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July 17, 200950 years of the Cuban Revolution, 1st Wednesday topical discussion group, Discussion on Doi-Moi: renewal of society in Vietnam in a time of fundamental world change.
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Health care fight reaches milestone
July 17, 2009The Obama administration is the engineer on a legislative train racing to complete a health care reform overhaul before the August congressional recess. The train has passed another major milestone in its journey: key Senate and...
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‘Laws alone are not enough to remedy discrimination’
July 17, 2009The Rev. Martin Luther King was present when President Johnson signed the Civil Rights Act on July 2, 1964. Prohibiting discrimination of all kinds based on race, color, religion or national origin, it was the most...
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Keep Philly Cool; Open the Pools!
July 17, 2009PHILADELPHIA — A group of some 100 citizens of Philadelphia of different generations from communities across the city demonstrated at City Hall yesterday with a simple demand: “Open our pools!” Their signs and chants left little...
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Texas may bar students learning about Cesar Chavez, Thurgood Marshall
July 17, 2009United Farmworkers founder César Chávez is an unfitting role model for students, and former Supreme Court Justice Thurgood Marshall is not an appropriate historical figure. So say “expert reviewers” in their report to the Texas State...
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