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As racism pervades the body politic, A new civil rights movement grows
December 19, 2002Trent Lott’s racist remarks earlier this month may have served to strengthen a growing civil rights movement to defend affirmative action. The Supreme Court agreed on Dec. 2 to hear Grutter v. Bollinger and Gratz v....
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Poetry: Top carpenter
December 19, 2002Top carpenter Hello, Jesus, have we met before? You’re a carpenter. So am I. I’ve been building shelters ever since you came. And long before. I’ve built some stables ... In Jerusalem? Hell, yes! Some in...
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Films worth seeing
December 19, 2002Movie reviewsReal Women Have Curves It’s not often that Hollywood gives us a film that presents working-class folk as real people dealing with the realities of life – in this case a Mexican-American family in Los...
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How to find Toronto Film Festival films
December 19, 2002Progressive Cinema Our series on the 2002 Toronto International Film Festival will continue in January. This week, we’re taking a break to offer you some tips on finding films from last year’s Festival. Some of the...
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A humane and non-belligerent foreign policy
December 19, 2002The People’s Weekly World editorial Nov. 9 commented on continuing the political struggle against Bush’s policies, domestic and foreign. Obviously all readers of this paper will agree, the question becomes how to reach the people who...
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