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  • New Orleans notebook: One year after Katrina

    New Orleans notebook: One year after Katrina

    August 18, 2006

    NEW ORLEANS — As a former New Orleans resident with fond memories of this great city, I was horrified as I drove in one year after Katrina. On the outskirts, the fields of dead trees and...

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  • National Clips

    National Clips

    August 18, 2006

    CRAWFORD, Texas: Barbecue for peace Beneath a banner reading, “A mother’s loss, a nation’s pain” over 150 peace activists and local Crawford neighbors shared barbecue Aug. 12 just outside President Bush’s ranch, where he was vacationing....

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  • Thousands rally in support of health care workers

    Thousands rally in support of health care workers

    August 18, 2006

    CHICAGO — Wearing union-made green T-shirts proclaiming, “We Fight, We Win,” thousands of American Federation of State, County and Municipal Employees members joined Resurrection Health Care workers in a rally here Aug. 9 outside St. Mary...

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  • WHATS REALLY GOOD

    WHATS REALLY GOOD

    August 18, 2006

    A giant Fidel lights Quito The Ecuadorian Youth Coordinating Office for Solidarity with Cuba put up a huge sign with the name of Cuban President Fidel Castro lighting up the sides of the Pichincha volcano in...

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  • Ani DiFranco: Political isnt just business, its personal

    Ani DiFranco: Political isnt just business, its personal

    August 11, 2006

    As months, weeks, hours, even as nanoseconds haul by in this day and age, making that metal against concrete screech, there is nothing like the relief of the annually anticipated Ani album. No need to clear...

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