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  • Calif. seniors protest budget cuts

    Calif. seniors protest budget cuts

    May 21, 2004

    SACRAMENTO, Calif. – At least 1,000 people gathered on the west steps of the Capitol building May 12 to protest right-wing Republican Gov. Arnold Schwarzenegger’s plan to spare the rich and smite the poor to solve...

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  • A look at Brown v. Board, 50 years later

    A look at Brown v. Board, 50 years later

    May 21, 2004

    Commentary On May 17, 1954, the U.S. Supreme Court declared that the segregation of African American children in schools was unconstitutional, in effect restoring the 13th Amendment to the Constitution, which freed enslaved Africans. It also...

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  • OSHA overhaul

    OSHA overhaul

    May 21, 2004 By Phil E. Benjamin

    Commemorating Workers Memorial Day April 28, Senators Ted Kennedy (D-Mass.) and Jon Corzine (D-N.J.) called for congressional action to respond to the more than 60,000 workers who die each year of job-related injuries and illnesses.

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  • What Russians think

    What Russians think

    May 21, 2004 By Greg Godwin

    What has alarmed the dean of anti-Soviet academics, the famous Richard Pipes of Harvard University?

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  • Iowa author tells The Truth in latest book

    Iowa author tells The Truth in latest book

    May 14, 2004

    Book review The Truth By Mike Palecek Writers Publishing Cooperative, 2003, paperback, 234 pp, $16.95. To order call (888) 874-6904 or visit www.essentialbooks.com. Against the backdrop of history, we have the story of a small-town mailman...

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