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Unemployment Filings Reach 26-Year High (Annya Shin)
Wednesday, December 24, 2008; 10:26 AM- The number of people filing for unemployment benefits hit a 26-year high last week, as the deepening recession forced more employers to cut jobs.
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Mass Grave Plundered at Site of Taleban Prisoners’ Massacre (Tom Coghlan)
December 24, 2008- The Afghan Government has called on Nato troops to guard an alleged war crimes site that has been plundered and as many as 2,000 bodies apparently removed.
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The Abolition Of Broadcast Television And The Average Poor Schmuck (T.P. McWhorter)
Dec. 24, 2008 (World News Trust) -- Hello! It’s been a while and it is nice to be back.
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Bernie Madoff (actually pronounced made-off) -- True American Folk Hero (John Kelley)
Dec. 24, 2008 (World News Trust) -- While most folks on the bottom get the shaft, Bernie Madoff made it big. Madoff started his firm with $5,000 in 1960 at 21 years old. He supposedly earned it from ...
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Prop 8 And The Same-Sex Debate (Hal Cohen)
Dec. 23, 2008 (World News Trust) --- Let me begin with some erroneous suppositions:
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Waves of hope and change (Mickey Z.)
Dec. 21, 2008 (World News Trust) -- It’s holiday season in Manhattan and despite the economic downturn, there seems to be no shortage of well-dressed humans cavorting, laughing, and spending freely. ...
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Elements of an Inside Job in Mumbai Attacks (Jeremy R. Hammond)
Dec. 21, 2008 (Foreign Policy Journal) -- Indian police last week arrested Hassan Ali Khan, who was wanted for investigations into money laundering and other illicit activities, and who is also said ...
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Gaza: The Untold Story (Ramzy Baroud)
Dec. 18, 2008 (World News Trust) -- It’s incomprehensible that a region such as the Gaza Strip, so rich with history, so saturated with defiance, can be reduced to a few blurbs, sound bites and ...
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Counting sea gulls (Mickey Z.)
Dec. 17, 2008 (World News Trust) -- It’s early November. I’m checking my mail when I decide to stand in front of my apartment building for a little air: Astoria, Queens, New York City, USA air.
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Lehman's Rise and Fall (Sinclair Stewart, Paul Waldie)
Long before it became the largest bankruptcy in U.S. history, Lehman Brothers dove into the nascent market for high-risk home loans aimed at a vulnerable part of U.S. society. In the second part of ...
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Regulator Let Bank Backdate Its Books (Jessica Holzer)
December 23, 2008- WASHINGTON -- The Treasury Department's inspector general is probing the Office of Thrift Supervision for permitting a backdated capital infusion into IndyMac Bancorp a few months ...
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