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The Vanquished: A Puerto Rican novel
September 19, 2003Book review The Vanquished by César Andreu Iglesias University of North Carolina Press, 2002, 232 pp., Paperback, $19.95 This coming week, on Sept. 23, thousands of Puerto Ricans will converge on the mountain town of Lares...
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First, do no harm
September 19, 2003Opinion What if they gave a war and no one came? What if they (the same they, it seems) gave an execution and no doctor showed up? Maybe they would have to call off both. Hippocrates...
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Triumph of the media mill
September 19, 2003Opinion Without a hint of intended irony, the “NewsHour” on PBS concluded its Sept. 9 program with a warm interview of Henry Kissinger and then a segment about a renowned propagandist for the Nazi war machine....
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Vouchers and the hidden agenda
September 19, 2003Opinion Republican leaders in Congress are once again trying to foist a voucher experiment on the District of Columbia, despite opposition from D.C. delegate Eleanor Holmes Norton, school superintendent Paul Vance, a majority of city council...
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Guns vs. butter
September 19, 2003Opinion President Bush’s announcement that he wants another $87 billion for Iraq and Afghanistan ignited a storm that is expected to rage in Congress for months. It signals the intersection of the war and the economy...
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