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BOOK REVIEW: Alaskan landscape teems with life
June 30, 2006Author Lesley Thomas recently passed a milestone. Her first novel, “Flight of the Goose: A Story of the Far North,” has now sold over 1,000 copies, a magic number that means critics are taking notice. It...
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U.S. groups challenge blockade of Cuba
June 30, 2006The Pastors for Peace/U.S.-Cuba Friendshipment Caravan and the Venceremos Brigade are off once more to Cuba, the 17th time for the faith-based group led by the Rev. Lucius Walker and the 37th trip for the VB,...
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This 4th of July, which side are you on?
June 30, 2006Florence Reece, wife of a rank-and-file organizer for the old National Miners Union in Harlan County, Kentucky, was at home one day in 1931 when High Sheriff J. H. Blair and his gun-toting “deputies” invaded her...
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LETTERS
June 30, 2006U.S. wants Sudan’s oil By printing the article by Fathi M. El Fadl (“Sudan and Darfur: Crisis and solutions,” PWW 6/10-16), why do you get on the bandwagon of damning the Sudan government when you know...
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Chicago torture probe draws worldwide attention
June 30, 2006CHICAGO — As many as 200 people, mostly African American men, were allegedly tortured while in the custody of the Chicago Police Department during the 1970s and ’80s. The goal, victims charge, was to force them...
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