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National Clips
June 12, 2003BIRMINGHAM, Ala.: Prison labor is back With a rising prison population and a state budget crisis, Alabama has been contracting-out people in jail to a furniture maker and a telemarketer. Prison labor, once outlawed, is back...
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Texas Homeland Security scandal brews
June 12, 2003AUSTIN, Texas – A scandal is brewing in Texas related to the use of the Department of Homeland Security and other law enforcement resources to advance the partisan political agenda of the right-wing extremists who control...
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Memorial desecrated
June 12, 2003Ludlow, Colo. – One of organized labor’s most sacred and cherished shrines, the Ludlow Memorial, was desecrated on or shortly after the evening of May 7. Vandals cut through solid granite and marble to sever the...
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Film review: Carlo Giuliani, A Boy
June 6, 2003Carlo Giuliani, 23, was wearing his swim trunks under his sweatpants when he left home in Genoa, Italy, around noon on July 20, 2001. He still hadn’t decided whether he’d spend the day at the beach...
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First Cities: Treasure shown and tragedy known
June 6, 2003In 1997, an exhibit was conceived to welcome in the third millennium, by mirroring the time frame. “Art of the First Cities: The Third Millennium B.C. from the Mediterranean to the Indus” opened at the Metropolitan...
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