JEFFERSON CITY, Mo. — As hundreds of students, parents and concerned citizens chanted “No takeover,” the Missouri Board of Education voted 5-1 to strip accreditation from the 32,000-student St. Louis City Public Schools March 23. 
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March 31, 2007
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One morning last week, a tired-looking businessman named Richard Du was pacing around the partly renovated space that would soon house Dumann Realty, his commercial real estate brokerage.
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WASHINGTON — En la capital del país decenas de miles protestaron en contra la guerra y ocupación de Irak como parte de las acciones pacifistas en diferente ciudades de la nación. Las protestas durante el fin de semana pasado marcaban el cuarto aniversario de la invasión estadounidense en ese país del Medio Oriente.
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NEW BEDFORD, Massachusetts — Cientos de gente de todo el estado de Massachusetts y de Rhode Island se unieron el 17 de marzo para expresar su apoyo a los 361 inmigrantes indocumentados arrestados al principio del mes en una fábrica en New Bedford, Massachussets.
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On March 6, the Bush administration’s Immigration and Customs Enforcement (ICE) agency, part of the Department of Homeland Security, carried out a brutal immigration raid on Michael Bianco, Inc., in New Bedford, Mass., arresting 350 workers. The raids expose the lie of Bush’s hypocritical statement that “family values do not end at the Rio Grande.”
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Anyone who can unsnarl honest Texas history from domination by myths and outright lies will find a proud working class with socialist leaders as advanced as any in the nation. Of course, they are well hidden.
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While we believe the present size of the U.S. armed forces greatly outstrips any legitimate need, we think the right of gay and lesbian people to serve openly in the military is a basic issue of democracy.
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Economists are warning that a crisis is looming in the home mortgage industry that could eclipse the bursting of the dot.com bubble and the Enron and WorldCom bankruptcies seven years ago. It has the potential of plunging the nation into a recession.
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No Child Left Behind is losing support, including from Republicans. It has produced a huge shift towards standardized testing, using test scores to narrowly gauge success of teachers, principals and schools, increasing bureaucratic constraints, and, perhaps most significantly, pressures towards privatization.
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NEW BEDFORD, Mass. — Hundreds of people from Massachusetts and Rhode Island rallied here March 17 in support of 361 undocumented workers who were arrested in a government raid earlier this month at a New Bedford garment factory.
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