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  • New Yorkers meet Bloomberg with demands

    New Yorkers meet Bloomberg with demands

    January 12, 2002

    NEW YORK – A citywide coalition of New Yorkers gathered at the steps of City Hall Jan. 2 to voice their concerns and present a set of demands to Michael Bloomberg, the city’s new mayor. At...

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  • Letters

    Letters

    January 12, 2002

    Mayor’s race begins to boil African American civil rights leaders presented a list of demands for the mayoral candidates in the Jan. 19 election. Lee Alcorn and Rev. L. Charles Stovall gathered a group of reporters...

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  • Editorials

    Editorials

    January 12, 2002

    Silence is deadly The Justice Department announced a new drive to round up 6,000 Middle Eastern men out of 300,000 people who have visa violations. This dragnet based on racial profiling is yet another step in...

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  • Poll: UT staff unhappy

    Poll: UT staff unhappy

    January 12, 2002

    KNOXVILLE, Tenn. – The results are in from a survey distributed at the University of Tennessee (UT) here by the United Campus Workers throughout the fall semester of 2001. The survey set out find out the...

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  • Republicans stop action on vital farm bill

    Republicans stop action on vital farm bill

    January 12, 2002 By Brenda Crawford-Clark

    After months of hearings in farm regions across the nation, Senate Democrats brought to the floor a new farm bill for the next five years that would have protected farmers from expected low commodity prices.

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