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How many times was Justice Antonin Scalia wrong about Henry Lee McCollum and the death penalty?

The national media have tended to focus on which potential candidate Perry's indictment might help or hurt. But Texas reporters know Perry has a history of hardball politics, forcing people out of office, and say that we should take the charge of criminal abuse of office seriously.

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Peasant associations, unionists, left-wing parties and anti-racist groups launch a solidarity campaign in Greece following a summer which saw a court set free the men who shot strawberry pickers in Greece the previous year. Thirty-five workers, most from Bangladesh, were injured in the shooting, four of them critically. They had been asking for unpaid back wages. Most migrant farm workers in Greece are without legal papers.

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