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Public Address 18/05/04 - Spoiled For Choice

By: HARD NEWS from Russell Brown
Published: Tue 18 May 2004 11:37 AM
PUBLIC ADDRESS 18/05/04 - Spoiled for Choice
Regrettably, spoiled for choice | May 18, 2004 11:11
Russell Brown's Hard News
So what's the lead in Iraq today? Head of Governing Council assassinated? One not-very-mass WMD turns up? Pentagon denial of New Yorker claim that accountability for prison abuse goes all the way up followed by another investigation that says the same thing? News junkies are, perhaps regrettably, spoiled for choice...
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