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Texas judge rules against DeLay political action committee
June 5, 2005On May 26 a Texas judge turned up the temperature under the soup pot that’s cooking Congressman Tom DeLay’s political career. District Judge Joe Hart ruled that Texans for a Republican Majority Political Action Committee, which...
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Mac Trachtenberg, 1917-2005
June 3, 2005Mac Trachtenberg, father, trade unionist and community supporter, died April 17 in California. He was 87. Born on Aug. 10, 1917, Trachtenberg grew up in Brooklyn and the Bronx, and with his brothers played handball and...
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The passing of a legend
June 3, 2005Singer, songwriter and playwright Oscar Brown Jr. died May 29 in Chicago after a brief illness. He was 78. “Although we will miss him deeply, he has left a wealth of works that will continue to...
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War, soldiers and the unspeakable
June 3, 2005“Brothers” is a film from Denmark with English subtitles directed by Susanne Bier. At the beginning, we meet Michael, who’s home on leave, a Danish career soldier about to be deployed to Afghanistan. Then we meet...
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No party, no socialism
June 3, 2005The right wing has attacked historian Moshe Lewin’s new book, “The Soviet Century,” which covers the Soviet Union from the early 1920s through its implosion in 1991, for its sympathetic treatment of Lenin. His principal conclusion,...
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