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  • Venezuelas quest to empower the poor

    Venezuelas quest to empower the poor

    March 25, 2006

    COLUMBIA, Mo. — Nearly 100 students and community activists attended “Forum Venezuela” here March 7 at the University of Missouri-Columbia. The forum, organized by the Columbia Peace Coalition, Mid-Missouri Fellowship of Reconciliation and the Columbia Young...

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  • OBITUARY: Elsie Dickerson, 88, CPUSA leader

    OBITUARY: Elsie Dickerson, 88, CPUSA leader

    March 25, 2006

    Elsie Dickerson, longtime chairperson of the Eastern Pennsylvania and Delaware district of the Communist Party USA, passed away Feb. 21 after a long illness. She was 88. Her extraordinary life as a communist leader and trade...

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  • BOOKREVIEW: True family values shine in Cuban 5 book

    BOOKREVIEW: True family values shine in Cuban 5 book

    March 25, 2006

    Cuban poet Nancy Morejon provides an introduction for this slim volume of letters, poems, drawings, photographs and diary excerpts exchanged between five U.S.-imprisoned men and their family members in Cuba. Readers, she predicts, will cross a...

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  • Long live March Madness

    Long live March Madness

    March 25, 2006

    George Mason beats perennial power North Carolina? Wichita State beats Tennessee, Bradley beats Kansas, who would have thought? Talk about the perfect assignment — being asked to write about the number one sporting event (OK, I...

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  • The death of Milosevic and the death of Yugoslavia

    The death of Milosevic and the death of Yugoslavia

    March 25, 2006 By Norman Markowitz

    Slobodan Milosevic died recently in his prison cell, tried for war crimes by the NATO states that killed his nation, Yugoslavia, with the bombers and troops they sent to back reactionary separatist forces. Questions continue to...

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