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Before President Bush nominated White House Counsel Harriet E. Miers to the Supreme Court, his deputy chief of staff, Karl Rove, called influential Christian leader James C. Dobson to assure him that Miers was a conservative evangelical Christian, Dobson said in remarks scheduled for broadcast today on his national radio show. In that conversation, which has been the subject of feverish speculation, Rove also told Dobson that one reason the president was passing over better-known conservatives was that many on the White House short list had asked not to be considered, Dobson said, according to an advance transcript of the broadcast provided by his organization, Focus on the Family.
http://www.latimes.com/news/nationworld/nation/la-na-miers12oct12,1,4692427.story?coll=la-headlines-nation&ctrack=1&cset=trueNew York Times reporter Judith Miller gave prosecutors details of a previously undisclosed conversation she had with Vice President Dick Cheney's chief of staff, adding a new dimension to the criminal investigation into the leak of a covert CIA officer's identity.
http://www.msnbc.msn.com/id/9668116/Countdown w/ Keith Olbermann broadcasts LIVE at 8 pm et, and the count is never complete without you. Join us.
Keith's look at the nexus between terror and politics, tonight.
Four days after Zarabe Shah's home crumbled on her, rescuers on Wednesday pulled the dust-covered 5-year-old out of the rubble, a shot of good news as hopes faded of finding other earthquake survivors. "I want to drink," the girl whispered.
http://www.msnbc.msn.com/id/9626146/The confidential personnel files of 126 clergymen in the Roman Catholic Archdiocese of Los Angeles accused of sexual misconduct with children provide a numbing chronicle of 75 years of the church's shame, revealing case after case in which the church was warned of abuse but failed to protect its parishioners.
http://www.nytimes.com/2005/10/12/national/12priests.html?hp&ex=1129176000&en=28d6f26f3cb2ed49&ei=5094&partner=homepagehttp://www.msnbc.msn.com/id/9670005/An 8-year-old girl with a big heart and loose tooth found a creative way to help people displaced by the hurricanes. Briton Nordmeyer sent her tooth to the Red Cross chapter in Sioux Falls, hoping the tooth fairy would leave money there instead of under her pillow. The tooth poked a hole through the envelope and fell out, but her letter made it. And after word spread of her generosity, a $500 check came in from an anonymous donor, said Jeff Stingley, director of the Sioux Empire Red Cross chapter.
http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/content/article/2005/10/12/AR2005101200828.htmlThat's some of what we're planning for tonight's show.
Finally,
Smurfette is left for dead. Baby Smurf is left crying and orphaned as the Smurf's village is carpet bombed by warplanes - a horrific scene and imagery not normally associated with the lovable blue-skinned cartoon characters. These are the scenes being shown as part of a new UNICEF ad-campaign on Belgian television. The 20-second video commercial clip now being shown on Belgian TV aims to show that war can happen in the most innocent of places.
http://hosted.ap.org/dynamic/stories/B/BOMBED_SMURFS?SITE=NWCN&TEMPLATE=STRANGEHEADS.html&SECTION=HOMEI have no objection to this... Smurfs? Whatever. Bugs Bunny? Now, that would be a different matter.
-- Carey Fox
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Just as workers were making progress restoring power and getting help to flood-ravaged southwestern New Hampshire, more rain arrived Wednesday and state officials were bracing for the possibility of more floods.
http://www.msnbc.msn.com/id/9648031/Winter heating bills will be a third to a half higher for most families across the country, with the sharpest increases expected for those who heat with natural gas, the Energy Department forecast Wednesday.
http://www.msnbc.msn.com/id/9672445/Secretary of State Condoleezza Rice on Wednesday promised long-term U.S. help for Pakistan after an earthquake that killed tens of thousands of people.
http://www.msnbc.msn.com/id/9670968/A suicide attacker set off explosives hidden beneath his clothing outside an Iraqi army recruitment center in northwest Iraq on Wednesday, killing at least 30 and wounding 35, officials said.
http://www.msnbc.msn.com/id/9659209/Syria's interior minister, one of several top officials caught up in the U.N. investigation into the slaying of Lebanon's former prime minister, died Wednesday. The country's official news agency said he committed suicide in his office.
http://www.msnbc.msn.com/id/9670717/Some 500 protesters demanding execution of three militants on death row over the 2002 blasts on Indonesia's Bali island broke into a jail on Wednesday where the inmates had been held until the previous day, witnesses said.
http://www.msnbc.msn.com/id/9669173/Microsoft Corp. and Yahoo Inc. will make their instant-messaging programs work together, a partnership that could give the companies more power to compete against market leader America Online.
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