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News: National Commission on Terrorist Attacks on the United States Hearing
Public hearings of the National Commission on Terrorist Attacks Upon the United States
The Commission periodically holds public hearings to offer a public dialogue about the Commission's goals and priorities. The Commission also seeks to learn about work already completed and the state of current knowledge, in order to identify the most important issues and questions requiring further investigation.
http://www.9-11commission.gov/hearings/index.htm
Families of September 11 Web Site
http://www.familiesofseptember11.org/home.asp
News: Gay Marriage
Massachusetts Constitutional Amendment Proposal on Same Sex Marriage
Uncorrected Proof of the Journal of the Senate in Joint Session, March 29, 2004
http://www.state.ma.us/legis/journal/jsj032904.htm
Ruling: Goodridge v. Dept. of Public Health (FindLaw, PDF)
http://news.findlaw.com/cnn/docs/conlaw/goodridge111803opn.pdf
Gay Marriage ruling: Opinions of the Massachusetts Supreme Judicial Court (PDF)
http://www.state.ma.us/courts/opinionstothesenate.pdf
News: 2004 Presidential Campaigns
InfoPlease: Primary and Election Dates
http://www.infoplease.com/spot/campaign2004primaries1.html
Speech: John Kerry, January 27, 2004
http://www.johnkerry.com/pressroom/speeches/spc_2004_0127.html
News: Haiti
From Relief Web:
World Vision responding to Haiti crisis
http://www.reliefweb.int/w/rwb.nsf/0/6c3a40b40eb2dce249256e400008ac89?OpenDocument
Amnesty International: Haiti: No justice for Jean Dominique, no real rule of law
http://web.amnesty.org/library/Index/ENGAMR360042002?open&of=ENG-HTI
Other official documents from Amesty International
http://web.amnesty.org/library/eng-recent/index
InfoTree: Newspapers from around the world links
http://infotree.library.ohiou.edu/bysubject/general/news/newspapers/
Boston Globe
http://www.boston.com/globe/
Boston Herald
http://www.bostonherald.com/
New York Times
http://www.nytimes.com/
USA Today
http://www.usatoday.com/
Baltimore Sun Editorial Cartoons
http://www.baltimoresun.com/news/opinion/cartoons/
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MSNBC
http://www.msnbc.com/
FOX NEWS
http://www.foxnews.com/
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Homeland Secuirity Act of 2002
http://thomas.loc.gov/cgi-bin/query/z?c107:h.r.5005.enr:
Thomas: Legislative Information on the Internet
Records, transcripts, documents, treaties, and bills from the
floors of Congress; House of Representatives and the Senate.
http://thomas.loc.gov/
White House: Official Web Site
transcripts, speeches and texts, and photographs
http://www.whitehouse.gov/
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Charter of the United Nations 
Full text of the U.N. Charter, adopted in 1948.
http://www.un.org/aboutun/charter/
United Nations Documents Research Guide
http://www.un.org/Depts/dhl/resguide/specpk.htm
United Nations: Landmark General Assembly Documents
Selections of landmark GA documents, including the very first
meeting in 1946, Mrs. Roosevelt holding a Declaration of Human Rights poster
(1949), and the adoption of the Convention on the Elimination of Discrimination
Against Women (1979).
http://www.un.org/Depts/dhl/landmark/amajor.htm
United Nations: Peace and Security
Press releases, documents, transcripts, reports.
http://www.un.org/peace/index.html
World Health Organization
Transcripts of speeches, documents, and reports on the U.S.-led
coalition forces in Iraq, SARS outbreak, Ebola haemorrhagic fever in the Republic
of the Congo, and droughts in Eritrea, and more. http://www.who.int/en/
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