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Cuba and dissidents
May 9, 2003Opinion The recent arrest, trial and sentencing of dissidents in Cuba has been much criticized in the West from the standpoint of human rights and legalities. But I look beyond that to what it tells us...
Read moreBudget sideshow jeopardizes families
May 7, 2003Opinion Have they no decency? The United States Senate on April 11 resembled a circus sideshow, practicing the old shell game of now you see it, now you don’t. While on paper they passed a cut...
Read moreAn unbalanced budget plan
May 7, 2003Opinion Farmers and ranchers have not enjoyed the same economic growth and prosperity that many other sectors of American society have experienced in the last decade. Nevertheless, the U.S. House of Representatives has approved a plan...
Read moreA look at Russias Yeltsin years
May 7, 2003Post Soviet Russia: A Journey Through the Yeltsin Era, by Roy Medvedev, Columbia University Press, 394 pp. Like the early 20th century under Vladimir Lenin, the 1990s under Boris Yeltsin was a time of revolutionary change...
Read moreRights for immigrant workers needed now more than ever
May 7, 2003Opinion Thousands of immigrants are planning a May Day mobilization in Washington, D.C., with a clear message: Rights for immigrant workers now! The national day of action on this international workers’ day is being organized by...
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