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Whats behind predatory lending? Too much capital, too much debt
May 27, 2005With too much money on their hands in the early 1990s, Citibank and other big lenders dropped the requirement for parents to co-sign for their children’s credit card accounts, determined to ensnare even teenagers into credit...
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Taking action for national health care
May 27, 2005ALIQUIPPA, Penn. — They lent faces, breath and passion to the statistics of pain and crisis in the country’s for-profit health care system. Over 200 workers and their families jammed the Aliquippa Croatian Club here May...
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World Notes
May 27, 2005Cuba/Belize: MDs care for over 1 million A medical brigade of 103 Cuban doctors has cared for over 1,257,000 patients in the Central American country of Belize during the last five years, Granma International said earlier...
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Galloway challenges war lies
May 27, 2005On May 17, British MP George Galloway appeared before hearings held by the Senate Permanent Sub-Committee on Investigations on charges of corruption in the Iraq oil-for-food program. After demolishing allegations against him, Galloway lit into subcommittee...
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Antiwar Briton takes Senate subcommittee to task
May 27, 2005LONDON — It’s not often that you hear listeners of BBC London Radio’s John Gaunt phone-in plumping for a socialist. Callers’ positive reaction to British Member of Parliament George Galloway’s barnstorming performance on Capitol Hill last...
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