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Sunday newspapers

Yeah, I'm reading some Sunday newspapers.

The budget deficit is rising like blood pressure. Osama bin Laden is skipping around freely. American soldiers die in Iraq every day.

So naturally, next year's election will turn on the pressing issue of gay marriage. - Leonard Pitts

A recent food column focused on descriptions of Seattle restaurants in novels.

The New York Times covers the conclusions of a group of scholars on the first two coups the CIA did - Iran and Guatemala, in 53-54. Some quotes:

All agreed that both coups — the first that the C.I.A. carried out — had terrible long-term effects. [...] "It's quite clear that the 1953 coup cut short a move toward democracy in Iran," said Mark J. Gasiorowski, a historian at Louisiana State University who began studying that coup in the 1980's. "The United States bears responsibility for this."

So far this year, seven states have canceled their primaries for 2004 or eliminated them altogether. [...] "Why spend $7 million of scarce public funds on something that neither party is really going to use?" [Washington Gov] Locke said last week.

David Horsey has 7 suggestions to fixing Seattle-area traffic woes...