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Prisoners and the right to vote
March 19, 2004Opinion It might surprise you to learn that nearly 5 million of our citizens cannot vote. That is because they are prisoners or former prisoners. Only two states, Maine and Vermont, allow prisoners to vote. In...
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The making of a conscientious objector
March 19, 2004OpinionStaff Sgt. Camilo Mejia, 28, of Miami, joined the Army in 1995. Following a three-year hitch with the Army, he joined the Florida National Guard partly because he was promised college tuition assistance. Mejia had moved...
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Taking on the Vietnam syndrome lie
March 19, 2004Opinion The Vietnam War ended in 1975. But, judging by the e-mail I got recently denouncing John Kerry’s role in Vietnam Veterans Against the War and even dredging up Jane Fonda (the “Hanoi Jane” of right-wing...
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War, capitalism, and George W. Bush
March 19, 2004Opinion We are living in a fragile and unstable world. But perhaps that has always been the lot of humankind – certainly, it is a state of affairs as old as capitalism. Capitalism was never a...
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Letters
March 19, 2004No more tiers I just got through reading “Grocery union leader assesses strike” on your website (PWW 3/13-19). This whole two-tier issue brings a few things to mind. On Dec. 10, 1948, the United Nations adopted...
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