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Health care reform takes new turn in California
January 31, 2008This article has been corrected. The long-running saga of health reform in California has taken a new turn, with two developments that are reshaping the debate about how best to cover millions of uninsured and underinsured...
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Milton Wolff, last Lincoln Brigade Commander
January 30, 2008Milton Wolff, a perennial symbol of U.S. working-class internationalism, died Jan. 14 in California at age 92. Born in Brooklyn of immigrant parents, the last commander of the Washington-Lincoln Brigades that fought fascism in Spain was...
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Aramark preys on Detroit schools, union, pols say
January 30, 2008School predators don’t always appear as shadowy figures lurking on the fringes of playgrounds. Sometimes they come in brightly lit corporate offices wearing three-piece suits. Detroit area union officials and politicians charge that Aramark Corp., the...
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Cleveland rally says End Gaza siege
January 30, 2008CLEVELAND — Braving bitterly cold winds, 100 peace activists rallied in Market Square here Jan. 26 and marched several blocks to a town hall meeting to demand an end to the Israeli siege of Gaza., for...
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Israelis, Palestinians rally for peace at Gaza border
January 30, 2008In an emotional rally at the Gaza border Jan. 26, some 2,000 Israelis demonstrated for peace and an end to Israel’s blockade of Gaza. The demonstration was organized by Israeli Jewish and Arab groups, and was...
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