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Most Americans (62%) disagree with the idea that success is mostly determined by forces outside a person’s control, but 34% agree with this sentiment; in 2003, the public dismissed the idea that success is largely outside of one’s control by a slightly wider margin (67%-30%). Stark racial differences exist on this question as blacks continue [...]

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from United Press International
NEW YORK, July 23 (UPI) — An anti-war activist group has urged President Bush to stop “moving the goalposts on Iraq.”
“It never ends with the incompetent leadership we have in the White House and the minority in Congress,” Jon Soltz, Iraq War veteran and chairman of VoteVets.org, said in a statement [...]

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By Mark Maske
Washington Post Staff Writer
NFL Commissioner Roger Goodell yesterday ordered quarterback Michael Vick not to report to training camp with the Atlanta Falcons until the league has reviewed his legal troubles stemming from federal dog-fighting charges.
Vick’s playing status is to be determined by Goodell, and the NFL gave no timetable for the decision other [...]

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By Thomas Ferraro

WASHINGTON (Reuters) - Calling for the impeachment of U.S. President George W. Bush and Vice President Dick Cheney, Cindy Sheehan and 45 fellow Iraq war protesters were arrested on Monday after they refused to leave a U.S. lawmaker’s office and adjoining hallway, authorities said.
Before police escorted her away, Sheehan, who emerged as a [...]

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By DEEPTI HAJELA

NEW YORK - A quarter of adults in the city have elevated levels of mercury in their blood, linked to how much fish they eat, according to survey results released Monday by the health department.
Rates were higher among more affluent residents compared to those in lower income groups and were high among Asians, [...]

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from Media Bistro.com
After 23 years, Dean Reynolds is changing channels (from ABC to CBS). The son of the late legendary ABC anchorman Frank Reynolds penned a goodbye note in which he wrote “journalism is an honorable calling and all of you should be proud to be a part of it.”
And in a somewhat cryptic way, [...]

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KEY WEST, Fla. - A white-bearded insurance agent from Florida won the Ernest Hemingway Look-Alike Contest, a highlight of the annual festival honoring the famed writer.
Larry Austin, of Palm Harbor, defeated 122 other contenders in the competition at Sloppy Joe’s Bar, Hemingway’s favorite watering hole when he lived here in the 1930s. The competition’s final [...]

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By LARA JAKES JORDAN

Hey, Alberto! Wanna really clean up the Justice Department’s image? RESIGN!

WASHINGTON - Attorney General Alberto Gonzales says he’s staying at the Justice Department to try to repair its broken image, telling Congress in a statement released Monday he’s troubled that politics may have played a part in hiring career federal prosecutors.
Senators already [...]

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By HOPE YEN

WASHINGTON - Frustrated by delays in health care, a coalition of injured Iraq war veterans is accusing VA Secretary Jim Nicholson of breaking the law by denying them disability pay and mental health treatment.
VA Secretary Jim Nicholson
The class-action lawsuit against the U.S. Department of Veterans Affairs, filed Monday in federal court in San [...]

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