Oct 9
The unfinished business of school desegregation
October 8, 2004This nation’s flawed story of desegregation: the resistance since 1954 to integration by Northern public schools despite many challenges by parents and civil rights activists.
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Seniors are paying for Medicare scams
October 8, 2004Opinion America’s senior citizens, who just got hit with the largest increase ever in their monthly Medicare premium payments, may want to send a thank you note to Tom Scully, the outspoken former head of Medicare...
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Bush clobbered in first debate: Now what?
October 8, 2004Opinion I must admit that I really enjoyed John Kerry clobbering George W. Bush in the first presidential debate last week. Bush “stayed on message,” as the advertiser like to say. As Pete Seeger used to...
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Letters
October 8, 2004A possible solution A while ago, a couple of guys came up with a carburetor system that ran off cooking oil! They applied their invention to an old VW bus. They drove it across the country,...
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Editorials
October 8, 2004‘Cash starved’ Pentagon? Buried in the business pages of the Sept. 30 New York Times was a story by Tim Weiner headlined, “Pentagon is Cash Poor Even as Spending Jumps.” In the fiscal year beginning Oct....
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