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The Sun, Nov. 21, 2008
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November 21, 2008: An excerpt from a
story in
The Baltimore Sun:
Turmoil growsFrom Sun news services WASHINGTON -- Jarred by new jobless alarms, Congress raced to approve legislation yesterday to keep unemployment checks flowing through the December holidays and into the new year for 1 million or more laid-off Americans whose benefits are running out.
The economic picture was only getting worse, if Wall Street was any indication. The Dow Jones industrials dropped more than 400 points for a second straight day, reaching the lowest level in more than five years, and the Standard & Poor's 500 index fell below lows established six years ago as it lost almost 7 percent.
And the $25 billion rescue plan for the auto industry, desperately sought by Detroit's beleaguered Big Three, collapsed yesterday as Congress drew the line at one more bailout and Democrats said they would not even consider it until the companies produce a convincing plan for rebuilding their once-mighty industry.
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The Detroit News, Nov. 20, 2008
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November 20, 2008: An excerpt from a
column in
The Detroit News:
To rest of U.S., Detroit is mired in the pastBy DANIEL HOWES
To watch two days of hearings on how -- or whether -- Congress should rescue Detroit's close-to-failing automakers is to be haunted by a recurring question: How did we get here?
I don't mean the fine technical points of product plans, quality, fuel efficiency, market share, financial reports and brand image -- or lack thereof. That story we know, especially here, in all its excruciating detail. I mean the broader strokes of a country that has moved further into the future, or so it clearly felt this week, than the three automakers from Detroit.
The CEOs of once-powerful engines of American industry, whose might helped win World War II and whose wealth helped build the middle class, are reduced to lobbying for emergency financial aid from politicians straining to understand the car business. The president of the United Auto Workers is forced to defend 70 years of bargaining, a model fast disappearing from American business.
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The Vancouver Sun, Nov. 19, 2008
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November 19, 2008: The
Vancouver Sun has compiled a special section for the
150th anniversary of British Columbia.
It includes a collection of
newspaper front pages beginning in 1858.
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San Francisco Chronicle, Nov. 18, 2008
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November 18, 2008: An excerpt from a
story in the
San Francisco Chronicle:
Jonestown and the City Hall Assassinations
Ten days That Shook the City(Last of Three Parts)
By DUFFY JENNINGS
Monday, Nov. 27, 1978. 10:35 a.m.I'm sitting at my desk in the city room on the third floor of The Chronicle at Fifth and Mission streets, reading the newspaper and waiting for a story to do.
A moment later, assignment editor Richard Hemp beckons me urgently as he hangs up a call from Bob Popp, our police beat reporter stationed at the Hall of Justice.
"Some kind of police activity going on at City Hall," Hemp says. "Lots of units responding."
"On the way, Dick," I answer, already out of my chair, grabbing my coat and notebook. "What do we know?"
"Report of a shooting is all. Call me from the car."
In front of him on the desk stands a small microphone wired directly to head photographer Gordon Peters down the hall. Hemp leans in to the mike, presses down the button. The radio crackles to life.
"Shots fired at City Hall, Gordo. I'm sending Duffy."
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The Record, Nov. 18, 2008
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November 18, 2008: An excerpt from a story in the Stockton, California newspaper,
The Record:
Jonestown: 30 Years LaterBy TIM REITERMAN
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The Associated Press)
Dark clouds tumbled overhead on that afternoon 30 years ago, in the last hours of the congressman's mission deep in the jungle of Guyana.
With a small entourage, Rep. Leo Ryan had come to investigate the remote agricultural settlement built by a California-based church. But while he was there, more than a dozen people had stepped forward: We want to return to the United States, they said fearfully.
Suddenly a powerful wind tore through the central pavilion, riffling pages of my notebook, and the skies dumped torrents that bowed plantain fronds. People scrambled for cover as I interviewed the founder of Peoples Temple.
