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  • Bush budget assailed as war on people

    Bush budget assailed as war on people

    February 11, 2005

    WASHINGTON — Outraged protests greeted President George W. Bush’s $2.57 trillion budget proposal, with many calling it a fraudulent, radical plan to starve spending on human needs while lavishing billions on the “greedy.” The 2006 budget...

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  • Pablo Neruda: One poet, many lessons

    Pablo Neruda: One poet, many lessons

    February 4, 2005

    OPINION“As the first bullets ripped into the guitars of Spain, when blood instead of music gushed out of them, my poetry stopped dead like a ghost in the streets of human anguish and a rush of...

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  • Dont take away Social Security

    Dont take away Social Security

    February 4, 2005

    OPINIONAfter reading a column in her local paper, the Albuquerque Journal, calling Bush’s Social Security privatization plan “a step in the right direction,” PWW reader Rose Shaw didn’t just get mad – she wrote a response!...

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  • LETTERS

    LETTERS

    February 4, 2005

    Boxer rebellion Hats off to California Sen. Barbara Boxer for being the only senator to join with several representatives of the House, standing up for thousands of Ohio disenfranchised voters. More kudos to Boxer for raising...

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  • Underground Railroad

    Underground Railroad

    February 4, 2005

    ST. LOUIS — The history of slavery and racism is a horrible, shameful part of American history. It is a scar on the face of the ideals that our democratic nation holds dear. Before the Civil...

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