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No doubt, some individuals have always pulled levers behind the scenes to benefit themselves and their ...
When diva worship turns an artist into an icon, everyone ...
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In response to attacks by warring guerrilla factions that have killed dozens of people and displaced tens of ...
I always like to say that Iranian cinema emerges out of a thousand years of poetry, and Canadian cinema emerges ...
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On 2 November 1921, James Joyce wrote from Paris to his aunt Josephine in Dublin asking if it was ‘possible for an ordinary person to climb over the area railings of No. 7 Eccles Street, either from ...
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For reasons that have little if anything to do with US national security or foreign policy, Donald Trump has made ...