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Salon.com August 20, 2002 Eric Boehlert	Too hot to handle The New York Fire Department suffered a communications breakdown on Sept. 11, and hundreds of firefighters died. Why are so many journalists ignoring the story?
Salon.com August 16, 2002 Arianna Huffington	Wacko in Waco At their summer camp economic summit, Bushians find comfort by withdrawing from a confusing, complicated and unfriendly world.
Salon.com August 14, 2002 Robert Scheer	Bush is shocked -- shocked! Not far from WorldCom's headquarters, Bush expresses concern at corporate misdeeds. Standing with him were the men that wrote the script for disaster.
Salon.com August 14, 2002 Neil Gordon	Ira Einhorn's long, strange trip After two decades on the run from a horrific murder, the counterculture icon is home and headed for trial. But in France, he's still a human rights hero.
Managed Care July 2002	Survey: Health System Changes Should Not Be Made Too Quickly A sweeping change to the American health care industry, such as a wholesale move to a system based on defined contribution, is not favored by most people, according to a national survey that seems to reflect a conservative mood regarding medical coverage and prescription drug benefits.
Managed Care July 2002	CBO Weighs Effect of Growing Deficit on Fed Programs Health care programs such as Medicare and Medicaid figure to suffer, thanks to a growing federal budget deficit, according to a report by the Congressional Budget Office.
Knowledge@Wharton Siegel, Metrick & Gompers	A Simple Solution to Stock Market Woes: Kill the Corporate Dividend Tax The authors argue that a simple solution to restoring investor confidence while boosting economic growth would be to eliminate one of the most detrimental taxes in the U.S. economy -- the corporate dividend tax.
ifeminists August 13, 2002 Wendy McElroy	Senate Must Not Ratify CEDAW The U.N.'s Convention on the Elimination of all forms of Discrimination Against Women is objectionable on two grounds: the content and the method through which it would be applied.
ifeminists August 13, 2002 David Graham	The Sexism of Gun Control Opposing the view that women are unable to protect themselves with handguns.
ifeminists August 13, 2002 Ollivia M. Sexton	Cato University: A Student's Perspective Lessons learned at the Cato University, a subsidiary of the Cato Institute, a Washington D.C. think tank known for its libertarian, free-market analysis of public policy.
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