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GOOD AFTERNOON, WASHINGTON. Here are some headlines to end your day ...

» CAPITOL HILL: "Panel Says Iraqi Forces Not Ready" [NYT] ... "Senate Family Welcomes Cousin Tim ... Not So Much Uncle Larry" [Washington Sketch/WaPo] ... "Lawmaker Questions Legality of Administration's Satellite Plan" [WaPo]
» ANNAPOLIS: "The Choice of the Maryland GOP: Ron Paul" [Md. Moment/WaPo]
» SOUTHWEST: "One Man Figures Out How to Live Life Next to the Fast Lane" [City Paper]
» RIVERDALE: "Park Officer Shoots Driver on BW Parkway" [WaPo]
» HERNDON: "Tishman Speyer Leases Herndon Building to VW" [Washbiz Blog/WaPo]
» KENSINGTON: "Richard Jewell and the Olympic Bombing's Kensington Connection" [Raw Fisher/WaPo]

ELSEWHERE ... "Judge Rules Provisions of Patriot Act Unconstitutional" [WaPo] ... "Bush Accepts Invitation to Beijing Olympics" [NYT] ... "Experts Doubt Drop In Violence in Iraq" [WaPo] ... "Opera World Loses a Leading Ambassador" [WaPo] ... "Gold Tops $700 as Dollar Slumps Against Euro; Silver Gains" [Bloomberg] ..."U.K. Jets Scrambled to Intercept Russian Aircraft" [Guardian] ... "New Mortgage Foreclosures Set Record" [WaPo] ... "Mosquito Virus Arrives in Europe" [BBC] ... "President Bush Discusses Exports With China's Hu" [NPR] ... "The Last GOP Face-Off Before Fred Thompson Joins the Race" [Slate] ... "Happy Hunting: Minn. Has Plenty of Pheasants" [Star Tribune] ... "Clammers Dig in to Save Livelihood" [Portland Press Herald] ... "Even More Bonkers Than Yonkers" [Curbed]

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