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National Clips
February 19, 2004WASHINGTON: Defense contractors owe $3 billion in taxes While swilling at the Pentagon trough of contracts, 27,000 private companies, or 14 percent of the total, did not remit their workers’ federal taxes (deducted from their paychecks),...
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Breakthrough in struggle for same-sex marriage rights
February 19, 2004While the Massachusetts Legislature adjourned Feb. 13 without having added an amendment to the state’s constitution banning same-sex marriage, the nation’s attention swung to the other coast when San Francisco began issuing marriage licenses to same-sex...
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You cant beat the bosses without passing the hat!
February 19, 2004Congratulations to People’s Weekly World supporters and fund drive organizers who worked hard to raise money for the 2003 Fund Drive. From Alaska to Maine and Hawaii to Florida, checks came in to the PWW from...
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U.S. denies visas to Grammy winners
February 13, 2004Ibrahim Ferrer, with the CD “Buenos Hermanos,” and Manuel Galbán and Ry Cooder, with “Mambo Sinuendo,” have both won 2004 Grammys in the Traditional Tropical Music and Instrumental Pop categories, respectively. However, neither Ferrer or Galbán...
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U.S. artists defend British whistleblower
February 13, 2004An array of high-profile Americans – including Rev. Jesse Jackson, feminist Gloria Steinem, Daniel Ellsberg, and artists such as Bonnie Raitt, Danny Glover and Martin Sheen – released a joint statement Jan. 29 in support of...
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