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Bush cuts wages in hurricane disaster area
September 16, 2005Flood victims, rebuilders will be working for ‘poverty wages’ Commentary No one can say the Bush administration doesn’t have clear priorities. While the job of picking up the bodies of victims so they can be laid...
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Clean-up begins, but anger wont wash away
September 16, 2005Gulf region still gripped by crisis NEW ORLEANS — Two weeks after Hurricane Katrina devastated this region, and as they begin a valiant struggle to rebuild, people here are still fuming that the Bush administration was...
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Venezuela exports solidarity: Citgo sponsors Puerto Rican festival
September 9, 2005CHICAGO — Fiesta Boricua, the annual Puerto Rican community festival in Humboldt Park here, got a lifeline from an unusual source. Venezuelan-owned Citgo donated $100,000, half of the festival’s cost, so the show could go forward...
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By George, hes done it: Clooneys movie takes on McCarthyism past and present
September 9, 2005Actor-director George Clooney’s “Good Night, and Good Luck” won critical acclaim at the Venice Film Festival last week for its portrayal of broadcast journalist Edward R. Murrow and his fight against the anticommunist paranoia sweeping 1950s...
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Musicians rally to save cultural mecca
September 9, 2005“They call it Stormy Monday, but Tuesday’s just as bad,” East Texas bluesman T-Bone Walker sang in 1947. “Wednesday’s worse, and Thursday’s oh so sad.” In that same year, Louis Armstrong and Billie Holiday performed “Do...
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