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Prescription drugs under Medicare
April 17, 2003For seniors, Medicare reform means getting a comprehensive drug benefit under traditional Medicare that is affordable and stable in price. They like preventive benefits and favor reforms that maintain Medicare as a program in which everyone...
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Debt bondage Debt bondage
April 17, 2003The burden of unpayable debt is rising rapidly worldwide. In the U.S., household debt leaped from 65 percent of income in 1975 to more than 100 percent in 2001. Bankruptcies, individual and corporate, are near records.
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Professor arrested for defending freedom of speech
April 17, 2003BOSTON – Little did University of Massachusetts (UMass) professor Tony Van Der Meer know that he would be arrested by the campus police as he attempted to defend a student’s right to free speech. At a...
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Youth and students speak out against war
April 17, 2003When asked why students are protesting the war on Iraq, Jessica Marshall of the Young Communist League (YCL) and National Youth and Student Peace Coalition, said it’s because politicians are “not sending the sons and daughters...
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Whats really behind the trials in Cuba
April 17, 2003At an April 9 press conference in Havana, Cuban Foreign Minister Felipe Perez Roque presented a detailed discussion of the recent trials of Cubans charged with acting in the interest of a foreign state to harm...
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