Culture
“Problema”: fascinating film of ideas
November 5, 2010This eight-year project is one of the most thought-provoking and stimulating intellectual exercises ever recorded on film.
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“The Girl” resists male dominance
November 2, 2010Swedish stoic Lisbeth Salander, Goth woman, continues her resistance to international political conspiracy and, even more important, worldwide male dominance.
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Television gets “Outsourced”
November 2, 2010Somehow, an NBC sitcom about U.S. jobs going overseas is becoming a hit.
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Stewart and Colbert draw mammoth crowd with many messages
November 1, 2010Jon Stewart and Stephen Colbert framed Saturday's rally as a call for national unity and a rejection of media fear-mongering , but many participants had a more specific political message in mind.
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Music to get out the vote – pass it along!
October 26, 2010Jay Z's performances on the campaign trail with Barack Obama encouraged thousands of young people to vote for the first time in 2008. Now he and others are trying to do it again.
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