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The political trial of Andrea Yates
August 4, 2006On July 26 a Houston jury found Andrea Yates not guilty of murder, by reason of insanity, in the 2001 drowning of her five children. Yates will likely spend the rest of her life in a...
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Disability rights and the civil rights revolution
August 4, 2006Those of us who come from the first wave of disability rights advocates began our struggle within the civil rights movement of the 1960s. We learned an important lesson from that movement as to how a...
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The Middle East in crisis
August 4, 2006As 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
August 4, 2006Qana 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
August 4, 2006This 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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