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D.C. Pays $1million to Demonstrators
New York Times WASHINGTON (AP) — The District of Columbia has agreed to pay $1 million to about 120 protesters who were improperly rounded up by police during demonstrations against the invasion of Iraq, the World Bank and the International Monetary Fund. (NYT Article) (Related Article about illegal arrests)
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Minnesota Bridge Collapse Highlights Bush’s Misplaced Spending Priorities
the lives of thousands of American soldiers and maybe a hundred thousand mostly innocent Iraqi civilians. We have failed as a nation to come to terms with the massive costs that are less direct and obvious but just as real. (Original Article)
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Dictatorship? Naw, It Could Never Happen Here
by Sheila Jackson, opednews.com/ times would fill one volume of a history book, at least. Those of us who attempt to keep abreast of the news are hard put to ferret out the important stuff from the fluff and connect the facts to one another in some kind of a dot pattern that yields a…
