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Film review roundup
July 25, 2003Immigrants navigate London’s dark side Dirty Pretty Things, which opened in limited release July 18, is being hailed as a “thriller” but that word is too limiting to describe this intriguing and suspenseful effort by High...
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Music Review: A red delicious CD
July 25, 2003Just a Few Bad Apples, George Mann and Julius Margolin, 2003, Running Scared Productions Folk music is the foundation of any people’s culture. For political activists, it is the food that is needed to keep the...
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How globalization threatens democracy in India
July 25, 2003Ending the colonial rule of British imperialism, India won its independence and established itself as a sovereign, socialist, democratic republic on January 26, 1950. In the last half century India experienced three wars, two year-long national...
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Behind Californias recall lies a Bush
July 25, 2003The current drive for a recall of California’s Democratic governor, Gray Davis, has this financially strapped state – the seventh largest economy in the world – in a political tizzy. But with all the rhetoric over...
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Berlusconi and totalitarianism
July 25, 2003The New York Times reports that Italian students and teachers are protesting the inclusion in high school graduation exams of an essay question about “terror and repression in totalitarian systems,” which the question defines as “communism,...
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