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100,000 strikers force SBC to pick up phone
May 28, 2004CHICAGO – Phone giant SBC Communications got the message when 100,000 workers in 13 states put down their headsets and tool belts to hit the streets, transmitting their own powerful message. After a four-day strike, May...
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Music sampling
May 21, 2004Music reviewsMy Favorite DistractionCoral Egan (Justin Time, 2004) “My Favorite Distraction” is another strong effort by Canadian singer Coral Egan. Like her previous release, “Path of Least Resistance,” this talented performer displays a wide musical repertoire....
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Puncturing the myths of the New Economy
May 21, 2004Book review After the New Economy By Doug Henwood New Press, 2003, Hardcover 269 pp., $24.95 During the 1990s, conventional wisdom said that the old rules of capitalism no longer applied. The New Economy made recession...
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Schoolhouse to jailhouse
May 21, 2004Opinion Fourteen-year-old Ricky was arrested by school police one Halloween and charged with a second-degree felony: “throwing a deadly missile.” While this sounds serious, Ricky’s “deadly missile” wasn’t made with dynamite or biotoxins, nor did it...
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A brutal prison culture
May 21, 2004Opinion We have all seen the Abu Ghraib pictures, and steeled ourselves for worse to come. The brass are trying to fob this off as an aberration created by a few sadistic guards. Is this so?...
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