Sunday October 15, 2006

The Final Word: “Isn't it Alanis, Don'tcha Think? Edition”

(The media experiment in which we conjoin the headline and last paragraph of each bylined article in the A-section of today's New York Times.)

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Security Council Backs Sanctions on North Korea:

He said, "We very much hope that our American colleagues understand, in terms of the problems we have to solve and tackle in the next stage of our work in the Security Council."

Week in Review: The Lone Superpower That Couldn't: In short, being a sole superpower isn't what it was cracked up to be 17 years ago. Back then, you could measure a nation's power in throw-weights. Now, it's the amount of weight you can throw around. For the next two years, Mr. Bush may have to borrow some.

Restraints Fray as Nuclear Age Grows Globally:

"Before stopping enrichment by others, why don't you stop building the next generation of nuclear weapons?" he asked his American hosts. Then, smiling, he suggested that the United States just buy its nuclear fuel from Iran's new facilities. He would sell it to Washington, he said, "with a 50 percent discount."

Competitive Era Fails to Shrink Electric Bills:

A study issued in June by the Edison Foundation, which represents investor-owned utilities concluded that utilities would have to raise rates to upgrade local distribution systems and to finance long-distance transmission lines, as well as for new power plants. The study found that utility profit margins had thinned and financial strength had weakened. It called for relief in the form of higher rates.

Democrats Have Intensity, but G.O.P. Has Its Machine:

The group, in fact, recently adopted a new logo: the Fighting 21st.

Week in Review: Voters' Allegiances, Ripe for the Picking: And at the moment that has meant an even greater focus on the war in Iraq, he said, turning what was once the Republicans greatest strength into a major liability.

After Duke Case, College Athletes Are Put on Notice:

Paul Haagen, a law professor who heads Duke's faculty council, said: "What colleagues at other schools have said to me over and over is, 'There but for the grace of God go I.' The Duke case became a morality tale for a lot of places. And now they're going to make sure it doesn't happen on their watch."

Salmon Find an Ally in the Far East of Russia:

"Russia is getting it right," Dr. Stanford said, on the bank of the Utkholok, a river of salmon bones and big, silver-sided fish. "And we got it wrong."

Other News

A.L.C.S. Game 4 - Tigers 6, Athletics 3: Tigers Go From Woeful to the World Series:

"For everyone discrediting this team like we didn't have a chance, that's long gone," Inge said. "You can't tell us that we're not a good team. We're in the World Series."

N.L.C.S. Game 3 - Cardinals 5, Mets 0: Another Pitcher Goes Down, and Mets Follow:

From the dugout, Randolph and Ramirez could tell. They had seen enough to know that Trachsel was hurt. Trachsel knew it, too, and so he listened to Randolph speak for a few seconds and then walked alone toward the dugout. He tried biting his glove, then buried his face in it. He could not bear to watch anything else.

26 Killed in Revenge Attacks Outside Baghdad:

Two more American servicemen were killed on Saturday, one from a roadside bomb in Baghdad and the other from "enemy action" in Anbar Province, the American military said.

From Crime to Arrest, by Way of Computer:

"He was already gone," said McCartha L. Lewis, Mr. Sandy's aunt. "He is resting in the arms of Jesus right now."

It’s Official: To Be Married Means to Be Outnumbered:

"This would seem to close the book on the Ozzie and Harriet era that characterized much of the last century," he said.

Gerry Studds Dies at 69; First Openly Gay Congressman :

A memorial service will be held in November. In addition to Mr. Hara, Mr. Studds is survived by his brother, Colin Studds; his sister-in-law, Mary Lou Studds; his sister, Gaynor Stewart; four nephews; and his English springer spaniel, Bonnie.

Corporate America's Pay Pal:

Who designed the plans that Mr. Dimon so happily and proudly scrapped? Cook & Company.

International

Peacekeeper Commander Mired in Afghan Combat:

"I am not giving the rosy picture," he said on the military flight. "I'll be honest. There's a lot to do."

Islamic Schools Test Ideal of Integration in Britain:

He acknowledged that some students might feel passionately about the plight of fellow Muslims elsewhere. "My job," he said, "is to understand their deep hurt but get them away from the radicals that promote violence."

Israel Steps Up Attacks to Halt Palestinian Rockets:

The two main Palestinian factions, Hamas and Fatah, are deadlocked in their efforts to form a national unity government. Ahmed Yousef, a top adviser to the Palestinian prime minister, Ismail Haniya of Hamas, called for neighboring Egypt to renew its mediation efforts.

Lawyers Seek to Free U.S. Citizen Held in Iraq:

In that case, involving a native of Jordan, the judge issued a restraining order to stop the United States military from transferring the man to Iraqi custody. That case is on appeal, and Mr. Munaf's lawyers have asked Judge Lamberth to await a ruling from the appeals court.

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Expecting U.S. Help, Sent to Guantánamo:

Mr. Ginco's lawyers, who are federal public defenders in Oregon, are contesting his detention on the grounds that he could not have fought against the United States after it declared a war on terrorism because he was being held by the Taliban as an American spy.

In Pennsylvania, Questions About War Erode a Traditional Republican Advantage:

"Democrats have begun to turn their image around, but it just takes something like the London bombings to gin up fears," he said. "There's just enough in the Republican arsenal — to argue that what Clinton did on North Korea was wrong, for instance — to keep voters not entirely comfortable with Democrats on the national security issue."

Tacit Silence on Stem Cell Research in Missouri Race:

"They're raiding the traditional backyard of the other," said Professor Lana Stein, who heads the political science department at the University of Missouri, St. Louis.

Citing Heavenly Injunctions to Fight Earthly Warming:

"We are recreating the monastery of old, where people come to learn how to live into the next century," said Sister Janet Ryan, a member of the order's leadership council. "Our dream is that the mother house serves as something of an ecological lab. For a bunch of elderly women, we have a huge agenda."

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