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Two victories for civil liberties: more to come?
December 8, 2006News Analysis As 2006 winds down, two court victories were racked up for civil liberties against the Bush administration’s authoritarian policies. More such triumphs are likely. In Los Angeles, Ninth District Federal Judge Audrey Collins gave...
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NATIONAL CLIPS
December 8, 2006PORTLAND, Ore.: City Council says ‘Bring the troops home’ Most Nov. 7 congressional races were decided by voters’ demands to halt the Iraq occupation, but voters are not naïve — just changing faces does not necessarily...
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Texas GOP in disarray
December 8, 2006Commentary HOUSTON — In the wild, wild west of Texas politics, Republicans have set a new standard since the November election. In a bizarre twist following Tom DeLay’s reign of terror, Shelley Sekula-Gibbs won a special...
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Sean Bell: What justice requires
December 8, 2006Commentary Fifty bullets. One bullet can kill a person — imagine what 50 did to 21-year-old Sean Bell and his two friends. What happened to these three unarmed young men on Nov. 25 in Queens, N.Y.,...
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Will U.S. get out of Iraq? Debate over Iraq options unfolds
December 8, 2006When the bipartisan Iraq Study Group released its recommendations Dec. 6, they were widely seen as an effort to identify the “least bad” options for U.S. ruling circles that would, to the extent possible, salvage their...
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