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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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Republicans fleeing Bush on Arctic drilling issue
September 9, 2005Two dozen House Republicans, including three committee chairmen, have directly opposed the Bush administration’s effort to open the Arctic National Wildlife Refuge (ANWR) to oil drilling by sneaking it through the budget approval process. “An effort...
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R.I. janitors, hotel workers demand justice on Labor Day
September 9, 2005PROVIDENCE, R.I. — Rhode Island’s capital city has been recently lauded as “America’s Renaissance City,” with several new downtown development projects — upscale hotels, a high-end shopping mall and a handful of relocated corporate offices. City...
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From abroad, offers of aid for Katrina victims
September 9, 2005Offers of hurricane relief aid have poured into the U.S. from more than 90 nations, rich and poor alike. Cuba and Venezuela were the first to offer help, although Cuba is not included in the list...
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Cuba has a better way on hurricanes
September 9, 2005As dead bodies still floated in flooded New Orleans and masses of hungry, thirsty survivors, mostly poor and Black, were deposited at far-off sports arenas, Cuba’s National Assembly issued a declaration of solidarity Sept. 1 and...
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