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Wednesday, July 8th, 2009 at 12:56 pm
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- • What We've Found: Gutmann still richly salaried, Karzai gets second term, Bagram's "boom town" expansion, Iraqi oil ministry signs contract and New York City trash being dumped in burbs north of Philly
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