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Wish me a Merry Christmas or Ill kill you
December 21, 2005Commentary Christian friends and relatives complain about how Christmas is commercialized. Every year, one of the most sacred events in Christianity is used as a mechanism to sell everything from jewelry to SUVs. To the dismay...
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NYC heads for a transit strike
December 20, 2005On the evening of Dec. 15, just one hour before the contract expiration deadline, MTA board chairman and billionaire real estate developer Peter Kalikow arrived at the negotiations. Kalikow presented what he later characterized as a...
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Chilean Communists hold election balance
December 17, 2005After its central committee met on Dec. 14, the Communist Party of Chile (CPC) put forth a number of minimum demands to the plurality-winning candidate Michelle Bachelet as a condition for support. Bachelet, candidate of the...
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U.S. Senate rejects reauthorization of Patriot Act; a huge defeat for Bush
December 17, 2005WASHINGTON (AP) - The Senate on Friday rejected attempts to reauthorize several provisions of the USA Patriot Act as infringing too much on Americans' privacy and liberty, dealing a huge defeat to the U.S. administration and...
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Human Rights Week around the nation
December 16, 2005What follows is but a small sampling of the scores of actions that took place across the country the week of Dec. 3-10. Look to “Online Extra” on the PWW’s web page, www.pww.org, for additional reports....
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