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EDITORIAL: No Pace
March 23, 2007The firestorm over anti-gay remarks by the top U.S. military officer continues to reverberate around the country. Statements to the Chicago Tribune earlier this month by Gen. Peter Pace, chairman of the Joint Chiefs of Staff,...
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EDITORIAL: Housing bubble criminals
March 23, 2007Economists are warning that a crisis is looming in the home mortgage industry that could eclipse the bursting of the dot.com bubble and the Enron and WorldCom bankruptcies seven years ago. It has the potential of...
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New report details abuse of guest workers
March 23, 2007A report, “Close to slavery: guest worker programs in the United States,” released by the Montgomery, Ala.-based Southern Poverty Law Center earlier this month, details abuses faced by workers who come to the U.S. under the...
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Guest workers fired after protesting slave conditions
March 23, 2007Hundreds of guest workers from India are protesting conditions in a Pascagoula, Miss., shipyard that immigrant rights activists compare to slavery. Many of the workers gathered in a church on March 11 in this Gulf Coast...
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From statehouse to village green, Americans stand for peace
March 23, 2007More than 1,000 local peace actions marked the fourth anniversary of the Iraq war. Below is a sampling from our correspondents.Arizona: Four days of vigils and marches marked the war’s fourth anniversary in Tucson. About 200...
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