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New York Communist Party: Retry Louimas torturers!
March 8, 2002Last week’s federal appeals court decisions undoing three police officers’ convictions in connection with the 1997 attack on Abner Louima in Brooklyn’s 70th Precinct raised many questions and answered none. There is concern, for example, that...
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Are Enron executives sociopaths?
March 8, 2002What do Bugsy Siegel and Al Capone have in common with Kenneth Lay and his Enron buddies Jeff Skilling and Andy Fastow, and why is it that the more I read about Lay & Co., the...
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Dancers with dreams
March 8, 2002EW YORK – On Friday, March 15th at 7:30 p.m., the YAI Players, a performance troupe consisting of people with disabilities, in collaboration with the Theater of Dreams and The Berkeley Carroll School will perform God...
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Letters
March 8, 2002Rewriting history Hollywood and the Bush administration have come together with a spate of war movies that fit in with the glorification of war as the answer to all our problems. In the space of about...
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Buffalo Creek disaster: A crime by any other name
March 8, 2002Jeffrey Reiman, in The Rich Get Richer and the Poor Get Prison points out that when coal companies intentionally design disasters, these intentional acts are called an “accident” or a “tragedy.” The label “mass murder” is...
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