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  • Apologizing for slavery and segregation

    Apologizing for slavery and segregation

    June 15, 2007 By Dennis Laumann

    You may not know it living in the United States, but this year most of what historians call the Atlantic World is commemorating the 200th anniversary of the British abolition of the transatlantic slave trade.

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  • EDITORIAL: Scoundrels refuge

    EDITORIAL: Scoundrels refuge

    June 15, 2007

    In the seventh year of his administration, George W. Bush has gained notoriety as perhaps the most hypocritical president in U.S. history. He did nothing to repair that sorry reputation in dedicating the “Victims of Communism”...

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  • Can we reindustrialize?

    Can we reindustrialize?

    June 15, 2007

    Last month Toyota surpassed General Motors as the world’s biggest automaker. It’s only the latest sign that U.S. manufacturing industry is in trouble. So is British manufacturing, according to a recent analysis by the Economic Committee...

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  • Teaching solidarity and fraternity in sports

    Teaching solidarity and fraternity in sports

    June 8, 2007

    Cuba is a sporting power thanks to the efforts of the revolutionary government to promote the practice of athletes on a mass scale, permitting the island to insert itself among the most privileged places in the...

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  • A complication of adverse conditions

    A complication of adverse conditions

    June 8, 2007

    The eruption of internal clashes between Fatah and Hamas recently in Gaza was a renewal of the fighting that blighted the Strip in the months before the agreement to form a unity government. It came as...

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