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Bloomberg: the education mayor?
October 7, 2005NEW YORK — Republican Mayor Michael Bloomberg is campaigning for re-election as an “education mayor,” but many say the current state of city schools — overcrowded, in disrepair, with abysmal graduation rates — proves him to...
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California special election heats up
October 7, 2005LOS ANGELES — “If you don’t vote, people like Bush get elected,” proclaimed a protest sign at a recent antiwar rally here. With his poll numbers slipping, people not voting is what California Gov. Arnold Schwarzenegger...
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National Clips
October 7, 2005CAMBRIDGE, Mass.: Students protest military recruiters There were 140 would-be employers at the annual Harvard Career Forum Oct. 3, among them the CIA, the Defense Intelligence Agency, the Army and the Marines. They were met head-on...
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Chicagoans celebrate founding of new school
October 7, 2005CHICAGO — More than eight years of lobbying and community protests, including a 19-day hunger strike in 2001, finally bore fruit Sept. 8 with the dedication of the new, state-of-the-art Little Village-Lawndale High School campus in...
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Who is Harriet Miers?
October 7, 2005News Analysis DALLAS — In 1991, corporate lawyer Harriet Miers answered a questionnaire from The Dallas Morning News. In response to the cue “Behind my back, people say…,” she wrote, “They can’t figure me out.” Now...
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