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House passes Voting Rights Act renewal
July 14, 2006Southern conservative efforts on amendments failRep. Mel Watt, a North Carolina Democrat and chairman of the Congressional Black Caucus, discusses the Voting Rights Act. WASHINGTON (AP) -- The House voted Thursday to renew the 1965 Voting...
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Death has a message: Look Both Ways
July 14, 2006MovieREVIEW Look Both Ways Written and directed by Sarah Watt PG-13, 100 min., 2005 Australia I went to see “Look Both Ways” at 11 p.m., a time when I didn’t think anybody would see me slipping...
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Another 9/11 movie
July 14, 2006MovieREVIEW Flight 93 Directed by Peter Markle PG-13, 90 min., 2006 made for TV movie, now on DVD I’m the kind of person who likes to listen to music when I write, so I found something...
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Essence music festival declares Peace is power
July 14, 2006HOUSTON — Another Katrina survivor arrived here in July: the annual Essence Music Festival, sponsored by the magazine of the same name, which had to be relocated to the Reliant Center because of continuing adverse conditions...
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Weapon of mass destruction
July 14, 2006The World Health Organization (WHO) has reported that Iraq, with a population of about 26 million, in the year 2000 had a total of 195,374 new cases of cancer and 126,677 cancer deaths, most of them...
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