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An oil industry primer | What, if anything, can bring down gas prices? COMMENTARY More domestic production seen as not making any difference; competition among refiners could make a difference—but not a big one. 
Nice work if you can get it | Tax code helps redistribute income – at the top COMMENTARY From 1993 to 2003, average pay for S&P 500 CEOs rose $5.4 million. Meanwhile, middle class wages have been stagnant for 20 years.
The overseas press | The world looked intently at Hu Jintao in America COMMENTARY The Chinese say Hu’s trip to the U.S. as a great, positive visit but papers elsewhere scoff and see the two countries as far apart.
'Burn rate:' $9.9 billion a month | War cost reports said to be incomplete, understated COMMENTARY The Congressional Research Service says the total cost for Iraq and Afghanistan will soon be $439 billion; $7 billion that the Pentagon ‘couldn’t track’ is now up to $11 billion.
Garroting the Bill of Rights | “Detainee,” “rendition,” etc.: Who needs these words? COMMENTARY Recalling Orwell: “Political language… is designed to make lies sound truthful and murder respectable, to give an appearance of solidity to pure wind.”
Koppel's View | How the suits are making a travesty of television news COMMENTARY Former ABC newsman Ted Koppel says the consultants, accountants and demographers who are running television news divisions are surrendering their civic responsibilities – particularly when it comes to news from overseas.
The overseas press | On immigration, Bush is winning a few, losing a few COMMENTARY No consistency in European views but Bush may be gaining points in Middle Eastern and North African Muslim countries
Curator's corner | ‘The emerging mind of community journalism’ COMMENTARY Participants at an Alabama session on community papers (circulation under 50,000) focus on leaving aloofness behind and connecting with readers in a personal way.
The Mexican press | Immigration viewed from south of the border COMMENTARY Columns, editorials are critical of Washington’s posture on immigration and say Americans exaggerate negative effective effects of illegal aliens
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