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Peoples Culture

February 7, 2003

The White House has cancelled a poetry reading after one of the invited guests, poet Sam Hamill, suggested attendees use the forum to read anti-war poetry. The event, which was to be held Feb. 12, was...

Humanity, evolution and the capacity to love

February 7, 2003

Popularizers of evolutionary theory, from Huxley on, have tended to emphasize the idea of competition between and within species, of “nature red in tooth and claw.” Often, this emphasis on conflict and competition has been the...

Harold Washington: Champion of equality

February 7, 2003 By Evelina Alarcon

Harold Washington, Chicago’s first African-American mayor, was elected in February 1983 after a bitter fight in which he challenged Chicago to embrace reform and do away with the discriminatory and anti-democratic policies of the entrenched Democratic...

Critican mensaje Bush

January 31, 2003

George W. Bush estaba tratando de ganar apoyo para su agenda de recortes de impuestos para los ricos y guerra contra Irak en su discurso sobre el Estado de la Unión a una sesión de ambas...

Erdine Antonsen, 99, dies

January 31, 2003 By Evelina Alarcon

Erdine Cathers Antonsen of New Paltz, died on Jan. 9. She was 99