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James Murdoch Steps Down From British Broadcaster
London - BSkyB, the British satellite broadcaster partly owned by the News Corporation, said on Tuesday that James Murdoch had resigned as chairman to shield the company from the …
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In the Great Recession, Even Death Is Too Expensive for the Poor
Rita is only in her 30s, but she knows all about death. What she didn't know until recently is how expensive it is, especially now in the Great Recession, …
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Taliban Attacks Kill Nine Afghan Police Officers
Kabul, Afghanistan - A series of Taliban attacks over the past two days have left 9 Afghan police officers dead and 14 missing, in the latest sign that insurgents …
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The ROBS Act
Hallelujah, Washington has finally heard the people's cries for jobs! In an urgent bipartisan push, Democrats and Republicans have joined hands across the aisle to pass the JOBS Act. …
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Hired Guns on Astroturf: How to Buy and Sell School Reform
For Barkan’s other writing on the self-proclaimed “education reform movement,” click here, here, and here. If you want to change government policy, change the politicians who make it. The …
The Fashion Industry’s Perfect Storm: Collapsing Workers and Hyperactive Buyers
Sina Phin, a garment worker, right, ironing shirts at the New Island factory in outlying Phnom Penh, Cambodia, in April 2005. (Photo: Michael Nagle / The New York Times) …
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The Assault on Public Education
Timothy White, chancellor at University of California, Riverside, at his office in Riverside, California, July 5, 2011. Sharp tuition increases, coupled with cutbacks in services, threaten to erode a …
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Romney’s Victories in Maryland, DC and Wisconsin
(Photo: BU Interactive News / Flickr)Washington - Mitt Romney tightened his grip on the Republican presidential nomination Tuesday, sweeping three more primaries and setting the stage for what could …
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Consumer Groups: Verizon’s Cozy Deal With Cable Would Create a Wireless Duopoly
Daniel Mead, the chief executive of Verizon Wireless, speaks in New York, January 11, 2011. (Photo: Ozier Muhammad / The New York Times)Verizon Wireless and America's biggest cable companies …
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Pregnancy, Sexual Congress and the (In)Visibility of Men
Now you see men. Now you don't. When it comes to being an expert on birth control and women's sexuality, men are apparently the experts, the go-to guys. Men …