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  • Kim Dae-jung mourned as Korea peacemaker

    Kim Dae-jung mourned as Korea peacemaker

    August 21, 2009

    Kim Dae-jung, the first South Korean president to meet with North Korea's leaders, is being mourned as a peacemaker. Kim died Aug. 18 at the age of 85. “I was saddened at the passing of former...

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  • Health reform supporters take center stage

    Health reform supporters take center stage

    August 21, 2009

    Much of the media continues to focus on details of the Obama administration’s health reform strategy, the role of a handful of senators who represent almost as many cows as people, and the bizarre tactics of...

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  • Mercury contaminates fish nationwide, study shows

    Mercury contaminates fish nationwide, study shows

    August 21, 2009 By Susan Webb

    Scientists have found mercury contamination in every fish sampled in 291 streams across the country, according to a U.S. Geological Survey study released yesterday.

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  • Doris Brin Walker, defender of civil rights, free speech, dies at 90

    Doris Brin Walker, defender of civil rights, free speech, dies at 90

    August 21, 2009

    SAN FRANCISCO ― Doris Brin Walker, an attorney famous for her brilliant and tenacious defense of political activists including Angela Davis ― and earlier, Smith Act and other McCarthy-era political defendants ― died Aug. 13 following...

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  • It’s time for united action

    It’s time for united action

    August 20, 2009

    COMMENTARY One of the most insidious forms of racism today is the current right-wing campaign to bring down the presidency of Barack Obama. Turning reality on its head seems the tactic of choice to achieve this...

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