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Friday, September 24, 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 Congress Votes to Extend Tax Cuts The House and the Senate overwhelmingly approve the $146 billion measure, sending President Bush what would be his fourth tax cut in four years. (By Jonathan Weisman, The Washington Post) Analysis: Tying Kerry to Terror Tests Rhetorical Limits (The Washington Post) Iraqi Leader Vows Election Won't Be Delayed Rumsfeld Talks Of Partial Vote if Violence Persists (The Washington Post) POLITICS Congress Votes to Extend Tax Cuts The House and the Senate overwhelmingly approve the $146 billion measure, sending President Bush what would be his fourth tax cut in four years. (By Jonathan Weisman, The Washington Post) Analysis: Tying Kerry to Terror Tests Rhetorical Limits (The Washington Post) Analysis: Some Democrats See a Turning Point Kerry Displaying New Aggressiveness (The Washington Post) Kerry Continues Attack on Bush's Policies in Iraq Democrat Also Criticizes Allawi (The Washington Post) Iraqi Leader Vows Election Won't Be Delayed Rumsfeld Talks Of Partial Vote if Violence Persists (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 Gov. Bush Overruled In Right-to-Die Case The state's highest court says he violated a "cornerstone of American democracy" when he ordered doctors to resume tube-feeding a brain-damaged woman. (By Manuel Roig-Franzia, The Washington Post) Hill Divide Widens on Intelligence House Preparing New Reform Bill (The Washington Post) Pair Thought to Be Dead Survived Plane Crash in Montana (The Washington Post) More Troops Needed In Iraq, Officials Say U.S. Pushes for Additional Allied Forces (The Washington Post) Va. Islamic Leader Faces Jihad Charges (The Washington Post) More Nation WORLD Iraqi Leader: Election Won't Be Delayed Meeting with President Bush, the Iraqi Prime Minister Ayad Allawi pledged Thursday that Iraq's elections would take place in January despite escalating violence. 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Water in Breach Levels Violate Health Standard (The Washington Post) Fiery Chain-Reaction Crash Kills Three in Md. Stopped Car Started Wreck, Police Say (The Washington Post) More Metro BUSINESS Administration Debating Oil Stockpile Release The Bush administration is moving toward releasing oil from the nation's emergency stockpiles as a result of disruptions to production and imports caused by Hurricane Ivan. (By Justin Blum, The Washington Post) Regulator Has No Confidence in Fannie Leadership (The Washington Post) Fed Experts Predicted 'Solid' Growth Ahead Forecast Inspired Interest-Rate Policy (The Washington Post) Most D.C. Hotels Have Kept Union at Bay Newer Properties, Especially, Have Avoided Organization (The Washington Post) Ink Expert Portrayed as Victim at Perjury Trial Affair, Feud Claimed in Case Brought About by Prosecution of Martha Stewart (The Washington Post) More Business TECHNOLOGY Manugistics Plans Layoffs as Losses Mount Manugistics Group Inc., facing falling revenue and losses that more than doubled in its second quarter, said Thursday it will lay off more than 90 employees by the end of January. (By Ellen McCarthy, The Washington Post) More Technology SPORTS D.C. In Plan for Expos Major League Baseball is pressing forward with plans to move the Expos to the District, according to sources with intimate knowledge of the executive committee meeting. (By Thomas Heath and Dave Sheinin, The Washington Post) Arrington Has Knee Surgery Linebacker Could Miss 2 to 4 Weeks Because of Meniscus Tear (The Washington Post) New Soccer Stadium Is Also Eyed For SE (The Washington Post) In Montreal, It's Few and Far Between Expos' Season Appears to Be Winding Down for Last Time in Quiet Olympic Stadium (The Washington Post) O's Hold Off Red Sox Baltimore Makes All the Right Moves in Series Finale : Orioles 9, Red Sox 7 (The Washington Post) More Sports STYLE Allawi, Iraq's Dynamo Iraqi Prime Minister Ayad Allawi generates a can-do aura from his leadership position. (By Lynne Duke, The Washington Post) 'Dirty': The Day The Earth Moved (The Washington Post) 'Shaun of the Dead': Lively Zombie Comedy (The Washington Post) Rap Gets Religion, But Is It Gospel? (The Washington Post) How to Make An Expos Fan Out of Angelos (The Washington Post) More Style LIVE DISCUSSIONS Frontline/World Correspondent Amy Costello discusses her report from the Sudanese refugee camps in Chad, where some 180,000 black Africans have fled attacks by Sudanese government-backed Arab raiders known as the Janjaweed. Sunday Source: Books Author David Schickler discusses his new book, "Sweet and Vicious," his New Yorker short story "The Smoker" (optioned as a movie starring Natalie Portman) and his upcoming local reading. On TV Post TV Columnist Lisa de Moraes takes a look at what's on TV in a fast-paced give and take about reality, non-reality, cable and you name it. The Daily Show Ben Karlin, executive producer of "The Daily Show," takes your questions on the Emmy Award winning show, their election coverage and the day to day grind of churning out fake news. Comics: Meet the Artist Live from the Charles Shulz museum, Comics page editor Suzanne Tobin will be joined by Rose Marie McDaniel, acting director of the museum, Jason Hillyer, education director, and Stephan Pastis, cartoonist of "Pearls Before Swine." More Live Discussions EDITORIALS, OPINIONS AND LETTERS Freeing Mr. Hamdi NEARLY THREE YEARS after his capture, the government has agreed to release Yaser Esam Hamdi, the American-born Saudi it has been holding as an "enemy... Indonesia's Success SIX YEARS AGO the dictator of a large Muslim country was overthrown, touching off days of looting and chaos in the capital. The new regime's promise... Plugging Holes at the FEC WHEN CONGRESS was crafting the new campaign finance law, drafters knew that enterprising political operatives and election lawyers would look for ways... More Editorials, Opinions and Letters TODAY'S ... 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