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Veterans, legal experts hit deal on torture
September 29, 2006WASHINGTON — Human rights defenders urged the Senate to reject a deal between President George W. Bush and Republican senators that would strip hundreds of detainees of habeas corpus rights and leave the door open for...
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Robert Earl Jones, acting pioneer, blacklistee, dies at 96
September 29, 2006Stage and film actor Robert Earl Jones, father of actor James Earl Jones, died Sept. 7 at age 96. Jones got into acting during the Depression when poet Langston Hughes cast him in the 1938 production...
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Venezeuela book falls short
September 29, 2006BOOKREVIEW Hugo Chávez: Oil, Politics and the Challenge to the U.S. By Nikolas Kozloff Palgrave Macmillan, 2006 Hardcover, 262 pp., $27.95 By Tony Pecinovsky There are many books on the increasingly complex relationship between Venezuela and...
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Progressive cinema at 2006 Toronto film fest
September 29, 2006TORONTO — Many consider the Toronto International Film Festival one of the greatest film events of the Western Hemisphere, certainly the most viewer-friendly. Toronto is hosting over 350 films from 60 countries. Some 250 are feature...
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Imperial divisions
September 29, 2006On Sept. 14 the U.S. House of Representatives, in the spirit of election-year politics, passed HR 6061, the “Secure Fence Act,” which calls for construction of 700 miles of fencing along the 2,000-mile U.S.-Mexico border. The...
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