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  • Two Cuban films: sweet and bittersweet

    Two Cuban films: sweet and bittersweet

    February 23, 2007

    “Silly Age” is a sweet nostalgic look at 1958 Havana and a family coping with the pending revolutionary changes within their family and society as a whole. The “silly age” referred to is pre-adolescence and follows...

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  • Kennedy challenges Smithfield, Homeland Security

    Kennedy challenges Smithfield, Homeland Security

    February 23, 2007

    The firing of workers trying to unionize at the Smithfield meat packing plant in Tar Heel, N.C., has prompted Sen. Edward Kennedy (D-Mass.) to take aim at the Department of Homeland Security. The senator has urged...

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  • Immigration reform returns to Congress

    Immigration reform returns to Congress

    February 23, 2007

    NewsAnalysisAs Congress returns to the subject of immigration, the Bush administration has stepped up arrests and deportations of immigrants. Meanwhile, in his State of the Union message, Bush once again stressed the creation of a new...

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  • Still an open wound

    Still an open wound

    February 23, 2007

    In late January, a Mississippi man was arrested for a 1965 murder. James Seale, now 71, was arrested on kidnapping charges related to killing two Black teenagers, who were tied to trees, whipped and drowned. Seale’s...

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  • The Iranian people totally reject war

    The Iranian people totally reject war

    February 23, 2007

    The similarity between events taking place in recent months and those in the period between August 2002 and March 2003 is terrifying. The emotive charge of Iranian involvement in support of terrorist activities in Iraq costing...

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