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On-court decorum to return

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Must credit the San Francisco Chronicle
By BRUCE JENKINS
San Francisco Chronicle

Has anyone ever figured out what makes an appealing tennis player? There doesn't seem to be a specific answer.

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An especially bad month for Bush

WHITE HOUSE WATCH
By ANN MCFEATTERS
Scripps Howard News Service

WASHINGTON _ The month of June 2007 may well go down as one of the worst of the Bush presidency.
It was the month the wheels fell off, when the curtain was drawn aside to reveal that the great and mighty wizard was none other than Dick Cheney, when party loyalists began publicly to give up on the administration. It was a month when nothing seemed to go right for the president.

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'Sicko' skips over a lot of health care facts

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By DEROY MURDOCK
Scripps Howard News Service

NEW YORK _ Michael Moore's new movie, "Sicko," should be called "Skipo," since it skips over so many facts en route to government medicine.

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Bong hits for bad law

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By DAN K. THOMASSON
Scripps Howard News Service

WASHINGTON - The impact of the Supreme Court's latest First Amendment rulings is well defined in one case and not so in the other, leaving a host of special interests applauding wildly and those who believe that student speech is as protected as any other shaken.

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Sosa deserves Hall of Fame

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Must credit The Press-Enterprise of Riverside, Calif.
By GREGG PATTON
The Press-Enterprise

When does 600 not equal 600?
When they are the 600 home runs hit by Sammy Sosa and the 600 that Ken Griffey Jr. is approaching.

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A Cuban exile celebrates the Fourth of July

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By MARISELLA VEIGA
Hispanic Link

It's the morning of the Fourth of July and I ask my U.S.-born husband if he's begun the holiday rituals.
"I've sung the national anthem, I've pledged allegiance to the flag, I've examined the Federalist Papers," he says.

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Dice K flourishes despite little support

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Must credit The Providence Journal
By SEAN McADAM
The Providence Journal

Boston Red Sox righthander Daisuke Matsuzaka ended the month of June with a sparkling 1.59 ERA, but you wouldn't know it by looking at his won-lost record.

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Let the eagles fly

An editorial / By Dale McFeatters
Scripps Howard News Service

The Endangered Species Act has been blamed for bureaucratically blocking development in the name of protecting creatures like the snail darter and the kangaroo rat that only a naturalist could love.

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Regular TV only tiny part of NBA's dream

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By DAVE KRIEGER
Scripps Howard News Service

While you were waiting for Kevin Garnett to be traded to Phoenix, David Stern was negotiating payments to the NBA for technologies that don't yet exist.

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CHP boosts freeway patrols

By ELY PORTILLO
Fresno Bee

In a bid to reduce the number of people killed in collisions between cars and large trucks, the California Highway Patrol is sending out more officers this summer to ticket unsafe drivers.

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