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Giving women composers their due

CDREVIEWWoman’s Work MSR Classics, www.msrcd.com $14.95 “Woman’s Work” is a collection of piano music by women composers performed by Dr. Charlotte Mueller in Kristiansand, Norway, in celebration of International Women’s Day 2005. Featured on this CD...

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Hazleton, Pa.: In a town built by immigrants, residents speak out

HAZLETON, Pa. — Since the end of the 19th century, when workers from eastern Europe flocked to this area to work in the coal mines, Hazleton has been a city of immigrant workers. These workers joined...

Business-backed DLC supports union-backed law

WASHINGTON (PAI) —Showing the power of election-year politics to unify feuding factions, the mostly business-backed Democratic Leadership Council said on Sept. 6 that it formally backs the labor-pushed Employee Free Choice Act. In a press conference...

WORLD NOTES

East Timor: Popular forces under the gun Alexander Downer, the Australian foreign minister, visited East Timor on Sept. 3 to pressure new Prime Minister Jose Ramos Horta to reverse the Fretilin Party’s domination of East Timor’s...