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New York: Big bucks means big win for Bloomberg
November 23, 2005NEW YORK — Incumbent Republican Michael Bloomberg defeated progressive Democratic challenger Fernando Ferrer by 19 percentage points in the Nov. 8 elections, in a city where Democrats outnumber Republicans five to one. The big question, as...
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Why Murtha, and what it means
November 22, 2005PITTSBURGH — “Big John” Murtha, representative to the U.S. House of Representatives from Pennsylvania’s 12th District, which covers Johnstown and Washington, Pa., is a no-nonsense kind of guy from a gritty no-nonsense district. In 1999, steelworkers...
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14,000 people rally at the gates of Fort Benning
November 22, 2005FT. BENNING, Ga. - Thousands of people converged Nov. 19 here for the vigil to close the School of the Americas. We heard powerful messages from Camilo Romero, an organizer with United Students Against Sweatshops, who...
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Should the United States Harbor an International Terrorist?
November 22, 2005That's the headline of a wonderful, powerful, full-page appeal in the November 18th New York Times to the families of the victims of 9/11/01 from the families of the victims of 10/6/76 when the Cubana passenger...
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Rep. Murtha calls for change in direction
November 19, 2005The following is the transcript of the news conference Thursday by Representative John Murtha of Pennsylvania, as provided by Federal News Service. REP. MURTHA: I just spoke to the Democratic Caucus and told them my feelings...
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