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  • NATIONAL CLIPS

    NATIONAL CLIPS

    May 25, 2007

    PORTLAND, Maine: Impeach Bush/Cheney drive gets boost The Woodfords Club is not a smoke-filled room. Opened in 1913, the quaint picture postcard New England private club hosted a May 19 rally of over 200 calling for...

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  • Fighting the ravages of luxury towers

    Fighting the ravages of luxury towers

    May 25, 2007

    BROOKLYN, N.Y. — In most of the country, the housing boom is past. Not in New York City. Apartments, office towers, hotels, luxury entertainment facilities and mixed-use complexes rise to 70 stories. In recent years, housing...

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  • Autoworkers wary of Chrysler sale

    Autoworkers wary of Chrysler sale

    May 25, 2007

    DETROIT — The restructuring taking place in the auto industry took a dramatic turn May 15 when Cerberus, the New York private equity investment firm, acquired an 80.1 percent controlling share of Chrysler and renamed it...

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  • Wolfowitz ouster reflects bigger problems

    Wolfowitz ouster reflects bigger problems

    May 25, 2007 By Susan Webb

    The scandal that led to the forced resignation of Iraq war guru Paul Wolfowitz as head of the World Bank “is just the tip of the iceberg,” Nadia Martinez, who co-directs the Institute for Policy Studies’...

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  • Conference aims to grow civil rights/labor alliance

    Conference aims to grow civil rights/labor alliance

    May 25, 2007

    The Communist Party’s African American Equality Commission will hold a conference in St. Louis on June 8-10. Jarvis Tyner, CPUSA executive vice chair, told the World that the conference is aimed at bringing party members and...

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