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  • EDITORIAL: Housing bubble criminals

    EDITORIAL: Housing bubble criminals

    March 23, 2007

    Economists are warning that a crisis is looming in the home mortgage industry that could eclipse the bursting of the dot.com bubble and the Enron and WorldCom bankruptcies seven years ago. It has the potential of...

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  • New report details abuse of guest workers

    New report details abuse of guest workers

    March 23, 2007

    A report, “Close to slavery: guest worker programs in the United States,” released by the Montgomery, Ala.-based Southern Poverty Law Center earlier this month, details abuses faced by workers who come to the U.S. under the...

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  • Guest workers fired after protesting slave conditions

    Guest workers fired after protesting slave conditions

    March 23, 2007

    Hundreds of guest workers from India are protesting conditions in a Pascagoula, Miss., shipyard that immigrant rights activists compare to slavery. Many of the workers gathered in a church on March 11 in this Gulf Coast...

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  • From statehouse to village green, Americans stand for peace

    From statehouse to village green, Americans stand for peace

    March 23, 2007

    More than 1,000 local peace actions marked the fourth anniversary of the Iraq war. Below is a sampling from our correspondents.Arizona: Four days of vigils and marches marked the war’s fourth anniversary in Tucson. About 200...

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  • Ethanol, energy and profits

    Ethanol, energy and profits

    March 23, 2007

    President Bush’s recent swing through Central and South America was aimed at bolstering relations in the face of increasing movements for independence from U.S. domination. It has been a period of relative regional neglect with America’s...

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