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 Vol. 065 Issue 004 (August 1 2001)
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Vol. 065 Issue 008 (August 1 2001)
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••Contents••
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 Military Oxymorons
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Rothschild, Matthew
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Military Oxymorons As Molly Ivins suggests in her column this month, the Bush Presidency would be laughable were it not so menacing. One menace that has long concerned us here at The Progressive is...
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Letters
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Letters to the Editor Ehrenreich's McVeigh Once again, I wish I could write like Barbara Ehrenreich ("The Making of McVeigh," July issue). I have been trying to tell people that McVeigh learned...
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Stop the Killing Machine
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Comment Stop the Killing Machine A nyone who pays attention to the death penal-A-\ ty can feel it. A sea change is under way. Sup--i- A^ort for the death penalty has fallen to its lowest point in...
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No Comment
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No Comment Death Penalty Party From a San Diego Union Tribune on-line article on a radio station's plan to hold a Timothy McVeigh execution party at Legends Sports Bar in Long Beach: "Tim Kelly...
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Keep the Change
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Conniff, Ruth
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Keep the Change My Republican brother-in-law has been gloating all summer about the tax rebate: "I suppose you're sending yours back to the government," he says sarcastically. Those $300 and $600...
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Prodding the Poor to the Altar
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Ehrenreich, Barbara
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Prodding the Poor to the Altar Anew survey from the National Marriage Project at Rutgers University finds romantic love on the ascendancy among the young. A full 94 percent of never-married singles...
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Rule of the Few
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Galeano, Eduardo
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Rule of the Few The iron curtain fell as if made of meringue, and the nightmare of military dictatorships has passed for most countries. So, do we live in a democratic world now? Is this century...
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Look on the Bright Side
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Durst, Will
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Look on the Bright Side This is America. Whimpering is not allowed. We should take a chisel to the sign under the Statue of Liberty and change it to "no whining." We got problems? We take care of...
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On the Line
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On the Line Charleston, South Carolina On June 9, thousands of dock-workers and union members rallied in solidarity with five longshoremen, dubbed the "Charleston Five," who are charged with...
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It's a Bomb!
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Millar, Alistair
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It's a Bomb! On October 2, 1992, President George Bush signed into law a moratorium on nuclear testing. Now his son is preparing to end that moratorium. The current Bush Administration is...
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The Gag Rule's Victims
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Conklin, Melanie
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The Gag Rule's Victims During her third pregnancy, Maya, a Nepalese woman, suffered from frequent dizzy spells. At seven months pregnant, she took pain tablets for relief and, as a result,...
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The Legacy o f Bert Corona
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Ortega, Carlos F.
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The Legacy of Bert Corona On January 15, Bert Corona died. You may not have heard of him. But you should have. He was a great Chicano activist, who fought throughout his eighty-two years for the...
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Coke in Your Faucet?
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Shah, Sonia
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Coke in Your Faucet? Bringing new meaning to the term "leaky faucet," CocaCola recently announced the development of a system to bring Coke into consumers' homes via a tap on the kitchen sink. This...
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Amartya Sen
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Barsamian, David
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Amartya Sen Amartya Sen of India won the Nobel Prize in economics in 1998 for his pioneering work on development issues. He has focused attention on the social sources of famine, poverty, and...
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Parole Hearing
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Espada, Martin
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Poem After three hours of interrogation by the parole board, and the prisoner repeating I did not do this thing, his brown hands were trembling, and the trembling spilled his plastic cup at the...
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Liberation Equations
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Lewis, Andrea
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Liberation Equations I wondered whether I should have my hearing checked when I first heard that Bob Moses, the famed civil rights activist, was comparing the fight for voting rights in the 1960s...
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Books
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Books Here are some facts you might not know: 1. Most gay people are working class (whether "class" is defined by income, educational level, or job status). 2. Class identity is an amalgam of...
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W.'s Splendid Performance
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Ivins, Molly
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W.'s Splendid Performance So you had to figure George W. would skate through Europe on "the soft bigotry of low expectations" (the most memorable phrase his speechwriters have yet produced for...
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