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Bolivian adversaries step back from brink
September 28, 2007The Constituent Assembly, situated in Bolivia’s judicial capital of Sucre, turned 1 year old on Aug. 6, and had agreed on nothing. Street protests and racial slurs directed at delegates closed it down briefly in mid-August,...
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Israel acts to cut off Gazas fuel, electricity
September 28, 2007Two news items related to the Israeli-Palestinian conflict last week revealed, each in its own way, the harshness of the Israeli occupation. First, the Israeli Security Cabinet voted unanimously Sept. 19 to declare the Gaza Strip...
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Psychologists equivocate on torture
September 28, 2007I am a psychologist and I’m mad as hell about the recent decision by the American Psychological Association (APA) to continue to let psychologists collaborate with the CIA and the military in their torture of detainees...
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This first draft needs work
September 28, 2007One of the best English teachers I know teaches at our high school. She always draws the Senior English class assignment because she can coax out of even the most reluctant 18-year-old a solid “senior paper,”...
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LETTERS: Deptember 29
September 28, 2007Mad as hell This is a copy of a comment sent to JP Morgan Chase’s Global Media Relations department. JP Morgan Chase just tried to take my little house through foreclosure after only a few months,...
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