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Health care: beyond markets
December 17, 2004Opinion As the United States moves into the 21st century, nowhere are the long-term adverse consequences of its political choices during the previous century more in evidence than in health care. Today’s dysfunctional health care system...
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Who wants to cut Social Security benefits?
December 17, 2004Opinion Sometimes the news makes me laugh out loud. Here’s a good one: “On Social Security,” reported The New York Times last week, “45 percent said a proposal to permit people to invest their Social Security...
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Hands off the NAACP
December 17, 2004Opinion I think that it is fair to say that most of us were taken aback by the audacity of the action. A few short weeks prior to the November presidential election, it was announced that...
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Pete Seeger: Standing Tall at 85
December 17, 2004'Seeger understood early the power of song as a force for social change.' Pete Seeger turned 85 last May 3 and could be forgiven if he hung up his five-string banjo and relaxed with his wife...
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UN report shows effects of poverty, war on children
December 17, 2004UNICEF’s annual State of the World’s Children report presents a grim picture for the holiday season. The United Nation Children’s Fund reports that more than half of all children face deprivation as a result of poverty,...
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