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Quick Fix 6 (3/9/05)

From CBS News: CBS News will mark the end of Dan Rather's 24 years as anchor and managing editor of the CBS Evening News with a one-hour primetime CBS News special. The program, "Dan Rather: A Reporter Remembers," will be broadcast at 8 tonight ET/PT.

1. Political 'Toon Fix: Paul Novak (Allied checkpoints), Wayne Stayskal (Baseball steroids), and Kevin Tuma (Academy Award values).

2. Humor Fix: Daniel Kurtzman/Political Humor provides Dan Ratherisms from the last three general election nights here.

3. My Way Fix: This Day in History here, Today's Birthdays here, and Positive Quote here.

4. Top of the News Fix: Ex-PM: Hezbollah rally in Beirut massive hoax here, Global caution urged for US travelers here, UN urges ban on cloning here, Oregon weighs tax on mileage here, and Senate gains victory on abortion vote here.

5. Dan Rather Fix: Jim Geraghty/National Review contends that Dan Rather's tenure parallels "CBS News" long decent into irrelevancy here.

6. Opinion Fix: Michelle Malkin/Creators Syndicate (Ransom of red reporter), Ryan Zempel/Townhall.com (Loving gays as Jesus would), Claudia Rosett/Wall Street Journal (Will Vietnam be next Iraq?), James J. Na/Discovery Institute (A true Iraqi martyr), and Myrna Blythe/National Review (Martha's extreme makeover).



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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.