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Documenting working class struggles
January 9, 2004Toronto International Film Festival 2003 – part 4 Here are some more outstanding documentaries shown at the Toronto International Film Festival. The Agronomist (USA) Jonathan Demme, known for blockbusters like “Silence of the Lambs,” “Philadelphia” and...
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The raid on civil rights at Goose Creek
January 9, 2004Opinion Suppose the police in one community staged, with guns drawn, a drug raid at a high school and rounded up more than one hundred students to search and arrest – but found no drugs. Suppose...
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Enola Gay: the Smithsonian edits history
January 9, 2004Opinion The Enola Gay, the plane that dropped the first atomic bomb on Hiroshima on Aug. 6, 1945 – a marvel of technology? A worthy subject for a historical exhibit, rather like Disneyland’s Robot Lincoln? The...
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A fairy tale
January 9, 2004Opinion All right, children, sit still while I tell you a fairy tale, one with heroic heroes, evil villains, and an unbelievably happy ending. Our tale starts with a king (after all, he was anointed and...
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Capitalism and human misery a 2003 report card
January 9, 2004Opinion We are living in an era of highly developed means of production, high-speed communication technology and sophisticated transportation systems. Thanks to the accelerating progress in science and technology and in spite of the hindering effects...
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