Analysis
OPINION: The Rosenberg case revisited: heroes and betrayers
September 24, 2008The ugly days of the 1950s witchhunts returned to the headlines this month, hitting me in a very personal way.
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OPINION: A dose of ‘socialism’ to forestall financial disaster
September 20, 2008It's easy to become apocalyptic contemplating the vast sums of wealth being destroyed in the unfolding financial crisis gripping Wall Street. The economic tsunami unleashed there will soon reach every corner of the nation. Indeed globalization...
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Letters: Sept. 20, 2008
September 20, 2008Heavy toll on Afghan children More reports coming out of Afghanistan indicate more dead children (“Protests grow over civilian deaths,” PWW 9/6-12). Civilian casualties are a perpetual reality in Afghanistan. In July, 47 were killed in...
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To help everyone, lift the blockade
September 20, 2008The world has watched with enormous admiration as storm-battered Cuba pulls itself together after the unprecedented devastation of Hurricanes Gustav, Hanna and Ike. Despite immense losses to agriculture, industry, housing and infrastructure, loss of life was...
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EDITORIAL: Bail out Main Street
September 20, 2008The largest crisis in U.S. financial history shook the foundations of Wall Street this week. The aftershocks of the earthquake that toppled the 158-year-old Lehman Brothers investment bank, Merrill Lynch and the AIG insurance giant —...
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