Most important news story of the week ending November 14, 2008A: Helen Thomas returns to the White House briefing room
B: transplanted blood stem cells from a person naturally resistant to AIDS may have cured one patient<
http://www.nytimes.com/2008/11/14/health/14hiv.html>
C: recently discovered loophole rewards banks for buying other failing banks
D: three Senate races are still undecided
E: parts of western Washington state are flooded; a wildfire burns Montecito/threatens Santa Barbara, California; Galveston, Texas disappears from the news
F: a deputy commander of Iran's Revolutionary Guard Corps reveals that some actually fear that Obama's "soft attack" strategy of "negotiations without preconditions" to be "more dangerous" than the GOP's previous reliance on "hard conflict." <
http://blogs.abcnews.com/politicalpunch/2008/11/the-weight-of-t.html>
G: Bush Administration miscalculates the deadline for when their last-minute laws needed to be passed in order to be safe from being overturned by the incoming Obama Administration
H: nation-wide protests of Prop Hate continue
I: a last-minute "incident" as part of the Friday document dump (please see which in my reply)
J: Other (please see my pick for most important new story in reply)