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Moving on a couple of editorial tracks this evening our guest host David
Gregory, filling in for the vacationing Chris Matthews, brings you the latest
from Pinellas Park, FL where Terri Schiavo and her supporters remain, hoping
for the best but expecting the worst...We'll talk to a bioethicist from U-Penn,
Arthur Caplan and Dr. Bernadine Healy, former head of the National Institutes
of Health about the drama, the ethics, the morality and the politics of the
case...
On the Oil-For-Food front we'll talk to Pat and perhaps another one TBD...Of
course we'll delve into specifics of the report released today, e.g. Koffi
wasn't fully aware of his son Kojo's involvement with a Swiss company that got
a sweetheart deal with the UN...Btw, check Pat's smooth clock cufflinks...He
tells me they tell the correct time..
In the back half of the show David chats with a senior advisor to President
Bush, Dan Bartlett...We'll get into Schiavo, Oil-for-Food, the latest polls,
Iraq, yada, yada, yada...
Later in the show we speak to Camille Paglia....The woman who brought the world
"Sexual Personae: Art and Decadence From Nefertiti To Emily Dickinson" is back
in action with "Break, Blow, Burn: Camille Paglia Reads Forty-three of the
World's Best Poems"...One might get into trouble pigeonholing this feminist
iconoclast and thus I will not. Nonetheless, Wikipedia provides this useful
profile http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Camille_Paglia
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Dominic Bellone wrote, compiled and edited The Hardball Briefing from
Washington, DC
Schiavo's husband plans autopsy...Parents say they, too, welcome it once Terri
Schiavo passes away (MSNBC) http://www.msnbc.msn.com/id/7293186/
Healy backgrounder:
http://www.usnews.com/usnews/opinion/articles/050404/4healy.htm
U.N. report: Insufficient data against Annan...But his judgment in son's
affairs is questioned http://www.msnbc.msn.com/id/7316534/
Political infighting disrupts Iraqi parliament...Allawi walks out, press locked
out amid heated arguments (MSNBC) http://www.msnbc.msn.com/id/7284713/
President Bush predicted on Tuesday that Iraq's parliament will choose a new
government soon, despite the acrimony that erupted between Iraqi lawmakers
trying to reach agreement in Baghdad. (Reuters)
http://www.reuters.com/newsArticle.jhtml;jsessionid=GOMFSAHMZ4WNQCRBAEKSFFA?type=politicsNews&storyID=8025773
Bush approves tough new plan to battle spies...Nearly 80 Americans have been
caught spying since 1985, and the Bush administration has launched a more
aggressive anti-spying effort to better combat foreign intelligence activities,
according to a new strategy report made public yesterday. (The Washington
Times) http://washingtontimes.com/national/20050329-122718-4547r.htm
Brock Meeks: U.S. agency poised for big border security
operation...Arizona-Mexico stretch focus of effort
http://www.msnbc.msn.com/id/7317822/
President Bush, back at the White House after an Easter break at his Texas
ranch, is planning to plunge into his agenda this week by pushing to reform
Social Security and the Middle East. (The Washington Times)
http://www.washtimes.com/national/20050329-122716-9165r.htm
First lady Laura Bush set out Tuesday for a quick visit to Afghanistan, a
war-torn country where American forces are still battling a stubborn
Taliban-led insurgency. (AP)
http://ap.washingtontimes.com/dynamic/stories/L/LAURA_BUSH_AFGHANISTAN?SITE=DCTMS&SECTION=HOME
Opium cultivation has fallen this year because of a government ban and fear of
crop eradication squads, according to a report released Sunday by the Afghan
government and the United Nations (AP)
http://story.news.yahoo.com/news?tmpl=story&cid=516&e=11&u=/ap/20050327/ap_on_re_as/afghan_drugs
The campaigns of Gov. Rick Perry and Sen. Kay Bailey Hutchison, widely expected
to be opponents in next year's GOP gubernatorial race, are taking political
shots at each other over apparently friendly relationships with liberal
Democratic Sen. Hillary Rodham Clinton (AP)
http://ap.washingtontimes.com/dynamic/stories/P/PERRY_LETTER?SITE=DCTMS&SECTION=HOME&TEMPLATE=DEFAULT
Jerry Falwell hospitalized...Statement expected to offer details (MSNBC)
http://www.msnbc.msn.com/id/7326716/
Potential White House candidates are calling Iowa's top political operatives.
Trips to the Midwest are on the schedule. Personal notes to the state's top
Democrats and Republicans are in the mail. (AP)
http://apnews.myway.com/article/20050328/D89485DO1.html
Kurtz: College Faculties A Most Liberal Lot, Study Finds
http://www.washingtonpost.com/ac2/wp-dyn/A8427-2005Mar28?language=printer
Balz: Partisan Polarization Intensified in 2004 Election...Only 59 of the
Nation's 435 Congressional Districts Split Their Vote for President and House
http://www.washingtonpost.com/ac2/wp-dyn/A7793-2005Mar28?language=printer
Boy Scout director charged with having child porn...Organization 'dismayed and
shocked by allegations (MSNBC) http://www.msnbc.msn.com/id/7326932/
Opinion/Editorial
Ridgeway: Schiavo Judge Has Reason to Fear...Armed guards, dead flowers, and
not very Christian-sounding e-mail
http://villagevoice.com/news/0513,mondo3,62472,6.html
Limbaugh: Unwitting disciples of death
http://www.townhall.com/columnists/davidlimbaugh/dl20050329.shtml
McGovern: Patriotism Is Nonpartisan
http://www.thenation.com/doc.mhtml?i=20050411&s=mcgovern
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