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• News Analysis: An Assessment Jars a Foreign Policy Debate About Iran
  Until Monday, 2008 seemed to be a year destined to be consumed, at least when it comes to foreign policy, by the prospects of confrontation with Iran.
• Sloppy Police Lab Work in New York Leads to Retesting of Drug Samples
  The N.Y.P.D. has begun to test thousands of drug evidence samples after a review found that sloppy work in its laboratory could have skewed drug evidence.
• Red Crescent Says 25,000 Iraqi Refugees Have Returned
  At least 25,000 Iraqi refugees have returned since mid-September, according to the Iraqi Red Crescent.
• American Exception : Serving Life for Providing Car to Killers
  An American legal doctrine makes accomplices as liable as the killer for murders committed during felonies.
• Vulnerable Democrats See Fates Tied to Clinton
  Some House Democrats are concerned over the possibility that Hillary Rodham Clinton will be their party nominee.
• Life Was Lost in Maelstrom of Suspicion
  A suicide threatens to plunge the Air Force into a quagmire as it struggles to emerge from a huge scandal.
• Pakistani Rivals Threaten Boycott of Elections
  Two former prime ministers who have long bitterly opposed each other joined with an opposition alliance on Monday to denounce what they see as an unfair environment leading up to parliamentary elections.
• 2 Are Hurt in New York by Debris From Towers
  Wind gusts knocked glass or debris from two skyscrapers in Midtown Monday afternoon, including the new building that houses The New York Times.
• Bomber Strikes Convoy in Kabul
  A suicide car bomber targeted a NATO convoy in Kabul, wounding 10 civilians passing nearby, officials said.
• TV Decoder Blog: CBS Announces Revised Schedule
  On Monday, two broadcast networks, CBS and NBC, gave the clearest indication to date of how their programming schedules were being affected by the four-week writers' strike. CBS said it would introduce several new reality shows and midseason replacements beginning in January, including the first winter season ever of the reality show “Big Brother.”“Big Brother,” [...].