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NATIONAL CLIPS

February 4, 2005

NASHVILLE: Baptists call for Iraq war end, no-vote on Gonzalez More than 10,000 delegates representing 15 million African American Baptists in four denominations met here, Jan. 24 – 27, and issued a joint unity statement calling...

Global call to action: End poverty!

February 4, 2005

PORTO ALEGRE, Brazil — From its opening march of 200,000 people — chanting slogans, singing, and carrying banners for an end to war, poverty and inequality — to the nightly rhythms of Brazilian samba, the fifth...

LETTERS

January 28, 2005

Tsunamis and the Third World The Dan Margolis piece (PWW 1/15-21) describing the lost lives in the tsunami because of the lack of an early warning system is right on. There are other preventive measures that...

NATIONAL CLIPS

January 28, 2005

NEW ORLEANS: Marchers ‘mourn’ second term On Inauguration Day more than 1,500 people, mostly dressed in black, lined up behind a horse-drawn coffin carrying copies of the Patriot Act and the Constitution for a traditional New...

Capitalism spreads HIV

January 21, 2005

OPINION It was New Year’s Eve and I was looking back over my favorite headlines of 2004 when I found what just might be the best one. It’s not that it’s a deeply moving Oprah-style human...