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...anything." By 1986 he had been up and around enough to make a critically acclaimed feature film, Tjoet Nya' Dhien, about an Indonesian woman who led an armed rebellion against the colonial Dutch in the late 19th century. Shortly thereafter Eros started up DeTik with a ragtag crew of 16 volunteers. Using the name of a defunct crime tabloid, Eros published his first commercial issue...
...renters call themselves a "ragtag tenants' group" compared to a groups of wealthy landowners with virtually unlimited funds vital to a statewide campaign. They say the end of rent control would lead to skyrocketing rents, which would force many tenants out onto the streets...
...elite are after money: some just want power. A candidate angling to fill the seat of the deposed Aristide is Emmanuel Constant, leader of the paramilitary Front for the Advancement and Progress of Haiti. He presides from a wicker chair in his backyard over a ragtag group that has been accused of committing many of the 133 political executions and 55 disappearances documented over the past four months. Constant protests his group's innocence. "If anybody from F.R.A.P.H. kills somebody," he says, casually tossing his cigarette butt into a barren flower bed, "it is personal, not political...
...ragtag crew of intergalactic peacekeepers travels the cosmos in the year 4049 A.E. (After Elvis...
...ragtag crew of bike messengers in an updated version of Taxi...