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Quick Fix 6 — 6/3/05

APhoto Fix: A boy stands during payers at the Sunni Um al-Qura Mosque in Baghdad Friday, June 3, 2005. At least 825 people, including U.S. forces, have been killed since the new Shiite-led government was announced April 28 here.

1. Political 'Toon Fix: Paul Nowak (Desecrating holy books), Henry Payne (Working vacations), and Mike Lester (Deep Throat).

2. Humor Fix: "A recent study has found that baseball players are among the most superstitious in all of sports. The most superstitious thing a baseball player does is not to pee in a cup on drug test day" -- Jay Leno.

3. My Way Fix: This Day in History ("Casey at the Bat" published") here, Today's Birthdays (Allen Ginsberg) here, and Word of the Day (niggling) here.

4. Top of the News Fix: Payrolls grow by just 78,000 in May here, Bosnian execution video shakes family here, Liberal media reformers call for "truth" over "balance" here, Poll: Only 39% view high court favorably here, and Demo operatives target Wal-Mart here.

5. New Conservative Site Fix: Campus Magazine Online is the only national student-written online magazine for college students that provides a national platform for student articles on current abuses and potential reforms in higher education here.

6. Opinion Fix: Mike Rosen/Rocky Mountain News (Shaky filibuster deal), Charles Krauthammer/Washington Post (Gitmo grovel), Myrna Blyth/National Review (What's wrong with students?), Rich Lowry/National Review (Planned Parenthood perversity), and Ann Coulter/anncoulter.org (7 extraordinary Repub idiots).



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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.