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Fox News censured
June 18, 2004LONDON – Fox News has been strongly criticized by the media watchdog Ofcom over a program in which it accused the BBC of lying and of adopting a “frothing-at-the-mouth anti-Americanism.” Ofcom upheld more than 20 complaints...
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Saved is a godsend
June 18, 2004Movie Review With George W. Bush’s picture in the classroom larger than the U.S. wall map, would be and a 40-something principal of the Eagle Christian Academy who uses the word “gangsta,” you know you’re either...
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New documentary indicts death penalty
June 18, 2004Review “Deadline” is a new documentary film about the events that led up to Illinois Governor George Ryan’s decision to grant clemency to everybody on this state’s death row, just before he left office in 2003....
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Those who cannot remember the past …
June 18, 2004Those who cannot remember the past are condemned to repeat it. So said philosopher George Santayana in 1905 in his treatise, “The Life of Reason.” Today we are at war in Iraq, on a fool’s mission...
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Juneteenth: free at last?
June 18, 2004Ralph Ellison immortalized “Juneteenth,” the annual celebration of the anniversary of June 19, 1865, when the enslaved Africans in Texas were actually emancipated, in his posthumous novel of the same name.
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