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Flood of sleaze engulfs GOP
October 6, 2006WASHINGTON — One month from the Nov. 7 midterm elections, a firestorm is raging over the revelation that House Speaker Dennis Hastert (R-Ill.) and other Republican leaders covered up Rep. Mark Foley’s sexually explicit contacts with...
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U.S. blocks medical exchange with Cuba
October 3, 2006It is commonly believed that the U.S. blockade against Cuba, in force for over four decades, is limited to politics and economics. Cooperation for people's health is allowed, right? Wrong: For the second year in a...
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FROM THE PWW ARCHIVES, Sept. 28, 2002: Visiting a Hero
September 29, 2006It was the last full weekend in August. Finally, we heard that four members of our family were granted visitor status at the Federal Correctional Institute McKean in Bradford, Pa. We decided to make a camping...
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PhRMA got the doughnut we got the hole
September 29, 2006SACRAMENTO, Calif. — A group of 75 seniors found the doors of the Pharmaceutical Research and Manufacturers of America’s headquarters here locked against them as they attempted to deliver a basket of doughnut holes Sept. 22....
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Veterans, legal experts hit deal on torture
September 29, 2006WASHINGTON — Human rights defenders urged the Senate to reject a deal between President George W. Bush and Republican senators that would strip hundreds of detainees of habeas corpus rights and leave the door open for...
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