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Soldiers dad to Bush: Stop playing with lives

September 26, 2003

WASHINGTON – Larry Syverson, father of two combat soldiers deployed in Iraq, told a National Press Club news conference Sept. 24 that George W. Bush is “playing with my sons’ lives” to secure control of Iraqi...

Lawmakers urge trade with Cuba

September 19, 2003

In an important breakthrough for U.S.-Cuba trade, two members of Montana’s congressional delegation clinched an agreement in Havana on Sept. 14 to sell $10 million of agricultural products to the island nation. The products include Montana...

Sept. 11 two years later

September 19, 2003 By Dan Margolis And Judith Le Blanc

News Analysis The second anniversary of Sept. 11 was marked in New York City with painful and conflicting images and messages. The common thread was a sense of uncertainty about the future both in human terms...

Support grows for probe on Iraq evidence

September 19, 2003

A year after President Bush officially declared his preemptive, first-strike doctrine on Sept. 17, 2002, a major battle is brewing in Congress to challenge some of the foundations of that policy: U.S. intelligence operations and their...

A day that made me a peacenik

September 12, 2003

It was 58 years ago – Aug. 6, 1945 – and I was on the verge of turning 16. I remember the day vividly. In Milwaukee, it had been a warm, but pleasant summer day, and...