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Taffie-Ann Bentley played a talking drum during a performance by Nzinga's Daughters at Goshen Center School on March 21. The ensemble presented African and a cappella plantation songs and poems, along with stories about the Underground Railroad in a program sponsored by the school's PTO Enrichment C...
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A Memorable Oscar Performance
By Dr. Katherine Hermes, Torrington
The Oscar performance broadcast by ABC on March 23 was indeed memorable and, for once in ages, not trivial. Yet what made it a momentous evening was disturbing, and raises questions that are age-old about the relationship of art, artist-as-artist, and artist-as-moral-person.
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An Extraordinary Time in American History
By Ralph Nader, Washington, DC
As this is written, the campaign known as "shock and awe" has begun over Iraq and the five million civilian inhabitants of Baghdad. Bombs indeed shock, but why the word "awe"?
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