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Teaching solidarity and fraternity in sports

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...

Governor Spitzer and the police state

Reader's Corner Gov. Eliot Spitzer is proposing a major expansion of New York’s bank of DNA samples. Currently, New York state collects DNA from those convicted of serious crimes. Spitzer is proposing to include people convicted...

A complication of adverse conditions

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...

CARTOON: Candidates

Benchmark No. 1: Privatizing Iraqs oil for U.S. companies

On May 24, the U.S. Congress voted to continue the war in Iraq. The members called it “supporting the troops.” I call it stealing Iraq’s oil — the second largest reserves in the world. The “benchmark,”...