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Playwright Harold Pinter, Iraq war critic, remembered
December 30, 2008LONDON (AP) — British Nobel laureate Harold Pinter, who produced some of his generation’s most influential dramas and later became a staunch critic of the U.S.-led war in Iraq, has died. He was 78. Pinter died...
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Ash flood may change way TVA handles coal waste
December 30, 2008KINGSTON, Tenn. (AP) — The spill of more than a billion gallons of coal ash from a power plant in East Tennessee may change the way the nation’s largest government-owned utility stores coal waste. Roane County...
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Connecticut celebrates: Fight of our life to change our countrys direction
December 29, 2008NEW HAVEN, Conn. — There was much to celebrate at the 89th anniversary of the Communist Party USA here Dec. 7. The party and its allies, unionists and friends joined together this year to work diligently...
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Coalition urges San Francisco to live up to sanctuary ordinance
December 23, 2008SAN FRANCISCO — Representatives of a broad immigrant rights, labor, faith and community coalition gathered at City Hall Dec. 18 — the day set by the United Nations as International Migrants Day — to call on...
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Biden slams Cheney on violating Constitution
December 22, 2008Dick Cheney's actions and advice as vice president were 'not healthy,' Vice President-elect Joe Biden told ABC's George Stephanopoulos in an interview Sunday Dec. 21. 'I think the recommendations, the advice that he has given to...
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