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Namesake challenges melting pot myths
June 1, 2007The director of “The Namesake,” Mira Nair, seems to be making a deliberately foreign film in America. The film is based on the 2004 novel of the same title by Jhumpa Lahiri.
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Angelinos fight transit rate hike
June 1, 2007LOS ANGELES — Hundreds of workers, students, handicapped and elderly people filled the downtown Metropolitan Transit Authority building May 24 to protest proposed transit fare hikes, following MTA Chief Executive Roger Snoble’s announcement of restructuring proposals...
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Critics say expansion plan wont reform California prisons
June 1, 2007A $7.4 billion program to expand California’s already vast prison system, proposed by Gov. Arnold Schwarzenegger and approved by the Legislature last month, is drawing fire from advocates of prison reform and is viewed skeptically even...
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Market efficiency and health care
June 1, 2007They are truly wonderful, the efficiencies of the market. For several decades now, those who advocate privatizing virtually every government program preach about how much more efficient private business is, how much more can be accomplished...
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The English submarine
June 1, 2007The press dispatches bring the news; the submarine belongs to the Astute Class, the first of its kind to be constructed in Great Britain in more than two decades. “A nuclear reactor will allow it to...
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