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Breaking the shackles: Cote d’Ivoire struggles against neocolonialism
May 13, 2005Jean-Baptiste Gomont Diagou wants to set the record straight about the conflict besetting Côte d’Ivoire, his home country. The Western media has portrayed the strife as religion-based, pitting the predominantly Muslim north against the south’s Christian...
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Price indexing and Social Security: A time bomb
May 13, 2005People Before Profits Private accounts have been the center of controversy in the Social Security debate, but the hidden time bomb is Bush’s proposal to change the way retirees’ starting benefits are determined. “Price indexing” is...
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Clergy and laity criticize GOP hypocrisy
May 13, 2005WASHINGTON — “Culture of life” has become one of President George W. Bush’s clichés even as he sows death and destruction here and abroad. Bush seized on the Terri Schiavo tragedy to whip up nationwide “pro-life”...
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They are killing people for money
May 13, 2005TEXAS CITY, Texas — “They are killing people for money,” a retired union carpenter told me as I was standing in front of the British Petroleum refinery plant here, March 26. I drove the 60 miles...
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Eyes Wide Open dramatizes human cost of Iraq war
May 13, 2005SAN FRANCISCO — It was billed as a press conference. But what really happened in Civic Center Plaza on the morning of March 25 was an hour-long, intensely moving memorial tribute to the 1,525 U.S. soldiers...
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