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Seniors, students make Santorum sweat
February 25, 2005PITTSBURGH — The third-ranking Republican in the Senate, Pennsylvania’s Sen. Rick Santorum, took to the stump selling the privatization of Social Security Feb. 21, but he stumbled and slipped at a well-informed town hall meeting organized...
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Drugs and death in Afghanistan: What happened to Spc. Juan Torres?
February 25, 2005Army Specialist Juan Torres had his whole life ahead of him. At 25, Torres (known as John to most of his family and friends) had an accounting degree from the University of Houston and a good...
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Arthur Miller, 1915-2005: Giant of American theater had giftedness and guts
February 18, 2005Arthur Miller, the man who wrote “Death of a Salesman,” died Feb. 10. And as Linda Loman told the sons of Willy Loman, that sad and epic American dreamer: “Attention must be paid.” Miller, 89, died...
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A neglected chapter in West Virginia labor history
February 18, 2005BOOK REVIEW During late August 1921, an army of 10,000 armed and angry coal miners marched across West Virginia. Their goal was to liberate Mingo County in the southwest corner of the state, and thereby end...
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Ask the Communists Q&A
February 18, 2005Q: Exactly how would socialism happen in the U.S.? What exactly would a socialist government do? Would there be freedom in the political system for a party that advocated capitalism? A: It is a bit hard...
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