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  • Editorial: Media chill

    Editorial: Media chill

    July 8, 2005

    A chill is spreading through the media and a cold shadow is falling over the right of the people to know. In July 2003, The New York Times ran an op-ed piece by former U.S. ambassador...

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  • Editorial: Make poverty history

    Editorial: Make poverty history

    July 8, 2005

    At their meeting this week near Edinburgh, Scotland, leaders of the Group of 8 industrial nations — Britain, Canada, France, Germany, Italy, Japan, Russia and the U.S. — focused on two themes: coping with climate change...

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  • Continuity and change in Caribbean immigration

    Continuity and change in Caribbean immigration

    July 8, 2005

    NEW YORK — On June 27 the House of Representatives passed a bill introduced by Rep. Barbara Lee (D-Calif.) to designate a national “Caribbean American Heritage Month.” “Establishing Caribbean American Heritage Month will celebrate the contributions...

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  • World Notes

    World Notes

    July 8, 2005

    Australia: Protest vs. gov’t labor proposals The week of protest starting June 26 against the government’s proposed new workplace laws has brought hundreds of thousands of unionists and their supporters into the streets in communities throughout...

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  • In Berlin, a weird vote and an old specter

    In Berlin, a weird vote and an old specter

    July 8, 2005

    News Analysis BERLIN — Weird was the best way to describe German Chancellor Gerhard Schroeder’s tactic: to urge his parliament to vote “no confidence” in his own government. He succeeded. Now, if President Horst Koehler goes...

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