Special Feature: The Bricklayer, a short story

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• The Bricklayer

• Why Social Security Privatization Hurts Women More than Men

• Twilight of the Coup Plotters

• Bush's Cabinet: Indentured Servants

• The One-China Principle

• March's Letters

• March's Poetry

• Nobody Asked Me, But...

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It all looked like the fragments of a shattered dream—the dusk, the dark indigo sky, and the way the airport mini-bus drove them through an endless road with the speed of light.

Largely the work of Secretary of Labor Frances Perkins, Social Security has, more than any other program, kept older and widowed or disabled Americans out of poverty.

As the continent of Africa endures ongoing issues of enormous humanitarian needs and a pandemic health crisis, the flickering light of hope can be seen at the far end of the tunnel.

There is no doubt that the possibility for peaceful reunification of China has taken a positive turn that will require rethinking by the second Bush Administration.

President Bush pre-set the tone for his supposed mandate with his selection of Porter Goss to the non-cabinet position of CIA Director.

According to many contemporaneous media sources, there are almost 300,000 homeless veterans in the United States who are living on the streets or in shelters. The Department of Veterans Affairs has estimated that “more than 299,000 veterans are homeless on any given night; more than 500,000 experience homelessness over the course of a year.”