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February 24, 2006Wrong on Nixzmary Brown As a working-class person who receives public assistance, I was disappointed and offended at Bill Davis’s article “Nixzmary Brown’s tragic death” (PWW 2/11-17). Nobody excuses child abuse or murder. But gone completely...
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Katrina and voting rights
February 24, 2006New Orleans boosters are throwing Mardi Gras celebrations that end on Fat Tuesday, Feb. 28. But there is plenty the people of the “Big Easy” are not celebrating, starting with the criminal negligence of the Bush-Cheney...
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Embracing the African presence in Mexico
February 24, 2006CHICAGO — The Mexican Fine Arts Museum is revealing the missing chapter in Mexican history with a groundbreaking exhibition. “The African Presence in Mexico: From Yanga to the Present” showcases the past 500 years alongside two...
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Community unites to save Winchester jobs
February 24, 2006NEW HAVEN, Conn. — “Winchester belongs in New Haven,” said toolmaker Larry Edwards at a community meeting here where Winchester workers, elected officials and Newhallville neighborhood residents joined forces to try to save over 140 union...
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THIS WEEK IN LABOR
February 24, 2006What’s obscene here? The federal government levied a larger fine — $550,000 — for the 2004 Super Bowl showing of Janet Jackson’s breast than it did for the deaths of 13 Alabama miners in a 2001...
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