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NEWSWEEK: What Mattered Most This Week

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Newsweek.com: What Mattered Most This Week - Our takes on the week's five biggest stories

1. WELCOME TO POTOPIA! WHAT TO EXPECT IF PROP 19 PASSES


The conservative case for legalizing pot. By Eve Conant
Photos: An artist's conception of California's Potopia, from cafés to spas.
What the feds can do if Californians give ganja the green light.
Photos: What worldwide weed laws come closest to California's ballot measure?
See additional Potopia articles, photos, videos, and more.

2. MIDTERMS: WHAT A GOP TAKEOVER WOULD MEAN, AND MORE

Charles Dharapak / AP

What a Republican-controlled House would mean on key policy issues.
How Democrats could still pull it out. By Eleanor Clift
Meet Earl Pomeroy, the moderate Democrat touting his health-reform vote.
How the Tea Party plans to get out the vote on Election Day.
FactCheck.org rates the biggest whoppers of the midterms.

3. WHAT TO WATCH AND WEAR FOR HALLOWEEN

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Photos: NEWSWEEK provides the hippest, wittiest costumes—with free ready-to-wear masks!
Videos: 'Glee' and the best Halloween-themed TV episodes.
Ghoulish garage sales: America's creepiest and grossest finds.
Video Listicle: Hollywood's best ghost movies.

4. TERROR, TARIQ AZIZ, AND WIKILEAKS

Saeed Khan / AFP-Getty Images

Is Ilyas Kashmiri the new Osama bin Laden?
Iranian ex-officials: U.S. knew three detained American hikers were seized in Iraq. By Maziar Bahari
Extremists in Iraq, Iran, and Afghanistan will exploit WikiLeaked documents. By Christopher Dickey
Why Iraq's prime minister pushed hard for Saddam aide Tariq Aziz to get the gallows.
Is it Islamist, or just Islamic? Western confusion bodes ill.

5. WESTERN EUROPE GRAPPLES WITH CHANGE

Oli Scarff / Getty Images

Britain's ambivalent unions weigh how to respond to Tory austerity measures.
Nicolas Sarkozy's Pyrrhic victory over protests against raising the retirement age.
Angela Merkel speaks an inconvenient truth to multiculturalism.
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U.S. Top News Early Edition: Toyota secretly bought problem cars, lawsuit says

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Toyota secretly bought problem cars, lawsuit says
Economy grew modestly in third-quarter
Obama to push tax break plan for businesses
Halliburton used flawed cement on BP well: panel
U.S. on track for "fiscal train wreck": Roubini
Pentagon faults official in spy operation: report
Florida Senate candidate denies he was asked to quit
Koreas exchange gunfire at land border
U.N. meeting to protect nature split on targets
World's big enough for India and China: Wen


Toyota secretly bought problem cars, lawsuit says
October 28, 2010 10:32 PM ET
LOS ANGELES (Reuters) - Toyota secretly bought back from U.S. consumers vehicles it found with speed-control defects as part of a strategy to hide unintended-acceleration problems from safety regulators and the public, a revised lawsuit claims.

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Economy grew modestly in third-quarter
October 29, 2010 09:25 AM ET
WASHINGTON (Reuters) - U.S. economic growth edged up as expected in the third quarter but not enough to chip away at high unemployment or change perceptions of more monetary easing from the Federal Reserve next week.

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Obama to push tax break plan for businesses
October 29, 2010 06:03 AM ET
WASHINGTON (Reuters) - President Barack Obama will tout a proposal on Friday to provide tax relief for businesses, reviving a plan he proposed in September that would encourage companies to make capital investments.

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Halliburton used flawed cement on BP well: panel
October 29, 2010 12:23 AM ET
HOUSTON (Reuters) - Halliburton Co. used flawed cement in BP Plc's doomed Gulf of Mexico well, which could have contributed to the blowout that sparked the worst offshore oil spill in U.S. history, a White House panel said on Thursday.

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U.S. on track for "fiscal train wreck": Roubini
October 29, 2010 09:18 AM ET
LONDON (Reuters) - The U.S. economy is a "fiscal train wreck" waiting to happen that risks ushering in a period of stagnation featuring by minimal growth, high unemployment and deflationary pressure, U.S. economist Nouriel Roubini wrote on Friday.

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Pentagon faults official in spy operation: report
October 28, 2010 11:17 PM ET
WASHINGTON (Reuters) - A senior Defense Department official violated Pentagon rules and deliberately misled senior military officers when he created a spy operation using private contractors in Afghanistan and Pakistan, a Pentagon inquiry has found, according to the New York Times.

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Florida Senate candidate denies he was asked to quit
October 29, 2010 08:15 AM ET
MIAMI (Reuters) - A Florida Democrat running a distant third in the state's three-way U.S. Senate race vowed on Thursday to stay in the contest and denied that former U.S. President Bill Clinton asked him to withdraw.

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Koreas exchange gunfire at land border
October 29, 2010 09:17 AM ET
SEOUL (Reuters) - North and South Korea exchanged gunfire across their heavily armed land border on Friday, the South's military said, despite an apparent thaw in tensions on the divided peninsula in the past few months.

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U.N. meeting to protect nature split on targets
October 29, 2010 03:15 AM ET
NAGOYA, Japan (Reuters) - Environment ministers from around the world tried to wrap up a U.N. meeting to preserve nature on Friday but remained split on targets to fight losses in animal and plant species that support livelihoods and economies.

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World's big enough for India and China: Wen
October 29, 2010 08:20 AM ET
HANOI (Reuters) - Chinese Premier Wen Jiabao told Indian Prime Minister Manmohan Singh Friday the world was big enough for their two countries to develop and cooperate, sounding a positive note ahead of a visit planned for later this year.

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