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Really jamming here folks so I apologize for this being late...I'm up at the Secaucus
mother ship today "strategerizing" with top brass about synergistic, cross-platform
marketing and MSNBC access issues (Geez, I just love that corporate bureaucratic
speak)...You'll be happy to know that access to MSNBC is a big issue up here and all
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heard and we're on the case....As a matter of fact, there's a special e-mail you can
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Sorry 'bout all the housekeeping, on to the show....Shimon and Marwan will give us
reax on that deadly bombing at the Frank Sinatra International Student Center, Hebrew
University in Jerusalem...7 dead, among them an American...
Ritter and Hamza (Saddam's Bombmaker) will do the Iraq story today...Biden opened up
hearings today and we'll show you the highlights...
The D Block debate will be our country's image overseas...Shibley Telhami of the U. of
Maryland, a Middle East expert joins the debate with Jeb Babbin, a think take, fmr.
deputy undersecretary of defense guy...Can America change its image with a PR campaign?
The Buzz will be Donna Brazile and Terry Jeffrey on the Torch and that DLC
conference...Why is Lieberman dissing the 2000 campaign message?
Gotta go! Dominic Bellone wrote, compiled and edited the Hardball Briefing from
Secaucus, NJ
Blast rocks Jerusalem university...An explosion rocked a crowded cafeteria at Hebrew
University in Jerusalem at lunchtime Wednesday, killing at least six people and
wounding dozens more, according to police and rescue workers.
http://www.msnbc.com/modules/exports/ct_infobeat.asp?/news/677951.asp
Biden: No Iraq strike before 2003...The chairman of a Senate Committee said Tuesday he
does not expect the United States to strike Iraq before next year, but that Washington
must start now to weigh the costs, and benefits of an attack.
http://www.msnbc.com/modules/exports/ct_infobeat.asp?/news/786933.asp
The chairman of the Senate Foreign Relations Committee urged the Bush administration
Wednesday to better explain how it plans to deal with the aftermath of a military
campaign in Iraq to remove Saddam Hussein. (AP)
http://story.news.yahoo.com/news?tmpl=story2&cid=512&ncid=703&e=2&u=/ap/20020731/ap_on_go_co/us_iraq_40
Bush administration officials have told key lawmakers not to expect a U.S. attack on
Iraq before the fall elections, allowing time for Congress to debate the possibility
of war. (USA Today)
http://www.usatoday.com/news/washington/2002-07-30-elections-iraq_x.htm
Sen. Robert Torricelli, already locked in a competitive re-election campaign in New
Jersey, now must ask voters to look beyond the fact that he has been "severely
admonished" by the Senate Ethics Committee. (AP)
http://story.news.yahoo.com/news?tmpl=story2&cid=512&ncid=703&e=4&u=/ap/20020731/ap_on_go_co/torricelli_ethics_23
Sen. Hillary Rodham Clinton on Tuesday defended the decision she and her husband made
to seek taxpayer reimbursement of their Whitewater legal bills. (NY Daily News)
http://story.news.yahoo.com/news?tmpl=story&u=/ap/20020730/ap_on_go_co/clintons_legal_bills_2
The Democratic Leadership Council's summer convention here this week was supposed to
provide a forum for the party's prospective presidential candidates. But it was a Gore
who didn't attend and a Clinton who did who captured the most attention, and that may
be an omen for the party as it looks to 2004. (The Washington Post)
http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/articles/A23382-2002Jul30.html
Al Gore yesterday snubbed the Democratic Leadership Council's conference, in which top
leaders continued to criticize his 2000 campaign theme of "powerful versus the
people," saying it cost their party centrist votes (The Washington Times)
http://www.washingtontimes.com/national/20020731-77930654.htm
Hargrove "Skipper" Bowles helped raise the money to build the Smith Center. And now
Dean Smith is helping Skipper's son, Erskine Bowles, in his effort to be elected to
the U.S. Senate. (Raleigh News & Observer)
http://www.newsobserver.com/news/nc/story/1596256p-1623918c.html
The congressman leading the probe into the ImClone insider-trading scandal said
yesterday he wants to grill Martha Stewart - but not at a public hearing. (NY Daily
News) http://www.nydailynews.com/news/story/7202p-6694c.html
Where's the humor in 9/11 comedy?...The terrorist attacks are being turned into
material for comedy -- and some people fail to see the humor. Jeannette Walls Delivers
The Scoop. http://www.msnbc.com/modules/exports/ct_infobeat.asp?/news/787814.asp
Bruce Springsteen left no media stone unturned Tuesday with a blitz that started with
NBC Today's three-hour music fest, followed by extensive cable news coverage and a
chat with Nightline's Ted Koppel. (USA Today)
http://www.usatoday.com/usatonline/20020731/4320616s.htm
Opinion/Editorial
War of words...How come the Bush administration's Iraqi war plans keep popping up in
the newspapers? Jack Shafer explores in Slate.
http://www.msnbc.com/modules/exports/ct_infobeat.asp?/news/787773.asp
Bowyer: The Wandering Eye of the New Investor Class (NY Sun)
http://www.jerrybowyer.com/docs/nysun.html
Mallard Fillmore http://seattlepi.nwsource.com/fun/mallard.asp
Doonesbury http://www.ucomics.com/doonesbury/
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