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Quick Fix 6 — 8/30/05

1. APhoto Fix: Poland's former president and Solidarity founder Lech Walesa flashes the Victory sign with some 200 young Poles born on Aug. 31, 1980, the day when the Solidarity freedom movement was born out of worker protests in the shipyards on the Baltic coast, including Gdansk. Walesa attended a special birthday party for the young people at the Gdansk shipyard, Poland, earlier today.

2. Cartoon Fix: Chuck Asay (Intelligent design), Henry Payne (State fair biggest pig), and Brian Fairrington (1864 war dead).

3. Humor Fix: David Letterman's "Top Ten Ways to Make the U.S. Open More Exciting" here.

4. My Way Fix: This Day in History here, Today's Birthdays here, and Word of the Day here.

5. Top of the News Fix: Katrina may have killed 80 in Mississippi county here, SAT math scores hit record high here, Poverty rate rises to 12.7% here, Air Force standards limit public prayer here, and Tucson paper drops Coulter column here.

6. Opinion Fix: Kathleen Parker/Orlando Sentinel (Discovering John Roberts), Pat Buchanan/Creators (Conservatism: A House divided), Irwin Stelzer/Weekly Standard (Wobbly housing market), Phyllis Schlafly/Phyllis Schlafly Report (GOP & illegal immigration), and David Limbaugh/Washington Times ("Super Patriots").



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D.F. Oliveria started Huckleberries Online on Feb. 16, 2004. Oliveria's Sunday print Huckleberries is a past winner of the national Herb Caen Memorial Column contest.