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Can the anti-capitalist “Occupy Wall Street” movement, now 2 months old split the Democrats as the Tea Party split the Republicans?
Fiscal irresponsibility is now a calamitous cycle that poses a bigger threat than al-Qaida and its plans to attack the United States with a weapon of mass destruction. David Walker, the Paul Revere of a total economic and financial collapse on the present course, says the United States has a fiscal cancer "that is growing within us."
Jimmy Slyde, a leading U.S. tap dancer during the big-band era, has died in Hanson, Mass. He was 80.
Arthur "Pete" Peterson, an engineer who oversaw construction of the Chicago reactor where the first self-sustaining nuclear reaction took place, has died at 95.
The Human Rights Committee of The National Academies has asked Secretary of State Colin Powell to raise the case of an imprisoned Vietnamese democracy advocate when the secretary meets with the visiting Vietnamese foreign minister on Wednesday.
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Former Attorney General Janet Reno has no plans to run for the U.S. Senate despite speculation that she would enter the race if Sen. Bob Graham, D-Fla., decides
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