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The truth behind the death of a Cuban hunger striker
March 11, 2010Orlando Zapata Tamayo died of respiratory failure in a Cuban hospital on February 23 after an 83 day hunger strike
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Resetting U.S.-Cuba relations and the Cuban 5
March 11, 2010Recent vindictive U.S. actions in the case of the Cuban 5 raise the question: what is holding back a change in the unconstructive policy of blockade and hostility toward Cuba?
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‘The Last Station’ – we loved it and learned from it
March 10, 2010Love, wealth, utopian ideas and looming revolution are themes in this wonderfully acted film about Tolstoy and his wife.
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The real impediments to good schools
March 5, 2010Blaming teachers' unions for the "failure" of public education is at best a red herring, at worst a cynical way to sow division.
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‘But we don’t have any work’
March 5, 2010Like most people here in Reno, Nevada, who are looking for work, I just call myself a statistic and hope for the best.
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