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At the docks, Bush blamed on port security
March 3, 2006BROOKLYN, N.Y. — The recent sale of Peninsular and Oriental Steamship Navigation Company (P&O), which operates a number of East Coast U.S. ports, to Dubai’s state-owned DP World has raised a political firestorm directed at the...
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Golden mosque blast brings new Iraq crisis
March 3, 2006The bombing of Iraq’s Askariya mosque, Feb. 22, shattered a 1,200-year-old shrine especially revered by Shiites. Its huge golden dome, now wrecked, dominated the landscape of Samarra, a predominantly Sunni city. Built 100 years ago, it...
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Specter immigration bill a blueprint for exploitation
March 3, 2006NewsAnalysis In the early 17th century the English government established systems of servitude, slave and indentured, for much of the labor imported to its North American colonies. Today the Republican-led U.S. Senate has started debate on...
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March 3, 2006‘No funding for NYU!’ grad students demand Graduate student members of UAW Local 2110, forced on strike since Nov. 9 by New York University, traveled to Albany Feb. 28 to lobby state lawmakers to withhold taxpayer...
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War protests planned
March 3, 2006Veterans, hurricane survivors walkin’ to New Orleans Taking a line from New Orleans-based music legend Fats Domino’s “I’m walkin’ to New Orleans,” veterans and Hurricane Katrina and Rita survivors are walkin’ from Mobile, Ala., to New...
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