The investigation of Franklin is now shining a bright light on a shadowy struggle within the Bush administration over the direction of U.S. policy toward Iran. In particular, the FBI is looking with renewed interest at an unauthorized back-channel between Iranian dissidents and advisers in Feith's office, which more-senior administration officials first tried in vain to shut down and then later attempted to cover up.

Iran-Contra II? Fresh scrutiny on a rogue Pentagon operation

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[Cornelius] Horan, who pushed Brazil's Vanderlei De Lima off the road, told police it was to "prepare for the second coming".

BBC NEWS | Europe | Marathon wrecker avoids jail term

] By the tens of thousands, demonstrators marched, chanted
] -- "No More Years!" -- and danced through the streets of
] Manhattan on Sunday, voicing their anger with President
] Bush, the war in Iraq and the Republicans' decision to
] hold a national convention in this most Democratic of
] urban bastions.
]
] Hundreds of police officers in riot gear lined the
] sidewalks, SWAT vans idled, and police helicopters
] whirred overhead. But the protest was as peaceful as it
] was vast. More than 200,000 demonstrators, according to a
] police estimate, packed dozens of blocks along Seventh
] Avenue and snaked down side streets.

200,000 in N.Y. Protest Bush (washingtonpost.com)

] "I've been going to Republican conventions since 1972,
] and I've never seen a convention with as many protesters
] in the streets," said David Gergen, who has worked for
] several Republican presidents, and Bill Clinton. "The
] irony is that was a convention held here because of
] echoes of 9/11, but it opens with echoes of Chicago and
] the Vietnam war.
]
] "The protests are anti-Bush, with heavy antiwar
] overtones, but this is Chicago without the fisticuffs,
] without the fight, without the bloodshed - so far," Mr.
] Gergen added. "To interpret this politically is hard, but
] my gut is that large, peaceful protests are not what the
] Republicans want. The protesters are stealing the story
] for the first day and drowning out the Republican
] message. If there's violence, that could all change."

The New York Times - News Analysis: Upstaging Before the Show - The RNC Convention Protest March

] This would be interesting for those of you that oft read the
] blurt'ed pdf's off crypto.me and slashdot.

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] We want to send motivated volunteers like yourself to
] swing states and plug you into our local operation on the
] ground. The Travelers will campaign in swing states going
] door to door and making phone calls. Travelers will
] provide their own transportation.

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] A cleaner at London's Tate Britain modern art gallery
] threw out a bag of garbage which formed part of an
] artwork because it was thought to be trash, British
] newspapers reported Friday.

Yahoo! News - Cleaner Thinks Modern Art Is Garbage

] Sexual frustration has turned a Chinese chimpanzee from a
] mild-mannered simian into a problem primate who smokes
] cigarettes and spits at visitors

Yahoo! News - Sexually frustrated chimp takes up smoking

JEFFERSON CITY, Mo. (AP) - Missouri will allow members of the military stationed overseas to return absentee ballots via e-mail, raising concerns from Internet security experts about fraud and ballot secrecy.

Though state and federal officials insist safeguards are in place to protect the ballots from tampering, duplication or other forms of fraud, critics warn that e-mail is fundamentally insecure.

"E-mail is subject to all kinds of tampering," said Bruce Schneier, co-founder of Mountain View, Calif.-based Counterpane Internet Security Inc. "One of the problems with security is even the appearance of problems is bad."

E-Mail Voting Prompts Security Concerns