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Oklahoma dreams and nightmares, The Innocent Man: Murder and Injustice in a Small Town
November 3, 2006BOOKREVIEWThe Innocent Man: Murder and Injustice in a Small Town By John Grisham Doubleday, 2006 Hardcover, 368 pp., $28.95 Ada isn’t just the three-letter answer to the crossword puzzle clue “town in Oklahoma.” It isn’t just...
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Defeat the GOP to stop their anti-immigrant drive
November 3, 2006Supporters of immigrants’ rights, who showed their strength by the mass marches during the spring, have mobilized to end the Republican right’s stranglehold on Congress and state governments in the elections this week. In this, they...
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The Tigers and the spirit of Detroit
November 3, 2006They came so close, and for most Detroiters that was more than enough — and we did beat the Yankees, to the delight of all but a small section of lower New York. Ordonez, Monroe, Casey,...
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EDITORIAL: Your vote matters!
November 3, 2006To the credit of the American people — and despite all the Bush administration/Repub-lican efforts at intimidation, threats, lies, spin and mudslinging — polls have shown the Bush Republicans in a free fall. In this highly...
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We too sing America. The struggle for African American equality, from slavery to today
November 3, 2006Returning this fall to the campus where he became a professor, Walter R. Allen led a mainly student audience at the University of Michigan’s School of Education through the history of the African American struggle against...
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