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Annan urges rich nations not to drop aid to Africa
International Herald Tribune - by Katrine Bennhold - Nov. 18, 2008 (News Report)
Kofi Annan, one of the world's most outspoken activists for Africa, issued a stern warning to rich nations on ...
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The Joshua Generation
New Yorker - by David Remnick - Nov. 16, 2008 (Special Report)
Barack Obama could not run his campaign for the Presidency based on political accomplishment or on the heroic ...
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'No More Mr Nice Gay' as Mormons face vote backlash
The Independent - by Guy Adams - Nov. 8, 2008 (News Report)
Daniel Ginnes carried a banner declaring: "No More Mr Nice Gay." Brian Lindsey held up a sign billing Joseph Smith, ...
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Obama's plans for probing Bush torture
Salon - by Mark Benjamin - Nov. 13, 2008 (News Analysis)
With growing talk in Washington that President Bush may be considering an unprecedented "blanket pardon" for people ...
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2 Dutch men guilty of injecting 14 with HIV
allvoices.com - Nov. 13, 2008 (Special Report)
A Dutch court convicted two men Wednesday for attempting to infect 14 victims with HIV in a bizarre sex case.
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9,002 prisoners are granted amnesty by Myanmar junta
Associated Press - Sep. 23, 2008 (News Report)
The government often grants amnesties to mark important national days, but most of those released are petty ...
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Deal a humiliation, says Mugabe
BBC News - Sep. 18, 2008 (News Report)
"If only we had not blundered in the March... elections we wouldn't be facing this humiliation. "This is what we ...
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Attorney For Gitmo Inmate Works To Drum Up Support
Associated Press - by Juliana Barbassa - Sep. 18, 2008 (Special Report)
A Pentagon spokesman, Navy Cmdr. Jeffrey Gordon, discounted Edney's criticism of the military tribunal, saying ...
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The Nut Graph | Malaysia bans Nobel laureate from speaking
thenutgraph.com - by Shanon Shah - Oct. 10, 2008 (News Report)
The [Foreign] [M]inistry said it was "unwise" to invite Ebadi to speak because she is seen by the Iranian ...
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San Francisco Olympic Torch Protest - Photo Essay
Mother Jones - by Josh Harkinson, Ed Homich - Sep. 17, 2008 (Special Report)
The Beijing Olympic torch made its way through San Francisco after a false start early in the afternoon, when ...
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California gay marriage vote negates fundamental freedom
Dallas Morning News - by Erin Goldman - Nov. 14, 2008 (Opinion)
The day after the election, I woke up invincible; Barack Obama was elected to serve as the president of the United ...
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Frozen Children, Icy Silence--Time To Adopt Openness
Washington Post - by Marc Fisher - Oct. 5, 2008 (Opinion)
In the reflexively privacy-obsessed world of adoptions, it is somehow an imposition if the public wants to know ...
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Reporting in Beijing
Opinion Journal (WSJ) - Aug. 22, 2008 (Editorial)
Most at risk, though, are the Chinese who cooperate with reporters. As in Ms. Hook's article, these are often ...
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A Quick Sigh of Relief, Now Let's Get to Work Rebuilding Reproductive Rights
Huffington Post - by Nancy Northup - Nov. 13, 2008 (Comment)
The election of Barack Obama heralds at long last a season of promise and opportunity: the chance to improve the ...
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73adoptee - adoption search and reunion resources: Targeted For Adoption
73adoptee.blogspot.com - by Triona Guidry - Oct. 4, 2008 (Opinion)
Why target children for foster care and adoption? Because it's lucrative, as explained in this article about ...
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David Brancaccio, Stephen Lewis and Barbara J. Krumsiek Lead Speaker Line-Up at 19th Annual SRI in the Rockies Conference
Yahoo Finance - by Morrison Shafroth - Sep. 23, 2008 (Press Release)
Award-winning veteran journalist David Brancaccio, Stephen Lewis, Former Canadian Ambassador to the United Nations ...
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This persecution of Gypsies is now the shame of Europe
The Guardian - by Seumas Milne - Aug. 17, 2008 (Opinion)
At the heart of Europe, police have begun fingerprinting children on the basis of their race - with barely a murmur ...
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Olympic repression and a gutless IOC
Financial Times - Aug. 15, 2008 (Editorial)
the breathtaking cynicism of the Chinese authorities in declaring zones in three parks open for public protests and ...
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The American Promise
brucespringsteen.net - by Bruce Springsteen - Oct. 4, 2008 (Speech)
Philadelphia, PN - I've spent 35 years writing about America, its people, and the meaning of the American Promise. ...
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Book: Cheney's Drive for Warrantless Spying Nearly Brought Down Bush Presidency
Democracy Now - by Barton Gellman, Amy Goodman, Juan Gonzalez - Sep. 19, 2008 (Interview)
And now it's sort of a--it's a very in-your-face document he writes. It says, notwithstanding anything that Justice ...
