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Rendering the Palestinian Authority irrelevant
March 19, 2008Although the calm in Gaza did not last for more than a few days it marks a very significant development in the ongoing power struggle between Israel, Hamas in Gaza and the Palestinian Authority in Ramallah....
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Free speech? Not in Troy, N.Y.
March 19, 2008TROY, N.Y.—An exhibit by Iraqi-born digital media artist Wafaa Bilal at Rensselaer Polytechnic Institute (RPI) in Troy, NY, a suburb of Albany, was suspended by school administrators earlier this month “pending a more complete review of...
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Inequality, women and the working class
March 18, 2008To be unequal is a harsh reality. We grew up in the USA under the belief system that all men are created equal. Historically, that concept was a great advance in opposition to the concept of...
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NAFTA, Obama and Clinton
March 18, 2008Both Barack Obama and Hillary Clinton have issued statements criticizing the North American Free Trade Agreement (NAFTA) and calling for its renegotiation. This produced uproar. The Mexican government, which told its people that renegotiation was impossible...
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World Notes: Literacy, women’s rights, death penalty …
March 18, 2008Cuba: Literacy milestone reached Speaking to reporters, Cuban Minister of Education Luis Ignacio Gomez indicated that as of March 13 three million people worldwide have learned to read and write through the Cuban method of literacy...
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