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Ben's News Bag

• Bush's top pardon prospects.
• Citigroup Tries to Stop the Drop in Its Share Price
• College athletes cluster majors at most schools - USATODAY.com
• Democracy Now! | Cornel West on the Election of Barack Obama: "I Hope He Is a Progressive Lincoln, I Aspire to Be the Frederick Douglass to Put Pressure on Him"

  "They're responsible in part for the larger Greenspan-like shadow cast that wedded us to the dogma of unregulated markets that has led toward the near catastrophe and what Mike Davis rightly calls the financial Katrina"

• Rebooting the Right
• Rep. Waxman to head House Energy and Commerce panel
• Prop. 8: Gay-marriage ban considered by California Supreme Court
• Al-Qaida No. 2 insults Obama in new audio message
• Street of risk and loss
• Buyout-Depleted 'Star-Ledger' Reassigns Two Journos -- To Mailroom
• Stevens loses Alaska Senate race, will not ask for pardon
• Chris Frosheiser
• Democrats let Lieberman keep committee chair
• Web Sites That Dig for News Rise as Watchdogs
• Clinton to accept offer of secretary of state job