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  • The Middle East in crisis

    The Middle East in crisis

    August 4, 2006

    As I write, Israeli bombing, with the full encouragement of the Bush administration, continues in violation of Israel’s own supposed 48-hour moratorium — a moratorium precipitated by world revulsion to the shocking deaths of dozens of...

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  • LETTERS

    LETTERS

    August 4, 2006

    Qana in the last days of July 2006 “All the frankincense grown in the land is brought to Cane (Qana), as to a warehouse….” — Alexandrian merchant, 40-70 AD In this city now of rubble and...

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  • EDITORIAL: Remembering Hiroshima and Nagasaki

    EDITORIAL: Remembering Hiroshima and Nagasaki

    August 4, 2006

    This year, on the 61st anniversary of the U.S. atomic bombings of Hiroshima and Nagasaki, the stakes are higher than ever in the struggle to eliminate a destructive power that could end life as we know...

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  • EDITORIAL: Poison pills

    EDITORIAL: Poison pills

    August 4, 2006

    Does the hard working woman refilling your coffee cup at the lunch counter look like she deserves a pay cut? That could be the outcome if the minimum wage bill, passed in the dead of the...

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  • November elections: This battle can be won

    November elections: This battle can be won

    August 4, 2006

    Perhaps nothing underscores the significance of these midterm elections more than the reality of 2,500 U.S. soldiers killed and 18,000 maimed, needlessly, in Iraq, along with 100,000 Iraqi lives lost. The crisis in the Middle East...

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