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Failure to win over Wall Street cost O'Neill his job
ANALYSIS:Treasury Secretary Paul H. O'Neill's failure to generate confidence on Wall Street cost him his Cabinet position yesterday.
Louisiana Senate candidates make final push
Louisiana voters will decide the remaining U.S. Senate seat today when they choose between incumbent Democratic Sen. Mary L. Landrieu and Republican challenger Suzanne Haik Terrell.
Armey tells GOP to fight
Retiring House Majority Leader Dick Armey urged Republicans yesterday to fight for school choice, enact market-based Social Security reform and "give America a fair, decent and honest tax system."
U.S. agents raid software firm, seeking al Qaeda money link
Federal agents yesterday raided a Boston-area software firm in an investigation to determine whether the company was used to hide secret cash diversions to al Qaeda terrorists.
Papers display money's role in politics
Officials from both political parties often cater to donors and lace their pitches for money with promises of meetings with top officials, according to fund-raising memos.
Federal appeals court upholds assault rifle ban
A federal appeals court ruling upholding California's ban on assault rifles was being portrayed yesterday as a landmark in the constitutional debate over the right to bear arms.
President's father receives patriot award
The National Defense University Foundation last night presented former President George Bush with the American Patriot Award.
Links to political Web sites
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| Regular Features |
 Pruden on Politics / Wesley Pruden
Clearing the air over Baghdad (12/6/02)
Inside the Beltway / John McCaslin
Political tidbits and other shenanigans from around the nation's capital. (12/6/02)
Inside Politics / Greg Pierce
News and political dispatches from around the nation. (12/6/02)
Inside the Ring / Gertz & Scarborough
Notes from the Pentagon. (12/6/02)
Federal Report / Mike Causey
Bread-and-butter issues affecting federal workers. (12/3/02)
Around the Nation
Short takes on the news. (12/7/02)
Daybook
Today's events of interest in and around Washington. (12/6/02)
Steiner cartoon
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Admissions and statistics put to the test (Linda Chavez)
For decades colleges and universities have been choosing their students on the basis of skin color, but that may change soon.
Dumbing down national security (Michelle Malkin)
Kareen Dupervil, a mentally retarded Haitian woman "with a first-grade reading level," has applied for a job as a baggage handler at La Guardia Airport in Queens, N.Y.
Reversal of enemies (Harlan Ullman)
America's success in its campaign to disarm, if not remove, Saddam Hussein and win the war against Osama bin Laden and terror is endangered.
Good riddance (Editorial)
The Gloomy Gus who regularly moans that the world is becoming a worse place was proved wrong on Thursday, when U Ne Win, 91 and the former military dictator of Burma, quietly passed away at his lakeside villa near Rangoon.
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