ShareThisFriday, November 24, 2006Here is the Scripps Howard News Service NEWS budget for Friday, Nov. 24, 2006. If you have questions or comments, SHNS editors can be reached at 202-408-1484. For all SHNS content and archives, visit our Web site at www.shns.com.WASHINGTONCONGRESS-SHUFFLE (Talev, McClatchy Newspapers) _ WASHN: Tons of paper, furnishings, equipment and years' worth of nostalgia are being yanked from the suites of lawmakers who weren't re-elected this month or are retiring to make way for colleagues who called dibs on their office space. 900.WASHCALL (Hoffman, SHNS) _ Washington Calling. WASHN: Incoming Democratic leaders in the House are trying not to appear vindictive ... Perhaps the biggest winners in the elections will be the half-million residents of the District of Columbia. ... More. 650.NATIONALMARINEACCUSED (Lash, Pittsburgh Post-Gazette) _ Growing up in Western Pennsylvania and later in Granger, Ind., Justin Sharratt had one career goal: to be a U.S. Marine. "We're not a (military) family. We think he was born that way," said his mother, Theresa Sharratt, 50, of Canonsburg, Pa. "We tried to bribe him (not to go) with a car the night before he was to leave, but he said, 'No, this is what I want to do.' " Now, his military career and his future depend on the findings of an investigation into the controversial slayings of two dozen Iraqi civilians a year ago this week. 900.POWERBALL (Prois, Minneapolis-St. Paul Star Tribune) _ After three weeks, the holder of a $47 million Powerball ticket, purchased in Minnesota, has yet to step forward _ in what's now become a record wait. 500.BRIDGE-YOUNG (Prois, Minneapolis-St. Paul Star Tribune) _ Although the average age for players nationwide is 67, bridge hasn't yet gone the way of the wood-sided station wagon. A growing number of younger players are embracing the intellectually challenging, four-person strategy game with nearly endless play variations. 600.WEEKINREVIEW (Hargrove, SHNS) _ A wrap-up of the week's main news events. 800.INTERNATIONALINTIFADA (MacKinnon, Toronto Globe and Mail) _ In the first hours after his son was killed this week, Amin Gemayel led the calls for restraint. Violent acts of revenge, he said, would dishonor the memory of Industry Minister Pierre Gemayel, who had been gunned down in broad daylight on a Beirut street. But Thursday, Lebanon's normally reserved ex-president let his anger out, asking a crowd of several hundred thousand mourners who gathered in the center of Beirut to join him in what he called a "second independence intifada." 800.ANNULMENT (Makin, Toronto Globe and Mail) _ A rare annulment has been granted after an Iranian wife defrauds her husband in a bid for Canadian citizenship fraud. 600.
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