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Voters choose unity
February 1, 2008S. Carolina rejects ‘dirty’ politics, Candidates race to Super Tuesday COLUMBIA, S.C. — The race is now at full throttle going into the Feb. 5 Super Tuesday primaries and caucuses in 24 states. On the Republican...
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Edwards ends presidential bid. Obama, Clinton praise ex-rival
January 31, 2008John Edwards withdrew from the race for the presidency Jan. 30, saying in New Orleans, where he had launched his campaign, “it is time to step aside so that history can blaze its path.” He was...
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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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