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Review roundup
June 20, 2003Book review: Capitalist haircut Cosmopolis, by Don DeLillo, Scribner, 209 pp., $25 Following 28-year-old billionaire Eric Packer as he crosses Manhattan to get a haircut, Don DeLillo gives readers a tragicomic glimpse into the heart of...
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Looking for truth in all the wrong places
June 20, 2003What is true? This is the question troubling Rose, the main character in the Jules Feiffer play, A Bad Friend, which opened June 9 at New York City’s Lincoln Center Theater. Unfortunately, A Bad Friend, while...
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Bechtel the Evil
June 20, 2003Opinion The term “evil corporation” has become somewhat of a cliché over the years. However, in some cases this term is far too kind. The Bechtel Group of San Francisco is a prime example. George Shultz,...
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The big lie
June 20, 2003Opinion More and more each day, the lies and deception spewed from the mouths of George W. Bush, Secretary of State Colin Powell, National Security Advisor Condoleezza Rice, Secretary of Defense Donald Rumsfeld, Vice President Richard...
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Health of U.S. children gets failing grade
June 20, 2003Opinion In the annual “Report Card on Children’s Health” released by the American Health Foundation, the U.S. received a “D” rating for its children’s health, down from a “C” last year. Here we are, not talking...
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