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McBride’s “Good Lord Bird,” Packer’s “Unwinding”: National Book Award winners
November 27, 2013The Good Lord Bird, the adventures of a disguised black child caught up in John Brown's abolitionist crusade, was the winner of the National Book Award for fiction.
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Lorain, Ohio unions elect independent slate
November 26, 2013The election report to delegates at the Central Labor Council (CLC), in this union-dense Ohio home of the state's largest steel and auto manufacturing facilities, was one of a different type this November.
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Obamacare: Grumbling is not enough
November 26, 2013It is amazing how fast momentum can shift in politics. And it usually happens for reasons that could not have been predicted.
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Forming a German government: Bumper cars for the Bundestag?
November 26, 2013The noise is terrific and everyone zooms back and forth, round and round, clashing with everybody else. And there may be no real winner -- except perhaps the man at the cash register.
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Today in labor history: FDR establishes Thanksgiving holiday
November 26, 2013President George Washington became the first president to proclaim a Thanksgiving holiday, when, at the request of Congress, he proclaimed November 26 as a day of national thanksgiving for the U.S. Constitution.
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