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PRESS DIGEST - New York Times front page - May 31
31 May 2007 06:06:13 GMT
Source: Reuters
NEW YORK, May 31 (Reuters) - The New York Times reported the following stories on its front page on Thursday. Reuters has not verified these stories and does not vouch for their accuracy.

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The outcome of U.S. asylum cases can be influenced by things like the location of the court and the sex and professional background of judges, a study has found.

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Islamist groups are vying for influence in Gaza in a race to fill the security vacuum created by fighting between Fatah and Hamas.

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Former Senator Fred D. Thompson has taken steps that make it clear that he is likely to run for the White House.

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This Supreme Court term will be remembered as the time when Justice Ruth Bader Ginsburg found her voice, and used it.

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Clinical depression among former players is correlated with the number of concussions they had, a study found.

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The idea of banning alcohol on the trains and platforms of the Long Island and Metro-North railroads was faced with an overwhelmingly negative response.

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For a dozen years, Naples and surrounding towns have periodically choked on their refuse, but the last two weeks have flared into a real crisis.
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Men carry the coffin of Raheem al-Hasnawi during a funeral in the holy city of Kerbala, 110 km (70 miles) south of Baghdad, June 6, 2007. Al-Hasnawi, a local representative in the town of al-Mishkhab of revered Grand Ayatollah Ali al-Sistani, the reclusive spiritual leader of Iraq's Shi'ite majority, was gunned down outside his home, Sistani's office and police said on Wednesday.



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