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FROM THE PWW ARCHIVES, Sept. 28, 2002: Visiting a Hero
September 29, 2006It was the last full weekend in August. Finally, we heard that four members of our family were granted visitor status at the Federal Correctional Institute McKean in Bradford, Pa. We decided to make a camping...
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PhRMA got the doughnut we got the hole
September 29, 2006SACRAMENTO, Calif. — A group of 75 seniors found the doors of the Pharmaceutical Research and Manufacturers of America’s headquarters here locked against them as they attempted to deliver a basket of doughnut holes Sept. 22....
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Veterans, legal experts hit deal on torture
September 29, 2006WASHINGTON — Human rights defenders urged the Senate to reject a deal between President George W. Bush and Republican senators that would strip hundreds of detainees of habeas corpus rights and leave the door open for...
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Robert Earl Jones, acting pioneer, blacklistee, dies at 96
September 29, 2006Stage and film actor Robert Earl Jones, father of actor James Earl Jones, died Sept. 7 at age 96. Jones got into acting during the Depression when poet Langston Hughes cast him in the 1938 production...
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Venezeuela book falls short
September 29, 2006BOOKREVIEW Hugo Chávez: Oil, Politics and the Challenge to the U.S. By Nikolas Kozloff Palgrave Macmillan, 2006 Hardcover, 262 pp., $27.95 By Tony Pecinovsky There are many books on the increasingly complex relationship between Venezuela and...
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