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8041 Under the Skin of the City (Dir. Rakhshan Bani-Etemad) -- rank: 46

***** New York Times March 14, 2003 An Iranian Family, Facing Conflict Within and Beyond By A. O. SCOTT At the beginning of "Under the Skin of the City," Tuba (Golab Adineh), a middle-aged woman who works in a textile mill in Tehran, sits down in front of a documentary ...

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Author:	Yoshie Furuhashi
Date:	Fri Mar 14 19:47:27 PST 2003

8042 Howard Fast, Best-Selling Novelist, Dies at 88 -- rank: 46

Howard Fast, Best-Selling Novelist, Dies at 88 March 13, 2003 By MERVYN ROTHSTEIN Howard Fast, whose best-selling historical fiction often featured the themes of freedom and human rights, elements in his own tumultuous political journey through the blacklisting of the 1950's, died yesterday at his home in Old ...

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Author:	Jim Farmelant
Date:	Thu Mar 13 04:50:27 PST 2003

8043 staying alive -- rank: 46

Staying alive Once there was a thriving Arab women's movement. Right now, survival is our political act Ahdaf Souei Thursday March 13, 2003 The Guardian In Baghdad on any given day you might come across her. I will not tell you her name - but she is tall and slim with ...

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Author:	Ian Murray
Date:	Wed Mar 12 19:50:00 PST 2003

8044 Another Nobel Peace person for war -- rank: 46

... of Iraq. After all, I have seen enough of the brutality, the ugliness, of war to oppose it heart and soul ...

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Author:	topp8564 at mail.usyd.edu.au
Date:	Wed Mar 12 19:04:53 PST 2003

8045 [lbo-talk] disturbing lancet article on haiti -- rank: 46

Democracy Now! also ran a segment on this the other day at: http://www.democracynow.org/article.pl?sid=06/08/31/144235 -- http://www.thelancet.com/journals/lancet/article/PIIS0140673606692118/abstract The Lancet 2006; 368:864-873 DOI:10.1016/S0140-6736(06)69211-8 Human rights abuse and other ...

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Author:	Auguste Blanqui
Date:	Sun Sep 3 01:00:25 PDT 2006

8046 Another Nobel Peace person for war -- rank: 46

... of Iraq. After all, I have seen enough of the brutality, the ugliness, of war to oppose it heart and soul ...

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Author:	Kevin Robert Dean
Date:	Wed Mar 12 11:55:52 PST 2003

8047 Serbian Prime Minister assasinated -- rank: 46

... Wednesday by gunmen who ambushed him outside the government complex, police sources said. “He’s dead,” a source ...

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Author:	Kevin Robert Dean
Date:	Wed Mar 12 07:33:24 PST 2003

8048 Protest against the Bombing -- rank: 46

>Carrol Cox <cbcox at ilstu.edu>) wrote: >>Margaret, there is no such thing as a "right target" for U.S. military >>power. Is the U.S. attacking a fascist state? Hurrah for the fascists! >>Is the U.S. attacking a bunch of barbarians? Hurrah for the >>barbarians! Is the U ...

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Author:	NM
Date:	Fri Mar 26 03:06:14 PST 1999

8049 ANSWER envy -- rank: 46

... need a politics that can heartily condemn both North Korean brutality and the danger of having an unelected playboy dictator playing ...

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Author:	BrownBingb at aol.com
Date:	Tue Mar 11 05:53:44 PST 2003

8050 follow up on Albany Mall Guard fired by bosses after incident.... -- rank: 46

Group protests Crossgates' policy Albany-- Many supporters of man ticketed at Crossgates wear shirts with peace slogans at a quiet protest on mall grounds By BREEA WILLINGHAM, Staff writer First published: Monday, March 10, 2003 More than 200 people participated in a peaceful protest in the food court at Crossgates Mall ...

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Author:	steve philion
Date:	Mon Mar 10 22:23:09 PST 2003

8051 Ellsberg on Whistleblower Arrest... -- rank: 46

Daniel Ellsberg, who authored the new book "Secrets: A Memoir of Vietnam and the Pentagon Papers," said today: "This leak is potentially more significant than the release of the Pentagon Papers, since it is extraordinarily timely. More officials who know -- as I did in 1964-65 -- that the president, and their ...

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Author:	Chuck Grimes
Date:	Mon Mar 10 19:43:00 PST 2003

8052 [lbo-talk] Rules Ignored, Toxic Sludge Sinks Chinese Village -- rank: 46

http://www.nytimes.com/2006/09/04/world/asia/04pollution.html?_r=1&th=&oref=slogin&emc=th&pagewanted=print Ny Times September 4, 2006 Rules Ignored, Toxic Sludge Sinks Chinese Village By JIM YARDLEY URAD QIANQI, China - Dark as soy sauce, perfumed with a chemical stench, the liquid waste from ...

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Author:	Michael Givel
Date:	Mon Sep 4 09:18:34 PDT 2006

8053 ANSWER envy -- rank: 46

... need a politics that can heartily condemn both North Korean brutality and the danger of having an unelected playboy dictator playing ...

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Author:	Nathan Newman
Date:	Mon Mar 10 15:15:06 PST 2003

8054 The North Korean "Threat" -- rank: 46

> > -Threat? What threat? The possibility that NK might > get > -the bomb? That's a threat? France has the bonb. > Should > -we worry about the French threat? > > Um, no-- despite rightwing propaganda to the > contrary, France is a > democratic state, a liberal state in your favorite > phrase. > > North Korea is run ...

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Author:	andie nachgeborenen
Date:	Mon Mar 10 07:30:24 PST 2003

8055 [lbo-talk] Locals Call For Expulsion Of Chechens In Northern Russia -- rank: 46

It's not "northern Russia," it's one town near Finland. Northern Russia extends from Estonia to Alaska. From what I've read, it's not Chechens, but Caucasians in general, they want out (though Chechens would be the primary target). I'm surprised to learn that the Chechen diaspora up ...

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Author:	Chris Doss
Date:	Mon Sep 4 09:43:50 PDT 2006