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  • Stark contrasts in Illinois race for Senate

    Stark contrasts in Illinois race for Senate

    October 15, 2004

    CHICAGO — Right-wing zealot Alan Keyes and Illinois state Sen. Barack Obama, both candidates for this state’s U.S. Senate seat, appeared back-to-back before a panel of community activists and an overflow audience of 1,000 at a...

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  • Conn. unionists cast wider net for votes

    Conn. unionists cast wider net for votes

    October 15, 2004

    NEW HAVEN, Conn. — Pat Highsmith spent her day off last Saturday traveling 150 miles to Bethlehem, Pa., to discuss the presidential election with fellow union members. One of 3 million industrial workers whose plants closed...

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  • National Clips

    National Clips

    October 15, 2004

    ALBUQUERQUE, N.M.: Slackers unite — and vote! It was standing room only as “Fahrenheit 9/11” filmmaker Michael Moore hit town on his 60-city “Slacker Uprising Tour” Oct. 10. Organizers expected 5,000 people, but more than 7,500...

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  • Salman Rushdie decries war, censorship

    Salman Rushdie decries war, censorship

    October 15, 2004

    FAIRFIELD, Conn. — “What’s that they say about the pen being mightier than the sword?” asked Salman Rushdie, author of “The Satanic Verses,” the irreverent tale of the prophet Muhammad that caused Iran’s Ayatollah Khomeini to...

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  • Hotel, casino workers battle on two coasts

    Hotel, casino workers battle on two coasts

    October 15, 2004

    Undaunted by the challenge of four high-stakes contract struggles on two coasts, the union representing hotel and casino workers has revved up its solidarity machine. “We’re fighting the fight we have to fight,” union spokesperson Amanda...

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