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Rep. Nancy Pelosi plans to sideline colleagues who are hawkish on national security in the Democratic leadership in the House. Democratic Party sources said as House Speaker, Ms. Pelosi plans to block moves that would place hawks into important chairmanships. The sources said a key casualty would be Rep. Jane Harman, a six-term member of Congress who has cooperated with Republicans on the House Intelligence Committee. "Nancy Pelosi wants total party discipline," a source in the Democratic Party leadership said. "If you played ball with the Republicans during this session, then you're not going to be given an important chair...

(Residents urged to join group...) ACORN, a national community organizing group, is struggling to attract members in the Allied Drive area, but is winning support from two key neighborhood groups. Members from the Allied-Dunn's Marsh Neighborhood Association and the Dunn's Marsh-Allied Drive Landlords Association urged neighborhood residents to join ACORN, the Association of Community Organizations for Reform Now, at an organizing meeting Wednesday. "We need to get these lazy people out of their houses to come out and see what we're talking about," Greg Wright, a member of the Allied-Dunn's Marsh Neighborhood Association, told the group of about 35 gathered...