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Yes, Maureen Dowd is necessary

Chemical weapons in Iraq? An old story, but new questions

The Fix

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Mammary madness

Nicole Richie: Novelist and sage

Three more years of Bush, a plan for Cheney and the I-word, again

King Kaufman's Sports Daily

Where the girls are -- bamboozled

Afghan poet beaten to death

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