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 Vol. 076 Issue 002 (February 1 2012)
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••Cover Page••
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••Contents••
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 EDITOR'S NOTE
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Rothschild, Matthew
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Editor’s Note Matthew Rothschild Preoccupations Well, the election season is now in full sway, and I’ve got to admit I’ve been observing the Republican race with a mixture of delight and disgust:...
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NO COMMENT
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No Comment Stalin’s Consumer Protections Republicans first tried to stymie the creation of the Consumer Financial Protection Bureau by blocking the nomination of former Ohio attorney general...
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LETTERS TO THE EDITOR
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Letters to the Editor Defending Libraries Your November issue was a standout in a long series of great reporting. I love Jim Hightower, as I really need his humor about the sad state of our dear...
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COMMENT
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Comment Ripping Up the Magna Carta One of the promises Barack Obama made when he was running for President the first time around was to defend our civil liberties and restore our reputation...
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ON THE LINE
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On the Line Occupying the Streets The Occupy movement faced evictions from city parks across the country. Thousands in Oakland, California, closed down the port on November 2 and on December...
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SUNDANCE'S WINTER REVOLUTION
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Williams, Terry Tempest
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Sundance’s Winter Revolution Open Space Terry Tempest Williams Everyone loves the movies. We go to the neighborhood theater with a friend, buy a ticket, buy some popcorn and a drink. We enter the...
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INVISIBLE COUNTRY
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Galeano, Eduardo
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Invisible Country The Upside-Down World Eduardo Galeano y ¦¦ Dedicated to Guillermo I Chifflet, who was forced Y^r* *j to leave Uruguay’s J%N | Chamber of Deputies for rT I...
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ANNIVERSARY BLUES
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Danticat, Edwidge
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Anniversary Blues By Edwidge Danticat Illustration by Nicole Schulman Anniversaries hurt. They brutalize the body. They pummel the spirit. Especially the anniversary of a catastrophe, where we...
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A DOCTOR'S PROPER JOB
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Egbert, Lawrence
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A Doctor’s Proper Job Ibelieve that adults have a basic human right to end their lives when they suffer from a fatal or irreversible illness or intractable pain—when their quality of life is...
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A TASTE OF FREEDOM: WHAT I GOT AT OCCUPY WALL STREET
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Lembitz, Breanna
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A Taste of Freedom: What I got at Occupy Wall Street By Breanna Lembitz Illustration by Katherine Streeter On the night of September 24, 2011, I was sitting at my kitchen table at college...
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INSIDE THE OCCUPY MOVEMENT
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Fawcett, Arun Gupta And Michelle
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Inside the Occupy Movement By Arun Gupta and Michelle Fawcett Illustration by Jeffrey Alan Love Along the rutted roads in Youngstown, Ohio’s factory district, cavernous brick and concrete...
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OCCUPY COMES TO APPALACHIA
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Kingsolver, Barbara
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Occupy Comes to Appalachia By Barbara Kingsolver Illustration by Mike Flugennock When I went looking for Occupy Johnson City, Tennessee, the spiky profile of pickets and placards struck my eye...
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ARUNDHATI ROY
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Gupta, Arun
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Arundhati Roy Sitting in a car parked at a gas station on the outskirts of Houston, my colleague Michelle Fawcett holds an audio recorder to my cell phone. At the other end of the line is Arundhati...
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POEM
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Kaufman, John
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Poem The Veteran I swore that if I lived, if I dodged the bullets and bombs, I’d go back home and knock on every door and talk of what I saw— how blood melts the snow, how birds peck at the...
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PENN STATE AND OTHER FIEFDOMS
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Zirin, Dave
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Penn State and Other Fiefdoms Edge of Sports Dave Zirin Welcome to Happy Valley, Pennsylvania, the world Joe Paterno made. It’s a world where libraries, buildings, and statues bear his...
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HILLARY'S BRIEF FOR GAY RIGHTS
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Clinton, Kate
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Hillary’s Brief for Gay Rights Unplugged Kate Clinton Iwant to live in the community Secretary of State Hillary Clinton talked about in her historic speech on lesbian, gay, bisexual, and...
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BOOKS
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Conniff, Ruth
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Books Pigging Out Olivia Says Good Night By Gabe Pulliam and Farrah McDoogle Illustrated by Patrick Spaziante Simon Spotlight, an imprint of Simon & Schuster. 24 pages. $16.99. Olivia Goes...
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NEWT, THE INFLUENCE PEDDLER
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Hightower, Jim
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Newt, the Influence Peddler Vox Populist Jim Hightower Mea culpa, my bad. I’ve been calling Newt Gingrich a lobbyist. Apparently, he hates that tag, even though he has gotten very wealthy by...
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