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Illinois death penalty opponents call for commutation
August 16, 2002Opponents of the death penalty here have had a good year despite the bleak mood fostered in the wake of Sept. 11. Many see its abolition as an eminently achievable goal. Their hope is buoyed by...
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Letters
August 16, 2002Where’s the threat? President Bush is way out on a limb with his tough warspeak. How can he ever crawl back, after braying so loudly and so long about “changing the regime” in Iraq? Trouble is,...
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Editorials
August 16, 2002Rights under attack The American Bar Association has joined growing condemnation of the Bush administration’s secret detention of immigrants since Sept. 11. The ABA said the government should disclose the detainees’ names and where they are...
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New Colombian government slams door on peace
August 16, 2002When Anne Patterson, U.S. ambassador to Colombia, called on the new government of ultra-rightist President Alvaro Uribe Velez to summon the reserves to fight against leftist guerrilla forces, Uribe’s minister of defense, Martha Lucia Ramirez, did...
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Truth stranger than fiction?
August 16, 2002In a development the American Civil Liberties Union has called “surreal,” an Aug. 6 Salon.com report says the Department of Justice is forwarding incoming Operation TIPS calls to Fox TV’s “America’s Most Wanted” series.
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