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Behind Californias recall lies a Bush
July 25, 2003The current drive for a recall of California’s Democratic governor, Gray Davis, has this financially strapped state – the seventh largest economy in the world – in a political tizzy. But with all the rhetoric over...
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Berlusconi and totalitarianism
July 25, 2003The New York Times reports that Italian students and teachers are protesting the inclusion in high school graduation exams of an essay question about “terror and repression in totalitarian systems,” which the question defines as “communism,...
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Splits in the powers that be on Iraq
July 25, 2003I never thought I’d agree with Zbigniew Brzezinski on much of anything. (For those who may not remember, he was Jimmy Carter’s national security adviser and a leading cold war ideologue.) But consider this recent exchange...
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Letters
July 25, 2003Manifest destiny robs the poor Aristotle said that every action has a condition, a situation and a cause. Billions of people in the world are starving. The situation is that there are so many people living...
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Editorials
July 25, 2003Stop the Bush-Cheney money machine George W. Bush hop-scotched the nation recently, raking in $20 million at $2,000-a-plate fundraisers, more than the combined total raised over three months by his nine Democratic rivals. The Bush-Cheney campaign...
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