Post-Apartheid South Africa Enters Anxious Era (The Gadsden Times)
Fourteen years after the end of apartheid, high rates of crime and inequality have left the country unnerved.
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Granting protected status to Haitians is a moral duty (Miami Herald)
Marleine Bastien calls it post-traumatic stress syndrome. Without gun or bomb, nature pulled a shocker on Haiti. With one million homeless and more than 1,000 dead or missing after four back-to-back storms, Haitians everywhere are struggling to hope. It all seems so overwhelming, whole towns under water, broken bridges to nowhere.
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Keeping the faith in a fickle age (Republican-American)
For as long as I could remember, my grandmother and uncle went to Mass together.
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Scaring the Living Daylights Out of You (LA.com)
Never mind the body-bagged corpses hanging from the ceiling or the bloody stew of who-knows-what simmering on the kitchen stove
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Books: Le Carre novel tackles moral ambiguity of war on terror (The State)
LONDON — The spying game is not what it used to be. That is a matter of regret for John le Carre, eminent novelist and former spy, who has done more than almost any other writer to forge our idea of how the game is played. Ian Fleming’s action-hero James Bond may be more famous, but le Carre’s universe has the ring of truth. His secret agents exist in a world of stalemate, moral compromise, ...
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Elections, Social Security, And Other Matters (The Chattanoogan)
As a Social Security recipient due to being disabled with multiple sclerosis at 33 years of age, my attention to the Presidential election has reached fever pitch. I am a conservative Republican, unlike most of other persons in my situation.
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Touch Of Evil - 50th Anniversary Edition (DVD Talk)
Some movies become just as legendary for the stories behind their making as they do for what's actually on the screen. Be they big-time flops like Heaven's Gate or the product of creative strife, like the director vs. studio monkeyshines of Blade Runner or Brazil , fans are as versed in the behind-the-scenes lore as they are in the films themselves.
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Post-apartheid South Africa enters an anxious era (International Herald Tribune)
Fourteen years after the end of apartheid, South Africa — the global pariah that became a global inspiration — has lapsed into gloom and anxiety about its future.
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Gay Detective (RainbowNetwork.com)
‘The Gay Detective’ takes on Dublin in 1993 before the repeal of the homosexuality laws in Ireland. This dark, moody and at times explosive thriller is perfectly staged at Islington’s intimate Tower Theatre.
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Andrew Caspari to step down as Radio 4 specialist factual commissioning editor (Guardian Unlimited)
The BBC Radio 4 specialist factual commissioning editor, Andrew Caspari, is to leave the station after a decade in the post. By Maggie Brown
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