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A new catastrophe for the boat peopleFebruary 21, 2008Le Dung was 7 when his family bought passage on a rickety boat and fled the communist government of Vietnam for parts unknown. That was 30 years ago, when the plight of the Vietnamese boat people filled newspapers as one of the most dramatic stories coming out of the Cold War in Asia, and the United Nations convened a special conference to find them homes. Today these former boat people endure further misfortune after their homes were destroyed by Hurricane Katrina.
Justice too long delayed – killing fieldsNovember 22, 2007It had been nearly 30 years since the overthrow of the regime of the infamous ''killing fields,'' in which an estimated 1.7 million Cambodians perished. Yet in all those years no one had been held accountable for one of the worst crimes against humanity of the last century.
Corporate farming’s best friend – how the poor protect agribusiness’s subsidiesOctober 22, 2007Why has the reform movement been such a flop? Because most members of Congress won't be thinking about farms when they vote for the farm bill. They'll be voting for the only part of the program that matters to them: food stamps -- one of the last safety nets for the millions of poor who are their constituents.
