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...Bush administration and the U.S. Congress have both called the Sudanese government guilty of “genocide” against black Muslim villagers in the Darfur region of western Sudan. Hundreds of thousands have died since civil war erupted in the region two years...
Dems members say the chose to filibuster for 25 hours because it is one hour longer than the longest known filibuster in Senate history—the late Sen. Strom Thurmond’s 24-hour filibuster of a civil rights bill...
Other critics, including civil libertarian Alan Dershowitz, came around to driver's-license reforms after 9/11. Most of the hijackers had driver's licenses or state IDs, leading the 9/11 commission to recommend changes like the ones proposed. Had this bill been enacted by 2001, some of the terrorists would probably have had invalid licenses because their visas had expired...
...Tribeca Film Festival. Now in its fourth year, the fast-growing festival, held in downtown Manhattan, screened more than 250 films of all kinds from 45 countries and sold 135,000 tickets. The award for best documentary feature went to El Perro Negro: Stories from the Spanish Civil War, by director Peter Forgacs, a collage brilliantly assembled from the work of two amateur filmmakers of the period. The prize for best documentary short went to director Dan Krauss for The Life of Kevin Carter, the tragic story of a photojournalist who took one of the most memorable pictures...
...dismissed as just another extremist head case? She is apparently well aware that she gets away with her rantings in large part because she is an attractive woman. In fact, she counts on it. She seems not to care about the bad effects that her outrageous conduct has on civil discourse; she prefers to bask in stardom. It's sad that her fans are amused by her trashy mouth. It's even sadder to contemplate what it says about the state of our country when Coulter's brand of xenophobia passes for critical political thought...