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Show archive for September, 2003

Guantanamo Translator Arrested in Boston; Justice Department Investigates Spy Leak; Quantum Computing; Tax for War; Biloxi Cameras; The Madam

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Trial Begins for Tyco’s Kozlowski; Manulife Acquires John Hancock Financial; Medicare Reforms Stalled; Exit to Freedom; CIA Calls for Probe of Operative Leak; Gorilla Escapes Zoo, Again; Thriving Blues

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Judge Knocks Down ‘Do Not Call’ Legislation; Life of Reservists in Baghdad; Hardcore Zen; Democratic Debate Review; Dietary Problems; Uday Hussein Attempt; Cold Creek Manor

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CIA Iraq Report Lacks WMD Claim; Nigerian Woman Wins Appeal on Stoning Death; Vatican Reviews Mass Conduct; China’s Space Race; U.S. Income Gap Widens; California Candidates Debate; Letters 9/25/03; Michel Camilo

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Pakistan’s Musharraf Meets Bush; Attorney Says Al Halabi Innocent; Al Jazeera Banned from Iraq; Mail Order Drug Safety; Human Trafficking; Romney Pushes for Death Penalty in MA; Hockey’s Money Problems; Vegas Casinos Change Ad Focus

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Bush Addresses United Nations; Iraq Governing Council Calls for Control; Annan Suggests U.N. Reform; Long Term Impact of ID Theft; European Reaction to Chirac Opposition; Iran Agent Charged in Kazemi Death; CA Recall Reinstated; Michelle Shocked

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Iraq U.N. Compound Bombed; Saudi Arabia and Nuclear Weapons; Muslim Chaplain Detained for Alleged Espionage; Bush to Speak to U.N. on Iraq; Temporary Visas; Biologist Says Lion Population in Danger; Rebuilding Highway 12; Books on Beethoven

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Critics Challenge U.S. Spending in Iraq; Steel Tariffs Could be Costly Blunder; Burma Road; Arnold and Equal Time; Kayak Ball Catcher; Scarface, 20 Years Later

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Isabel Hits East Coast; Grasso Departure and the Future of NYSE; Rebuilding Beirut; Apple vs. Apple; Letters 9/18/03; Natalie MacMaster

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Iraq Detainees Claim U.S. Citizenship; Camp David Accords at 25 Years; Lance Morrow’s “Evil”; Drug Inspections in Canada; Chilling Platelets; Ohio and 14th Amendment; World on a Plate; Fashion Week with Nanette Lepore

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Wesley Clark to Announce Candidacy; California Recall and the 2000 Election; Modernizing State Elections; Speech Recognition Technology; Hurricane Heads to North Carolina Coast; Espresso Tax Proposed in Seattle; The State of Women’s Sports; Poetry of Place

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Palestinians Urge U.N. to Protect Arafat; Nations Walk Out of WTO Talks; Pay Revelations Threaten NY Stock Exchange Chair; NASA to Crash Galileo Craft into Jupiter; Krugman on the Federal Budget; Wesley Clark, Iraq Costs, and More; A Response the USA Patriot Act; Literature of the Disenfranchised

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Temple Mount Clash; Israel to Expel Arafat; Afghanistan Sees Upswing in Violence; Eight Dead in Fallujah Mishap; The State of Homeland Security; ABC News Sneaks Uranium into U.S.; The Rise and Fall of Gator

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Nation Remembers 9/11 Attacks; Families Divided Over Victim’s Fund; Profiles; The Day the World Came to Town; Bush Proposes Patriot Act Expansion; Moussaoui Case Weakened by Justice Dept.; Al Qaeda Hunt; Cellist Matt Haimovitz

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Hamas Leader Wounded in Israeli Attack; Hospital Chief Dies in Israeli-Palestinian Violence; Alabama Voters Reject Proposed Tax Hike; Physicist Edward Teller Dies; Anniversary of the Chilean Coup; On the WTO Agenda; The U.S. Role in World Farming; EU Considers Chemical Regulations; Healthy Lunches for Kids

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Wolfowitz Testifies on Iraq; Reservists Extended in Iraq; Corporations and Campaign Finance; EPA Claims White House Padded 9/11 Air Report; Mutual Fund Investigation; Nazi Filmmaker Leni Riefenstahl Dies at 101; Restless Leg Syndrome

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Bush Asks for $87 Billion for Terrorism Fight; Supreme Court Hears Campaign Finance Arguments; Ahmed Qurei Agrees to Palestinian PM Job; Burns Series Ends on World Trade Center; Bush’s Speech on Iraq; Energy Trash; Miles Davis; Warren Zevon Dies

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Democratic Debate Report Card; Iraq, N. Korea Dealings Show Policy Shift; Ship Ablaze; Federal Workforce Grows by 1 Million; Pennsylvania Pizza Man Mystery; Rain Plagues U.S. Open; Year of the Documentary

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Powell’s Coup; Debate Watch; Congressmen Learn Spanish for Voters; Jessica Lange on Rape in the Congo; Court Blocks FCC Media Ownership Ruling; Alabama Taxes; The Art of the Critic

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Bush to Ask for Multinational Iraq Force; Budget Shortfall Woes; Blackout Hearings Begin in Washington; “They Don’t Like Me”; Treasury Secretary Snow in China; Manufacturing Up without Jobs; Ticketmaster Auctions the Best Seats; Leek and Potato Soup

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Iraq’s Leadership Vacuum; Spawning Resistance in Iraq; Romney on Homeland Security; The Science of Regaining Sight; Rating School Safety; Teachers Spend Personal Income on Schools; Genetics, Environment, and I.Q.; Unsung Acting Performances

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‘Saddam’ Tape Denies Bomb Link; Life in Baghdad; U.S. Military and Plywood Demands; Jobless Continue Hunt as Economy Grows; Upcoming Presidential Primaries; Mixed Berries and Cancer; The Biography of Blue Note

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