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  • Black actors earn five Oscar nods

    Black actors earn five Oscar nods

    February 4, 2005

    LOS ANGELES (AP) — Six years ago, Chris Rock joked that the Academy Awards looked like the “million white man march” for its traditional under-representation of Blacks. This time, with Rock taking his maiden voyage as...

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  • Pablo Neruda: One poet, many lessons

    Pablo Neruda: One poet, many lessons

    February 4, 2005

    OPINION“As the first bullets ripped into the guitars of Spain, when blood instead of music gushed out of them, my poetry stopped dead like a ghost in the streets of human anguish and a rush of...

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  • 84,000 could lose Pell Grant funding

    84,000 could lose Pell Grant funding

    February 4, 2005

    OPINION Education. The path to profits, prestige and power. Whether the path includes a skilled trades apprenticeship program or formal education, learning provides lifelong access to better jobs and better wages and better benefits. President Bush...

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  • Dont take away Social Security

    Dont take away Social Security

    February 4, 2005

    OPINIONAfter reading a column in her local paper, the Albuquerque Journal, calling Bush’s Social Security privatization plan “a step in the right direction,” PWW reader Rose Shaw didn’t just get mad – she wrote a response!...

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  • Taking a stand at School of the Americas

    Taking a stand at School of the Americas

    February 4, 2005

    OPINIONAt the annual School of the Americas (SOA) protest and vigil at Ft. Benning, Ga., Nov. 21, 2004, the author and 14 others, including two minors, crossed the line onto SOA property to oppose the U.S....

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