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Senate OKs spying, rewards big biz
November 22, 2002Rejecting appeals that they first read the 484-page Homeland Security bill, the Senate voted 90 to 9, Nov. 19, to approve the measure creating an enormous new cabinet-level department with a budget of $38 billion. The...
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10,000 demand: Close U.S. terror school
November 22, 2002Over 10,000 people from far and wide gathered at the gates of Ft. Benning, Ga., Nov. 17 to demand closure of the School of the Americas (SOA), better known as the “School of Assassins,” where many...
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Ashcrofts specter looms
November 15, 2002NEW YORK – If you happened to be in downtown Manhattan on Election Night, you might have seen a 20-by-50-foot demonic specter of John Ashcroft overtake the giant billboard at the corner of Houston and Lafayette,...
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Republicans suffer big defeat in Illinois
November 15, 2002CHICAGO – Democrats swept nearly every statewide office and won majorities in both houses of the state legislature in Illinois. Democratic Sen. Richard Durbin was easily re-elected over a little known Republican, Jim Durkin. Durkin excoriated...
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Letters
November 15, 2002In defeat, defiance When a coworker asked me what history could teach us about these elections, my answer was to quote Winston Churchill “we have lost a battle. We have not lost the war” and “in...
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