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Cuba in the news
June 11, 2005Caribbean-wide disaster preparedness At the onset of the 2005 hurricane season, Cuba and other Caribbean nations are laying plans to deal with expected damage and threats to human life. Cuba hosted the 10th meeting of the...
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Harilaos Florakis, Greek leader, dies
June 10, 2005The Communist Party of Greece announced that its honorary chairman, Harilaos Florakis, died May 22 at the age of nearly 91. Florakis was born July 20, 1914, in a village in Thessaly. At the age of...
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Crash into racism
June 10, 2005Movie review Crash Directed and co-written by Paul Haggis Rated R Distributed by Lions Gate Films In the beginning of “Crash,” the directorial debut of Paul Haggis (he won the Oscar for writing the screenplay for...
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Exposing the machinery of death
June 10, 2005Book review The Death of Innocents: An eyewitness account of wrongful executions By Sister Helen Prejean Random House, December 2004 Hardcover, 336 pp., $25.95 With expectations rising that Chief Justice William Rehnquist will retire at the...
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Mobilizing to fix the media
June 10, 2005Last month, the media activist group FreePress held the second National Conference for Media Reform in St. Louis, Mo. I was fortunate enough to attend along with over 2,000 other media activists from across the country....
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