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Wednesday, July 4, 2007

The Morning News

posted by on July 4 at 8:03 AM

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Money: Mitt Romney, Rudy Giuliani are behind Democrats in fund-raising.

Freedom: After 114 days, BBC correspondent Alan Johnston has been freed by his captors in Gaza.

Surrender: Over 700 followers of a radical mosque in Islamabad have given themselves up to the Pakistan military after a stand-off. Many more remain inside.

Profiles in Courage: The opening sentence says it all: “A Chinese man bit to death a fierce dog that was savaging his beloved puppy.”

America on a Corner: For five years, liberals and conservatives have squared off on an Everett street corner every Friday.

Booze Cruise: Police are on the lookout for drunken drivers and drunken boaters this 4th of July.

Godfather of Gore Fact of the Day: Herschell Gordon Lewis’s 1967 wife-swapping tale Suburban Roulette is in many ways his most accomplished film of the ’60s. The location for the shoot was near an airport, and with planes constantly roaring overhead Lewis was forced to abandon his style of interminably long, uninterrupted shots. The result can almost be called visually competent. Almost.

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