First Links – 07.01.11

Zimbabwe’s “Surprising” AIDS Success , The Catholic Thing (Matthew Hanley)

Islam Will Find Its Own Way to Freedom , Public Discourse (Mustafa Akyol)

Strauss-Kahn Case Seen as Near Collapse , New York Times (Jim Dwyer, William K. Rashbaum, and John Eligon)

US Gen David Petraeus confirmed as CIA director , BBC News

Smells Like School Spirit , New York Times (David Brooks)

Abortion and the Missing 160 Million , New York Times (Ross Douthat)

 

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