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Eagles punch ticket to NFC title game (Sports, 20 articles)
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Quarterback Donovan McNabb tossed two first-half touchdown passes to help the Philadelphia Eagles cruise to a 27-14 win over the Minnesota Vikings Sunday and reach the NFC championship game for a fourth consecutive year. The Philadelphia Eagles don't have Terrell Owens , haven't played a meaningful game in four weeks and finished the regular season with consecutive losses. With the temperature just below freezing Sunday, Owens found solace in a heated luxury box inside Lincoln Financial Field as his injured right ankle continues to heal from a Roy Williams' drag down last month. With Owens only holding out hope for a chance to play in a Super Bowl, the Eagles' postseason hopes did not seem so great, even for a team that went 13-3. There's multi-talented running back Brian Westbrook , who ran for 70 yards and caught five passes for 47 yards, including a 7-yard touchdown in the second quarter, while lining up all over the field. PHILADELPHIA - Freddie Mitchell showed ’em why he’s called “Hollywood.xx-x201DIn the Eagles’ first meaningful game in nearly a month, the back-ups played like regulars and the supporting cast picked up the slack.
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Israel holds off on Gaza operation (World, 25 articles)
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On the day newly New Palestinian President Mahmoud Abbas called for peace, seven Palestinians were killed and three Israelis wounded in renewed violence, officials said. The only alternative to peace is the continuation of the occupation and the conflict said Abbas, who for years has been one of the central Palestinians involved in peace negotiations with Israel. A top PLO decision-making body called on Palestinian militants Sunday to halt attacks against Israel, charging that the violence gives Israel an excuse to carry out military operations.
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Bush hit for linking Iraq to vote (U.S., 15 articles)
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In an interview with the Washington Post on Sunday, Bush was asked why no-one in his administration had been held accountable for perceived missteps on Iraq policy, including being wrong about weapons of mass destruction. One of the 43rd president's achievements in winning reelection, according to Bush family friends and historians, is to ease the sting of the 41st president's failure to do so a dozen years earlier. The president's victory also establishes firmly a fact that earlier was open to dispute: The Bushes now belong in the top tier of political families in U.S. history.
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In Indonesia, Wolfowitz says US eager to hand over work (World, 15 articles)
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Indonesia increased its tsunami death toll by 5,000 Sunday, raising the overall number of people who died in the Dec. 26 disaster to more than 162,000. U.S. Deputy Secretary of Defence Paul Wolfowitz flew across the devastated Sumatran coast yesterday and expressed pride in the US aid operation, but said Washington wants to hand over relief work to Indonesia and other affected nations as soon as possible. As a top U.S. military official toured the area of Indonesia hardest hit by last month's tsunami, the government said today that there was no three-month deadline for foreign troops to pull out of the country.
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The Seattle Times: "Ringleader" gets 10 years in Abu Ghraib abuse case (U.S., 17 articles)
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A US soldier found guilty of abusing prisoners at Abu Ghraib jail near Baghdad has been sentenced to 10 years in jail. Specialist Charles Graner was sentenced to 10 years behind bars Saturday for his role in the Ghraib prison scandal , but his parents still insist that their son was merely following orders and has become a scapegoat for higher-ups in the military. The "just following orders" defense didn't work for the alleged leader of the abuse of Iraqi detainees at Ghraib prison , but lawyers for at least one other soldier facing court-martial in the scandal still intend to use it.
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