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Just links today. Commentary will return tomorrow.

Sudan:

• Powell says Sudanese hope to reach a peace accord this year | Secretary of State Colin L. Powell won a commitment from Sudanese negotiators to reach agreement by the end of December to end the civil war in Sudan (The New York Times)
  
  
• Powell: Sudan accord on track | Official disputes December goal (The Washington Post)
  
  
• Powell optimistic on Sudan | Secretary of State sits in on peace talks. He says he sees a final agreement within reach and urges the two sides to sign an accord by the year's end (Los Angeles Times)
  
  
• Powell: U.S. could end sanctions against Sudan | Steps to stop civil war, curb anti-Israeli militants would have proceed U.S. actions (The Washington Post)
  
  
• Powell tries to nudge Sudan toward peace | Secretary of State Colin L. Powell suggested that the U.S. would lift sanctions if Sudan reached a peace accord and acted further against terrorism (The New York Times)
  
  

Religious freedom:

• China Christian church activist detained | Liu Fenggang, 43, was detained on Oct. 13 in the city of Hangzhou while visiting with leaders of the destroyed churches who had just been released from almost two months in detention (Associated Press)
  
  
• Congress concerned over religious freedoms in Iraq | Conservative Republican lawmakers in Congress worry that the Muslim-dominated country will shed its secular history and officially turn into an Islamic state, complete with a constitution that says Islam is its national religion (Knight Ridder)
  
  
• All they wanted was a simple cross | The structure occupies a portion of St Anthony's Street and is on the Brihanmumbai Municipal Corporation's hitlist of illegal religious shrines to be demolished following a recent Bombay High Court order. (New Indian Press)
  
  

Pledge of Allegiance:

• Case involving pledge should be easy for justices to decide | Scalia's recusal likely means that the court's interest in the standing question will wane and that the justices will reach the substantive question of whether having students recite the pledge is unconstitutional (Terry Eastland, The Dallas Morning News)
  
  
• "Under God" | The history of a phrase (James Piereson, The Weekly Standard)
  
  
• One atheist, underwhelmed | Overturning the pledge seems certain to make atheists even less popular than they already are, while distracting attention from the far more troubling entanglements of church and state that have emerged under the Bush administration. (by Chris Mooney, Washington Post)
  
  
• High court must not be pressured | The Supreme Court should affirm the 9th Circuit's decision and hold that it is not for the government to encourage students to express a religious belief. (Erwin Chemerinsky, Hampshire Gazette, Mass.)
  
  
• Being forced to recite the pledge as an outsider | Growing up Jewish, I always felt like an outsider as a religious minority. (Larry Atkins, Chicago Tribune)
  
  

Courts:

• Judge: Amish can skip orange safety tape | Swartzentruber Amish prefer gray reflective tape and a lantern (Associated Press)
  
  
• High court refuses to hear Iowa 'spirit of Satan' case | Justices also turn away dispute over campaign ad in North Carolina (Associated Press)
  
  
• Ethicists don't see Scalia sitting out most church-state cases | But remarks about pledge dispute were specific enough to keep him out of that case, experts say (Associated Press)
  
  

Lt. Gen. Boykin:

• General won't be moved for remarks flap | Pentagon brushes aside congressional calls to reassign the general during an investigation (Associated Press)
  
  
• Senator: Reprimand for general's comments | Joe Lieberman calls comments the "mirror opposite" of Osama bin Laden (Associated Press)
  
  

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