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Show archive for March, 2004

Afghanistan President Seeks $28 Billion; Al Qaeda’s Number Two; Mexican Citizens on American Death Row; Celebrity in Chief; OPEC to Cut Output; Gas Prices and Presidential Politics; Remembering Alistair Cooke; Ghosts of Rwanda

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Rice to Testify in 9/11 Hearing; Bush Team Gets Karen Hughes; Eight Terrorism Suspects Captured Near London; Ammonium Nitrate Bomb Prevention; Catholic Bishop Approves Condom Use; Left Behind; Tent City Proposed for Denver’s Homeless; James’ Journey to Jerusalem

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Rice Refuses Public Hearing; Arab League Summit Collapses; Sharon Bribery Scandal; Tyco Trial Suffers Jury Snag; Mass. Lawmakers Reconvene on Gay Marriage; Highway Security; Olympics Readiness; Literature of the Misanthrope

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9/11 Commission Aftermath; Gas Prices Surge; Explosion on Interstate 95; Palestinian Boy; The Best Editorial Cartoons; Shattered Glass; Lady Killers

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Families React to 9/11 Hearings; Campaign Finance Numbers; Syria’s Political Makeup; Iraq Check-In; Tuberculosis Funding; Letters 3/25/04; Escaping the Delta

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9/11 Panel Questions Tenet, Clarke; Iraq Power; My Name is Bill; Medicare Report Sees Bankruptcy in 2019; EU Fines Microsoft $613 Million; Kosovo Village Burns in New Ethnic Violence; TV to DVD

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9/11 Hearings Underway; Terry Nichols on Trial for Life; The Future of Hamas; Morocco and Muslim Fundamentalism; AIDS Drug Protest; Human-Animal Virus Transfer; Sol y Canto

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Hamas Leader Killed in Israeli Strike; Former Official Points to 9/11 Intelligence Failure; U.N. Oil for Food Scandal; U.S. Relationship with Europe; Atheist Political Party Seeks Recognition; Yee Charges Dropped; Video Game Poetry

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Pakistan’s Border Hunt; Taiwan Leaders Survive Shooting; Ethnic Violence Flares in Kosovo; Iraq War One Year On; Editorial Rountable: What’s On Voters’ Minds?; War and Crusade; Eternal Sunshine

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Medicare Reform Cost Confusion; Iraq Security Questioned Following Two Attacks; EU Security Meeting in Brussels; One Year in Iraq; Jim DeMint on Jobs; Letters 03/18/04; When the Music Stopped

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Homeland Security Status; Israel Reviews Unsolved Bomb Cases; Iraq Coalition Launches Insurgent Offensive; Safety for Foreign Civilians in Iraq; EPA Mercury Standards Scandal; American Unions Seek China Sanctions; Potential Drop Outs Get Warning; The Real Ireland; Beer, Beer, Beer

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Pakistan Troops Clash at Border; Spain Officials Investigate Moroccan Militants; Greece Concerned Over Olympic Security; House Approves Private Space Flight; Jobs and Big Government; Outsourcing Benefits; Atheists; Sin

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Spain’s New Government Vows to Pull Iraq Troops; Mass. Company Involved in Pakistan Smuggling; U.S. Tax Review; Shell Under Fire in Oil Reserve Claims; Illinois Senate Race; Dean to Announce Plan for America; The Country Out of Nashville

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Spain Holds Vigils After Attacks; Putin Evident in Russia Elections; Canadian Drug Imports; Bush and Kerry, Skull and Bones; Election Check-In; Farmer Denied Mad Cow Testing; “Secret Window”; Other Religious Films

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Madrid Bombings Kill Scores; MA Lawmakers Consider Gay Marriage; India-Pakistan Cricket Face Off; Outsourcing Good?; Letters 03/11/04; Building Ballerina Shoes

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Congress Hears Testimony on Campaign Ads; All Eyes on Homeland Security; Iran Announces Uranium Enrichment; When I Was Cool; Gonorrhea Strain; Abstinence and STDs; Libya’s Tourism; Willem Dafoe

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Iraqis React to Constitution; Abu Musab Zarqawi; Anti-Government Protester Detained in Syria; Hormone Replacement in Women; Outsourcing to India; Naming the Cabinet; Dogs and Manhole Covers; Vinyl Junkies

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Florida Faces Primary; Congress Considers Defense Budget; Military Father Calls for Equipment Improvement; Iraq Council Signs Constitution; Sunni-Shiite Relations; Chinese Doctor Calls for Tiananmen Apology; Warren Buffet’s Annual Letter; Logan Airport Sound Exhibit; Jazz and Jazzy Film Scores

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At the Pump; Poll Shows Bush, Kerry in Dead Heat; Bush Meets Fox on Immigrant Issues; The Price of Loyalty; Political Humor; Sunni and Shiite Unity; Hidalgo

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Iraqis Call For Sunni-Shiite Unity; Abu Ghraib Prison; Lesbian Couple Custody Case; Finding Ali; Steroids in Basketball; Wyoming Elk Deaths; Letters 03/04/04; Ugandan Jewish Music

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Race to November; Money on the Campaign Trail; 9/11 Commission Refuses Bush Conditions; The Darkest Jungle; Venezuela Opposition Protests Intensify; Sachs on Haiti; Killington Votes to Leave Vermont; The Letter

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Iraq, Pakistan Bombings Kill Nearly 200; U.N. Releases Iraq Weapons Report; Troop Preparedness; Industry of Body Parts; U.S. Airline Safety Branches Out; Keeping Kids Away from Web Porn; NASA’s Mars Debrief; Tangle Eye

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International Troops Enter Haiti; Haiti in the 1980s; Super Tuesday Approaches; Monk’s Travels; DC Roundtable 03/01/04; Stem Cell Center; Princess Tiger Lily; Cross Country Movie

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