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  • Roberto Clemente honored

    Roberto Clemente honored

    July 21, 2006

    Major League Baseball paid tribute to Puerto Rican hero Roberto Clemente with the commissioner’s historic achievement award at the 2006 All-Star Game in Pittsburgh, July 11. The players wore gold wristbands with Clemente’s initials and the...

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  • Overthrow: Looking beyond the rhetoric

    Overthrow: Looking beyond the rhetoric

    July 21, 2006

    BOOK REVIEW Stephen Kinzer has previously authored or co-authored definitive studies on the CIA’s overthrow of democratic governments in Iran (1953) and in Guatemala (1954). Now in his latest work, “Overthrow,” Kinzer widens the scope of...

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  • NYC renters revolt for home rule

    NYC renters revolt for home rule

    July 21, 2006

    Unique to U.S. cities, New York is a city of renters. Almost two-thirds of us rent the apartments we call home. In New York, being a renter is often lifelong and the only circumstance under which...

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  • Look whos been kidnapped!

    Look whos been kidnapped!

    July 21, 2006

    Hundreds of Palestinian ‘suspects’ have been kidnapped from their homes and will never stand trial It’s the wee hours of the morning, still dark outside. A guerilla force comes out of nowhere to kidnap a soldier....

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  • Jobs: now you see them, now you dont

    Jobs: now you see them, now you dont

    July 21, 2006

    Workers and taxpayers often lose twice when states and cities give out huge corporate tax breaks in the name of “economic development.” Consider Raytheon Corp. In a 1995 “job blackmail” episode, it threatened to move jobs...

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