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Ex-Soviet Spy's Bizarre Death and the Culture of Espionage
Fact and fiction in the bygone world of Cold War spying.
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New LBJ Tapes Reveal Anger at Press
Blaming the press for policy gone awry.
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Bush in Vietnam
Contested memories of the Vietnam War complicate Iraq policy debate as Bush visits former enemy.
Clint Eastwood's Flags of Our Fathers opens October 20.
Will audiences turn up or turn away from Oliver Stone's most recent rocking of the tidal waves of history?
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The Long Road Ahead for An Inconvenient Truth
An Inconvenient Truth: Intriguing film unlikely to change minds.
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Is There a Vietnam-Iraq Connection?
Debate overlooks our clouded memory.
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X-Men: The Last Stand and Conformity in America
The story is a metaphor for the issue of English as the "official American language," for example.
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Will Political Advertising Go the Product Placement Route?
Conservative commentators have complained for years that mainstream Hollywood productions are often overtly vehicles for liberal posturing...
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Revisiting War Movies for Memorial Day Weekend: We Were Soldiers
This one not only focuses on battles, but also shows something of the havoc war causes for the private lives of soldiers.
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