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Bowling for ColumbineBowling for Columbine
October 31, 2002Movie reviewBowling for Columbine Michael Moore, the acclaimed muckraking moviemaker, has done it again with Bowling for Columbine. As the title implies, he opens with the 1999 high school massacre in Littleton, Colo. – but that’s...
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Bridge between two worlds
October 31, 2002ReviewCrescent & Star: Turkey Between Two Worlds, by Stephan Kinzer, published 2001 by Farrar, Straus and Giroux, 240 pp plus index, hard cover – $25.00, paperback – $14.00 Turkey straddles the Bosphorus, part in Europe, part...
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Free trade negotiations only money speaks
October 31, 2002Beginning Oct. 12, Mexican citizens have had the opportunity to voice their opinion about the controversial Free Trade Area of the Americas (FTAA). Mexican social organizations are organizing a five-month-long plebiscite, called the “People’s Consultation,” in...
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Administration hides role in Venezuela coup
October 31, 2002Treasury Secretary Paul H. O’Neill’s trip to Brazil, Argentina and Uruguay has brought some needed attention to the financial and economic crises there. But there is one country where the United States is playing an enormous...
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New election law carries risks
October 31, 2002The passage this October of the “Help America Vote Act” is the product of long and hard work and difficult compromises by members of both the House and Senate, as well as the tireless efforts of...
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