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Films zoom in on U.S. politics

Several films dealing with American politics and social issues were premiered at this year’s Toronto International Film Festival. “Bobby” features a star-studded cast, including Martin Sheen, Harry Belafonte, Demi Moore and Anthony Hopkins, to name a...

Gripping narrative of an Iraqi trade unionist

Hadi Never Died: Hadi Saleh and the Iraqi Trade Unions Abdullah Muhsin and Alan Johnson London, Trades Union Congress, 2006 Softcover, 80 pp., $18.60 plus shipping Order from www.tuc.org.uk/publications Although Iraq is foremost in our thoughts,...

No fruits for their labor

Julia Preston, a New York Times reporter writing from Washington, D.C., describes pears rotting on trees in Lake County, Calif., owing to a lack of farm workers to pick them. Growers tell her 70,000 of the...

Katrina may have been a harbinger

A year after hurricanes Katrina and Rita devastated the Gulf Coast, I thought I’d take a look back (like everyone else) and see how we as a country and as an industry have fared since. In...

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