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  • Listening to the inaugural speech

    Listening to the inaugural speech

    January 28, 2005

    OPINION It turns out that many, including myself, continue to underestimate the strength of Bush’s commitment to an outright imperial policy unequaled in its scope and unprecedented in its worldwide impact. Globalization compels all to have...

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  • LETTERS

    LETTERS

    January 28, 2005

    Tsunamis and the Third World The Dan Margolis piece (PWW 1/15-21) describing the lost lives in the tsunami because of the lack of an early warning system is right on. There are other preventive measures that...

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  • EDITORIALS

    EDITORIALS

    January 28, 2005

    What’s the difference? Harvard President Lawrence H. Summers should have spent a few minutes on the Internet before offering his inane comment Jan. 14 that a difference in “innate ability” might be one reason women still...

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  • Martina Gangle Curl: Peoples art and the mothering of humanity

    Martina Gangle Curl: Peoples art and the mothering of humanity

    January 28, 2005

    PORTLAND, Ore. — In the eight years since Portland artist Martina Gangle Curl passed away at age 88, her stature has steadily risen, spurred by a growing interest in her sometimes heroic, but always loving depiction...

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  • Asbestos  a disease crisis not a lawsuit crisis

    Asbestos a disease crisis not a lawsuit crisis

    January 28, 2005

    As an oncologist, I see the deadly and tragic consequences of exposure to the carcinogen asbestos in my patients who suffer from lung cancer and mesothelioma. I also know all too well the inadequacy of the...

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