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Contradictory China
June 24, 2008Almost everything you’ve heard about China is true — at least, that’s my impression from a short week-and-a-half visit to Beijing at the end of May. The scale of everything in China is hard for anyone...
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Letters – June 21, 2008
June 24, 2008Stimulating! I finally got my stimulus check, which is G.W. Bush’s answer to the recession that he denies that we are in. I will be doing something with my stimulus check that Bush does not approve...
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Indiana Jones survives!
June 14, 2008Movie REVIEW Indiana Jones and the Kingdom of the Crystal Skull Directed by Steven Spielberg Paramount Pictures, 2008 124 min., Rated PG-13If we hadn’t seen it with our own eyes, my movie buddy and I would...
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Letters – June 14, 2008
June 14, 2008Something smells Word has it that Sen. John McCain is receiving $59,000 a year in benefits from the Veterans Administration for a 100 percent disability. Something just doesn’t smell right. Either he is 100 percent disabled...
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Worldnotes – June 14, 2008
June 14, 2008Germany: The Left Party sets course “The wind of history is in our sails,” Oscar Lafontaine proclaimed as 500 delegates of the Left Party, Germany’s third largest political party which evolved from the Socialist Unity Party...
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