National
Defeat the GOP to stop their anti-immigrant drive
November 3, 2006Supporters of immigrants’ rights, who showed their strength by the mass marches during the spring, have mobilized to end the Republican right’s stranglehold on Congress and state governments in the elections this week. In this, they...
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The Tigers and the spirit of Detroit
November 3, 2006They came so close, and for most Detroiters that was more than enough — and we did beat the Yankees, to the delight of all but a small section of lower New York. Ordonez, Monroe, Casey,...
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EDITORIAL: Your vote matters!
November 3, 2006To the credit of the American people — and despite all the Bush administration/Repub-lican efforts at intimidation, threats, lies, spin and mudslinging — polls have shown the Bush Republicans in a free fall. In this highly...
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We too sing America. The struggle for African American equality, from slavery to today
November 3, 2006Returning this fall to the campus where he became a professor, Walter R. Allen led a mainly student audience at the University of Michigan’s School of Education through the history of the African American struggle against...
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Stem cell battle in Missouri
November 3, 2006The Stem Cell Initiative on the ballot in Missouri would amend the state’s constitution to protect stem cell research and therapies allowed by federal law. Missouri would be the first state to do so. The campaign...
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