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Mugabe's Mess
It’s believed that more than 200,000 Zimbabweans have been driven from their homes this month because of their opposition to President Robert Mugabe. Guardian journalist Andrew Meldrum says it’s typical behavior for the African nation’s dictator.
Splitting Unions
Stuart Acuff national director of the AFL-CIO American Federation of Labor-Congress of Industrial Organizations
- says unions should stick together
» AFL-CIO
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Steven Lerner director of building services, SEIU Service Employees International Union
- on the coalition of unions who want to separate from the AFL-CIO
» SEIU
Senate Says Sorry
Cynthia Tucker, editorial page editor of the Atlanta Journal Constitution, -says an apology for not banning lynching should be no big deal, so why did some Senators not support it?
» Cynthia Tucker
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Carol M. Swain, professor of law and political science at Vanderbilt University and co-author, Contemporary Voices of White Nationalism in America (Cambridge University Press, 2003),
-says the apology should open the door to reparations
» Jennifer Michael Hecht
Mugabe's mess
Andrew Meldrum, journalist and author, Where We Have Hope: A Memoir of Zimbabwe (Atlantic Monthly Press, 2005)
-on Zimbabwe's misery
NY 51: 39th District
Bill de Blasio, Member of City Council (D-39th District-Park Slope, Kensington, Windsor Terrace, Carroll Gardens, Cobble Hill, Borough Park and Boerum Hill)
-shares the sights and sounds of Park Slove & surroundings
» Bill de Blasio
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