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Silenced again: My Name is Rachel Corrie postponed indefinitely
April 7, 2006New York City is known throughout the world as a bastion of free artistic expression. That is, apparently, unless the art is about the struggle of the Palestinian people. Or at least that was the message...
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EDITORIAL: Tax justice
April 7, 2006As Americans scramble to file their tax returns by the April 15 deadline, a new tax study got us angry. A New York Times analysis of Internal Revenue Service data shows that President Bush’s tax cuts...
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Injuries lead nurses to quit. Union launches drive for state regs
April 7, 2006Saying huge numbers of on-the-job injuries from lifting and turning patients causes ever-increasing legions of nurses to quit, American Federation of Teachers’ nurses division launched a drive for state legislation mandating that hospitals install devices to...
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Labor law reform in France
April 7, 2006More than a million people in France have taken to the streets against their conservative government’s attempts to change the country’s labor law. According to the conventional wisdom here in the United States, “Old Europe” is...
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Sago survivor home, mine safety battle continues
April 7, 2006PITTSBURGH — Randall McCloy, 26, thin and weak, sat inside his Simpson, W.Va., home with his wife and two children for the first time in two months. McCloy survived the worst West Virginia mining disaster in...
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