"I feel sorry that we are being destroyed from within," intoned the Rev. Jim Jones, stunned that members of his flock wanted to abandon the place he called the Promised Land.
That freakish storm and the mood seemed ominous -- and not just to me. "I felt evil itself blow into Jonestown when that storm hit," recalls Tim Carter, one of the few settlers to survive that day.
Within hours, Carter would see his wife and son die of cyanide poisoning, two of the more than 900 people Jones led in a murder and suicide ritual of epic proportions.
And I would be wounded when a team of temple assassins unleashed a fusillade that killed Ryan -- the first congressman slain in the line of duty -- and four others, including three newsmen.
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Orange County Register, Nov. 17, 2008
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November 17, 2008: An excerpt from a
story in
The Orange County Register:
'Dad - prepare yourself'A daughter prepares her traveling father that his Yorba Linda home was destroyed in a firestorm.By GREG HARDESTY
YORBA LINDA -- "Dad, I think you need to prepare yourself," Kim Bailey told her father. "Nothing is going to prepare you for this. Hold on tight."
The home he and his wife had shared for more than 20 years - packed with memories and invaluable items - was gone.
"Need any help?" a passerby asked Bailey.
"What's there to do," she said, not really asking a question.
Bailey's husband, Mike, wearing protective gloves, randomly poked through the mess, seeing but really not comprehending the magnitude of what surrounded him.
"It's hard to figure out what anything is at this point," Mike Bailey said.
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Publico, November 14, 2008
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November 14, 2008: The Lisbon, Portugal newspaper,
Publico, reports on photographs of distant planets. Here is an excerpt from a story on the
BBC News Web site:
Exoplanets finally come into view The first pictures of planets outside our Solar System have been taken, two groups report in the journal Science.
Visible and infrared images have been snapped of a planet orbiting a star 25 light-years away.
The planet is believed to be the coolest, lowest-mass object ever seen outside our own solar neighbourhood.
In a separate study, an exoplanetary system, comprising three planets, has been directly imaged, circling a star in the constellation Pegasus.
While several claims have been made to such direct detection before, they have later been proven wrong or await confirmation.
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The Guardian, November 13, 2008
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November 13, 2008: An updated Web site
story from the London, England newspaper,
The Guardian:
World markets slide on further economic gloomBy JULIA KOLLEWE
Stockmarkets in Europe and Asia were hit today by worries over the US and Chinese economies, as Germany became the second eurozone country to sink into recession.
After a surge of selling, Japan's Nikkei index closed down 5.25%, and Hong Kong's Hang Seng down 5.15%, in an indication that the global financial turmoil is continuing.
In London, traders also reacted badly to the official confirmation that Germany, Europe's largest economy, has followed Ireland into recession. Shortly before midday the FTSE 100 was down 72 points at 4110, having lost over 100 points at one stage.
Investors were also spooked by US Treasury secretary Henry Paulson's surprise move yesterday to abandon plans to buy toxic mortgage-related assets from banks as part of a $700bn (£380bn) financial resucue package.
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The Christian Science Monitor
November 12, 2008,
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November 12, 2008: A photograph of three World War I veterans is featured on Page One of
The Christian Science Monitor. Here is the caption from their Web site's gallery of
Veterans Day photographs:"In Britain: First World War veterans Henry Allingham (l.), Harry Patch (c.), and Bill Stone posed for photographers before taking part in the 90th anniversary of Armistice Day in London. Three of the last surviving members of British forces who served in World War I laid wreaths in memory of their fallen colleagues. President Woodrow Wilson first proclaimed Armistice Day on Nov. 12, 1919, marking the end of WWI." (Alessia Pierdomenico/Reuters)
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Rocky Mountain News, November 11, 2008
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November 11, 2008: An excerpt from a
story in the
Rocky Mountain News:
Obamas meet with Bushes at White HouseAssociated Press storyWASHINGTON -- All smiles and compliments, President-elect Obama and his wife, Michelle, called on President Bush and first lady Laura Bush Monday in a White House visit that was part political ritual, part practical introduction and a striking symbol of the historic transfer of power to come.
