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* No benchmarks or timetables to be added to President Bush’s AIDS fightin’ money. [WP, NYT]
* Fred Thompson to thrill Republican voters until about Labor Day when he lets them down, or just gets boring. [WP, NYT, LAT, USAT]
* Oh, that Robert Zoellick, his mustache is cute, and he seems so smart and nice. Not like that other guy at all. [WP, NYT]
* The Russians, still? [WP, NYT]
* It’s taken 15 years, but now Ruth Bader Ginsburg is pissed. [NYT]
* Troop surge in Iraq failing ahead of schedule. [WSJ]
* All the world’s a stage, and the political actors merely the biggest blowhards on it. [WP]