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Just what is the Carlyle Group?
April 5, 2002The name “Carlyle Group” has been cropping up a lot lately in news stories in connection with arms deals and the powerful interests involved in making those deals. But little is known about the group –...
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Edison is not the solution
April 5, 2002The following is testimony delivered to the Philadelphia School Reform Commission on March 26. Good afternoon. My name is Dennis Barnebey. I am a 30-year veteran teacher with the School District of Philadelphia and a parent...
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Town Hall meet focuses on welfare reform
April 5, 2002NEW HAVEN, Conn. – “When the President is planning to increase the work requirement from 32 hours to 40 hours, he better also provide funding for child care,” Lissette Martinez told a Town Hall Meeting on...
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Im not a woman, Im a hell-raiser
April 5, 2002A leader, according to one woman, is a hell-raiser. By that definition, the poor Irish woman born Mary Harris, who became the childless widow Mary Jones, then self-transformed into the organizer Mother Jones, was just that...
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Answer to violence: co-existence
April 5, 2002WASHINGTON – It was a long stride toward peace and justice in the Middle East when the Arab League voted unanimously Mar. 28 for the Saudi peace plan based upon Israeli withdrawal from the occupied territories...
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