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Friday, July 27, 2001
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As FCC Allows Murdoch’s News Corp. to Become the Largest Media Conglomerate in the Country,We’ll Look at "The Bush Dyslexicon: Observations On a National Disorder"
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- "Pie in the Sky", a poem of quotations by George W. Bush, compiled by Richard Thompson of the_Washington Post_. It was read by Terry Maroney from the Urban Justice Center, at a performance party in NewYork.
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Megawati Is Sworn in As President of Indonesia, the Same Day As a Supreme Court Justice Wholed the Prosecution of Suharto’s Son Is Assassinated
Indonesia’s second most senior judge was assassinated yesterday. Sayafiuddin Kartasamita led the prosecution ofSuharto’s youngest son Tommy on charges of corruption. He was sentenced to 18 months last fall, but went into hidingand has since been blamed for a string of bombings in Jakarta.
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First-Ever Conference of Day Laborers, in Los Angeles
Yesterday President Bush yesterday raised for the first time the possibility that millions of undocumented immigrantsfrom Mexico and other countries might be able to earn permanent legal status in the U.S.
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