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Japanese rally against pro-war laws, tax hikes
November 9, 2007TOKYO — About 42,000 workers and citizens from all over the country rallied here Oct. 28 in opposition to an “anti-terrorism special measures” bill, the proposed revision of Japan’s constitution to permit military operations abroad, and...
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India’s Communists decontaminate a radioactive deal
November 9, 2007On Oct. 12, India’s Congress Party threw in the towel. Prime Minister Manmohan Singh and the leader of the United Progressive Alliance, Sonia Gandhi, said they would step back from the U.S.-India nuclear deal.
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Death penalty widely seen as fatally flawed
November 9, 2007Only 15 minutes before Earl Wesley Berry was to be executed by lethal injection in Mississippi’s Parchman state prison, the U.S. Supreme Court issued a stay of execution. The high court has recently blocked three executions....
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We will take New Orleans back
November 9, 2007NEW ORLEANS — It’s back to school time every fall all across America: you pack their lunches and send the kids off to school. Unless you live here. Two years after Katrina tore through the mouth...
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NATIONAL CLIPS: November 10
November 9, 2007CHARLESTON, W.Va.: Protest demands hate crime charge HOUSTON: Commit a racist act, lose your job EVANSVILLE, Ind.: Voters ‘step up’ to halt climate change ATLANTA: Majority of Southern students are poor
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