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Music reviews: Four CDs from around the world

September 5, 2003

Natural, Celso Fonseca (Six Degrees) This release establishes Celso Fonseca as one of Brazil’s up and coming Bossa Nova stars. His compositions are elegant, graceful and sensual, ranging from cool bossas like “Bom Sinal” and “The...

Film review: Balseros reveals complexities of Cuban emigration

September 5, 2003

Carlos Bosch and Josep Maria Domenech are Spanish television journalists who were assigned by Barcelona’s public television to cover the 1994 exodus of Cubans to the U.S. The film that resulted, Balseros, Spanish for “rafters,” has...

Thou shalt not ignore the First Amendment

September 5, 2003 By Jennifer Barnett

I’m not a particularly religious person. Though many in my family are Catholic, I’m happy to identify myself as agnostic. But I do know about the Ten Commandments. Blame TV for showing Cecil B. DeMille’s epic...

Tell it to the Marines

September 5, 2003

Question: What does a Marine on a “float,” a soldier “in country” and a sailor homeported in the U.S. have in common with the Iraqi working class? Answer: It is illegal for them to organize in...

Letters to the Editor

September 5, 2003

Another ‘freedom ride’ While we organize for the Immigrant Workers Freedom Ride, the Marcha por la Vida (March for Life) was happening in Honduras. Residents of the Olancho area are marching to protect their way of...