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Music reviews: Four CDs from around the world
September 5, 2003Natural, Celso Fonseca (Six Degrees) This release establishes Celso Fonseca as one of Brazil’s up and coming Bossa Nova stars. His compositions are elegant, graceful and sensual, ranging from cool bossas like “Bom Sinal” and “The...
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Film review: Balseros reveals complexities of Cuban emigration
September 5, 2003Carlos Bosch and Josep Maria Domenech are Spanish television journalists who were assigned by Barcelona’s public television to cover the 1994 exodus of Cubans to the U.S. The film that resulted, Balseros, Spanish for “rafters,” has...
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Thou shalt not ignore the First Amendment
September 5, 2003I’m not a particularly religious person. Though many in my family are Catholic, I’m happy to identify myself as agnostic. But I do know about the Ten Commandments. Blame TV for showing Cecil B. DeMille’s epic...
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Tell it to the Marines
September 5, 2003Question: What does a Marine on a “float,” a soldier “in country” and a sailor homeported in the U.S. have in common with the Iraqi working class? Answer: It is illegal for them to organize in...
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Profound lessons of Sept. 11
September 5, 2003The following is the slightly abridged text of a speech to the 2003 World Conference Against Atomic and Hydrogen Bombs in Nagasaki, Japan, Aug. 3-9. The complete speech is available at www.peacefultomorrows.org/voices/index.php. I am honored and...
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