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Schoolhouse to jailhouse
May 21, 2004Opinion Fourteen-year-old Ricky was arrested by school police one Halloween and charged with a second-degree felony: “throwing a deadly missile.” While this sounds serious, Ricky’s “deadly missile” wasn’t made with dynamite or biotoxins, nor did it...
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A brutal prison culture
May 21, 2004Opinion We have all seen the Abu Ghraib pictures, and steeled ourselves for worse to come. The brass are trying to fob this off as an aberration created by a few sadistic guards. Is this so?...
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Good public policy would put jobs before profits
May 21, 2004Opinion Allan Greenspan, Federal Reserve Board chair, has been talking to the U.S. Congress. Once more he has been explaining what the best ways are for U.S. capitalists to raise profits to higher levels. Profits are...
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Is there a limit to their gall?
May 21, 2004Opinion The Bush administration has released a 450-page report by its Commission for Assistance to a Free Cuba. The report outlines steps the U.S. government is taking to bring down the Cuban government. They seek to...
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Letters
May 21, 2004India’s election results Congratulations to Sonia Gandhi and the Congress Party in their electoral victory over Atal Bihari Vajpayee and his conservative Bharatiya Janata Party. Vajpayee and the BJP should be lauded for their unwillingness to...
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