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Hardball airs on MSNBC at 7p, 11p & 4a ET & 4p, 8p & 1a PT Find MSNBC on your TV http://www.msnbc.com/CableOperator.asp MSNBC also is on your XM satellite radio on channel 130 The legal and political struggle over Terri Schiavo is quickly coming to a close as the Supreme Court refuses to hear the case and Jeb Bush loses a battle to take custody of her... What, if any, legal options are left and what was Congress' intent in the law passed on Monday morning if it didn't reinsert the feeding tube? We'll talk to several Members heavily involved in the issue: Rep. Chris Shays (R-CT), Rep. Barney Frank (D-MA) & Rep. Patrick McHenry (R-NC)...Shays will cover the GOP schism angle... As you might know, Maryland Senator Paul Sarbannes recently announced his retirement at the end of his term in '07...We'll talk to a man who'd like to succeed him, fmr. Baltimore Congressman and NAACP head Kweisi Mfume...We'll get his take on the Democratic response to Schiavo and the road ahead for his campaign.... We increase the heat with Bill Donahue of the Catholic League and Christopher Hitchens on the politics and morality of the case...Muy Caliente... Pls join us..Dominic Bellone wrote, compiled and edited The Hardball Briefing from Washington, DC Courts reject appeals...As demonstrations continue, the Supreme Court and a Florida judge decline appeals aimed at forcing caregivers to reinsert Terri Schiavo's feeding tube. (MSNBC) http://www.msnbc.msn.com/id/7283607/ Schiavo parents' supporters begin to lose hope...With legal options dwindling, pressure now on Gov. Bush http://www.msnbc.msn.com/id/7284660/ Peggy: In Love With Death...The bizarre passion of the pull-the-tube people. http://www.opinionjournal.com/columnists/pnoonan/?id=110006460 Conservative groups' support steady...Activists promote family's fight to keep focus on Terri Schiavo (The Washington Post) http://www.msnbc.msn.com/id/7279621/ More than two-thirds of people who describe themselves as evangelicals and conservatives disapprove of the intervention by Congress and President Bush in the case of the Terri Schiavo, the brain-damaged woman at the center of a national debate. (AP) http://apnews.myway.com/article/20050324/D891C3080.html Police mistook a group of Iraqi soldiers wearing civilian garb for insurgents Thursday, sparking a gunbattle that killed five in northern Iraq. In Baghdad, electricity workers rallied to demand an end to terror attacks that have killed many of their colleagues. (AP) http://apnews.myway.com/article/20050324/D891FTQ82.html President Bush yesterday said he opposes a civilian project to monitor illegal aliens crossing the border, characterizing them as "vigilantes." (The Washington Times) http://www.washingtontimes.com/national/20050324-122200-6209r.htm Paul Wolfowitz, the U.S. nominee to head the World Bank, has given assurances he does not plan to further a U.S. government agenda, the outgoing president of the development bank said on Thursday. (Reuters) http://www.reuters.com/newsArticle.jhtml;jsessionid=AA5DLR0SEMNZECRBAELCFEY?type=politicsNews&storyID=7997266 Arnold Schwarzenegger edged closer to facing a British libel trial on Wednesday after he failed to block a legal action brought a reporter who alleged the actor-turned-politician sexually assaulted her. (Reuters) http://www.reuters.com/newsArticle.jhtml?type=politicsNews&storyID=7985640 Opinion/Editorial Johnson: Not Dead at All...Why Congress was right to stick up for Terri Schiavo. http://www.slate.com/id/2115208/ Blankley: Not Fit To Judge...The perplexing, appalling, heartbreaking Terri Shiavo case brings very modestly to mind Socrates's injunction that the proper study of philosophy is man. http://www.washingtontimes.com/op-ed/tblankley.htm Hitchens: That Bleeding Heart Wolfowitz...He's not exactly who you think he is. http://slate.msn.com/id/2115170/ Crouch: Ladies, stop buying into rap's misogyny...Black women's fight needs more voices http://www.nydailynews.com/news/ideas_opinions/story/292865p-250720c.html Doonesbury http://www.ucomics.com/doonesbury/ ========================================= This email is never sent unsolicited. You have received The Hardball Briefing Newsletter because you subscribed to it or, someone forwarded it to you. To remove yourself from the list (or to add yourself to the list if this message was forwarded to you) simply go to http://www.msnbc.com/tools/newstools/e/emailextra.asp?nfeature=19 Microsoft Corporation - One Microsoft Way - Redmond, WA 98052 MSN PRIVACY STATEMENT http://privacy.msn.com