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John Lee Hooker, blues master, is dead. I remember talking to Hooker just a few years back. I had called him up to interview him about his latest album. Even over the phone his voice had a sonorousness that had one reaching for nature metaphors in order to describe it...
U.S. Fit of Pique Leading Republican politicians reacted angrily after the country lost its seat on the U.N. Human Rights Commission. "It is an affront to the whole notion of human rights," said Dick Armey, majority leader of the House of Representatives. Their ire increased when the U.S. lost its...
There were a number of new clauses in the contract to strengthen the union. The new contract allows for up to four employees to take a one-year leave of absence to work for Local 26, for workers to wear designated union buttons on their uniforms, and for union dues...
During the past week, serious tension has developed in the already strained relationship between America and the United Nations. On May 4, America was voted off the UN Commission on Human Rights, leaving it without a seat for the first time since the commission’s founding by Eleanor...
The solution to this crisis therefore will not be found through petty attempts at retribution, such as yesterday’s conservative-led House vote to suspend overdue UN payments. This type of unnecessary confrontation has been largely to blame for the present difficulties; other nations perceive the U.S. as...