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<p>Media organizations prepared Tuesday to oppose any efforts by the Justice Department to subpoena journalists and their notes to learn who leaked the identity of an undercover CIA agent to columnist Robert Novak.</p> <p>Subpoenas could be challenged on the basis of First Amendment guarantees of freedom of the press, said Bill Felber, editor of The Manhattan (Kan.) Mercury and freedom of information chairman for the Associated Press Managing Editors. But they could also be challenged, he said, if they were too broad or if the information could be obtained in other ways.</p>

The outlook wasn't brilliant for the Baghdad nine that day, The score stood ninety-five to one, with but one inning more to play. And then when Basra died at first, and Kirkut did the same, A pall-like silence fell upon the patrons of Hussein. A straggling few got up to go in deep despair. The rest clung to that hope which springs eternal in the human breast. They thought, "if only Saddam could but get a whack at that. We'd put up even money now, with Saddam at the bat." But Blix preceded Saddam, as did also Villepin; and...