A look at the morning papers...

Wash Post: For GOP, Bad Gets Worse in Northeast

NYT: Cease-fire begins in Israel/Lebanon.

NYT: 5 bombs kill 57 in Baghdad.

Boston Globe: Homeland Security Chief Chertoff says Bush admin. needs EVEN MORE power to spy and arrest people.

Boston Globe: Condo sales out west are tanking.

AFP: 6 years into his term, Bush feels the need to prove his "national security credentials."

AFP: London terror plots are a "political life preserver to Bush." (Kind of sad when the best thing our president has going for him is the possibility of thousands of Americans dying.)

BBC: Bill Gates says women are key to preventing AIDS, "A woman should never need her partner's permission to save her own life."