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Hurricane Wilma hits Cuba but no one dies
November 4, 2005Hurricane Wilma hit Cuba from all sides. On Oct. 17, on its way west to Mexico’s Yucatan Peninsula, the hurricane dropped torrents of rain on eastern Cuba, and five days later, en route to Florida, Wilma...
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Television: Tales from a couch
November 4, 2005OK, I’ll admit it. I don’t have TiVo. I don’t even have cable. In fact, I really only get one channel perfectly. But am I going to let any of this stop me from telling you...
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How imperialism fomented Islamist violence
November 4, 2005Devil’s Game: How the United States helped unleash fundamentalist Islam Robert Dreyfuss Metropolitan Books/Henry Holt, November 2005 Hardcover, 400 pp., $27.50 President Bush has just repeated his foggy-brained assertion that somehow al-Qaida and “communism” are the...
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Hurricanes and war
November 4, 2005Replacing emergency relief with war is not new in world or U.S. history. Even disasters separated by more than half a century have similarities. In the spring of 1952, during the Korean War, a Missouri River...
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Using Katrina to exploit immigrants
November 4, 2005So far, the immigrant-haters have not found a way to actually blame Latino immigrants for Hurricanes Katrina and Rita. But there is plenty of immigrant-bashing going on in the wake of the storms. CNN’s Lou Dobbs,...
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