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Gulf workers confront race to bottom
November 2, 2007NEW ORLEANS — Renaissance Park in Baker, La., has a name that does it no justice. Home to Catherine Pitt, 31, an African American mother and her two children, it is row after row of cramped...
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Bush-Cheney vs. the Armenian genocide
October 26, 2007During World War I, the Turkish-controlled Ottoman Empire was crumbling. In the decades before the war, economic dislocation and political crisis intensified the long-standing oppression of the Armenian Christian minority. World War I (1914-1918) was a...
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LETTERS: Oct. 27
October 26, 2007Wildfires, climate change and Iraq All eyes and ears have been on San Diego, Calif., in recent days as over a half million people have had to be evacuated from their homes due to the most...
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EDITORIAL: A mean and vicious veto
October 26, 2007Mean. Vicious. Those words describe the 154 Republicans and two Democrats in the House who voted Oct. 18 to sustain George W. Bush’s veto of the State Children’s Health Insurance Program (SCHIP). The vote was 273-156,...
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EDITORIAL: Californias wildfires
October 26, 2007As we went to press, devastating wildfires sweeping southern California had forced at least half a million people to flee their homes, with close to 2,000 houses destroyed. Twenty-one firefighters and at least 24 others had...
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