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FEB 2004

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The Alisha Thomas Story

by William Upski Wimsatt*

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Alisha Thomas doesn’t make things easy for herself.

Strom Thurmond’s [Proposed] History of the African American People

by Percival Everett and James Kincaid

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You will doubtless remember me but maybe not. You commented last Tuesday on my tie (bow, new) and red hair (not so much red as auburn, like the school).

Amidst the Rubble with Baghdad Squatters

by Robert S. Eshelman

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In the Karada neighborhood of Baghdad, Saddam Hussein’s formerly grand, high modern Air Defense Ministry building has been reduced to a bombed-out, crumbling ruin.

Child of Tet: What Can 1968 Mean Now?

by Williams Cole

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February 18th, 1968, everyone has his day. For me it was birth, my dad waiting outside the maternity room, my name scrawled on a piece of paper held up to the glass for my mother to see.

Voter’s Guide for the American Immoderate

by John Reed

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Rich people will be taxed till their eyes bleed. We’ll squeeze them dry like sausages.

Leaflets of the Coalition Forces

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Get the foreigners out of our country … so we can live in peace ...

 

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