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1,000 new pages document widespread torture
February 25, 2005WASHINGTON — The American Civil Liberties Union released new Pentagon documents Feb. 18 exposing an even wider pattern of torture and abuse of detainees in Iraq and Afghanistan. Among this new batch of 1,000 pages obtained...
Read moreSeniors, students make Santorum sweat
February 25, 2005PITTSBURGH — The third-ranking Republican in the Senate, Pennsylvania’s Sen. Rick Santorum, took to the stump selling the privatization of Social Security Feb. 21, but he stumbled and slipped at a well-informed town hall meeting organized...
Read moreDrugs and death in Afghanistan: What happened to Spc. Juan Torres?
February 25, 2005Army Specialist Juan Torres had his whole life ahead of him. At 25, Torres (known as John to most of his family and friends) had an accounting degree from the University of Houston and a good...
Read moreArthur Miller, 1915-2005: Giant of American theater had giftedness and guts
February 18, 2005Arthur Miller, the man who wrote “Death of a Salesman,” died Feb. 10. And as Linda Loman told the sons of Willy Loman, that sad and epic American dreamer: “Attention must be paid.” Miller, 89, died...
Read moreA neglected chapter in West Virginia labor history
February 18, 2005BOOK REVIEW During late August 1921, an army of 10,000 armed and angry coal miners marched across West Virginia. Their goal was to liberate Mingo County in the southwest corner of the state, and thereby end...
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