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Bay Staters to vote on Iraq pullout
October 21, 2006AMHERST, Mass. — Voters here and in 138 other cities and towns across Massachusetts will be able to express their opinions on the Iraq war directly, for the first time, at the ballot box in the...
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No fruits for their labor
October 21, 2006Julia Preston, a New York Times reporter writing from Washington, D.C., describes pears rotting on trees in Lake County, Calif., owing to a lack of farm workers to pick them. Growers tell her 70,000 of the...
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Katrina may have been a harbinger
October 21, 2006A year after hurricanes Katrina and Rita devastated the Gulf Coast, I thought I’d take a look back (like everyone else) and see how we as a country and as an industry have fared since. In...
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Preventing nuclear war in Korea
October 21, 2006Kofi Annan has again urged us to be wise and to refrain from the self-defeating practice of playing superpower bully. In the wake of North Korea’s reported nuclear weapons test, the outgoing UN secretary-general was clear...
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LETTERS
October 21, 2006Union addresses dropout rate The national statistics tell a terrible story: Three out of every 10 students in America who attend a public school as a ninth grader this year will drop out before completing their...
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