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| Facts, comments about U.S. Embassy in Baghdad (McClatchy Newspapers) |
| Published: July 26, 2007, 6:52 pm |
| Newspapers - WASHINGTON— The walled U.S. Embassy on 104 acres along the Tigris River in Baghdad will have 619 one-bedroom apartments, a recreation center with a pool and gym, and two office buildings. A third building is designed for future use as a school. The compound will have its own power generator— in a city where most |
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| Abuse of workers building U.S. embassy in Iraq is alleged (McClatchy Newspapers) |
| Published: July 26, 2007, 6:51 pm |
| McClatchy Newspapers - WASHINGTON— Two former employees of First Kuwaiti Trading and Contracting, the company that's building the new $592 million U.S. Embassy in Baghdad, testified to a House of Representatives panel Thursday that they'd observed abuses of construction workers. |
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| Newspapers: Stop the Presses, Start the Domains |
| Published: July 17, 2007, 10:06 am |
| Tags: Domain Names Domains |
| could be the worst year for newspapers since the Great Depression. One senior executive describes the climate like this: "If you told me 24 months ago that revenues would be declining as much as they are today, I'd say you were smoking dope." Killing printrequires acknowledging not just that the old mode is dead... But what's more |
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| Using Local Newspapers to Promote Your Blog Offline |
| Published: July 27, 2007, 7:28 pm |
| Tags: Blog Promotion |
| biggest problems for local newspapers is finding things to write about. Email or call 5-10 of your closest local newspapers and explain you have an explosive new website that will revolutionize the industry you’re in. Make sure you emphasize you’re local, and build it in or near their coverage area. In my case, I’m touting |
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| Newspapers Losing Real Estate Ads to Online |
| Published: July 28, 2007, 4:03 pm |
| Newspapers Losing Real Estate Ads to Online It's bad enough that a cratering housing market is leading to a slump in real estate advertising at newspapers, as a dreary series of earnings reports showed this week. Source: www.wjxx.comLabor Issues It's probably better to face your first Rocky Mountain brake failure in a lab than in |
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| An upset victory produces a rare moment of unity in Iraq (McClatchy Newspapers) |
| Published: July 29, 2007, 4:15 pm |
| McClatchy Newspapers - BAGHDAD, Iraq _The players wore black armbands to remember the victims of a car bombing. The electricity went out, as usual, at the most exciting moments of the match. Baghdad was under a citywide curfew for fear of insurgent attacks on sports fans. |
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| In Iraq, U.S. forces hope the enemy of their enemy is their friend (McClatchy Newspapers) |
| Published: July 31, 2007, 9:54 am |
| McClatchy Newspapers - BAQOUBA, Iraq— Several months ago, Abu Haider was aiming his weather-beaten AK-47 rifle at American soldiers. Now it pointed to the floor. |
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| U.S. officials: Shiite militias are the main threat to Iraq (McClatchy Newspapers) |
| Published: July 31, 2007, 4:24 pm |
| McClatchy Newspapers - BAGHDAD— Despite President Bush's recent insistence that al Qaida in Iraq is the principal cause of this country's violence, senior American military officers here say Shiite Muslim militias are a bigger problem, and one that will persist even if al Qaida is defeated. |
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| Gates, Rice hear Arab fears of precipitous withdrawal from Iraq (McClatchy Newspapers) |
| Published: July 31, 2007, 6:28 pm |
| McClatchy Newspapers - JEDDAH, Saudi Arabia— President Bush's top foreign affairs and defense advisers sought Arab nations' help Tuesday in stabilizing Iraq, containing Iran and advancing Middle East peace, but ran head-on into concerns that the United States is about to make a rapid exit from Baghdad. |
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| Saudis disagree with U.S. on main Mideast issues (McClatchy Newspapers) |
| Published: August 1, 2007, 2:30 pm |
| McClatchy Newspapers - JEDDAH, Saudi Arabia— Saudi Arabia will consider sending a diplomatic envoy to Baghdad and |
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| U.S. policy suffers twin blows as Sunnis resign, car bombs claim 76 in Iraq (McClatchy Newspapers) |
| Published: August 1, 2007, 5:37 pm |
| Newspapers - BAGHDAD— American hopes that sending 30,000 more U.S. troops to Iraq would cut violence and lead to political reconciliation suffered two major blows on Wednesday when the largest coalition of Sunni Muslim political parties withdrew from the Shiite-dominated government and car bombs killed at least 76 people in the |
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| Defense chief: U.S. underestimated sectarian hatred in Iraq (McClatchy Newspapers) |
| Published: August 2, 2007, 6:24 pm |
| Newspapers - ABOARD A U.S. AIR FORCE PLANE— Secretary of Defense Robert Gates, returning from a four-day trip to the Middle East, offered a pessimistic view of Iraq's political progress Thursday, saying he thought that the United States had underestimated the level of distrust between the Shiite Muslim-led government and other |
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| At U.S. base, Iraqis must use separate latrine (McClatchy Newspapers) |
| Published: August 3, 2007, 12:42 pm |
| McClatchy Newspapers - FOB WARHORSE, Iraq— The sign taped to the men's latrine is just five lines: |
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| A chaotic homecoming for Iraq's championship team (McClatchy Newspapers) |
| Published: August 3, 2007, 6:21 pm |
| McClatchy Newspapers - BAGHDAD— Iraq's championship national soccer team came home Friday to a chaotic private welcoming ceremony that stood in sharp contrast to the public embrace the team had received outside this war-torn country. |
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| Growing Number Of Newspapers Call For Troop Withdrawal From Iraq |
| Published: August 3, 2007, 10:58 pm |
| growing number of newspapers across the country are calling for the Bush Administration to begin withdrawing U.S. troops from Iraq. Among them are newspapers from red states, including several (such as the Roanoke Times in Virginia and The Olympian in Washington state) that circulate in areas with large concentrations of military families. |
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