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Get Tough With Firms Exploiting Immigrants
The list of allegations against the Postville, Iowa, slaughterhouse, recently raided by federal officials for its use of illegal immigrant workers, reads like a story collectively written by Upton Sinclair, Charles Dickens and Harriet Beecher Stowe....Tags: Charles Dickens, Interior Policy, Iowa, Harriet Beecher Stowe, Migration
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Tracing tomatoes' travels, from farm to table
delthia.ricks@newsday.comDenise Goodman is one of Long Island's top experts on the travels of tomatoes: their sometimes long and very often circuitous trek from farm to plate. The Manhasset resident is the proprietor of M&R Tomatoes in the New York City Terminal Market -- the...Tags: Long Island, Agriculture, Suffolk County (New York), New York, Emergency Planning
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Mirroring JonBenet story
Special to the SunMy Sister, My Love: The Intimate Story Of Skyler Rampike By Joyce Carol Oates Ecco / 562 pages / $25.95 Social commentary has long been the hallmark of the best fiction. Many literary classics, among them Nathaniel Hawthorne's The Scarlet Letter,...Tags: Charles Dickens, Ceremonies, Reviews, John Updike, New Jersey
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It's a 'Jungle' out there
Upton Sinclair in his 1906 novel "The Jungle" on: The Union Stock Yards: "It was an elemental odor, raw and crude; it was rich, almost rancid, sensual, and strong. There were some who drank it in as if it were an intoxicant; there were others who put...Tags: Bodies of Water, Rivers
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"Democracy's Prisoner," by Ernest Freeberg
Chicago Tribune NewspapersIt all sounds so familiar: a foreign war, an unpopular president, high-minded vows to spread democracy abroad and a dubious law to restrict liberties at home. Add to that scenario vast inequalities in wealth, high Immigration rates, scant regard for...Tags: Government, Vermont, National Government, Police Arrests, Prisoners and Detainees
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Two timeless, Depression-era novels from Edward Anderson
Edward Anderson had a strange and sad career. He was born in Texas in 1905 and grew up in Oklahoma, serving his apprenticeship as a journalist on a small paper in Ardmore, Okla. Restless, he worked as a deckhand on a freighter, plied his fists as a...Tags: Philip Roth, Naguib Mahfouz, Zbigniew Herbert, Colleges and Universities, Music Industry
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'Democracy's Prisoner: Eugene V. Debs, the Great War, and the Right to Dissent' by Ernest Freeberg
Democracy's Prisoner
Eugene V. Debs, the Great War, and the Right to Dissent
Ernest Freeberg
Harvard University Press: 380 pp., $29.95
It all sounds so familiar: a foreign war, an unpopular president, high-minded vows to spread democracy abroad and...Tags: Government, Vermont, National Government, Police Arrests, Prisoners and Detainees
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No gay weddings in Kern County
Afew years ago, I heard writer Gerald Haslam explain his struggle to describe the difference between the Kern County burg of Bakersfield and the Bay Area city of Mill Valley, both of which are settings for his novel, "Straight White Male." "Then it...Tags: Inglewood, Mental Illness, Government, Minority Groups, Texas
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'I Am Death' by Gary Amdahl
I Am Death
Two Novellas
Gary Amdahl
Milkweed Editions: 170 pp., $15 paper
Gary Amdahl has observed office politics up close. He reads the Wall Street Journal and the Nation. He's a fan of C-SPAN. He's read Barthelme, Bulgakov, Melville and Swift --...Tags: Books and Magazines, Illinois, Book, Fiction
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Trendsetter legacy fades in California
Tribune correspondentThere was a time in American politics when California was ... California. It was the state that clinched Woodrow Wilson's re-election, nudging the nation toward world war and global power. It gave us environmentalism and the initiative petition;...Tags: Earl Warren Jr., Migration, Government, Barack Obama, Minority Groups
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