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NATO countries to stay in Iraq

By Alyson Brodsy and Robert Burns · Tuesday, Dec. 2,2003 11:21 p.m.

BRUSSELS, Belgium -- Nearly all of the NATO countries with troops in Iraq have pledged to remain there in 2004 to help stabilize and rebuild the country, Defense Secretary Donald H. Rumsfeld said Tuesday.

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Job market improves for December grads

By Stephanie Susman · Tuesday, Dec. 2,2003 1:32 a.m.

Searching for a job mid-year might seem difficult for December graduates, but career advisors say not to worry. Arlene Hill, associate director of the arts and sciences placement office, said while the job market has been slow in the past, she is seeing a recovery. "(The market is) still fairly tight," she said, "but jobs are available in all industries."

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Presidents' salaries rise with tuition

By Stephanie Susman · Tuesday, Dec. 2,2003 12:40 a.m.

As state budget cuts across the nation force tuition hikes at public universities, cutting academic programs and faculty and staff positions, university president salaries continue to rise, drawing criticism from higher education officials.

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U.S. troops repel coordinated attacks

By Niko Price · Monday, Dec. 1,2003 1:23 a.m.

BAGHDAD, Iraq -- In the deadliest reported firefight since the fall of Saddam Hussein's regime, U.S. soldiers fought back coordinated attacks Sunday using tanks, cannons and small arms in running battles throughout the northern city of Samarra. The troops killed 46 Iraqi fighters, and five Americans were wounded.

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Mass. bishops denounce gay marriage

By Alyson Brodsy · Monday, Dec. 1,2003 12:23 a.m.

BOSTON -- Massachusetts' Roman Catholic bishops are telling parishioners that a state court decision supporting gay marriage is a "national tragedy" that could "erode even further the institution of marriage."

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Two U.S. soldiers killed in Iraqi ambush

By Alyson Brodsy and Slobodan Lekic · Monday, Dec. 1,2003 12:22 a.m.

BAGHDAD, Iraq -- Guerrillas killed two U.S. soldiers and wounded a third in an ambush in western Iraq, a military statement said Sunday. A day earlier, seven Spanish intelligence agents and two Japanese diplomats died in separate attacks near Baghdad.

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Events planned for World AIDS Day

By Alyson Brodsy and Nicole Winfield · Monday, Dec. 1,2003 12:21 a.m.

ROME -- Candlelight vigils, educational seminars and torchlight parades were planned around the globe today to mark World AIDS Day, while a U.S. delegation headed to hard-hit Africa to urge its leaders to increase awareness about the deadly virus.

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Convicted sniper may testify in accomplice's trial

By Alyson Brodsy and Matthew Barakat · Monday, Dec. 1,2003 12:20 a.m.

CHESAPEAKE, Va. -- Convicted sniper mastermind John Allen Muhammad could find himself in another courtroom this week, this time as a witness in the trial of his alleged partner in crime, an 18-year-old who sees him as a father figure. Lee Boyd Malvo's lawyers have asubpoenaed Muhammad and plan to call him to the stand this week.

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Georgian leader resigns

By Misha Dzhindzhikhashvili · Monday, Nov. 24,2003 12:42 a.m.

Georgian President Eduard Shevardnadze resigned Sunday, after the opposition threatened to seize his residence and his support began to crack, with soldiers joining tens of thousands of protesters in the streets of the capital.

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Around The Nation

Monday, Nov. 24,2003 12:40 a.m.

LOS ANGELES -- Small gatherings of Michael Jackson fans held candlelight vigils around the world Saturday to support the pop megastar as he faces allegations of child molestation. There were rallies from Los Angeles to Toronto to Rome, but each typically drew just a few dozen fans.

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2 U.S. soldiers dragged through Iraqi streets

By Mariam Fam · Monday, Nov. 24,2003 12:39 a.m.

MOSUL, Iraq -- Iraqi teenagers dragged the bloody bodies of two American soldiers from a wrecked vehicle and pummeled them with concrete blocks Sunday, witnesses said, describing a burst of savagery in a city once safe for Americans. Another soldier was killed by a bomb and a U.S.-allied police chief was assassinated.

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Former ambassador addresses U.S. relations

By Daniel Castro · Monday, Nov. 24,2003 12:38 a.m.

Former U.S. Ambassador to South Korea Donald Gregg offered insight to U.S. relations with North Korea over the past decade and expressed his discontent with the current Bush administration in a speech delivered to the Bloomington community Wednesday. Gregg, also the former national security adviser to then-Vice President George H. W. Bush from 1982 to 1989, delivered his speech to a packed audience at the Buskirk-Chumley Theater, 114 E. Kirkwood Ave., Wednesday evening.

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Around The Nation

By Alyson Brodsy · Friday, Nov. 21,2003 12:39 a.m.

Eight dead in flooding from Eastern storms BALTIMORE -- Searchers on Thursday found the body of a third construction worker swept away as storms flooded roads and overflowed creeks across Appalachia and the Eastern Seaboard.

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Army seeks answers in 17 military suicides

By Alyson Brodsy · Friday, Nov. 21,2003 12:35 a.m.

Rebecca Suell wants answers, and not the ones the U.S. Army is giving her. Why does the Army keep calling the last letter her husband sent to her, the one he mailed from Iraq on June 15, a suicide note? Can taking a bottle of Tylenol really kill you? And how did he get his hands on a bottle of Tylenol in the middle of the desert anyway?

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Truck bombs hit British consulate in worst terrorist blasts in Turkish history

By Alyson Brodsy · Friday, Nov. 21,2003 12:32 a.m.

ISTANBUL, Turkey -- Trucks packed with explosives blew up at a London-based bank and the British consulate Thursday, killing at least 27 people and wounding nearly 450. Security forces were put on highest alert after the blasts at the high-rise headquarters of the HSBC bank and the British consulate occurred five minutes apart at about 11 a.m.

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Suicide bomber strikes U.S.-allied party in Iraq's Kurdish north

By Alyson Brodsy and Mariam Fam · Friday, Nov. 21,2003 12:31 a.m.

KIRKUK, Iraq -- A suicide truck bomb exploded at the office of a U.S.-allied Kurdish political party in this northern oil center Thursday, killing four bystanders and wounding about 30. It was the second car-bombing in as many days against Iraqis cooperating with the U.S.-led occupation. A pro-U.S. politician was assassinated in the southern city of Basra, his party said Thursday.

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Kroger worker negotiations to resume

Thursday, Nov. 20,2003 1:28 a.m.

CHARLESTON, W.Va. -- Kroger Co. and the union representing thousands of striking workers in West Virginia, Kentucky and Ohio were to resume negotiations today.

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