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Massachusetts candidates debate Iraq war
May 31, 2007CHELMSFORD, Mass. — More than a hundred people packed the Chelmsford police station May 23 to hear five candidates seeking to replace Rep. Martin Meehan (D-5th C.D.). Meehan is stepping down from Congress to become chancellor...
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Ohioans urge end to foreclosure frenzy
May 25, 2007CLEVELAND – Residents appealed to Congress May 21 to end the epidemic of home foreclosures wrecking their city. Community leaders, public officials, researchers and banking experts charged in testimony at a Congressional hearing that the Federal...
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Minutemen draw flak near San Jose
May 25, 2007CAMPBELL, Calif. — In response to the May Day pro-immigrant rights demonstrations, members of the so-called Minuteman Civil Defense Corps staged a rally here, May 12, but were unsuccessful in spreading their anti-immigrant message. Their 10-person...
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John Pappademos, Marxist scholar and activist, 82
May 25, 2007John Pappademos, a Marxist scholar, fighter for peace and justice, and longtime member of the Communist Party, died on May 6. He was 82. Pappademos was born into a poor working-class family in St. Louis. During...
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Another view of Lives of Others
May 25, 2007“The Lives of Others,” the German film that won the 2007 Best Foreign Film Academy Award, and which was reviewed positively on these pages last month (PWW 4/21-27), is a sophisticated attack on socialism that tries...
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