Tag Archives: class

Environmentalists: nature’s conservatives

Organic fanatics are condemning millions of people to, at best, lives of penury and squalor – and, at worst, to death.
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Michael Caine as “Harry Brown”: drugs, thugs and Daily Mail fantasy

Without Caine how far would Bob Hoskins, Gary Oldman and Ray Winstone have progressed in their careers?
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London Film Festival: “Blessed” is condescension in film format

O’Connor’s Rhonda is infuriating, pitiful and sexy as she meets with her case manager, Gail.
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Back to school in Canada: not fun for everyone

When your wallet is already a site of ruin and cataclysm, you will get the magazine drives.
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Health care reform: an extension of the American dream

Cancer can strike or you can slip and fall. It's arbitrary. You can't buy your way around it.
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Ted Kennedy and the paradox of class

Ted Kennedy ultimately believed his role - his responsibility - in the US Senate was to give voice to the voiceless.
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The myth of the American middle class

The way our economy has shifted, we no longer have clear class divisions, yet we do have an upper class that has concentrated its wealth greatly.
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