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Government stumbles in Holy Land trial
October 26, 2007DALLAS — The long-awaited verdicts in one of the country’s most critical civil rights cases were revealed Oct. 22 at the Earle Cabell Federal Building downtown. The Holy Land Foundation, the largest organization providing charitable aid...
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Republican wins in Louisiana, exploits Jena 6
October 26, 2007Republican Bobby Jindal won election as governor of Louisiana, Oct. 20, with a campaign that evaded the issues while offering barely coded appeals to racism in the case of the Jena Six. Jindal won 53 percent...
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On the New Orleans docks: Workers fight to rebuild their city
October 26, 2007NEW ORLEANS — A small sliver of downtown New Orleans has bounced back as a neighborhood of gleaming corporate office towers and a playground for the rich. There, on Oct. 19, in the “isle of denial,”...
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House GOP upholds Bush veto on SCHIP, union leaders vow retribution
October 20, 2007WASHINGTON (PAI) — Despite strong lobbying by unions, health care groups, children’s groups and their allies, House Republicans mustered enough votes on Oct. 18 to uphold anti-worker President George Bush’s veto of children’s health care. Union...
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Gore, global warming and the whole damn thing
October 19, 2007Al Gore, former U.S. vice president and presidential candidate, and the Intergovernmental Panel on Climate on Climate Change, a UN-sponsored group of scientists, have jointly won this year’s Nobel Peace Prize for their work on global...
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