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With Carl Limbacher and NewsMax.com Staff For the story behind the story...     Click Here Monday Dec. 3, 2001; 5:13 p.m. EST Goldberg: CBS Brass Ordered Me to Go Easy on Dan Rather In 1993, when longtime CBS News journalist Bernard Goldberg proposed an investigative report on media bias featuring interviews with top network news stars, CBS brass approved the project, but ordered Goldberg to go easy on Dan Rather. In his first interview since word of his explosive new book, "Bias: A Veteran CBS Reporter's Account of How the Media Distorts the News" leaked out Friday, Goldberg ...

With Carl Limbacher and NewsMax.com Staff For the story behind the story...     Click Here Monday, Dec. 3, 2001 Santas Inundate P.C. Town Ho, ho, ho: The political correct Grinches on the town council of Kensington, Md., couldn't steal Christmas after all. They tried to ban Santa Claus and ended up being the butt of nationwide ridicule and experiencing a flood of Santas. "It was a big mistake," said resident Ken Greaney, one of 21 fathers dressed as Santa. St. Nicks arrived by fire truck and pickup trucks, by car and motorcycles. Hundreds of people gathered Sunday at ...

Monday December 3 1:53 PM ET White House Presses Arafat on Terror Slideshows AP Photo Mideast Conflict Audio/Video Bush: Bring Bombers to Justice (AP) PLO : Israel Needs Attitude Change (AP) Israeli Helicopters Fire Missiles in Gaza City (ABCNEWS.com)   By BARRY SCHWEID, AP Diplomatic Writer WASHINGTON (AP) - As Israeli Prime Minister Ariel Sharon (news - web sites) declared war on terror Monday, the White House pressed Yasser Arafat (news - web sites) to crack down on Palestinians whose suicide bombings killed at least 26 people over the weekend. ``Chairman Arafat has an obligation to make a 100 percent ...

Analysis: Al-Jazeera on Islam Jennifer BrysonMonday, Dec. 3, 2001 Al-Jazeera applies different standards to handling Islam than it does to other topics. There is a distinct dichotomy between, on the one hand, the Al-Jazeera news reports and general talk shows, which explore (almost) every topic under the sun from multiple perspectives, and on the other hand, the staid Al-Jazeera program "Islamic Law and Life." Thus, Islam on Al-Jazeera is generally not subject to critical analysis and debate like other topics. Al-Jazeera handles the topic of Islam differently in three different formats: First, there are occasional reports in news broadcasts ...

Thursday, Nov. 29, 2001 Daschle Halts National Agenda to Go on Fund-raiser One reason Senate plurality leader Tom Daschle refuses to schedule a vote on an energy security bill: It would interfere with a fund-raising tour for Democrats. "Senator Daschle is willing to derail vital pieces of the national agenda in an effort to clear the Senate calendar for a Democrat fund-raising trip," House Majority Whip Tom DeLay says in today's Washington Times. "It's beyond irresponsibility for the Senate majority leader to leave town for a week in order to substitute his party's political priorities for our national priorities," noted ...

Thursday November 29 4:06 PM ET NASA Delays Shuttle Flight Photos AP Photo Slideshows Reuters Photo Space Shuttle Audio/Video Space Shuttle Launch Postponed (WKMG, Orlando)   By MARCIA DUNN, AP Aerospace Writer CAPE CANAVERAL, Fla. (AP) - NASA (news - web sites) called off Thursday's launch of space shuttle Endeavour to the international space station because of danger from a Russian supply ship hanging from the orbiting outpost. The unmanned Russian ship had arrived at the space station on Wednesday but failed to attach itself securely. NASA feared the forces exerted by the arriving shuttle would cause the supply ship ...

Thursday November 29 08:37 AM EST First Post-Sept. 11 Shuttle Launch Tonight; Crew Hopes to Provide Emotional Lift to U.S. By Todd HalvorsonCape CanaveralBureau Chief, SPACE.com    CAPE CANAVERAL, Fla. -- Heavily guarded shuttle Endeavour is ready to rumble off to the International Space Station (news - web sites) tonight, making an earthshaking statement about the United States in the wake of the Sept. 11 terrorist attacks on America. With extraordinary security measures in place, the $2 billion spaceship is scheduled to blast off from Kennedy Space Center (news - web sites) on what normally would be considered a routine ...

Iraq VP Stresses Defiance Against America Jennifer Bryson,Monday, Nov. 29, 2001 The Vice President of Iraq, Tahia Yasin Ramadan, spoke with Al-Jazeera talk show host Ahmed Mansur on the two-hour talk show "Without Borders." The show was broadcast live from Baghdad. During the program, Mansur prodded Vice President Ramadan with many questions, and news editors from Egypt, Yemen, Jordan, Qatar, Lebanon as well as Iraqis from France and Holland asked the Vice President questions by telephone, with some viewers submitting questions by fax and Internet. The long interview covered a range of topics, from weapons inspections and the Kurds ...