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17 березня, 2010 05:28
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Sharing a Dance, History Afoot
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During last year’s presidential election, videos from the campaign trail surfaced, on YouTube and political blogs, confirming any reasonable person’s worst fears about racial views held by poor, uneducated white Americans. If you’re living in a Whole Foods bubble, it’s hard to see virulent prejudice expressed explicitly....
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24 лютого, 2010 06:26
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Stimulus Jobs on State’s Bill in Mississippi
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HATTIESBURG, Miss. — Scott Phillips had to close his small plumbing company after the housing bubble burst and his business dried up. Roshonda Bolton lost her job when the garment and uniform factory where she had worked for 16 years shut down last August. Skip to next paragraph Multimedia Slide Show Voices of a Mississippi Jobs Program...
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06 лютого, 2010 22:05
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A Voting Result That Faulkner Could Drink To
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NEW ALBANY, Miss. — There was a vote here last month. It was hard-fought, with dueling newspaper advertisements and yard signs, tableside debates in restaurants, a prayer rally and a fusillade of last-minute phone calls. But only one side could win, and the victory was a historic one: in a couple of months, a person will be able to buy a...
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02 лютого, 2010 05:54
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Suit Points to Guest Worker Program Flaws
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Immigration authorities worked closely with a marine oil-rig company in Mississippi to discourage protests by temporary guest workers from India over their job conditions, including advising managers to send some workers back to India, according to new testimony in a federal lawsuit against the company, Signal International. Skip to next paragraph...
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12 січня, 2010 02:49
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Frigid Temperatures in South Are Putting Pipes and Patience to the Test
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Unusually cold temperatures caused more than 70 city water mains to break over the past week in Jackson, Miss., prompting Gov. Haley Barbour to declare a state of emergency and close state offices on Monday. Residents of Jackson, the state capital, endured trickling faucets and, in some cases, no running water. Construction crews disrupted traffic...
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