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Agent Orange victims: The war continues in the bodies of Vietnamese
December 9, 2005CHICAGO — Vietnamese survivors of Agent Orange, one of many poisonous chemical defoliants used by the United States during the Vietnam War, are still seeking justice, 30 years later. While U.S. veterans have won partial compensation...
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Memo reveals the real Alito
December 9, 2005On Nov. 30 the National Archives released a 1985 memo from Samuel A. Alito Jr., then a Reagan administration lawyer, to the solicitor general, which said, “We should make clear that we disagree with Roe v....
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Last-minute drive to save prisoners life
December 9, 2005SAN FRANCISCO — The most impressive words of the evening came not from the podium, moving as the speakers were, but from a cell phone, barely audible in the Victoria Theater’s packed auditorium. “I have great...
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Gulf Coast update
December 9, 2005Katrina survivors charge racism Four African American New Orleans residents told a House committee Dec. 6 that they felt a sense of abandonment from all levels of government when Hurricane Katrina hit. The survivors said that...
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NYU teaching assistants struggle for union
December 9, 2005NEW YORK — A coalition of labor, political leaders and community organizations gathered Dec. 5 in front of New York University’s Bobst Library, where the school’s administration is located, in support of the approximately 1,000 graduate...
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