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“This is not Cabañas,” said Shandur Kuátzin Makwilkali, gesturing around the room and out the window at the wooded slope, but meaning the entire region of that
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November 7, 2012 // 0 Comments
By now, in these last remaining days before the election of 2012, we have learned enough about the beliefs of the Republican presidential candidate to see them as a worldview
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November 5, 2012 // 0 Comments
More than 4,000 looted artifacts, many of them made by ancient hunter-gatherers in what’s now northern Mexico, were returned to Mexican cultural authorities on Thursday, to
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November 2, 2012 // 0 Comments
Ever since I read Stuart Chase’s “The Tyranny of Words” as an undergraduate I have been obsessed with the meaning of words, although I must admit that S.I. Hayakawa’s
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November 1, 2012 // 0 Comments
Even before the winds of Hurricane Sandy began to moderate, conspiracy theorists of a variety of bents got busy explaining the real meaning of the storm. Because, of course,
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October 31, 2012 // 0 Comments
Historically, television viewing has been used by various authorities to quiet potentially disruptive people—from kids, to psychiatric inpatients, to prison inmates. In
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October 30, 2012 // 0 Comments
It needs to be recognized that the reason comprehensive immigration reform did not come to be in these last four years, especially 2009, is first and foremost due to the fact
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October 30, 2012 // 0 Comments
Under new management and recruiting young up-and-coming white nationalists, ProEnglish is enjoying a renaissance of sorts. The group does as its name suggests, relentlessly
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October 29, 2012 // 0 Comments
If you believe that poverty is the domain of the comfortably poor, black, unemployed, unmotivated and uneducated among us, you have been sadly misled. Prepare to be
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October 29, 2012 // 0 Comments
Melina Laboucan-Massimo’s family has felt the impacts of an oil spill disaster firsthand on their Lubicon Cree territories in Alberta: burning eyes, headaches, nausea and
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October 26, 2012 // 0 Comments