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Texas holds best secret election money can buy
March 17, 2006HOUSTON — Texas held its March 7 primary election in virtual secrecy. Only 5.3 percent of the electorate voted in the Republican primary and 4.1 percent in the Democratic primary. Pundits marveled over how much money...
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NATIONALCLIPS
March 17, 2006GARY, Ind.: Black leaders urge economic empowerment With Katrina exposing America’s dirty secret of the life-and-death meaning of poverty and African American households worth one-tenth of white households, hundreds of Black leaders revived the historic 1972...
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Vermont city elects Progressive mayor
March 17, 2006BURLINGTON, Vt. — Bob Kiss, the Progressive Party candidate for mayor, swept to a surprise victory here March 7. Running against a Democrat, Republican and two independents, Kiss, a state representative, confounded pundits and pulled an...
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NEWSINBRIEF
March 17, 2006U.S. edging toward dictatorship Retired Supreme Court Justice Sandra Day O’Connor charged that the attacks on the judiciary by Republican ultra-rightists are inching the country toward dictatorship. O’Connor addressed corporate lawyers at Georgetown University on March...
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Peace groups to Congress: Open up debate on Iraq
March 17, 2006National peace organizations are pressing Congress to open up debate on getting the U.S. out of Iraq. With Bush insisting on “staying the course” and “not believable any more,” Congress is “the only body left to...
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