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Oscar highlights (and lowlights)

March 10, 2006

This year’s Oscar-nominated films made statements about love, tolerance and humanity. That inspired reporters backstage to ask some interesting questions of the winners. Best Actress Reese Witherspoon, who won for playing June Carter in “Walk the...

Belarus target of latest democracy campaign

March 10, 2006

A recent scuffle outside of the All Belarusian People’s Congress in which presidential candidate Alexander Kozulin was arrested and suffered minor injuries has drawn international attention, with much of the media saying Kozulin is a “pro-democracy...

Drive to rename Chicago street for Fred Hampton

March 10, 2006

CHICAGO — Moon’s Sandwich Shop is a low-key diner where residents of this Westside neighborhood can go to eat breakfast, any time of day. Most of the workers and customers are African American. The diner shares...

WORLDNOTES

March 10, 2006

Philippines: State of emergency denounced When members of the Philippine Communist Party (PKP-1930) and other mass organizations converged on Feb. 24 to celebrate the 20th anniversary of the fall of the Marcos dictatorship, they were violently...

Calif. gov fighting uphill battle

March 10, 2006

Despite Gov. Arnold Schwarzenegger’s efforts to reinvent himself as a moderate, California’s voters are only slightly more inclined to re-elect him than they were on the eve of his historic drubbing in the November 2005 special...