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Mexico oil privatization dispute rages
May 13, 2008While the rest of Latin America moves left, Mexican President Felipe Calderon is pushing hard in the other direction with a thinly disguised plan to privatize PEMEX, the huge state oil company that provides 40 percent...
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No Child Left Behinds reading program marked failure
May 13, 2008A key education program created under George W. Bush’s No Child Left Behind Act has failed to produce results, according to a recent study by the Institute of Education Sciences, the research arm of the U.S....
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Terrorist Posada parties in Miami
May 13, 2008Friends of Luis Posada Carriles held a banquet May 2 at the Big Five Club in West Miami-Dade in honor of the 80-year old Cuban exile. Pedro Peñaranda, president of Municipalities of Cuba in Exile, the...
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Sanctuary cities protest ICE actions
May 13, 2008SAN FRANCISCO — In an outraged response to ICE raids just days after immigrant rights supporters filled the streets on May Day, labor, faith groups, students and community members rallied around the area last week. On...
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Girls Rock for equality
May 10, 2008MovieREVIEW Girls Rock Directed by Arne Johnson and Shane King 2008, 90 min., PG By Tim Wheeler BALTIMORE – “It’s an eye-opener.” That’s how my 17 year old grand-daughter Erin reacted after viewing “Girls Rock,” a...
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