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Youth volunteers help win local race
August 16, 2008ST. LOUIS — Volunteers participating in the Summer Youth Elections Camp here were credited with the victory of Robin Wright-Jones in the 5th District State Senate primary here Aug. 5. Wright-Jones won by 111 votes over...
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Morales scores victory
August 16, 2008The epic nature of today’s events in Bolivia flows from the long struggle between the country’s indigenous majority and a Europeanized ruling class, and from disparities between impoverished western highlands and four lowland eastern departments (states)...
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Beijing Olympics showcase harmony concept
August 16, 2008The Beijing Olympics opening ceremony began at 8:08 a.m., on the eighth day of the eighth month of 2008. The exact time was picked by organizers because of the meaning of the number eight to the...
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Labors fight against racism has impact
August 16, 2008Obama holds 10 pt. lead among lower income white workers CHICAGO — The leaders of America’s labor movement are calling upon white union members to put aside any racial biases that could undermine Barack Obama’s labor-supported...
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World notes: August 16, 2008
August 16, 2008UN: Asia tops child-death list Having issued an overall report on the world’s children in June, UNICEF, the UN’s children’s organization, reported Aug. 5 in Dhaka, Bangladesh, that 40 percent of all deaths of children under...
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