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New documentary indicts death penalty
June 18, 2004Review “Deadline” is a new documentary film about the events that led up to Illinois Governor George Ryan’s decision to grant clemency to everybody on this state’s death row, just before he left office in 2003....
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Those who cannot remember the past …
June 18, 2004Those who cannot remember the past are condemned to repeat it. So said philosopher George Santayana in 1905 in his treatise, “The Life of Reason.” Today we are at war in Iraq, on a fool’s mission...
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Juneteenth: free at last?
June 18, 2004Ralph Ellison immortalized “Juneteenth,” the annual celebration of the anniversary of June 19, 1865, when the enslaved Africans in Texas were actually emancipated, in his posthumous novel of the same name.
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The evils of war
June 18, 2004“War may sometimes be a necessary evil, but no matter how necessary, it is always evil, never good. We will not learn how to live together in peace by killing each other’s children.” Those were the...
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The real Ronald Reagan
June 18, 2004The Bush administration is using Ronald Reagan’s death to boost Bush’s failing campaign. They are eulogizing Reagan because they are hoping to win back support for George W. Bush and the right-wing Republican agenda.
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