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Brazilian communist holds presidency for 24 hours
November 18, 2006SAN PÃULO, Brazil — At 5:30 p.m. on Nov. 12, the government of the Federative Republic of Brazil was headed by Aldo Rebelo, a parliamentary deputy and a member of the central committee of the Communist...
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Movie REVIEW: Bamako: An African indictment of the World Bank
November 17, 2006Movie REVIEWBamako Written and directed by Abderrahmane Sissako 115 minutes By Bill Meyer From the cinema of the Third World comes “Bamako,” a fascinating and thought-provoking exposé of the World Bank and the effects of its...
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Swimming to the other side, memoirs of Victor Grossman
November 17, 2006BOOKREVIEWCrossing the River: A Memoir of the American Left, the Cold War and Life in East Germany By Victor Grossman University of Massachusetts Press, 2003 Softcover, 328 pp., $24.95 “Thinking of Germany in the night,” wrote...
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Citgo donates $400,000 to Chicago school clinic
November 10, 2006CHICAGO — Citgo Petroleum Corp., the U.S.-based subsidiary of Venezuela’s publicly owned oil company, announced Nov. 2 it was giving $400,000 to help kick-start a new health clinic at Little Village Lawndale High School on the...
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Film captures horror of repression in Haiti
November 3, 2006VANCOUVER, British Columbia — After U.S. Marines seized Haitian President Jean-Bertrand Aristide on Feb. 29, 2004, and flew him to the Central African Republic, the newly installed interim government unleashed a campaign of terror against Aristide’s...
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