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Defeated Mousavi says Iran’s new gov’t ‘illegitimate’
July 2, 2009TEHRAN, July 1 (Xinhua) -- Iran's defeated presidential candidate Mir-Hossein Mousavi said in a statement posted on his website on Wednesday that Iran's new government is 'illegitimate.' 'From now on ...the majority of society, of which...
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OPINION Lets break mayor-corporate lock on citys schools
July 2, 2009NEW YORK — At 12:01 this morning, the law that enshrined mayoral control of New York City’s public schools formally expired, as the state Senate remained paralyzed by crisis. The city’s old Board of Education was...
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EDITORIAL Madoff is just tip of the iceberg
July 2, 2009Finance capital went to confession, told the judge its sins, and he administered the penance — 150 years in the clinker for 79-year-old Bernard Madoff. The stain of sin on the decent soul of Wall Street’s...
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Congressional hearing looks into Wells Fargo predatory lending
July 2, 2009An epic legal showdown between Wells Fargo bank and the city of Baltimore will occur on Monday July 6 in the courtroom of U.S. District Judge Benson E. Legg. The city of Baltimore is suing the...
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Climate bill moves to Senate
July 2, 2009Coalitions of labor and environmental groups cheered the passage of the historic climate change legislation in the House last month. But the hard work for a similar bill in the Senate has just begun, they added....
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