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    Chisox Win First World Series Since 1917 (AP)

AP - The Chicago White Sox are World Series champions again at last, and
 yet another epic streak of futility is not just wiped away but swept
 away.

    White House Aides Await Fate in Leak Probe (AP)

AP - Two key White House aides await their fate in the CIA leak probe,
 after a prosecutor spent three hours before a grand jury that could
 hand up indictments and rock the Bush administration.

    Israel Wants Iran Expelled From U.N. (AP)

AP - Israel's vice prime minister said Iran should be expelled from the
 United Nations after its new president said Israel should be "wiped off
 the map," and Britain summoned an Iranian diplomat Thursday to protest
 the remarks.

    Miers to Get 2nd Chance to Bolster Case (AP)

AP - Supreme Court nominee Harriet Miers will get another chance to
 bolster her case when senators review her answers to a second set of
 questions from the committee in charge of her confirmation.

    China says no cases of human bird flu (Reuters)

Reuters - Initial tests on a girl who died in a Chinese village affected
 by avian flu have turned out negative for the virus, but the result has
 to be confirmed, Hong Kong's Cable TV news channel said on Thursday.

    Yet Another Tropical Storm Forms (AP)

AP - Tropical Storm Beta formed Thursday in the southwestern Caribbean
 Sea, extending this year's record of named storms in the Atlantic
 hurricane season.

    Robots May Allow Surgery in Space (AP)

AP - Small robots designed by University of Nebraska researchers may
 allow doctors on Earth to help perform surgery on patients in space.

    SBC to Stick With the Storied AT&T Name (AP)

AP - The storied AT&T name will live on after the long distance phone
 company is acquired by SBC Communications Inc., which is renaming
 itself and most of its products under the 120-year-old brand.

    School Orders Students to Remove Blogs (AP)

AP - A Roman Catholic high school has ordered its students to remove
 personal blogs from the Internet in the name of protecting them from
 cyberpredators.

    Iran Film Ban Attempts to Curtail Freedoms (AP)

AP - There won't be any liquor-swilling God-denyers on the Iranian
 silver screen any time soon. Drug takers, secularists, liberals,
 anarchists and feminists are out, too.

    Sharon vows broad offensive after bombing (Reuters)

Reuters - Prime Minister Ariel Sharon vowed an open-ended offensive
 against Palestinian militants and Israeli aircraft struck the Gaza
 Strip on Thursday after a suicide bomber killed five Israelis.

    White Sox sweep World Series (Reuters)

Reuters - Jermaine Dye's late run-scoring single was enough to give the
 Chicago White Sox a 1-0 victory over the Houston Astros on Wednesday
 and a first World Series title in 88 years with a four-game sweep.

    Oil-for-food panel to finger Iraqi bribes to firms (Reuters)

Reuters - More than 2,500 companies from at least 60 countries that did
 business with Iraq in the U.N. oil-for-food program were the target of
 bribes and kickbacks to Saddam Hussein's government, a report on the
 program is expected to disclose on Thursday.

    Two US soldiers killed in Baghdad (Reuters)

Reuters - Two U.S. soldiers were killed when their convoy struck a
 roadside bomb in eastern Baghdad on Wednesday, the U.S. military said
 on Thursday.

    Protesters mark 2,000th U.S. fatality in Iraq (Reuters)

Reuters - Protesters across the United States took part in hundreds of
 vigils and rallies on Wednesday to mark the 2,000th U.S. military death
 in Iraq, hoping to increase pressure on President George W. Bush to
 start bringing troops home.

    Wanted: Polish Workers (Los Angeles Times)

Los Angeles Times - WARSAW -- Globalization is working when a Pole
 dresses like a leprechaun and hands out international job applications
 in a palace built by a dictator.

    End of the Line Proves a New Beginning for NoHo (Los Angeles Times)

Los Angeles Times - One of the oldest districts in the San Fernando
 Valley, the area had gained such a reputation for crime and blight that
 some well-heeled neighborhoods on the edges of North Hollywood actually
 got the city to change their names. Then the Northridge earthquake left
 dozens of aging storefronts in the business district destroyed.

    Wal-Mart's Memo Blurs Its Message on Benefits (Los Angeles Times)

Los Angeles Times - Wal-Mart Stores Inc., which built its reputation --
 and a virulent opposition -- on rock-bottom prices, has talked a lot
 lately about becoming a kinder, more responsible company.

    White House Plans to Deflect (Los Angeles Times)

Los Angeles Times - WASHINGTON -- The prosecutor hasn't announced any
 indictments, but President Bush's aides and their allies in Congress
 are working on strategies to counter the blow if White House officials
 are accused of crimes.

    Critics and a Senator Raise Ante for Miers (Los Angeles Times)

Los Angeles Times - WASHINGTON -- In new signs of eroding support for
 Harriet E. Miers, the Senate Judiciary Committee chairman sent her a
 sharply worded list of questions Wednesday on constitutional law, and
 one of the nation's leading grass-roots evangelical organizations
 called for the withdrawal of her Supreme Court nomination.

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