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Beat Bush!
September 17, 2004*********** Beat Bush!3 facts on rising health care costs under Bush 1. Under Bush, prescription drug costs climbed 44 percent. Between 2000 and 2003, Medicare recipients’ prescription costs increased from $1,610 to $2,322. 2. Under Bush,...
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Celebrate Joyful November in September
September 17, 2004NEW YORK — Joyful November is throwing a benefit bash to raise funds for Downtown For Democracy and to recruit volunteers for various activist groups working on voter turnout and registration during the final crucial month...
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Mike Leigh film wins Venice Film Festival
September 17, 2004Review VENICE, Italy — “Vera Drake,” Mike Leigh’s tale of a working-class mother who is caught performing illegal abortions in 1950s England, won the Venice Film Festival’s Golden Lion for best picture Sept. 11. “Vera Drake”...
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Inside Bushs mind
September 17, 2004Book Review Bush on the Couch: Inside the Mind of the President By Justin A. Frank, M.D. Regan Books, 2004 Hardcover, 247 pp., $24.95 Justin A. Frank’s “Bush on the Couch: Inside the Mind of the...
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We need a new New Deal
September 17, 2004On the surface there are some interesting parallels. Both were Democrats who came from wealthy families and were educated in elite schools. Both decided on political careers and gained national attention as young men. The two...
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