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Lebanon: 30,000 civilians caught in crossfire
June 8, 2007BEIRUT (IPS) — Palestinians inside Lebanon have been in a quandary as to how to assist the more than 30,000 residents of the densely populated Nahr el-Bared refugee camp in northern Lebanon, where thousands are still...
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Rice pressures Spain on Cuba
June 8, 2007Secretary of State Condoleezza Rice condemned Spain’s recent opening to Cuba as she talked with reporters accompanying her May 29 to Germany, Austria and Spain for talks. “I don’t see how [democracy] is advanced by simply...
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WHAT’S REALLY GOOD
June 8, 2007Burger King: a ‘Whopper’ suspect Last April, days after McDonald’s agreed to pay farmworkers an extra penny per pound of picked tomatoes, the Coalition of Immokalee Workers (CIW) in Florida began to campaign against their new...
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Why you should read the Peoples Weekly World/Nuestro Mundo
June 1, 2007What readers and leaders say:The PWW prints lots of news other newspapers don’t — the good stuff, all that stuff other newspapers just don’t run. Read the PWW! —Anne McLemore, president of Pittsburgh Coalition of Labor...
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Namesake challenges melting pot myths
June 1, 2007The director of “The Namesake,” Mira Nair, seems to be making a deliberately foreign film in America. The film is based on the 2004 novel of the same title by Jhumpa Lahiri.
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