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13 Reported Dead in Texas Bus Crash
FROM NYT > NYTIMES.COM HOME: A bus carrying a group of Vietnamese Catholics to a pilgrimage plunged off a Texas highway, leaving at least 13 people dead and scores more injured.
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Detroit Mayor Charged With Assaulting Officer
FROM NYT > NYTIMES.COM HOME: The new charges against Kwame M. Kilpatrick resulted from an incident on July 24 when a sheriff’s deputy attempted to serve a subpoena.
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A $2.3 Billion Loss for Fannie Mae
FROM NYT > NYTIMES.COM HOME: The mortgage finance company said Friday that it had a second-quarter loss that was more than triple what Wall Street expected.
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Musharraf Won’t Resign, Allies Say
FROM NYT > NYTIMES.COM HOME: President Pervez Musharraf will stage a spirited defense against impeachment charges the governing coalition is pursuing against him, his key allies said Friday.
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17,000 Choose an Anniversary to Remember
FROM NYT > NYTIMES.COM HOME: Couples said they were moved by national pride, but also by the Chinese enthusiasm for numerology, to marry.
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The U.S.’s Man With the Flag
FROM NYT > NYTIMES.COM HOME: Lopez Lomong, who is leading the United States team into the opening ceremony as the flagbearer, was kidnapped from his family at 6 years old by soldiers in Sudan.
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Lavish Ceremony Opens Beijing Games
FROM NYT > NYTIMES.COM HOME: With world leaders watching from inside the latticed shell of the National Stadium, the 2008 Beijing Olympics began with an opening ceremony of soaring spectacle and Chinese national pride.
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Going Down the Road: Eccentricity Fuels a Revival of Vermont’s River Towns
FROM NYT > NYTIMES.COM HOME: The entrepreneurial eccentricity of Vermont described in a Depression-era travel guide is resurfacing, as exhibited along the Connecticut River in the southeastern sliver of the state.
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First Loss for Royal Bank of Scotland
FROM NYT > NYTIMES.COM HOME: A $11.4 billion write-down on risky assets sent Royal Bank of Scotland to a first-half loss that was one of the biggest in British history.
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12 Reported Dead in Texas Bus Crash
FROM NYT > NYTIMES.COM HOME: A charter bus ran off a highway overpass north of Dallas early Friday and crashed onto its side on a roadway below, authorities said. A newspaper reported 12 killed.
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Masks May Be Part of Wardrobes at Opening Ceremony
FROM NYT > NYTIMES.COM HOME: Athletes must decide whether to attend the opening ceremony in the smog and, if they do go, whether to wear a mask to combat pollution.
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Fiercest Fighting in Years Near Georgian Border
FROM NYT > NYTIMES.COM HOME: Violence in the border region between the former Soviet republic of Georgia and a breakaway Georgian enclave escalated sharply to its highest level in years.
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A Neighborhood Fixer Wants ‘to Do It Elected’
FROM NYT > NYTIMES.COM HOME: Isaac Abraham has spent years haggling with most of the branches of city government. Other candidates, he said, “don’t have the experience I have.”
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Jerusalem Journal: Quandary for Hebrew: How Would Isaiah Text?
FROM NYT > NYTIMES.COM HOME: The revival of Hebrew is often hailed as one of the greatest feats of the Zionist enterprise, but some worry that the common language may already be in decline.
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Trying to Make Weight, U.S. Boxer Collapses
FROM NYT > NYTIMES.COM HOME: A top boxer will not compete in the Olympics after he collapsed in a final effort to make weight.
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Theater Review | 'Hair': Let the Sunshine In, and the Shadows
FROM NYT > NYTIMES.COM HOME: The pure hormonal vitality that courses through the Public Theater’s exuberant production of “Hair” is enough to make it the pick-me-up event of New York’s dog days this year.
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