Monday, November 9, 2009

Monday's Top News: Military Fears Gains with Muslim Soldiers May Be Lost

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Military Fears Gains with Muslim Soldiers May Be Lost

By MARK THOMPSON / WASHINGTON

Fewer than 1% of America's 1.4 million troops are Muslims -- and that number is really just the military's best guess, since just 4,000 troops have declared their faith in their service records

Health Care Passes the House, but Now Comes the Hard Part

By JAY NEWTON-SMALL / WASHINGTON

Democrats on Capitol Hill spent some of the aftermath congratulating themselves on their historic achievement, but they knew as well as anyone that it was far too early to really celebrate

China Woos Africa — And Not Just For Its Resources

By JOHN LEE

Beijing is looking beyond the continent's natural resources — to reaching its potential consumers

Financial Regulation: Way Easier Than Health Care

By MASSIMO CALABRESI / WASHINGTON

What reform could dramatically remake America and become law by Christmas? Not health-care

Mad Men Season Finale Hits the Reset Button

By JAMES PONIEWOZIK

SPOILER ALERT: Before you read this post, call up some old friends you haven't seen in a while and watch last night's Mad Men.

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By Jay Newton-Small

Joe Cao (pronounced Gow) is the name on most people's lips Inside the Beltway this morning. So, how did this freshman Republican escape GOP Whip Eric Cantor's hammer to vote with Democrats for health care reform, ruining Cantor's goal of unified opposition? Cao arrived in Houston at the age of eight with his parents and two [...]

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Stephen King on His 10 Longest Novels

Landing on nightstands everywhere this fall with a monstrous thwack, the 1,000-plus page Under the Dome is Stephen King's third longest novel. In an interview with TIME, the prolific author reflects on his new book and nine of its fellow doorstops.

Quotes of the Day

"The images that we have seen today are of a devastated country."
MAURICIO FUNES,
El Salvador's President, commenting on the flooding and landslides that have killed at least 124 people in the country
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How the Beans of Egypt, Maine, Sprouted a Militia

By Christopher Ketcham

With a jumble of grizzly and wide-eyed allies from left, right and center, the novelist Carolyn Chute thinks of leading Maine out of the Union

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