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Salon.com September 6, 2000 Alicia Montgomery	Time for Bush to clean house? Pundits ponder the meaning of "asshole," Gore throws the book at economic policy and Nader grows support for legalizing the (less) evil weed.
Salon.com September 5, 2000 David Horowitz	The civil rights movement is dead, RIP Black leaders like Al Sharpton and Jesse Jackson criticize racialing profiling in the legal system, but they espouse the same logic in their own politics.
Salon.com September 5, 2000 Samuel G. Freedman	Why Jews hate Lieberman's God talk Jewish Americans sometimes have a hard time telling the difference between discomfort and discrimination.
Salon.com September 4, 2000 Jake Tapper	A "major league asshole" In an embarrassing gaffe, George W. Bush insults a New York Times reporter.
Managed Care August 2000	Competing Bills Put Drug Benefit In Medicare Analysts say chances of a Medicare drug benefit passing the Senate are slim. The Senate began debate on competing bills after the House narrowly passed a Republican-backed prescription benefit proposal.
Managed Care August 2000	Any International Health Plan Has To Be Cheap An affordable option for integrated health care bridging private U.S. insurers and Mexico's social security system would save American employers money while providing better care to Mexicans who work in the U.S. but whose families live in Mexico, according to a study.
Managed Care August 2000 Michael Levin-Epstein	Will Fifth Circuit's Decision Spur Action on Patient Rights? The recent Fifth Circuit Court decision on Texas's statute allowing patients to sue HMOs for denial of physician-recommended care is helping to clarify where state and federal interests in patient rights lie -- and what Congress could do to spell out those interests.
Mother Jones October 2000 Michael Kazin	Good Bill On Bill Clinton: compassionate, open-minded, and none too courageous, Bill Clinton was exactly the president we deserved.
Mother Jones October 2000 Christopher Hitchens	Bill of Goods On Bill Clinton: He gutted welfare, bombed Sudan, rented out the White House to the fat cats. If he were a Republican, liberals would have been appalled.
Salon.com September 1, 2000 Arianna Huffington	An eerie campaign silence Bush and Gore should tell us where they stand on the ugly $1.3 billion drug war offensive in Colombia that the next president will have to face.
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