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Cyprus new president moves to reunify divided nation
March 27, 2008The stunning election of a Communist president in Cyprus last month promised a new direction for the divided country. Now, newly elected president Demetris Christofias has taken a historic step toward the long-sought reunification of Cyprus....
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Blogging from India #4 Communist Party of India vows fight on food prices
March 27, 2008HYDERABAD, India — The Communist Party of India began its five-day congress here March 23 in a pouring rain unusual for the season and this area which mostly does not get enough. But the rain nourished...
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Blogging from India #3 The larger context of Pelosis visit to India
March 26, 2008HYDERABAD, India — When newspapers here reported a visit to India by House Speaker Nancy Pelosi (D-Calif.), eyebrows were raised. Pelosi, the first woman to hold the position of House speaker, is known in the U.S....
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The speech that moved the nation
March 26, 2008Barack Obama made a magnificent contribution to the fight against racism and for unity in his March 18 speech on race. He gave the speech after a week of racist, McCarthy-like hysteria over out-of-context snippets from...
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Paying for biofuels in your supermarket
March 26, 2008On March 12, representatives of about 80 of America's largest baking companies, representing more than 85 percent of our baking industry, marched in Washington to protest the dangerously low supplies of wheat, rye and other grains....
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