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Oklahoma dreams and nightmares, The Innocent Man: Murder and Injustice in a Small Town
November 3, 2006BOOKREVIEWThe Innocent Man: Murder and Injustice in a Small Town By John Grisham Doubleday, 2006 Hardcover, 368 pp., $28.95 Ada isn’t just the three-letter answer to the crossword puzzle clue “town in Oklahoma.” It isn’t just...
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Film captures horror of repression in Haiti
November 3, 2006VANCOUVER, British Columbia — After U.S. Marines seized Haitian President Jean-Bertrand Aristide on Feb. 29, 2004, and flew him to the Central African Republic, the newly installed interim government unleashed a campaign of terror against Aristide’s...
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A Palestinian view Meltdown looms
November 3, 2006In spite of all the differences between the Palestinian and Israeli situations, they have one thing in common: both sides are suffering government crises causing internal instability. On the Palestinian side, where the situation is much...
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Worse than union-busting
November 3, 2006A television ad playing in Michigan this September seemed innocent enough: an adorable little girl in braids, a schoolroom filled to the brim with the latest colorful learning aids and enthusiastic students eager to learn. But...
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Defeat the GOP to stop their anti-immigrant drive
November 3, 2006Supporters of immigrants’ rights, who showed their strength by the mass marches during the spring, have mobilized to end the Republican right’s stranglehold on Congress and state governments in the elections this week. In this, they...
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