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California labor seeks worker-friendly Congress
January 11, 2008As early presidential primary results highlight voters’ demands for change, a drive is taking shape to further weaken Republican power in Congress. Among leaders of that movement is the AFL-CIO, which plans to put even more...
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Teaching English in Tehran airport
January 11, 2008When a friend of mine and her husband, who is a prominent scholar of Iran and Islam, arrived in Tehran at midnight last summer, she was not sure what to expect. In the women’s customs inspection...
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Illegal immigrants, or undocumented ones?
January 11, 2008Minneapolis artist Ricardo Levins has a bumper sticker that reads, “An injury to Juan is an injury to Al.” In a lighthearted way, that twist on the classic labor motto captures the meaning behind a resolution...
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Letters: Jan. 12, 2008
January 11, 2008New Year’s greeting Unfortunately I am now totally blind, and am not able to do any more than to dictate this to you: A happy new year to you and all our comrades. Celia and I...
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The murder of Bhutto: Cold War fallout
January 11, 2008The assassination of Benazir Bhutto in Pakistan last month has a direct relationship to the war in Afghanistan in the 1980s, the subject of “Charlie Wilson’s War,” the Hollywood “comedy” in which a corrupt congressman and...
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