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Jobless rate climbs to nine-year high
May 9, 2003EAST CHICAGO, Ill. – Bruce Gaddy is single. Tony McIntosh is married and has two children. Both live in this working-class suburb, 25 miles south of downtown Chicago. And both are unemployed: Gaddy because his plant...
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Chicagoans sue police over mass arrests
May 7, 2003CHICAGO – Attorneys for the Chicago Chapter of the National Lawyers’ Guild filed a class action suit against the City of Chicago and the Chicago Police Department on April 10 because of mass arrests of people...
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Anti-war actors get apology from Hall of Fame
May 7, 2003After 28,000 people protested, Dale Petroskey, head of the Baseball Hall Of Fame, apologized for his cancellation of a celebration marking the 25th anniversary of Bull Durham. The event was originally scheduled for this weekend to...
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Films show Iraq through Iraqi eyes
May 7, 2003There are very few Jews in Iraq today. It was a far different story 60 years ago. After the establishment of the Jewish State of Israel in 1948, more than half a million Jews emigrated from...
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Budget sideshow jeopardizes families
May 7, 2003Opinion Have they no decency? The United States Senate on April 11 resembled a circus sideshow, practicing the old shell game of now you see it, now you don’t. While on paper they passed a cut...
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