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New releases: 'Django Unchained' has exceptional performances
Django Unchained Weinstein/Anchor Bay, $29.98; Blu-ray, $39.99 Available on VOD beginning Tuesday Typical of Quentin Tarantino, this Deep South "western" is strong stuff, telling the epic story of an escaped slave (played by Jamie Foxx) on a quest...
Tags: Django Unchained (movie), The Haunting in Connecticut (movie, 2009), DreamWorks Animation SKG Incorporated, Animation (Movie Genre), Christoph Waltz
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10 things you might not know about film critics
Chicago Tribune reportersA screenwriter who went by the pseudonyms of R. Hyde and Reinhold Timme died recently in Chicago. Others knew the man as Roger Ebert, film critic for the Chicago Sun-Times. Ebert's death got us thinking about interesting facts involving movie critics....Tags: Crime, Law and Justice, Chicago Tribune, The New York Times, Abraham Lincoln, Did You Hear About the Morgans? (movie)
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English assignment using Nazi propaganda embarrasses Albany, N.Y.
An upstate New York school district has become the latest to learn that some educational approaches create special sensitivity problems, as in this case in which a high school teacher asked students to make a written argument good enough to “...
Tags: Manhattan (New York City), Religion and Belief, Nazi Party, Passover, Students
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Spartacus finale date, time, TV channel, preview and more!
Channel Guide MagazineSpartacus: War of the Damned: “Victory” Friday, April 12 Starz, 9pm ET So it all comes down to this for our favorite peaceful Thracian turned gladiator turned revolutionary leader. Spartacus: War of the Damned ends its season — and the... -
And there arose a prophetess in the land...
Paul Greenberg. . . "To those waiting with bated breath for that favorite media catchphrase -- the U-turn -- I have only one thing to say: You turn if you want to; the lady's not for turning." --Margaret Thatcher at a Conservative Party conference in 1980, when it...Tags: Margaret Thatcher, United Kingdom, Conservative Party (UK), Ronald Reagan, England
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Election Cross-Endorsements Serve Voters
The Hartford CourantIn the past few years, there has been a disturbing push in a number of states toward limiting the right to vote and raising barriers to participation in democracy. Not in Connecticut. When it comes to ensuring an inclusive and fair democracy that...Tags: Political Systems, Politics, Political Fundraising, Elections, Democracy
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Honoring Harriet Tubman
President Barack Obama's designation Monday of a new national monument to Harriet Tubman, who escaped slavery on a Dorchester County plantation in 1849, then helped guide scores of other slaves to freedom in the North during the decade before the Civil...
Tags: Barack Obama, Cambridge (Dorchester, Maryland), Human Interest, Transportation, Travel
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On Demand/DVD New Releases March 25-31
Channel Guide MagazineOn Demand/DVD New Releases March 25-31: Daniel Day-Lewis’ performance in the award-winning Lincoln is outstanding, but Sally Field and Tommy Lee Jones shouldn’t be overlooked in their roles. This week also brings Killing The Softly with Brad... -
Obama establishes Tubman park on Eastern Shore
President Barack Obama set aside 480 acres on the Eastern Shore on Monday as a national monument to honor Harriet Tubman — a victory for advocates who have long sought to memorialize the abolitionist's role in leading dozens of slaves to freedom....
Tags: Environmental Issues, Cambridge (Dorchester, Maryland), Gardens and Parks, Human Interest, Crime, Law and Justice
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Aberdeen gathering celebrates links between Passover, Catholicism
Two faiths met under one house of God on Sunday as people in Aberdeen learned how Passover and Catholicism are related. Hosted by St. Mary's Catholic Church of Aberdeen, members of the B'Nai Isaac Synagogue told the story of Passover to a crowd of more...
Tags: Belief and Faith, Religion and Belief, Christianity, Social Issues, Rituals
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Author to Speak at HCC
The Hays-Heighe House at Harford Community College will welcome Dr. Alan Taylor on April 8 as part of the College's commemoration of the Bicentennial of the War of 1812. Taylor will offer a public lecture at the Chesapeake Center at 10 a.m. His talk,...Tags: Human Interest, War of 1812, Entertainment Events, Arts and Culture, Harford Community College
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We leave Egypt tonight
Paul GreenbergPsst, pass it on. Tell the other slaves: We leave Egypt tonight. Walker Percy called it the search. Or at least his alter ego in "The Moviegoer" did. Outwardly, John Bickerson Bolling, or Binx to his friends, was just another stockbroker. Inwardly, he...Tags: Religion and Belief, Passover, Judaism, Egypt, Juneteenth
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