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Friday      
January 28, 2005
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Big Merger

Gillette and Procter and Gamble are set to merge, creating the largest consumer goods company in the world.

Getting out the Vote in Iraq

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Our preview of the Iraqi elections includes a conversation with an election official from the Kurdish region of Iraq.

Union Label

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One of the biggest critics of the union system heads up a major union.

Education Secretary Blasts PBS Cartoon

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A children’s television show is pitting the new U.S. secretary of education against a cartoon rabbit called Buster.

The House on Ash Street

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Legend has it that a house in Cambridge, MA enclosed by a nine foot fence is the building architect Phillip Johnson built for his thesis while at Harvard.

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