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  • Disasters, contradictions, and hypocrisy

    Disasters, contradictions, and hypocrisy

    January 28, 2005

    OPINION A great wave struck 12 countries Dec. 26 and killed over 150,000 people. The nations and people of the world have come together in a massive demonstration of solidarity that is entirely consistent with people’s...

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  • Iraqs elections  no simple answers for the U.S. left

    Iraqs elections no simple answers for the U.S. left

    January 28, 2005 By Susan Webb

    OPINION George W. Bush is uniquely unqualified to trumpet free elections, in Iraq or anywhere else. Voter intimidation, suppression, obstruction — these are his trademarks.

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  • Listening to the inaugural speech

    Listening to the inaugural speech

    January 28, 2005

    OPINION It turns out that many, including myself, continue to underestimate the strength of Bush’s commitment to an outright imperial policy unequaled in its scope and unprecedented in its worldwide impact. Globalization compels all to have...

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  • LETTERS

    LETTERS

    January 28, 2005

    Tsunamis and the Third World The Dan Margolis piece (PWW 1/15-21) describing the lost lives in the tsunami because of the lack of an early warning system is right on. There are other preventive measures that...

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  • EDITORIALS

    EDITORIALS

    January 28, 2005

    What’s the difference? Harvard President Lawrence H. Summers should have spent a few minutes on the Internet before offering his inane comment Jan. 14 that a difference in “innate ability” might be one reason women still...

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