TUCSON, Ariz. — Voters here dealt the right wing a stinging defeat in the Nov. 8 city election, in keeping with what appeared to be a nationwide voter rebuff to the GOP.
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Nov. 19, 2005
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LOS ANGELES — On the heels of a stunning Special Election victory, the California Alliance for Retired Americans (CARA) held its second annual convention, “Turning outrage into action,” in Anaheim Nov. 9-10.
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Reds to study globalization; Scabs and plutonium-238; Healthy settlement for S.F. strikers; Kentucky AFL-CIO: ‘De-privatize health care’
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Medicare has no control over the Medicare Part D prescription drug plan. It is the insurance companies and HMOs who will run Part D. Of course they will do this for their own profit. And Medicare is not allowed to even bargain for lower prices. Huge cost overruns are expected as prices go up. Those will come out of Medicare funds and endanger Medicare itself.
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“Can you live on $6.30 an hour?” read one sign as University of Miami students and faculty joined janitors and local clergy in a demonstration along U.S. Route 1 outside the campus Nov. 10.
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Televangelist’s brain, mouth elude other theories, experts say
Out of the controversial debate pitting the theory of evolution against the theory of intelligent design has emerged a new theory, dumb design, which some experts believe may explain the televangelist Pat Robertson.
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NEW ORLEANS — Gail Andrews, a quiet, unassuming African American woman from New Orleans East, found her mother two weeks after Hurricane Katrina. Six weeks later, she lost her again. This time forever. At age 68, Andrews’ mother died.
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When Abraham Lincoln decreed the Thanksgiving holiday in 1863, the country was divided and at war. For the first time, millionaires emerged from war profits and workers and farmers knew poverty and homelessness up close and personal. Children worked in factories
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Lame duck presidents, weary of being hammered by critics at home, typically flee to foreign capitals. Their hosts are bound by diplomatic courtesy not to call them “liar” “thief” or “war criminal.”
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PWW on campus; Embryonic stem cell conflict ; Stop Garland extradition; Doubts ICE report; Bush lies; The ‘memory hole’
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