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40th Chicago festival features films from 44 countries
October 8, 2004CHICAGO – The Chicago International Film Festival, the oldest competitive film festival in North America, is showing 111 feature films and 54 short films from 44 countries through Oct. 21. Oscar-winning actor Christopher Walken will appear...
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Who will save our planet?
October 8, 2004Opinion I am 93. I have seen one Depression: 1929 to 1937. Some think it started with the stock market crash in 1929. But only 2.5 percent held stock then. What started it? Pure greed. The...
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The unfinished business of school desegregation
October 8, 2004This nation’s flawed story of desegregation: the resistance since 1954 to integration by Northern public schools despite many challenges by parents and civil rights activists.
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Seniors are paying for Medicare scams
October 8, 2004Opinion America’s senior citizens, who just got hit with the largest increase ever in their monthly Medicare premium payments, may want to send a thank you note to Tom Scully, the outspoken former head of Medicare...
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Bush clobbered in first debate: Now what?
October 8, 2004Opinion I must admit that I really enjoyed John Kerry clobbering George W. Bush in the first presidential debate last week. Bush “stayed on message,” as the advertiser like to say. As Pete Seeger used to...
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