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  • COMMENTARY Amid losses, India’s left will grow stronger

    COMMENTARY Amid losses, India’s left will grow stronger

    May 24, 2009 By R.K. Sharma

    NEW DELHI -- While the Left parties here went from 61 seats to 25 seats in the parliamentary elections, their mood is upbeat. The coalition which includes CPI and CPI-M will continue the strategy of building...

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  • EDITORIAL Cost of anti-immigrant laws

    EDITORIAL Cost of anti-immigrant laws

    May 24, 2009

    State after state, some 45 in all, continue to suffer major budget shortfalls due to increased costs of anti-immigrant “enforcement only” local laws. According to a report released last January by the National Employment Law Project,...

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  • Katrina hero’s story to be told on big screen

    Katrina hero’s story to be told on big screen

    May 24, 2009

    Sony Pictures and Will Smith's Overbrook Entertainment have picked up the movie rights to the story of an ex-Marine who orchestrated the rescue of hundreds of his neighbors during the Hurricane Katrina disaster.

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  • Iran hawks push Obama on deadline for diplomacy

    Iran hawks push Obama on deadline for diplomacy

    May 24, 2009

    WASHINGTON, May 22 (IPS) - After an uneventful first meeting between U.S. President Barack Obama and Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu that seemed to produce no real breakthroughs, hawks in the U.S. and Israel are seizing...

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  • Gitmo a paradise of fun in the sun says anonymous source

    Gitmo a paradise of fun in the sun says anonymous source

    May 24, 2009

    The battle between former Vice President Cheney and President Obama has heated up with dueling speeches on the subject of “Torture: Fun, but for whom?” Cheney has taken the position that the more we torture foreigners...

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