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Wednesday, May 2, 2007

IMAGES OF LIBERTY

Yesterday I saw the Liberty Bell for the first time. It is one of those icons the seems emblazoned in your memoy bank from a very early age, from those first simple history books that are mostly pictures, read in the second grade. I had actually flow down to Philadelphia on an early morning flight... Sign in to see full entry.

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Sunday, April 29, 2007

BACK FROM HOTDOCS AND THE TORONTO FILM FESTIVAL

The squirrels are black in Toronto. That's one of the first things I noticed as I cut across the University of Toronto's campus to the Rogers Center, to pick up my registration and Industry Pass for the Toronto Film Festival and concurrent Documentary Forum. When I'm in a new city my senses become... Sign in to see full entry.

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Saturday, April 21, 2007

VIOLENCE TO PROVE MANHOOD

As the bouquets of sorrow are heaped ever higher on the campus of Virginia Tech the survivors of last weeks rampage look for answers to help explain what to them, in the depth of their despair, seems unexplainable. But there are explanations and one of the ways to uncover the root causes of these... Sign in to see full entry.

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Friday, April 20, 2007

I TOLD YOU SO

It's even worse than we thought. As I read the accounts of Attorney General Alberto Gonzales' attempts to defend his firing of eight US attorneys during questioning in the Senate, I cringed. He can't think straight. He was unable to respond to even the most simple straightforward question. We... Sign in to see full entry.

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Wednesday, April 18, 2007

MORE GUNS ARE NOT THE ANSWER

Like a really bad hang-over we wake up this morning and see from the headlines in todays papers the killing rampage that went on at Virginia Tech on Monday morning was not something we imagined, not a horror film or a disturbing play and not unlike the troubled writings the killer student from South... Sign in to see full entry.

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