new clues about how to attack it. — 1,689 words.
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By Maureen Dowd
Op-Ed Columnist
The New York Times
I was in my office, writing a column on the injustice of relative marginal tax rates for hedge fund managers, when I saw Stephen Colbert on TV. — 868 words.
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BEIJING (Reuters) — China's ruling Communists are worried that delegates to this week's five-yearly Congress may deliver surprise upsets in elections due on Sunday according to two inside sources. The Party fears its plans for who will move into the top echelon of power, the Politburo Standing Committee, could be thwarted if the larger membership fails to vote the anointed few into the 200-odd member Central Committee. — 646 words
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BEIJING — China will continue to power the engine of economic growth by quadrupling the per capita gross domestic production (GDP) of 2000 by the year 2020. And the rapid growth will be under the condition of reduced consumption of resources and greater efforts in environmental protection. — 947 words.
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BEIJING — The Communist Party will further increase transparency in the selection and promotion of cadres as part of its efforts to promote socialist democracy, a senior official with the Organization Department of the Central Committee of the Communist Party of China (CPC) said yesterday. — 433 words.
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SANTA CLARA, Cuba (Agence France Presse) — Cubans heard their ailing President Fidel Castro joking and chatting as he spoke live for the first time in months on a television show hosted by his Venezuelan ally Hugo Chavez. — 676 words.
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Frank Rich, Op-Ed Columnist, The New York Times says “Recently The Times unearthed yet another round of secret Department of Justice memos countenancing torture. President Bush gave his standard response: ‘This government does not torture people.’ Of course, it all depends on what the meaning of ‘torture’ is. The whole point of these memos is to repeatedly recalibrate the definition so Mr. Bush can keep pleading innocent.” — 1,451 words.
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By Tony Sagami
Money and Markets
JASPER, Florida — The International Monetary Fund just updated its 2008 global economic forecast, cutting its expectations for global growth to 4.8% from 5.2%. The previous forecast was made in July before all the subprime bombs started blowing up.
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