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Editorial: Giving thanks for workers toil
November 18, 2005When Abraham Lincoln decreed the Thanksgiving holiday in 1863, the country was divided and at war. For the first time, millionaires emerged from war profits and workers and farmers knew poverty and homelessness up close and...
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Editorial: No refuge for Bush
November 18, 2005Lame duck presidents, weary of being hammered by critics at home, typically flee to foreign capitals. Their hosts are bound by diplomatic courtesy not to call them “liar” “thief” or “war criminal.” So it was predictable...
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Battered by Katrina, Gulf Coast workers stand up
November 18, 2005NEW ORLEANS — Gail Andrews, a quiet, unassuming African American woman from New Orleans East, found her mother two weeks after Hurricane Katrina. Six weeks later, she lost her again. This time forever. At age 68,...
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Theory of Dumb Design may explain Pat Robertson
November 18, 2005Televangelist’s brain, mouth elude other theories, experts say Out of the controversial debate pitting the theory of evolution against the theory of intelligent design has emerged a new theory, dumb design, which some experts believe may...
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Janitors seeking respect
November 18, 2005“Can you live on $6.30 an hour?” read one sign as University of Miami students and faculty joined janitors and local clergy in a demonstration along U.S. Route 1 outside the campus Nov. 10.
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