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This long weekend, Sarah Palin quit early and Wimbledon went way late. The news out of Iran continued, and so did the news out of Joe Biden's mouth. It's the Buzz Weekend Recap...

Iran clerical split grows
Since the initial post-election tumult in Iran, the authorities have clamped down on protesters. But the turmoil has exposed cracks in the establishment that widened this weekend when an important group of clerics openly defied supreme leader Ayatollah Khameini by calling the election invalid. In a Web statement, the Association of Researchers and Teachers of Qum cited vote rigging and the violent suppression of protesters. The website of Mir Hossein Mousavi, the reform candidate who lost the official vote count to President Mahmoud Ahmadinejad, also posted accusations  Ahmadinejad supporters had engaged in election fraud. If you're following this story, the Huffington Post continues to aggregate the best of the Web. Or, for the lighter side, try Doonesbury.

Say it ain't so, Joe
Joe Biden seems to be missing a gene—the one that enables most politicians to project the damaging headlines and sound bites that their words might engender before they actually say them. (Disclaimer: Not Mark Sanford.) This weekend, the gaffe-a-minute veep let slip that the Obama administration "misread how bad the economy was" when it crafted its stimulus package. With the economy's much-anticipated "green shoots" looking more like weeds, the race to cast blame should be commencing just about any moment now. Which makes Biden somewhat off message—again..

Wimbledon—wow!
On Saturday, Serena Williams snatched back her Wimbledon title from her older sister Venus, but that was just a prelude to one of the all-time great matches. On Sunday, in the tennis equivalent of a World Series Game 7 that goes 20 innings, Roger Federer beat Andy Roddick in a 30-game final set to win his sixth Wimbledon crown and 15th Grand Slam title overall, breaking a tie with Pete Sampras. The match went more games than any other Grand Slam final in history and took four hours and 16 minutes. After it was over, Sampras said of Federer, "The guy is a legend, now he's an icon." 

Also buzzing this weekend...

• Soon we won't have Sarah Palin to kick around anymore. Or will we? 
• Manuel Zelaya, deposed as president of Honduras in a coup, tried to fly into the country Sunday but was blocked by soldiers on the runway.
• Tennessee police have ruled ex-NFL quarterback Steve McNair's death a homicide.

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