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Thursday, September 23, 2004 Free Personal Finance E-mail: Read personal finance updates and tips from Michelle Singletary that you can't get anywhere else. Sign up now. TODAY'S HIGHLIGHTS Despite Bush Flip-Flops, Kerry Wears the Label The president has reversed his policy on issues ranging from free trade to same-sex marriage over the past four years, but Democrats say their candidate is the only one being caricatured as a flip-flopper. (By John F. Harris, The Washington Post) Anti-Terror Measures Delaying Green Cards (The Washington Post) U.S. to Free Hamdi, Send Him Home (The Washington Post) POLITICS Despite Bush Flip-Flops, Kerry Wears the Label The president has reversed his policy on issues ranging from free trade to same-sex marriage over the past four years, but Democrats say their candidate is the only one being caricatured as a flip-flopper. (By John F. Harris, The Washington Post) Senate Confirms Rep. Goss as Intelligence Director Some Democrats With Qualms Vote for Nominee; Committee Moves Reorganization Measure (The Washington Post) GOP Unites Behind DeLay After 3 Aides Are Charged 8 Public Interest Groups Seek Ethics Panel Action (The Washington Post) 2 Named to Head CBS Memo Inquiry (The Washington Post) Bid to Save Tax Refunds For the Poor Is Blocked (The Washington Post) More Politics Add topics to this e-mail Make this e-mail your own by selecting the topics and columnists that interest you! Personalize this e-mail now. NATION U.S. Will Free 'Enemy Combatant' Hamdi A U.S. citizen held for nearly three years despite never being charged with a crime will be released and flown home to Saudi Arabia, officials announced Wednesday. (By Jerry Markon, The Washington Post) Anti-Terror Measures Delaying Green Cards (The Washington Post) Tobacco Industry Admits Mistakes But Cigarette Makers Never Purposely Lied to Public, Attorneys Say (The Washington Post) Senate Confirms Rep. Goss as Intelligence Director Some Democrats With Qualms Vote for Nominee; Committee Moves Reorganization Measure (The Washington Post) Detroit Seeks Its Own Prize on 'Oprah' Talk Show Stunt Intended to Lure Back Passenger Car Buyers (The Washington Post) More Nation WORLD Cueing the Balloons in Hussein's Home Town Iraqis hailed the rebuilding of a bridge destroyed during the war in a ceremony held Wednesday, but many have decried the slow pace of reconstruction efforts. (By Jackie Spinner, The Washington Post) In the Eye of the Storms Moscow Physician Has Been on Scene of Many Crises, Including Beslan (The Washington Post) Mexican Pop Star Freed After Judge Dismisses Charges (The Washington Post) NATO to Dispatch Additional Military Trainers to Iraq (The Washington Post) Ukraine To Probe Alleged Poisoning (The Washington Post) More World METRO D.C. Pitches Baseball to Business Leaders The selling of the city's idea began as a panel of Major League Baseball owners prepared for a meeting that could spur the return of the national pastime to the nation's capital. (By Lori Montgomery and Serge F. Kovaleski, The Washington Post) New Sniper Judge Takes Up Trial Issue (The Washington Post) Anti-Terror Measures Delaying Green Cards (The Washington Post) U.S. Has 10,000 Forced Laborers, Researchers Say (The Washington Post) County Revisits Low-Price Housing (The Washington Post) More Metro BUSINESS Warnings Shadowed Firms' Rapid Growth Critics worry that if Fannie Mae and Freddie Mac get into financial trouble, they could imperil the nation's entire financial system. (By Albert B. Crenshaw, The Washington Post) Detroit Seeks Its Own Prize on 'Oprah' Talk Show Stunt Intended to Lure Back Passenger Car Buyers (The Washington Post) Sprucing Up the Sidewalks District Seeks to Upgrade Standards for Street Vendors (The Washington Post) US Airways Wants Deals By Friday Carrier Otherwise to Ask Court to Impose Cuts (The Washington Post) FCC Throws Flag at CBS's Halftime Play Commissioners