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...Dobbs, the television pundit and syndicated radio host whose controversial positions and persistent questions about President Barack Obama's birthplace have made him an emblem of America's poisoned public discourse in the eyes of many, announced on his CNN program on Wednesday that he would immediately step down from the network where he was a fixture for nearly 30 years. A decorated journalist and an eager brawler, Dobbs has drawn admiration from some for his virulent opposition to illegal immigration. In recent months he used his megaphone to become a mouthpiece for the cult of "birthers" who insist that...
...produce 30-second attack ads than to influence the actual shape of the legislation. There will come the arguments that Pelosi, whose office gives her far greater command of the floor, successfully kept out of a House debate that lasted a mere 12 hours: Will a government-run public option be among the choices offered to the uninsured? Should individuals be required to buy health insurance, and businesses to provide it to their workers? Who should have to pay for health reform? How much should be squeezed from Medicare, with the attendant risk of outraging seniors? The House fight over...
...addition to all these public battles, Reid is waging private ones as well, according to sources on and off Capitol Hill. He has complained to colleagues that the White House has pressured him to lean on the CBO to speed its cost estimates of the measure - something that could easily be seen as exerting improper influence on the CBO's calculations, which are supposed to be free of political pressure. And he has been pleading with liberal interest groups to ease up on Senator Joe Lieberman - an independent whom Reid counts as part of his 60-member caucus - over Lieberman...
...badly he was suffering. In an interview with the German soccer magazine 11 Freunde, however, Enke did give a hint of just how much he was holding back: "When speaking with the press, I always have two opinions. My personal feelings, and those which I serve to the public...
...privately - with depression. Teresa Enke, the goaltender's widow, broke down at a news conference on Wednesday as she explained how her husband had tried to conceal his depression from the media out of fear that their 8-month-old daughter, Leila, would be taken away if it became public. "I tried to be there for him, to give him hope," she said. "I drove to training with him to help him get through his depression, but he didn't want to accept help anymore." (Read "The Year in Medicine 2008: From...