Wednesday, October 29, 2008

10-29-2008

10-29-08—First came the mortgage crisis. Now comes the credit card crisis. NYT A1

--At least 310 private security companies from around the world have received contracts from US agencies to protect American and Iraqi officials, installations, convoys and other entities in Iraq since 2003, according to the most comprehensive accounting yet of the secretive and weakly regulated role that private firms have played in the conflict. NYT A5

--The Alaska Republican Party on Tuesday found itself in the awkward [but not unusual] position of urging voters to return a convicted felon to the US Senate. NYT A13

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