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THE DAILY ASTORIAN • WEDNESDAY, JANUARY 21, 2015
T HE
D AILY A STORIAN
By
New York Times News Service
Founded in 1873
STEPHEN A. FORRESTER, Editor & Publisher
LAURA SELLERS, Managing Editor
BETTY SMITH, Advertising Manager
CARL EARL, Systems Manager
top 1 percent will average
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his month, the Pew Research
Center released a study
that found that most wealthy institution), and thus near-
today have it easy because they
JOHN D. BRUIJN, Production Manager
Water
under
the bridge
3 percent of a government
This can be the view only of those
who have not known — or have long
consider the cost for cashing a bi-week-
ly payroll check and buying about six
money orders each month, a household
explanations issued by the willfully
callous and the haughtily
10 years ago this week — 2005
as James Baldwin put it, a
extremely expensive it is to
in Friday’s front page article by Sandra Swain, this network of trails would
capitalize on Warrenton’s proximity to the Columbia River and other nature
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Cities and town that make it easier for citizens to become pedestrians are
First, many poor people
make enough to move out
of poverty — an estimated
spent to purchase money orders to pay
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tive service fees — substantially more
than the expense of a monthly checking
‘Easy’ is
a word
not easily
spoken
among
the poor.
So, as the Pew report pointed out,
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Charles
Blow
This is an infuriatingly obtuse
view of what it means to be poor
in this country — the soul-rending
omnipresence of worry and fear, of
times are hard, the work is hard, the
Compiled by Bob Duke
From the pages of Astoria’s daily newspapers
53 percent of those who
never received a Pell Grant
had debt, with an average
ly eaten alive by exorbitant
DEBRA BLOOM, Business Manager
SAMANTHA MCLAREN, Circulation Manager
seniors who ever received
a Pell Grant, 88 percent
group reports receiving at least one type
likely to be more heavily taxed than the
earnings of wealthier citizens, accord-
New York Times put it last week:
The
-
ed with a bank, those banks
are increasing making
loans and high fees on ba-
The Times’ DealBook blog
requires transportation, which
can be another outrageous
Leadership Conference on Civil and Hu-
man Rights:
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nual income on transportation, including
those who live in rural areas, as com-
pared to middle-income households,
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cious practice that the killing of Mi-
the protests that followed — resurfaced
was the degree to which some local
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partments targeting poor communities,
and arrests supported by police actions
have a hard time getting
The Washington
Post put it, the excesses of
the subprime boom have led convention-
al banks to stay away from the riskiest
nonviolent offenses, mostly driving vi-
One way to move up the ladder
and out of poverty is through higher
education, but even that is not without
Louis County engage in the ‘illegal and
harmful practices’ of charging high court
The story continued:
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ea public defender group, says in its re-
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in March:
Grants, most of whom had family
more likely to borrow and to borrow
The list of hardships could go on
for several more columns, but you get
the point: Being poor is anything but
The snowpack in the Willamette River basin is alarmingly low for this
time of year, researchers say, and the situation is not likely to improve any
By
New York Times News Service
50 years ago — 1965
ast week, several Republican
senators, including John
McCain, called on President
Barack Obama to stop releasing
detainees from the prison at
Dean Paul Jacobson of the University of Oregon, quoted last week as
Their argument was that after
prisoners still in Guantánamo should
be made to stay right where they are,
Want to buy one of the city’s old ornamental street lights, pole and all, for $10?
The city council voted Monday night to make these lights available at
Tuesday, one
of those detain-
ees, Mohame-
dou Ould Slahi,
who was sent
to Guantánamo
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mains there to
this day, is poised
to offer a pow-
AP Photo/Manuel Balce Ceneta
Protesters dressed as Guantanamo detainees gather in front of the
White House, Jan. 11 in Washington, during a rally to mark the 13th
anniversary of detainees at Guantanamo Bay.
‘A vision of hell,
beyond Orwell,
beyond Kafka,’ as
John le Carré aptly
describes it in a
back cover blurb —
that every American
should read.
Three years into
Joe
his
detention
Nocera
— years during
which he was
isolated, tortured, beaten, sexually abused
75 years ago — 1940
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His manuscript was immediately clas-
negotiation by Slahi’s pro bono lawyers
to force the military to declassify a re-
Guantánamo Diary is an extraordinary
aptly describes it in a back cover blurb —
Figures showing that Seaside’s population has doubled since 1931, that
her tourist trade is growing rapidly, and that it will continue to grow in the
lived in Canada and Germany as well as
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cion because an al-Qaida member, who
had been based in Montreal — where
Slahi had also lived — was arrested and
charged with plotting to bomb the Los
Slahi was questioned about this plot sev-
International Committee of the Red Cross
via Wikimedia Commons
Mohamedou Ould Slahi
his captors could do to explain why he
he was a key al-Qaida player that he
that which most distinguishes us from
our enemies, our belief that all people,
even captured enemies, possess basic
techniques that had been signed off by
the secretary of defense, Donald Rums-
disheartening that McCain has allied
himself with those who want to keep
sections of the book that describe his tor-
ruled in favor of Slahi’s habeas corpus
petition because the evidence against
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was so sleep-deprived that he eventual-
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female interrogators rubbed their breasts
What was he accused of? Slahi
asked this question of his captors often
This fact came to light this afternoon when the Finnish Relief Fund re-
Before the Finnish Relief Fund began its national drive under leadership
of Herbert Hoover, the Knights of Kaleva lodge here had conducted a cam-
paign of its own which brought in some $5,000 before the Hoover-headed
This, of course, is part of the problem
with Guantánamo, a prison where be-
ing formally charged with a crime is a
tell the truth — that he had no involve-
ment in any acts of terrorism — only
dog, walks like a dog, smells like a dog,
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a powerful speech in which he con-
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Does Slahi crack? Of course: To get
his interrogators what he thought they
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ture doesn’t guarantee that the detainee
stop torture, the detainee has to please
his assailant, even with untruthful, and
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nam, knows this; last month, he made
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ties come through in his memoir, which
have tried not to exaggerate, nor to un-
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of the book is that he does come across
But the quote that sticks with me
most is something that one of his guards
told him, something that could stand as