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Burma's military junta accused of torturing and killing ethnic rebels

The villagers scattered as machine guns raked the darkness, fleeing from the Burmese troops into the thick of the jungle. When day came they crept from their hiding places to find each other.Nu La…
PUBLISHED: Dec. 18, 2011
LENGTH: 7 minutes (1880 words)

Marilyn Monroe and Margaret Thatcher

If imitation is the sincerest form of flattery, impersonation is fast becoming our culture's favourite form of acting. At least since Nicole Kidman's nose won an Oscar for playing Virginia Woolf in…
PUBLISHED: Dec. 9, 2011
LENGTH: 11 minutes (2858 words)

'I'm not ready to give up my American citizenship'

In the weeks leading up to this interview, I began to think there must be some law that makes it illegal not to love Johnny Depp. Everyone melts into a puddle at the mention of his name. Men go…
PUBLISHED: Nov. 6, 2011
LENGTH: 10 minutes (2557 words)

Tensions rise as Latinos feel under siege in America's deep south

The mobile home that Nancy Lugo and her two children live in might not seem like much to many people.It sits off a dirt road, by a slow-moving creek, on the outskirts of the tiny Georgia town…
PUBLISHED: Aug. 21, 2011
LENGTH: 10 minutes (2657 words)
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