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Monday, September 20, 2010
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Obama Aides Weigh Bid to Tie the G.O.P. to the Tea Party
By JACKIE CALMES and MICHAEL D. SHEAR
The advisers are considering a range of ideas, including national ads, to cast the Republican Party as all but taken over by extremists, people involved in the discussion said.
Wall Street’s Engines of Profit Are Slowing Down
By NELSON D. SCHWARTZ
Inside the great investment houses on Wall Street, business has taken a surprising turn this summer — downward.
Haitians Cry in Letters: ‘Please — Do Something!’
By DEBORAH SONTAG
Haitians displaced by the January earthquake have deposited impassioned pleas in suggestion boxes at camps.
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"Please — do something! We don’t want to die of hunger and also we want to send our children to school. I give glory to God that I am still alive — but I would like to stay that way!"
MARJORIE SAINT HILAIRE, in a letter of complaint from a tent city in Haiti that is still desolate months after the earthquake.
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China and Japan Escalate Standoff Over Fishing Captain
By MARTIN FACKLER and IAN JOHNSON
What started nearly two weeks ago with the Japanese Coast Guard’s arrest of a Chinese trawler captain in disputed waters has snowballed into a heated diplomatic standoff.
Belgian Catholics Remain Anguished by Sexual Abuse
By STEVEN ERLANGER
Promises of change from a new archbishop have done little to settle upheaval in a church already dealing with a loss of members, fewer priests and growing secularization.
POLITICAL MEMO
Iraqi Political Theater, Even as Democracy Struggles
By STEVEN LEE MYERS
Two dozen lawmakers met in an unofficial session of a body elected more than six months ago, but still not functioning.
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Tea Party Victory Opens Rift Between Moderate and Conservative Republicans
By DAVID M. HERSZENHORN and CARL HULSE
The defeat of Michael N. Castle in Delaware has raised questions about the future place in the Republican Party of lawmakers who are not lock-step conservatives.
Political Cauldron Stirred by Old Video of Candidate
By BRIAN STELTER
Critics of Christine O’Donnell, the Tea Party-backed Republican Senate candidate in Delaware, are going to the videotape, and there is plenty of it.
As Obama Faces Issues, Domestic and Foreign, an Election Day Test
By MICHAEL D. SHEAR
Washington is scheduled to debate immigration and gays in the military and the president has a United Nations summit: a tough week for Democratic candidates.
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| | ON THIS DAY |
On Sept. 20, 1973, Billie Jean King defeated Bobby Riggs in straight sets 6-4, 6-3, 6-3 in a $100,000 winner-take-all tennis match. | • See this front page
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