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Weekly Review

Moscow warned the United States about its new Cold War rhetoric; the Russians were upset over remarks by Defense Secretary Donald Rumsfeld, who said that “Russia is an active proliferator”…

Flowers of greed

by Matthew Mills Stevenson,

Tulips in the ages of exuberance

Weekly Review

by Roger D. Hodge,

The Texas Defender Service issued a report on the death penalty; the report said that the Texas system was “a national embarrassment” due to racial bias, prosecutorial misconduct, and other…

Weekly Review

by Roger D. Hodge,

Thousands of Chinese who worked as slaves for Japan in World War II filed suit in California against Japanese companies that might have profited from their servitude; Japanese military occupiers…