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Mother’s Day Proclamation of 1870
May 9, 2003Each year, every president since Woodrow Wilson has issued a Mother’s Day Proclamation. However, the original Mother’s Day Proclamation was made in 1870, unrelated to the holiday. Written by Julia Ward Howe, perhaps best known today...
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Bebel Gilberto sings
May 9, 2003Music review: Bebel Gilberto sings De Tarde, Vendo O Mar, The Sound of Brazil (Evolver)
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King Coal: Revisited
May 9, 2003BOOK REVIEWCoal: A Human History, By Barbara Freese, Perseus Publishing, 308 pages Coal is an absorbing and well-written book. Most of us don’t think of coal as a mover and shaker of history. This is not...
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We protest the war and remember
May 9, 2003Opinion We forget stories at our peril. Stories of violence, racism and militarism testify to the existence of an overarching system. Minders of the status quo would have the rough edges of such stories glossed over,...
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Fleecing the family
May 9, 2003Opinion Boy, there is no shortage of creatively terrible ideas from the Republican Party these days. Those folks are just full of notions about how to make people’s lives worse – one horrible idea after another...
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