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South Korea: Rumsfeld beset by protests
November 22, 2003Secretary of Defense Donald Rumsfeld’s visit to South Korea last week provoked stormy demonstrations over a period of several days. It was Rumsfeld’s first visit to the country as Bush’s defense secretary, and one of his...
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Demonstrations confront Bush in London
November 22, 2003President George W. Bush’s state visit to London this week has provoked an “unwelcoming” response of huge proportions, with mass demonstrations, teach-ins, debates, school walkouts, film showings, poetry readings, and plays organized to oppose Bush’s policies...
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Voters rebuff nonpartisan scheme
November 22, 2003NEW YORK – Republican Mayor Michael Bloomberg sustained a major defeat on Election Day when the electorate overwhelmingly voted down the proposal for nonpartisan elections that he bankrolled. Though the mayor said that nonpartisan elections, which...
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Victory for science education in Texas
November 22, 2003Right-wing radicals recently suffered a setback in Texas when the State Board of Education refused to ban 11 biology textbooks that presented evolution as scientific fact instead of a hypothesis. The ultra-conservative radicals mounted a campaign...
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National Clips
November 22, 2003ATLANTA, Ga.: Patriot Act inspires dictatorships, says Carter First, former Vice President Al Gore, and now former President Jimmy Carter have condemned the Patriot Act. On Nov. 11 Carter said civil liberties have eroded in the...
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