Propose $550,000 Indecency Fine (The Washington Post) More Business TECHNOLOGY Senate Panel Weighs In On Wireless Directory Committee votes to require wireless firms to get approval of customers before listing their numbers in directories. ... (By Christopher Stern, The Washington Post) Nextel Says FCC Undervalued Deal Firm Seeks to Pay Less for Spectrum Swap (The Washington Post) Senate Panel Votes to Transfer TV Airwaves to Safety Groups (The Washington Post) More Technology SPORTS The Showdown Begins Orioles owner Peter Angelos, who sits on baseball's eight-member relocation committee, has insisted that he would fight any attempt to move the Expos to the District. (By John Wagner and Steve Fainaru, The Washington Post) In Dallas, Reunited and It Feels So Good (The Washington Post) O's Go Down in the 12th Cabrera's Homer Wins It; Palmeiro Hits No. 549 : Red Sox 7, Orioles 6 (The Washington Post) Brunell Says He's Feeling Better (The Washington Post) For D.C., It May Not Be Same Old Song and Dance (The Washington Post) More Sports STYLE Married, With Art Inside elite Chelsea galleries, Tony and Heather Podesta are gossiped about, deferred to and ushered toward the choicest works. All the art stars know their names. (By Jessica Dawson, The Washington Post) FCC Throws Flag at CBS's Halftime Play Commissioners Propose $550,000 Indecency Fine (The Washington Post) Breaking the News, Then Becoming It (The Washington Post) Final Reel to Roll At Washington's Visions Theater (The Washington Post) Lots to Debate, Little to Chance (The Washington Post) More Style LIVE DISCUSSIONS Baseball Post staff writer Thomas Heath discusses the possibility of baseball coming to the D.C. metropolitan area -- the Expos and plans for building stadiums. University of Maryland Football Post staff writer Eric Prisbell takes your questions on Terps football. The Reliable Source Post Reliable Source columnist Richard Leiby takes your tips, chews the fat, discusses the dish and babbles about what's going on in Washington. Rome Wasn't Burnt in a Day Former Florida congressman and current MSNBC host Joe Scarborough discusses his new book "Rome Wasn't Burnt in a Day: The Real Deal on How Politicians, Bureaucrats, and Other Washington Barbarians are Bankrupting America." Prostate Cancer Report Daniel P. Petrylak, MD, associate Professor of Medicine at Columbia University College of Physicians & Surgeons, and Leslie D. Michelson, vice chairman and CEO of the Prostate Cancer Foundation, discusses the organization's first annual "Report To The Nation" on prostate cancer research. More Live Discussions EDITORIALS, OPINIONS AND LETTERS The Choice on Schooling PRESIDENT BUSH'S No Child Left Behind legislation was an aggressive federal intervention into a traditionally state and local matter. We support the principle... Strip This Bill THE HOUSE is scheduled today to take up the Republican leadership's latest attack on the federal courts. In July the House passed a bill to strip... Mr. Bush and Tobacco THE JUSTICE Department's mammoth lawsuit against the country's major tobacco companies got underway this week. Filed by the Clinton administration... North Korea Gesture IT'S A SMALL PIECE of legislation -- a gesture, really. But human rights diplomacy is often a collection of gestures, and this is one that needs to... More Editorials, Opinions and Letters TODAY'S ... Comics | Crosswords |  Horoscopes | Sports Scores Tom Toles Editorial Cartoons | Traffic | TV Listings | Weather E-mail Services To personalize this e-mail, go to the E-mail Preferences Page. •   To unsubscribe from this e-mail, go to the E-mail Preferences Page. •   For feedback, send e-mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED]. •   For advertising information, send e-mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED]. •   To subscribe to the print edition of The Washington Post newspaper, click here. © 2004 The Washington Post Company Privacy Policy