Article Listing
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Letters
November 8, 2002Veterans Day Nov. 11, first called Armistice Day, commemorates the end of WWI. At eleven o’clock on Nov. 11, the eleventh hour of the eleventh day of the eleventh month of 1918, a treaty was signed...
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Editorials
November 8, 2002Death by drone: an illegal act The CIA killed six suspected terrorists with an unmanned drone in Yemen, thereby officially expanding the war on terrorism outside of Afghanistan. One of Al Qaeda’s top men was supposedly...
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International notes
November 8, 2002Israel: Armed forces accused of war crimes / Cuba: Blockade costs over $70 billion / South Africa: SACP urges social security overhaul / Korea: Joint industry complex planned / Haiti: Financial embargo leads refugees to flee...
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World student groups defend public education
November 8, 2002ACCRA, Ghana – An international gathering of student organizations ended its second World Student Congress last week with a strong commitment to mobilizing students around the world in defense of access to public education.
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From Charles Dickens to George W. Bush
November 8, 2002The novels of Charles Dickens portray life during the development of modern capitalism in England. In Nicholas Nickleby (1838), one of the characters describes a venture in which members of parliament join with capitalists to launch...
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