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Progressive Cinema by Bill Meyer Highlights from Toronto
October 8, 2004Once again, the Toronto International Film Festival offered a vast array of stimulating and entertaining films. With its sheer size and massive organization, 328 films (over half of them premieres) from over 60 countries, Toronto is...
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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, 2004Opinion The 50th anniversary of Brown v. Board of Education has come and gone. But in celebrating its achievements we have once again omitted an important chapter in this nation’s flawed story of desegregation: the resistance...
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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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