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Did Zelaya violate the constitution?
July 17, 2009The mediation efforts of Costa Rican President Oscar Arias in the Honduran situation seem to be headed for failure. Elected, yet deposed, President Manuel Zelaya says he is the only legitimate head of state, as does...
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WORLDNOTES Equatorial Guinea, Australia, Afghanistan, UN, Guyana, Cuba
July 17, 2009Equatorial Guinea: Corporations, banks back corruption Oil money has been diverted to the ruling few while people languish “in poverty worse than in Afghanistan or Chad,” according to a Human Rights Watch report issued last week....
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‘Laws alone are not enough to remedy discrimination’
July 17, 2009The Rev. Martin Luther King was present when President Johnson signed the Civil Rights Act on July 2, 1964. Prohibiting discrimination of all kinds based on race, color, religion or national origin, it was the most...
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Keep Philly Cool; Open the Pools!
July 17, 2009PHILADELPHIA — A group of some 100 citizens of Philadelphia of different generations from communities across the city demonstrated at City Hall yesterday with a simple demand: “Open our pools!” Their signs and chants left little...
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Texas may bar students learning about Cesar Chavez, Thurgood Marshall
July 17, 2009United Farmworkers founder César Chávez is an unfitting role model for students, and former Supreme Court Justice Thurgood Marshall is not an appropriate historical figure. So say “expert reviewers” in their report to the Texas State...
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