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  • The budget  First congressional battle

    The budget First congressional battle

    January 7, 2003

    The federal government has been operating on stop-gap spending measures ever since Oct. 1 because the House and Senate could not agree on a budget for fiscal year 2003. Instead, Congress passed several “continuing resolutions” that...

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  • National Clips

    National Clips

    January 7, 2003 By Evelina Alarcon

    NEW YORK: Is that a steel knife in the / STEELE, Ala.: Life on a land mine / NEW HAVEN, Conn.: Bush pays lip service to domestic public safety

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  • Protesters demand equal opportunity

    Protesters demand equal opportunity

    January 7, 2003

    PHILADELPHIA – Nearly 40 angry protesters attended a City Council meeting here Dec. 12 to demand inclusion of African Americans, Latinos and women in public works construction projects. Seeing that they were not going to be...

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  • Media again duped by Pentagon

    Media again duped by Pentagon

    January 7, 2003

    The Federation of American Scientists has pointed to a startling revelation by Secretary of Defense Donald Rumsfeld that mainstream media have missed: In remarks during a recent press briefing, Rumsfeld suggested that though the controversial Office...

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  • Resignation fever  a whole Lotta shakin goin on

    Resignation fever a whole Lotta shakin goin on

    January 7, 2003

    “I just looked around, and they were gone, Henry, Bernard and Trent.” Oops, doesn’t have the same ring as the classic song about Dr. King and President Kennedy, does it? The hit parade these past weeks...

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