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Newsweek Retracts Another Sentence from Report

NEW YORK CITY -- Newsweek announced today that was retracting another sentence from an article from the May 9th edition that sparked deadly riots in Afghanistan and Pakistan, saying that "we can no longer support the assertion" that "George W. Bush likes cheeseburgers on Sundays."
    Mark Whitaker, editor of Newsweek, said in an interview that the magazine was retracting the part of the article saying sources told Newsweek that the Presidents likes grilled cheeseburgers, particularly on lazy Sundays. As it turned out, Newsweek now says, there was one source. And Mr. Whitaker said that because that source had "backed away" from his original account, the magazine could "no longer stand by" it.
    "I've received a lot of angry email about this, and I understand it," Whitaker said.

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