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Tacoma and Cienfuegos celebrate a musical partnership
A review:
By Bernard Jacobson
From The Seattle Times
It would have taken a more than ordinarily determined churl not to be moved and inspired by what happened in Benaroya…
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Poll: Romney leads Obama nationally
The Daily Beast
So much for a landslide. Mitt Romney is leading the president 49 to 47 percent after Wednesday’s Denver debate, according to a Rasmussen poll. The results, the…
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The four most misleading moments in Romney’s debate performance
By Jonathan Cohn
From The New Republic
The pundits are unanimous. Mitt Romney had more energy, offered more specifics, and may even have come across as more empathetic. I agree…
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Laugh or cry
By David Brooks
From the Mexican newspaper La Jornada
NEW YORK CITY – The daily tragicomedy in the United States manifests itself in various ways.
At the corner of Broadway and…
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14-plus years of injustice
By Saul Landau
Five Cubans fighting terrorism in South Florida have served 14 years of prison, more than enough time for the U.S. public to learn from its media about the horrific…
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Cuba ‘people to people’ trips back on track
By Laura Bly
From USA Today
After months of bureaucratic red tape and delays that forced several U.S. companies to cancel their popular "people to people" Cuba programs, the trips…
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Obama widens lead nationally among Latinos
From Latino Decisions
This week’s impreMedia-Latino Decisions tracking poll found slight gains for presidential candidate Mitt Romney in battleground states with 33%…
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Where’s the rage?
By Saul Landau
Since we will not learn in school the lessons about the 1% we ought to know, many of us rely on movies and TV, so that through images and sound we can form ideas of who…
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Is Romney part of the 47%?
By Bill Press
In politics, there's nothing more fun than watching a politician self-destruct. Mitt Romney's doing a better job of it than most.
Let me count the ways. First, his…
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Classes
By David Brooks
From the Mexican newspaper La Jornada
NEW YORK – Occupy Wall street celebrated its first anniversary Monday, while the conditions that detonated the movement –…
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