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Freshman senator with senior pluck takes on the financial industry
WASHINGTON — Sen. Elizabeth Warren, the newest member of the Senate Banking Committee, waited patiently for her first chance to question top financial regulators at a recent hearing on Capitol Hill. When her turn finally came after 90 minutes,...
Tags: Federal Reserve, Freddie Mac, U.S. Senate Committee on Banking, Housing, and Urban Affairs, U.S. Securities and Exchange Commission, Banking
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Feminists oppose Berlin's Barbie Dreamhouse
The opening this month of the first life-sized Barbie Dreamhouse in Europe may be the fantasy of many a little girl, but Berlin feminists are mobilising against what they call a sexist icon. With her ironed-straight blond tresses, doe-like baby blue...Tags: Feminism, Marketing, Services and Shopping, Mattel Inc., Berlin (Germany)
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Sen. Elizabeth Warren wants student loans to get Fed discount rate
WASHINGTON -- Students taking out government loans to help pay for college should pay the same rock-bottom interest rate that the Federal Reserve charges big banks, Sen. Elizabeth Warren (D-Mass.) proposed Wednesday. With the interest rate on federal...
Tags: Consumers, Federal Reserve, Loans, Elizabeth Warren, Money and Monetary Policy
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May Day in New York: Protesting just about everything
NEW YORK -- There are many things to protest against in the world, and people rallying against a fair number of them took to one of New York’s iconic squares on May Day as part of nationwide rallies in celebration of the traditional workers holiday....
Tags: International Workers' Day, Civil Rights, Phoenix (music group), Immigration, Labor Legislation
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May Day demonstrators rally across U.S.
May Day protesters marched down streets across the country Wednesday, calling on lawmakers to provide a path to citizenship for the estimated 11 million immigrants who have entered the country illegally or overstayed their visas. The crowds numbered...
Tags: International Workers' Day, Employees, U.S. Congress, Immigration, Robert J. Lopez
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'Right wing' doesn't equal 'terrorist'
"If history were to repeat itself," warned President Franklin D. Roosevelt in his 1944 State of the Union address, "and we were to return to the so-called normalcy of the 1920s, then it is certain that even though we shall have conquered our enemies on...Tags: World War I (1914-1918), Michael Bloomberg, Paul Ryan, Franklin Delano Roosevelt, New York City
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Report: Richest 7-percent got richer during U.S. recovery
WASHINGTON (AP) — The richest Americans got richer during the first two years of the economic recovery while average net worth declined for the other 93 percent of U.S. households, says a report released Tuesday. The upper 7 percent of...
Tags: Congressional Budget Office, Washington, DC, Economy, Business and Finance, Finance
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Richard Barone Talks About Playing Cafe Nine April 25
Richard Barone has traveled to the beats of many drummers. Bongos, particularly. But he’s done solo pop that reverberates with jazz and religious and classical references. He’s pals with garage gods The Fleshtones. He’s worked...Tags: Music Industry, Music, Entertainment, Greenwich Village, Gaming
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A view of Occupy Wall Street, Disney and the desert through eyes of Mike Daisey
Mike Daisey is a keen cultural observer with a ruthless streak. In "American Utopias," the neo-Spalding Gray's latest monologue, Daisey even takes on the "It's a Small World" ride at Walt Disney World. "It looks like a 1950s game show threw up on itself,"...
Tags: Chicago Humanities Festival, Museum of Contemporary Art Chicago, Arts and Culture, Arts, Amusement and Theme Parks
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David Graeber looks at the Occupy movement, from the inside
"It's a difficult business," writes David Graeber, "creating a new, alternative civilization." Just open a window or turn on the TV — the same old civilization is rotting all around us. Budget cuts, police shootings, endless and ever-broadening...
Tags: Book, Philosophy, Democracy, Political Systems, American Revolutionary War (1775-1783)
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NYC agrees to pay more than $230,000 after destroying Occupy books
The City of New York has agreed to pay more than $230,000 to settle a lawsuit over destroying thousands of protesters' books after the city's November 2011 raid to break up the Occupy Wall Street encampment. "It was more than just money," Norman Siegel,...
Tags: Arts and Culture, Justice System, Michael Bloomberg, New York City, Laws
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Protest motto: soup's on!
WASHINGTON -- When authorities got wind of a demonstration planned for Monday outside the Food and Drug Administration's offices in College Park, Md., they fortified their defenses. A motorcycle and nine police vans, ominously marked "Homeland Security,...
Tags: Arable Farming, Soups, Whole Foods Market, Mushrooms, Foods and Beverages
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