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 Vol. 074 Issue 005 (May 1 2010)
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••Cover Page••
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••Contents••
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 EDITOR'S NOTE
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Editor’s Note Matthew Rothschild Changing the World In lobbying for the health care reform bill, Barack Obama liked to say, “Don’t let the perfect be the enemy of the good.” But what he really...
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NO COMMENT
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No Comment Nothing Personal While speaking to a group of Broward County Republicans, congressional candidate Corey Poitier criticized President Obama’s health care reform. “Listen up,...
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LETTERS TO THE EDITOR
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Letters to the Editor The People Speak: Farewell, Howard Zinn When I walked across the New Haven Green on May Day 2007 to reintroduce myself to Howard Zinn, I thought back to a tense and...
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COMMENT
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Comment Next Up: Immigration Reform? The largest demonstration so far of the Obama Administration wasn’t about health care or bank bailouts. Instead, it was about immigration. On March 21, tens of...
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ON THE LINE
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On the Line On the weekend of March 20 and V_y21, the anniversary of the beginning of the U.S. invasion of Iraq, people across the country protested the ongoing wars in Iraq and Afghanistan. Bring...
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FINDING HOPE IN JUÁREZ
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Rodríguez, Luis J.
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Finding Hope in Juárez The young man, about sixteen, looked like a typical U.S. teenager: cut jeans, pierced lip, the hair on the left side of his head longer than on the other. But his face was...
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A GIFT OF STUDENTS
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Williams, Terry Tempest
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A Gift of Students What turns the world? The only answer is the wingofwind,awildness veering through the tree-tops, bending the birches. —Cleopatra Mathis On my desk, I have a scattering of damp...
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THE BANKERS' LATEST SCAM
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Conniff, Ruth
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The Bankers’ Latest Scam By Ruth Conniff Illustration by Anita Kunz OF ALL THE DEVIOUS TRICKS practiced by the financial industry—hidden fees, usurious interest rates, and incomprehensible ...
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MEXICO'S SQUID SWEATSHOPES
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Sole-Smith, Virginia
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Mexico's Squid Sweatshops ^ By Virginia Sole-Smith Photos by Emmanuel Ruiz It was a little after eight in the evening, and the sun was just beginning to set over the Gulf of California. Our small...
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ED ASNER
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Rampell, Ed
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Ed Asner THE PROGRESSIVE INTERVIEW byEdRampell Ed Asner is back. If you watched the Academy Awards, you saw his face beaming as Up won an Oscar for best animated feature film. Asner had the lead...
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RETURNING THE BANJO TO ITS BLACK ROOTS
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Dobbins, Geoffrey
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Returning the Banjo to Its Black Roots By Geoffrey Dobbins Illustration by Caitlin Kuhwald When most Americans think of the banjo, images from The Beverly Hillbillies and Deliverance spring to...
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POEM
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Young, Kevin
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Poem Charity So many socks. After the pair the undertaker asks for (I picture them black beneath the fold in your open casket, your toes still cold) what else to do. Body bags of old suits,...
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CALUMNY'S CULMINATION
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Clinton, Kate
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Calumny’s Culmination Unplugged Kate Clinton 1W/11611I was about W seven—which was deemed the vaunted, if arbitrary, “age of reason” in my Catholic school—I finally got a look-see at the actual...
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COLOSSAL WORLD CUP FOUL
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Zirin, Dave
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Colossal World Cup Foul Edge of Sports Dave Zirin Ihave been to many a playing field in my day and never have I seen a sports arena as breathtaking as Moses Mabhida Stadium in Durban, South...
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BOOKS
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Pal, Amitabh
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Books In Search of New Alliances Reset: Iran, Turkey, and America’s Future By Stephen Kinzer Times Books. 272 pages. $26. By Amitabh Pal Stephen Kinzer’s knack for spinning a yarn serves him...
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NO ENLIGHTENMENT IN TEXAS
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Hightower, Jim
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No Enlightenment in Texas Vox Populist Jim Hightower In the good-and-good-for-you department, food scientists are now touting the health benefits of enjoying a handful of nuts every day I, for...
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