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Cuba has a better way on hurricanes
September 9, 2005As dead bodies still floated in flooded New Orleans and masses of hungry, thirsty survivors, mostly poor and Black, were deposited at far-off sports arenas, Cuba’s National Assembly issued a declaration of solidarity Sept. 1 and...
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Rehnquist, states rights and New Orleans
September 9, 2005The chief justice of the United States, William Rehnquist, was a man with a conservative political agenda and a judicial philosophy of state-centered federalism. There will be attempts to sugarcoat his life, legal work and judicial...
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Letters
September 9, 2005Stop corporate looters There should be no profiteering permitted off of the suffering of the people in New Orleans, Louisiana, Mississippi and elsewhere because of the hurricane and flood. I have called on N.J. Sen. Jon...
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Editorial: Roberts ethics problem
September 9, 2005Chief Justice William Rehnquist’s body was still warm when George W. Bush rushed to announce that he was nominating Judge John G. Roberts Jr. to replace him. This is the same Roberts that Bush named earlier...
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Editorial: Turning points
September 9, 2005If the Sept. 11, 2001, terrorist attacks — whose fourth anniversary we commemorate this week — were a turning point for this nation, then Hurricane Katrina is another turning point. The destruction — not all of...
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