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Newsweek Bumps Taliban Cover for Leibowitz in U.S. Edition (The Nation)
"The Rise of Jihadism" is still inside, of course; now, a secondary story. After all, Angelina Jolie is ours, while a distant botch of a war in Afghanistan? As the magazine's editors clearly concluded, while the rest of the world considers the return of the Taliban, let us eat cake. FBNY: Who's wrong, Nation or Newsweek?

Musharraf Memoir Could Be Used in Pearl Murder Appeal (Reuters)
The lawyer of an Islamist militant sentenced to hang in Pakistan for his role in the murder of U.S. reporter Daniel Pearl said on Tuesday he would use President Pervez Musharraf's memoir to support an appeal.

News Brought to You by the Average Joe (Seattle Times)
"We're in a time when activist citizens and sometimes even the general public have an opportunity to be involved and create meaningful and easy-to-share journalism," said Merrill Brown, a former RealNetworks executive heading a Carnegie-Knight project on journalism education.

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