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Veterans health care completely broken, Walter Reed scandal called tip of iceberg
March 2, 2007WASHINGTON — Army Lt. Brady Van Engelen barely survived a sniper bullet that shattered his skull while he was patrolling outside a Sunni mosque in Baghdad in April 2004. But, he told the World, the medical...
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Still an open wound
February 23, 2007In late January, a Mississippi man was arrested for a 1965 murder. James Seale, now 71, was arrested on kidnapping charges related to killing two Black teenagers, who were tied to trees, whipped and drowned. Seale’s...
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The Bush library: who needs it?
February 16, 2007George W. Bush has selected Southern Methodist University in Dallas to maintain and extend his political legacy. In addition to the most expensive presidential library in history, the Bushites plan to add a “think tank,” sometimes...
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Bush budget would slash Medicare, reward rich
February 16, 2007“The president’s budget is filled with debt and deception, disconnected from reality and continues to move America in the wrong direction,” charged Sen. Kent Conrad (D-N.D.), chairman of the Senate Budget Committee, on Feb. 5. “This...
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A decade of fighting old battles in the New South
February 9, 2007Much has written about the New South and expanded opportunity for Blacks and others in the old bastion of Confederate pride, but human rights and civil rights leaders in the region point to racial injustice, voter...
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