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The ruling class blinks in The Queen
January 12, 2007Movie Review I was scared to go to see the film “The Queen” since Helen Mirren is one of my favorite actresses. I was terrified that she would portray Queen Elizabeth in a positive light, and...
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The story of South Africas Little Sarah
January 12, 2007Book Review Rachel Holmes retells the true story of Saartjie (Little Sarah) Baartman, the “Hottentot Venus,” a young South African woman whose international adventures spanned more than 200 years. Saartjie (pronounced Saar-kie in Afrikaans) was a...
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Aristotle and the Internet some social implications of the web
January 12, 2007Aristotle, one of the great minds of antiquity, thought that the population of states could never grow larger than the few thousand who could be directly seen and addressed in one place. For how else could...
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THIS WEEK IN LABOR
January 12, 20071 in 5 activists axed If you’re a union activist in an organizing campaign, you’ve got a one in five chance of getting fired as a result of your activity, according to a report issued Jan....
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The second 100 hours
January 12, 2007Let’s not let the budget deficit be used as an excuse to block legislation to meet the needs of working-class Americans.
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