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Thursday, July 21, 2005

When John Sweeney was elected head of the AFL-CIO a decade ago, labor activists had high hopes that he could rejuvenate American Unions. But heading into a convention in Chicago next week, Sweeney faces an insurrection from old friends at SEIU who say he hasn’t done enough.

Hard Labor

John Sweeney, President of the AFL-CIO
- on calls to overhaul the labor movement in advance of the AFL-CIO convention next week
» AFL-CIO
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Ruth Milkman, Professor of Sociology and Director of the Institute of Industrial Relations at UCLA,
- analyses the ...

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Double Take

Rob Hugh-Jones senior reporter in The World's London bureau
- on the latest reports from today's underground incidents
» The World

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Theatrical Odyssey

Ariane Mnouchkine, experimental theater director, founder of the Paris-based Theatre du Soleil company
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Reynold Levy, president of Lincoln Center for the Performing Arts, former president of the International Rescue Committee
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- on the U.S. premiere of "Le Dernier Caravanserail (Odysees)" as ...

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The Envelope, Please…

Errol Louis columnist for the New York Daily News
- on the winners of the second-ever Brian Lehrer Show commentary slam
» The Daily News

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Stryking Back

Stryker McGuire London Bureau Chief for Newsweek Magazine
- on the latest on the London bombings this afternoon (London time)
» Newsweek

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Anti-Semantic

Bob Steele, Nelson Poynter Scholar for Journalism and Values at the Poynter Institute
- on media ethics and the use of the word 'militant' and 'terrorist' in Middle East conflicts
» Poynter Institute

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Cruise Correct?

Decades ago, psychiatrist Thomas Szasz (that's "SAHZ", it's Hungarian) proposed the crazy idea that the concept of mental illness is bunk. Unlike, say, cancer, it's difficult to definitively diagnose or prove a mental problem. What's more, the idea of mental illness has been used in the past to stigmatize ...

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Mcclellan still embattled

The name John Roberts has not cured the White House Press corps of its recent fixation on someone else whose name begins with an R.

MR. McCLELLAN: Well, there is an investigation that continues, and I think the President has made it clear that we're not going to prejudge the outcome of that investigation.

Q: You already have the truth.

MR. McCLELLAN: We're not going to prejudge the outcome of that investigation through --

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