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Venezuelan election reveals growing tensions (Socialist Worker)
Venezuela went to the polls last Sunday supposedly to elect new state governors and mayors. In reality the election was a confidence vote in left wing president Hugo Chavez. Wish List 2008: The best thing that ever happened to me (Isthmus)
This marks the 21st year that Isthmus has published the Wish List, a compilation of the material needs of many area nonprofits that provide services to those in need. We have seen bad years before already in this century - in 2001, after the attacks of 9/11; in 2005, after Katrina. But this year, with the economy staggering, it's been hard to shake off the gloom. And the fear. Hellboy II: The Golden Army - Collector's Set (DVD Talk)
The Movie Hellboy , adapted by superstar fantasy director Guillermo del Toro from the dark paranormal comic book by Mike Mignola, was an excellent version of the character, infusing action with comedy and humanity to create an entertaining, energetic film about a fun, flawed hero and his battle against Nazis. Band member lashes out at Lipski (El Nuevo)
Jersey City Councilman Steve Lipski's alleged behavior at Friday night's Dark Star Orchestra concert in Washington, D.C., has guitarist Rob Eaton spitting mad. Taking Liberties: documenting the hard fight for civil liberties (Socialist Worker)
When you walk into the British Library and through the door to the Taking Liberties exhibition, the first thing you come face to face with is a copy of Magna Carta. Of Time And The City: Liverpool's paradise regained? (Socialist Worker)
Themes of poverty, change, urban decay and renewal loom large in the new film by Liverpudlian director Terence Davies. Of Time And The City is a very personal view of Liverpool after the Second World War up until the early 1970s when Davies moved away. Service Channels (Web Host Directory)
Web site hosting is to be offered by Salesforce, the latest sign that the company's ambitions reach beyond the sales-automation software it's named for.
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