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Tyre, Under Siege

Israeli jets hurl rockets at Tyre, the Queen City of the Sea, formerly known as Sur. She has endured against the Assyrians, the Chaldeans, the Persians, and the hated Crusaders who defiled her land. Israel forgets...

Poet Sanchez to be missed

SAN ANTONIO — Chicano activist and poet Trinidad Sanchez Jr. passed away at age 63 on July 30 as a consequence of two strokes suffered 12 days earlier. Sanchez was best known for his poem “Why...

Where are those oil profits going? Corporate greed

'It’s a blowout.” No, silly — not the tire on your car. “It’s a blowout,” said a Wall Street money expert about Exxon Mobil’s second- quarter oil profits. You want to hear something crazy? Exxon Mobil...

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Neighbors challenge bio research lab

BOSTON — Opponents of a proposed bioterrorism research laboratory at Boston University Medical Center won a victory last week when a state judge ruled that the basis used to approve the so-called Biolab was “arbitrary and...