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Required watching: How DeLay stole Congress
August 4, 2006MovieREVIEWThe Big Buy: Tom DeLay’s Stolen Congress Produced, directed and edited by Mark Birnbaum and Jim Schermbeck Brave New Films, 2006 Available on DVDFeaturing Tom DeLay grinning like a Cheshire cat throughout the film, “The Big...
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Disability rights and the civil rights revolution
August 4, 2006Those of us who come from the first wave of disability rights advocates began our struggle within the civil rights movement of the 1960s. We learned an important lesson from that movement as to how a...
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LETTERS
August 4, 2006Qana in the last days of July 2006 “All the frankincense grown in the land is brought to Cane (Qana), as to a warehouse….” — Alexandrian merchant, 40-70 AD In this city now of rubble and...
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EDITORIAL: Remembering Hiroshima and Nagasaki
August 4, 2006This year, on the 61st anniversary of the U.S. atomic bombings of Hiroshima and Nagasaki, the stakes are higher than ever in the struggle to eliminate a destructive power that could end life as we know...
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EDITORIAL: Poison pills
August 4, 2006Does the hard working woman refilling your coffee cup at the lunch counter look like she deserves a pay cut? That could be the outcome if the minimum wage bill, passed in the dead of the...
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