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HAITI-DOMINICAN REPUBLIC: Film on Plantations Spurs Backlash - 7/11/2007 9:10:44 PM
NEW YORK, Jun 4 (IPS) - When a man stood up at the Paris screening of director Amy Serrano's The Sugar Babies demanding to know how one of the film's subjects the Belgian priest Pedro Ruquoy could afford such a large car on his
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MIDDLE EAST: Iranian Art Bridges Regional Divide - 7/11/2007 9:10:44 PM
DUBAI, Jun 2 (IPS) - While Iran's leaders maintain a confrontationist attitude towards the international community Iranian artists are playing a friendlier tune in the immediate neighbourhood.
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EDUCATION-ARGENTINA: A Library Per Household - 7/11/2007 9:10:44 PM
BUENOS AIRES, May 31 (IPS) - A novel programme aimed at fomenting a reading habit among low-income sectors was launched in Argentina: the Books and Houses campaign will deliver a bookshelf complete with 18 volumes to each affordable ho
http://www.ipsnews.net/news.asp?idnews=37995

THEATRE: Making a Monkey of U.S. Fundamentalists - 7/11/2007 9:10:44 PM
NEW YORK, May 25 (IPS) - The international focus on fundamentalist Islam might obscure the fact that western nations have their own experiences with fundamentalist religion -- among them the country whose government has most targeted r
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Q&A: I Was Just So Relieved the Zombie Didn't Keep a Blog - 7/11/2007 9:10:44 PM
NEW YORK, May 20 (IPS) - This week marked the second annual Lulu Blooker Prize which recognises the emerging genre of books based on weblogs. With 110 entries from 15 countries the winners included the account of a U.S. machine-gunner
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VENEZUELA: Museums Throw Open Their Doors to the Disabled - 7/11/2007 9:10:44 PM
CARACAS, May 16 (IPS) - We drew a fat woman with little dots. I like learning to draw. Maybe I'll be an artist later on Lisette a 15-year-old mentally disabled girl who goes every Friday from her school in the south of the Venezuel
http://www.ipsnews.net/news.asp?idnews=37750

HEALTH-AFRICA: 28 Stories 28 Million Victims - 7/11/2007 9:10:44 PM
UNITED NATIONS, May 14 (IPS) - Humans are predisposed to respond to individual suffering; they are overwhelmed by huge numbers Henry-Paul Normandin Canada's ambassador to the United Nations told diplomats U.N. officials and journal
http://www.ipsnews.net/news.asp?idnews=37725

"Sicko " new Michael Moore film takes on the health-care system - 7/11/2007 9:10:50 PM
I had a pain in my shoulder. But after watching "Sicko " Michael Moore's withering new documentary about America's health-care system (which...
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Web exclusive | More from the Michael Moore interview - 7/11/2007 9:10:50 PM
On accuracy in his films. Moore: Do you think the NRA would have loved to sue me? Q: Not at all especially after that Charlton Heston interview...
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"Die Hard" franchise is alive and well - 7/11/2007 9:10:51 PM
If you find yourself wondering how a diminutive young woman and a broken-boned 52-year-old man have come to be bashing each others' brains...
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Mark Wahlberg's "Shooter" and "Black Snake Moan" lead the new releases on DVD - 7/11/2007 9:10:51 PM
Action violence and mystery among the new DVD's released this week.
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