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Shani breaks the rules
March 3, 2006Olympic gold-medal winner Shani Davis is not playing by the rules. I don’t mean the Olympic rules of international athletic competition. He has abided by those. He trained hard, practiced long, competed honestly. He should be...
Read moreSocial Security still on Bush-corporate hit list
March 3, 2006A vampire is not really dead until a wooden stake is pushed through its heart (so they say). The Vampire of the Empire arose last month and presented to Congress a federal budget proposal containing a...
Read moreFighting for the same rights over and over
March 3, 2006We were talking about the future of the women’s movement. It was back in the early ’70s, when the women’s movement was taking off, inspired by the civil rights movement. Except for me, everyone in the...
Read moreEDITORIAL: Stand up to anti-woman bullies
March 3, 2006International Women’s Day, March 8, and Women’s History Month, observed this month, should be a time to celebrate gains in equal rights for women. But the ultra-right has launched an offensive to wipe out women’s reproductive...
Read moreThe World of Peggy Lipschutz: Women, workers, angels soul of her purposeful art
March 3, 2006Peggy Lipschutz, 87, picked up a small brush and eyed an unfinished painting. She added a dab of color to the figure of an older woman sitting in thought, with an angel in the background.
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