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  • Quebec toys with electoral reform

    Quebec toys with electoral reform

    February 4, 2005

    The year 2004 closed with some tentative steps toward electoral reform in Canada, but no guarantee of real change. In December, Quebec became the first provincial government to submit a draft bill for mixed member proportional...

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  • Campaign to Free the Five grows worldwide

    Campaign to Free the Five grows worldwide

    February 4, 2005 By W. T. Whitney Jr.

    CUBA NEWS Five Cuban men, in U.S. jails for six years, have gained support throughout the world because of the justice of their cause — defending Cuba against terrorism. The enormity of their sentences — life...

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  • Voices of the World Social Forum

    Voices of the World Social Forum

    February 4, 2005

    “Filipino migrants are all over the world. Why? Because they cannot make enough money to care for their families in the Philippines. “The government spends less than 1 cent per person per day on health care....

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  • NATIONAL CLIPS

    NATIONAL CLIPS

    February 4, 2005

    NASHVILLE: Baptists call for Iraq war end, no-vote on Gonzalez More than 10,000 delegates representing 15 million African American Baptists in four denominations met here, Jan. 24 – 27, and issued a joint unity statement calling...

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  • Feel good speech opens NYC mayoral battle

    Feel good speech opens NYC mayoral battle

    February 4, 2005

    NEW YORK—Though elections won’t be held until November, the battle for the mayoralty here has already begun. Critics charge that Mayor Michael Bloomberg used an unrealistic “feel-good” State of the City address as a campaign tool....

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