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Celebrating the life of Mary McLeod Bethune
March 19, 2012Mary McLeod Bethune's commitment to the advancement of black women and indeed all women makes her a true American hero.
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All hail the (German) chief
March 19, 2012It's hard to decide: which article on Germany's new president, East Germany's (the former German Democratic Republic's) pastor Joachim Gauck, was more misleading.
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Bread and Roses in 1912, Hyatt and Hotels in 2012
March 8, 2012When it comes to oppression of women it sometimes seems like "the more things change, the more they stay the same."
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Portuguese government to unemployed: “There’s the door!”
March 5, 2012Portugal's prime minister, Pedro Passos Coelho, of the right-wing Social Democratic Party, shocked many on Dec. 18.
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60 years too late to save the Rosenbergs
February 27, 2012Once the executions took place on June 19th, 1953, the fatal errors could not be undone.
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