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Cubs fans shortchanged
October 12, 2007At last! So I thought before the Chicago Cubs lost against the Arizona Diamondbacks in National League’s baseball playoffs. Long-suffering fans of the Cubbies (of which I was one until I realized it was a business...
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Who will be the last to die?
October 12, 2007Bruce Springsteen and the E Street Band began their latest tour Oct. 2, performing many tracks from their newly released album “Magic,” which consists of upbeat pop-rock tunes and social criticism. Springsteen, 58, originally from New...
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Elah questions war
October 12, 2007MovieREVIEW In the Valley of Elah Directed by Paul Haggis Warner Independent Pictures, 2007 120 min., Rated R “In the Valley of Elah,” directed by Paul Haggis, is a refreshingly open and frank look at the...
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Solidarity talks, phonies squawk
October 12, 2007Workers’ Correspondence As soon as aspects of the proposed contract with General Motors were revealed, activists’ e-mail boxes began to fill up with the opinions of armchair socialists. “Sellout” and “backroom deal” were the usual characterizations....
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LETTERS: Oct. 13
October 12, 2007No Blackwater It was an anti-Blackwater weekend in the San Diego backcountry as hundreds of people gathered in the town of Potrero, Calif., (pop. 850), to protest a proposal by Blackwater USA to build a paramilitary...
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