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Chicagos Crystal Ball real event in Shall We Dance
October 23, 2004Film Review CHICAGO — In the world of ballroom dancing, Tommye Giacchino and Gregory Day have achieved it all, from winning both U.S. and world championships, to being featured on PBS’ “Championship Ballroom Dancing,” ESPN, BBC...
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Progressive cinema by Bill Meyer Compelling portrait of Allende
October 23, 2004Film Review The following is the third in a series of articles on last month’s Toronto International Film Festival.Salvador Allende Canada Struck by the fact that there are very few artifacts in Chile today of former...
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Preview of the Bush campaigns media endgame
October 23, 2004Opinion With the presidential debates now behind us, the struggle for the White House will tilt even more toward decentralized media battles for electoral votes. Between now and Election Day, vast resources will go toward spinning...
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Marching us to war under false pretenses (but for their own reasons)
October 22, 2004Opinion The recent report by the Iraq weapons inspector prompted some commentators to fall into the “blame it on the CIA” trap that the Bush administration laid. For instance, the Milwaukee Journal Sentinel said that the...
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Bush: gaining on James Buchanan for last place
October 22, 2004Opinion The Republican National Convention presented George W. Bush’s presidency as a triumphant success. Most professional historians take a radically different view. A significant number of historians, in fact, rank the Bush presidency as the most...
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