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Wednesday, October 13, 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 Insurgent Alliance Is Fraying in Fallujah Relations are deteriorating among insurgents as local fighters negotiate to avoid a U.S.-led military offensive against Fallujah, while foreign fighters press to attack Americans and their Iraqi supporters. (By Karl Vick, The Washington Post) Lifelong Collector of Data Can Bog Down His Staffs (The Washington Post) FCC Proposes Indecency Fine Against Fox TV Agency Continues Its Crackdown on Airwaves (The Washington Post) POLITICS A Focused Senator, But Indecisive Candidate John Kerry has lurched from course to course during his presidential campaign, periodically switching drivers and roadmaps -- and messages -- as he reacts to more and more information and advice. (By Dale Russakoff and Jim VandeHei, The Washington Post) Pushing to Be Counted in Fla. 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