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  • Jackson’s personal doctor was in financial trouble

    Jackson’s personal doctor was in financial trouble

    August 4, 2009

    Dr. Conrad Murray was in dire financial shape when he signed on as Michael Jackson's personal physician earlier this year at $150,000 a month

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  • Chicago debate team experience builds community leaders

    Chicago debate team experience builds community leaders

    August 4, 2009

    “Walk the street into history with us, get off the sidewalk,” Dolores Huerta, farm worker rights activist once said. Huerta’s words of wisdom were put into action when 122 young leaders participated in the National Hispanic...

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  • The ongoing danger of nuclear war

    The ongoing danger of nuclear war

    August 4, 2009

    Original source: History News Network This August, when hundreds of Hiroshima Day vigils and related antinuclear activities occur around the United States, many Americans will wonder at their relevance. After all, the nuclear danger that characterized...

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  • Vets and families cheer new GI Bill

    Vets and families cheer new GI Bill

    August 4, 2009

    Veterans and their families are cheering the new $78 billion “Post 9/11 GI Bill of Rights” just signed into law by President Obama. It will allow hundreds of thousands of veterans to obtain a college degree....

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  • Foreclosure sit in results in arrest of ACORN activists

    Foreclosure sit in results in arrest of ACORN activists

    August 4, 2009 By Marilyn Bechtel

    OAKLAND, Calif. The Brass Liberation Orchestra could be heard for blocks through the West Oakland neighborhood, as ACORN Home Defenders and supporters gathered July 31 outside the now-vacant house that was once home to Tosha Alberty...

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