The president and Obama talked war and financial crisis. Laura Bush and Michelle Obama talked about raising daughters in the nation's most famous house.
Then Obama flew back to Chicago to work on setting up the new administration that will take over on Jan. 20.
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Ottawa Citizen, November 10, 2008
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November 10, 2008: The
Ottawa Citizen introduces a
database about Canadians killed in the mission to Afghanistan since 2002.
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The Washington Post, November 8, 2008
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November 8, 2008: An excerpt from a
story in
The Washington Post:
President-Elect Meets the Press, CautiouslyBy DAN BALZ and SHAILAGH MURRAY
CHICAGO, Nov. 7 -- In his first public appearance since Tuesday's victory speech, President-elect Barack Obama sent a clear signal that he intends to move deliberately during his transition and resist pressure to flesh out details of his governing agenda or in other ways act like a president until he is sworn in next January.
Friday's news conference had some of the trappings of a presidential event, with tight security, a huge press corps in attendance, Vice President-elect Joseph R. Biden Jr., White House chief of staff-designate Rahm Emanuel and a phalanx of advisers on hand, and a row of American flags as the backdrop.
But in his opening statement, Obama emphasized that he is not the president, and he made it clear throughout the session that he will not attempt to act as a shadow government or to significantly manipulate the levers of power as long as President Bush is in office.
"The United States has only one government and one president at a time," he said. "And until January 20th of next year, that government is the current administration."
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(In addition to the November 5th newspapers posted below, we have also compiled a collection of more than 70 election front pages: Page One Today / Obama's Historic Victory)
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Chicago Tribune, November 5, 2008
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November 5, 2008: An excerpt from a
story in the
Chicago Tribune:
Barack Obama, our next presidentBy MIKE DORNING and JIM TANKERSLEY
Barack Obama won the presidency Tuesday, the first African-American to claim the highest office in the land, an improbable candidate fulfilling a once-impossible dream.
A nation that in living memory struggled violently over racial equality will have as its next president a 47-year-old, one-term U.S. senator born of a Kenyan father and Kansan mother. He is the first president elected from Chicago and the first to rise from a career in Illinois politics since Abraham Lincoln emerged from frontier obscurity to lead the nation through the Civil War and the abolition of slavery.
Obama's resounding victory over Sen. John McCain (R-Ariz.) repudiates an unpopular incumbent and an ongoing war, shifts national leadership to a new generation and provides dramatic proof to the world of the American ideal of opportunity for all.
The Illinois senator won a larger share of the popular vote than any Democrat since Lyndon Johnson in 1964. He redrew the electoral map, sweeping nearly all the traditional battleground states --including Ohio and Florida -- and winning some longtime Republican strongholds, such as Virginia.
"If there is anyone out there who still doubts that America is a place where all things are possible; who still wonders if the dream of our founders is alive in our time; who still questions the power of our democracy, tonight is your answer," Obama declared at a victory rally at Grant Park.
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Chicago Sun-Times, November 5, 2008
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November 5, 2008: An excerpt from a
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Chicago Sun-Times:
A dream fulfilledBy DAVE MCKINNEY and ABDON M. PALLASCH
Forty years later, the world again watched Grant Park on Tuesday to see history created.
Instead of cringing at war rioters and club-wielding National Guardsmen, America cast aside centuries of racial prejudice and elected its first black president.
"It's been a long time coming, but tonight because of what we did on this day, in this election, at this defining moment, change has come to America," Barack Obama said to cheers in Grant Park.
The Harvard-educated favorite son of Chicago's South Side swamped John McCain in a historic landslide driven by the nation's ruined 401(k)s and its disgust over the Iraq war.
