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BOOK REVIEW: Painting, poetry and song combine for breathtaking read
June 12, 2009BOOKREVIEW Wandering Star Translated by C. Dickson Curbstone Press, 2008, 360 pp. If a Romare Bearden painting, a Pablo Neruda poem and a Billie Holiday blues song were by means of an arcane alchemy combined to...
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COMMENTARY Obama at Buchenwald buries Reagan past
June 11, 2009President Obama is back from his trip abroad. It was a remarkable tour, during which he spoke of peace, democracy and progress, and then, in Germany, he confronted some of the greatest crimes against humanity ever...
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Obama in Cairo a profound message for Americans
June 10, 2009“Americans have been constantly redefining their national identity from the moment of first contact on the Virginia shore,” historian Ronald Takaki wrote. When our first African American president addressed the Arab and Muslim peoples of the...
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An architects new challenge
June 9, 2009An architect’s new challenge By Javier Cambron Javier Cambron, 22, will begin his third year at the Southern California Institute of Architecture this fall. He included this article as his “manifesto,” although not required, in his...
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Buy a judge? No problem according to Supreme Court’s right-wing gang of four
June 9, 2009When West Virginia coal overlord Don Blankenship’s company lost a $50 million verdict to one of its competitors, Blankenship set out to buy a judge. Rather than appeal his case to a fair tribunal, Blankenship spent...
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