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Employee/Freelancer/Contractor (past or present) New York Times Source Aug 25, 2005

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Date Fairness.com Resource Read it at:
Aug 25, 2005 Truth-Telling on Race? Not in Bush's Fantasyland

QUOTE: a Justice Department official...is being demoted because he complained that senior political officials were seeking to play down newly compiled data about the aggressive treatment of black and Hispanic drivers by police officers.

New York Times
Jul 14, 2005 Convicted, Executed, Not Guilty

QUOTE: If Larry Griffin were being tried today for the murder of Quintin Moss, he would almost certainly be acquitted. The evidence is overwhelming that he did not kill Mr. Moss. But Mr. Griffin is not being tried today. He has already been executed for the murder.

New York Times
Jun 21, 2004 Malpractice Myths

QUOTE: It may be hard to understand why tort reform is even on the national agenda at a time when insurance industry profits are booming, tort filings are declining. What is needed is a nationwide crackdown on malpractice, not a campaign to roll back the rights of patients who are injured.

New York Times
Jan 09, 2004 Sick State Budgets, Sick Kids

QUOTE: While headlines continue to tell us how great the economy is doing, states across the U.S. are pulling the plug on desperately needed health coverage for low-income Americans, including about a half-million children.

New York Times
Jun 02, 2003 The Reverse Robin Hood

QUOTE: The fat cats will get their tax cuts. But... [congress]coldly deleted a provision that would have allowed millions of low-income working families to benefit from the bill's increased child tax credit.

New York Times
Dec 12, 2002 Racism and the G.O.P.

QUOTE: The Republican Party has become a haven for white racist attitudes and anti-black policies.

New York Times
Aug 22, 2002 A Confused Inquiry

QUOTE: ...Local authorities rounded up more than 10 percent of the town's black population. The arrests were the culmination of an absurd one-man "investigation"...

New York Times
Aug 15, 2002 An Imaginary Homicide

QUOTE: If you are going to charge three defendants with capital murder for killing a newborn, do you have an obligation to show that the baby really was killed?

New York Times
May 13, 2002 Who Gets the Death Penalty?

QUOTE: It is becoming ever more obvious that whether or not you get the death penalty depends a great deal more on who you are than what you did.

New York Times
Mar 11, 2002 Truth and Justice

QUOTE: Whenever there is evidence that the wrong person is imprisoned, the system should move with dispatch to rectify the error. It doesn't.

New York Times
Feb 04, 2002 Sneak Attack

QUOTE: Bush administration officials presented it as an altruistic attempt to bring badly needed health care benefits to low-income pregnant women. It was actually a guerrilla attack on abortion rights.

New York Times
Jan 17, 2002 Enron and the Gramms

QUOTE: ...the obsession with deregulation that has had such a hold on the Republican Party and corporate America.... Unchecked deregulation is an express route to chaos and tragedy.

New York Times
Dec 10, 2001 Mistakes Will Be Made

QUOTE: Americans who are concerned about mass detentions and secret hearings and tribunals that can put people to death on a two-thirds vote with all avenues of appeal effectively blocked are not unpatriotic, as Mr. Ashcroft unfortunately suggested last week.

New York Times
Oct 29, 2001 Shame in the House

QUOTE: The Republicans who control the House thumbed their noses at the ordinary Americans who will absorb the brunt of the economic downturn and shamelessly gift-wrapped yet another bundle of tax cuts for the very well-to-do.

New York Times
Aug 20, 2001 High-decibel Hate

QUOTE: ....call it the commodification of hate...

New York Times
Aug 09, 2001 Let's Clear the Air

QUOTE: ...ozone health advisory has been in effect, which means the air is unhealthy for active children and adults, and for people with respiratory diseases, such as asthma and chronic obstructive lung disease.

New York Times