On an unseasonably warm night, more than 100,000 revelers stood shoulder to shoulder in Grant Park to mark arguably the city's most memorable political event ever and bear witness to Illinois sending its first leader since Abraham Lincoln to the nation's highest office.
The presidential race that took two years to play out effectively ended at 10 p.m. when the Associated Press and the television networks declared Obama the winner over McCain.
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Rocky Mountain News, November 4, 2008
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November 4, 2008: An excerpt from an updated
story on the
Rocky Mountain News Web site:
McCain, Obama both pointing to victoryAssociated Press storyRepublican John McCain was counting on a narrow path to an upset victory today while Democrat Barack Obama pinned his hopes for becoming the nation's first black president on a ground organization designed to swell precincts with voters across the country.
"I think these battleground states have now closed up, almost all of them, and I believe there's a good scenario where we can win," McCain told CBS' "The Early Show" in an interview broadcast as the day's first voters stood in early-morning lines.
"Look, I know I'm still the underdog, I understand that," the Arizona senator said. "You can't imagine, you can't imagine the excitement of an individual to be this close to the most important position in the world, and I'll enjoy it, enjoy it. I'll never forget it as long as I live."
Obama campaign manager David Plouffe said he was confident that new voters and young voters would fuel an enormous turnout to benefit the Illinois senator.
"We just want to make sure people turn out," Plouffe told "Today" on NBC. "We think we have enough votes around the country."
Standing in line in one of the battleground states, Ahmed Bowling of Alexandria, Va., said the election "will mark a significant change in the lives of all Americans, and so we do have to come out as early as possible to cast our votes."
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Newsday, November 3, 2008
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November 3, 2008: An excerpt from an updated
story on the
Newsday Web site:
Obama, McCain sprint to Election DayAssociated Press storyAiming for a last-minute upset, Republican John McCain embarked on a grueling odyssey through seven swing states Monday while Democrat Barack Obama was headed toward three longtime GOP bastions that have become Democratic-leaning battlegrounds in the historic presidential contest.
"My friends, it's official: There's just one day left until we take America in a new direction," McCain said at a raucous, heavily Hispanic rally in Miami just after midnight.
The candidates' disparate schedules on the last day of the long presidential contest reflected the overall state of the race going into its final hours.
Obama, cruising comfortably ahead in national and many battleground state polls, was starting his day with a late morning rally in Jacksonville, before heading to events in Virginia and North Carolina.
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Chicago Tribune, November 1, 2008
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November 1, 2008: An excerpt from a
story in the
Chicago Tribune:
Studs Terkel diesThe author-radio host-actor-activist and Chicago symbol has died. "My epitaph? My epitaph will be 'Curiosity did not kill this cat,'" he once said.By RICK KOGAN
Louis Terkel arrived here as a child from New York City and in Chicago found not only a new name but a place that perfectly matched -- in its energy, its swagger, its charms, its heart -- his own personality. They made a perfect and enduring pair.
Author-radio host-actor-activist and Chicago symbol Louis "Studs" Terkel died Friday afternoon in his home on the North Side. At his bedside was a copy of his latest book, "P.S. Further Thoughts From a Lifetime of Listening," scheduled for release this month. He was 96 years old.
"Studs Terkel was part of a great Chicago literary tradition that stretched from Theodore Dreiser to Richard Wright to Nelson Algren to Mike Royko," Mayor Richard M. Daley said Friday. "In his many books, Studs captured the eloquence of the common men and women whose hard work and strong values built the America we enjoy today. He was also an excellent interviewer, and his WFMT radio show was an important part of Chicago's cultural landscape for more than 40 years."
Beset in recent years by a variety of ailments and the woes of age, which included being virtually deaf, Terkel's health took a turn for the worse when he suffered a fall in his home a few weeks ago.
"My father lived a long, satisfying and fulfilling but tempestuous life," his son, Dan Terkel, said Friday. "It was a life well lived."
It is hard to imagine a fuller life.
