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  • American Indian mascots harm students

    American Indian mascots harm students

    July 7, 2006

    A University of North Dakota survey using the strict guidelines of the Institutional Review Board shows that the university’s Fighting Sioux team name and logo has real effects on students. Sparked by the controversy at UND,...

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  • LETTERS

    LETTERS

    July 7, 2006

    He’s no George Bush! Re: “An Inconvenient Truth” (PWW 6/10-16). In a dark auditorium with remote in hand, open collar and pudgy-faced, Al Gore explains that the sun’s heat gets trapped in the earth’s atmosphere, which...

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  • EDITORIAL: Standing up for a free press

    EDITORIAL: Standing up for a free press

    July 7, 2006

    Do the American people have a right to know what their government is doing? For President Bush and members of his administration, the given answer would be a resounding “no.” Listening to the administration, one would...

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  • The art of labor

    The art of labor

    July 7, 2006

    ART REVIEW LOS ANGELES — “At Work” is an artistic chronicle of labor in California, not a dead past, but a living history that continues to evolve and grow. To make its point, the exhibit presents...

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  • Teamsters drive card-check campaign at Overnite

    Teamsters drive card-check campaign at Overnite

    July 7, 2006

    LAS VEGAS (PAI) — Reviving a campaign they suspended several years ago, the Teamsters will try to organize the 15,000 drivers for Overnite Transportation, but with a difference: they will do so via card-check. The card-check...

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